How can we reinvent public education for the AI era? With Robin Lake

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Robin Lake discusses the challenges and opportunities in reinventing public education for the AI era.

Robin Lake has been studying public education from the systems level for more than thirty years. Her diagnosis is sharper than most: we built a school system for an average student who doesn't exist, and we keep placing kids in special education because general classrooms have run out of tools to support them. This conversation works through what CRPE has been finding in its AI research — the widening gap between suburban and rural/urban districts on AI literacy, why most early-adopter school...

People in this episode

Guest: Robin Lake

Topics covered

• public education
• AI literacy
• education reform
• special education
• suburban vs rural education

Keywords

• public education
• AI
• education reform
• special education
• CRPE
• AI literacy
• suburban education
• rural education

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Organizations: CRPE

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