We're Funding the Wrong Side of AI in Education — with Bree & Babak

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and successes of building an AI-ready high school in Georgia and the implications for public education.

In 2017, before ChatGPT existed, a 180,000-student district in Georgia decided to build the first AI-ready high school in the country. Babak Mostaghimi was one of the people who built it. Bree Dusseault, at Center on Reinventing Public Education/The Strategic Education Research Partnership, was one of the people who later studied what made it possible — and what stops most other systems from following. This conversation, recorded at CRPE's Think Forward Fellowship, lives at the intersection o...

People in this episode

Guests: Bree Dusseault, Babak Mostaghimi

Topics covered

• AI in education
• high school innovation
• educational research
• public education
• technology in schools

Keywords

• AI education
• high school
• Bree Dusseault
• Babak Mostaghimi
• educational systems
• innovation
• public education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Center on Reinventing Public Education, Strategic Education Research Partnership

Places: Georgia

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