The largest AI survey in higher education history shows 95% of university respondents use AI β but 82% of students fear it will hurt their job prospects. And the OECD warns: better outputs don't always mean deeper learning.
South Korea was first in the world to roll out AI-powered digital textbooks in public schools. But the $850M program was effectively scrapped after just one semester. What went wrong β and why did a smartphone ban follow?
In September 2025, Estonia launched the AI Leap program, providing free AI learning tools to 20,000 high school students and 3,000 teachers nationwide. While Korea's AI digital textbook experiment has struggled, this small European country is quietly leading the way.
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.
Around 3.4 million children in the US are choosing homeschooling over public school. Growing at triple the pre-pandemic rate, this is not a passing trend β it is a new educational landscape built from deep distrust of the public school system.