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

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

May 21, 2026 · 53 min · Season 1 · Episode 43

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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...

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