Posts tagged 'Education-policy'.
The children born in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis are now turning 18. There are too few of them. More than 40 US colleges have already announced closures, and warnings are mounting that 400 more could disappear within a decade.
Students using AI completed tasks 48% more successfully. Yet when AI was removed, their scores dropped 17%. The OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 reveals the two faces of generative AI in education.
The OECD Education Policy Outlook 2025 warns that student achievement has stagnated or declined across many advanced economies. Education was already in crisis before AI arrived. The report identifies four critical life moments that hold the key to change.
South Korea announced a β©1.4 trillion investment in AI talent development in 2025. Yet in the same year, its AI digital textbook rollout faced a fierce backlash from teachers and parents. What lies between ambition and reality?
Korea's AI Digital Textbook (AIDT), adopted by 4,095 schools in the first semester of 2025, dropped to 1,686 schools by the second semester. A legal status change, budget cuts, and field resistance β we look at why an ambitious education innovation reversed itself within a single semester.