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Notes on the skills school skips, how children actually learn, and the decisions we're making as we build Globeskool.
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The AI-Education Death Spiral: What Actually Dies When Kids Let AI Do Their Thinking
When kids outsource every hard problem to AI before they have built any judgment of their own, the real casualty is not their grade. It is their ability to know when thinking is irreplaceable.
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Early Math Is Not Drill Sheets: Why the Algebra Gateway Finding Should Change How You Play With Your 8-Year-Old
A working paper on 1.7 million Texas students links third grade math skills to Algebra I success. The foundation isn't built with worksheets. Here's what actually works for kids aged 8 to 12.
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Harvard Capped the A's. Now What Does Achievement Actually Mean for Your Kid?
Harvard faculty voted to cap A grades at 20% per class after more than 60% of grades were already A's. If that credential needed rescuing at the top, it's worth asking what your kid's report card is actually measuring.
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Kids Entering the Job Market Mid-AI-Revolution: The Skills Gap Nobody Warned Them About
Today's graduates are entering a job market that already changed. Here's what that means for the 12-year-old sitting in your house, and what the next ten years actually need to look like.
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AI Is Pushing Education Back to the 15th Century. And That Is Actually Good News.
AI just made the written essay an unreliable test of understanding. Schools are rediscovering the oral exam. Here is what that means for your kid and the skills worth building right now.
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China Is Running a National AI-in-Schools Experiment. Your Kid's School Has No Plan.
China mandated AI coursework for every K-12 student. Most US schools are still drafting acceptable-use policies. Here is what that gap means for your kid and what you can actually do about it now.
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Karpathy Kept Betting His Career on Fixing School. Here Is What Parents Should Do With That
Andrej Karpathy co-founded OpenAI, led Tesla's AI, then spent nearly two years building an AI-native school. The signal for parents is not his career move. It is what he kept pointing at.
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The AI-Education Death Spiral: Why Banning AI Won't Save Your Kid (And What Will)
When AI makes cheating invisible and schools respond with bans and detectors, the spiral tightens. The real fix is building kids who use AI with intention, not kids who learn to hide that they used it.
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Trump Signed an AI Education Executive Order for K-12. Here Is What That Actually Does for Your Kid
A federal executive order now mandates AI education in K-12 schools. The implementation gap is the real story, and it has direct consequences for kids aged 8 to 16 right now.
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China's Grand AI-Education Experiment and Why Your Kid Is Already in One
China deployed AI tutoring to millions of students before the West finished the debate. The same feedback loop is running on your kid's device tonight. The only question worth asking: is it building a thinker or a dependent?
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AI Is 'Addictive,' a Teacher Warned. His Own Classroom Showed the Only Fix That Works.
A teacher watched students get emotionally hooked on AI chatbots and called it what it was. But his classroom also showed the cure: teach kids to interrogate the tool, not confide in it.
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AI Literacy Is the New Language Requirement (And Most Schools Are Still Writing Their Policy)
A generation of parents pushed second languages. The skill that actually matters now is AI literacy, and the gap between where schools are and where the world is heading is widening fast.
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Brain Rot at Age 9: What 10 Hours of YouTube Shorts Actually Does
One hour of YouTube Shorts a day adds up to 10 hours a week. Here is what that math means for a 9-year-old brain, and what parents can do about it beyond just taking the phone away.
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Kids Should Not Be Allowed to Use Google. Here's What They Need Instead.
Googling trains kids to recognize answers someone else already wrote. That is retrieval, not thinking. Here is what Future Skills actually look like for kids aged 8 to 16.
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Why we're building Globeskool
School was designed for a world that no longer exists. Here is what we think a complete education for an 8-to-16-year-old should actually look like in 2026.
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The five future skills school keeps skipping
Critical thinking, problem solving, communication, creativity, and working with technology. What they actually mean for a child, and why a report card never measures them.
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Summer camp as cognitive rehab: what kids actually need this summer
Many families default to unstructured screen time over the summer. The case for treating these weeks as the highest-leverage window to build the skills school has no time for.
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