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Andy Rotherham discusses his skepticism about AI in schools while engaging in a nuanced conversation about its implications.

Andy Rotherham has spent 25 years advising the education sector — co-founding Bellwether, serving in the Clinton administration and on the Virginia Board of Education, and writing Eduwonk. He's also clear about something that's become unfashionable to say plainly: he's a skeptic of how AI will be used in schools, even as he takes the technology dead seriously. That distinction runs through this whole conversation with Alex. They sit with the hard tensions instead of resolving them too quickly...

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