2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (412+ words) The ancient Greeks had a word for an object that is a remedy in one hand and poison in the other, depending on how it’s administered: pharmakon. Socrates used it in Plato’s Phaedrus, more than two millennia before Claude, Perplexity,…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (335+ words) Rich families have tried to personalize their children’s education since the days of ancient Greece, when Alexander the Great’s father hired Aristotle as a tutor for his son. The AI age is ushering in a new iteration of this behavior…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (433+ words) A week after New York City announced a one-year moratorium on AI in public schools, Microsoft announced it’ll be giving every school district in the country the option to dictate its own AI privacy and safety rules within its contracts…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (748+ words) He might be the second-youngest mayor in New York City history, but 34-year-old Mayor Zohran Mamdani didn’t have AI in school, and he wants to make sure city kids don’t either. The digital-native politician, who said he doesn’t use AI…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (503+ words) As the new school year begins, the debate over digital versus analog learning rages on, while more school districts reconsider the role of devices in the classroom. That’s as test scores in math and reading tanked after schools ditched textbooks…...