Can AI Tutors Actually Teach? We Measured It
US schools spend roughly $13 billion a year on education software, and AI tutors are a fast-growing slice. But can they teach and does anyone check? We built a test to find out.
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Claude for Teachers Is Mostly Just Claude
What's genuinely new is two open-source skills, and because the skill format is portable, anyone can rebuild the whole thing on a model they control - a detail the progress-versus-privacy debate is missing.
Tooling -
How well can a language model write to a reading level, out of the box?
Four models, asked to write for specific grades, track the target for a while — then flatten into a middle-grade register no matter how high you aim. None of the grade-11 passages reached a grade-11 level.
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We Analyzed 60 School Board Meetings - Here's What We Found
We read a geographically and demographically diverse cross-section of public school board meetings from this fall - more than 600,000 words of transcript - to see what districts are actually deciding. Three trends stood out: budget strain, bell-to-bell phone bans, and the first stirrings of AI governance.
Governance
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