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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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Karpathy Is Building an AI Education Company. What Does That Mean for Your Kid?
Andrej Karpathy spent nearly two years building an AI-native school called Eureka Labs. He paused it to join Anthropic. Here is what that signal means for parents paying attention.
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The AI-Education Death Spiral: Why Letting Kids Cheat With AI Backfires
When kids use AI to skip the thinking, they don't just miss the learning. They lose the exact skills that make AI worth using. Here is what parents need to understand.
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Going Back to 15th-Century Pedagogy Might Be the Smartest AI Move Schools Make
AI didn't break education. It exposed what we built wrong after the printing press. Here's why the future of learning looks surprisingly old, and what that means for your kid right now.
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Writing Is Dying in First Grade, and AI Is Getting the Wrong Blame
The first-grade writing crisis started long before AI arrived in classrooms. Here is what is actually broken, why it matters for kids aged 8 to 16, and what parents can do about it now.
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Kids Are Cracking School Web Filters to Play Games. Schools Are Solving the Wrong Problem.
When a kid routes around a school web filter before lunch, that is not a tech problem. It is an attention problem, and no firewall has ever built self-regulation. Here is what actually does.
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AI Is Saving Teachers Time. But Who Is Actually Teaching the Kids?
A University of Pennsylvania randomized trial found that when teachers used AI to generate lesson plans and exams, their students felt less motivated and rated class as less important. Here is what that means for your child.
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The AI-Education Death Spiral: How 'Getting It Done' Quietly Makes Kids Less Capable
When kids use AI to skip the hard parts of learning, the hard parts are exactly what they lose. Here is what the spiral looks like, why a school policy won't fix it, and what actually will.
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College Grads Can't Find Jobs. The Trades Can't Find Workers. What That Means for Your Kid Right Now.
Recent grad unemployment is near a 13-year high while skilled trades sit half-empty. Here is what the credential gap actually means for parents of kids aged 8 to 16, and what to do about it.
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What Karpathy Building an AI School Signals for Your Kid's Education
When one of the engineers most associated with the current AI era spends two years building an AI-native school, that is worth understanding. Here is what the signal actually means for parents.
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Your Kid Outsmarted the School Content Filter. That Is the Wrong Win.
When kids bypass school content filters, the ingenuity is real. The ethical scaffolding behind it is not. Here is what parents should actually be thinking about.
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Kids Are Outsmarting School Content Filters. That's the Wrong Victory.
When a kid cracks a school content filter, the ingenuity is real. The problem is what's missing underneath it: judgment, ethics, and the reasoning to ask 'should I?' instead of just 'can I?'
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AI Writes the Feedback. Whose Learning Disappears?
AI tools now handle lesson planning and essay feedback for teachers in minutes. The efficiency is real. But the responsive, specific teaching that actually reaches kids is what gets quietly removed first.
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AI Is Doing Your Kid's Math Homework. Here's What That's Actually Costing Them.
When AI does the hard thinking for kids, homework scores go up and exam scores fall. Here's why the struggle is not the obstacle to learning, it is the learning itself.
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Why Blending Algebra and Geometry Is Actually a Future Skills Move
Most US high schools still teach algebra, geometry, and trig in separate yearly silos. A growing movement is blending them together, and the reasons why matter for how your kid learns to solve real problems.
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Training Kids for Jobs That Don't Exist Yet: What California's Lithium Valley Story Gets Wrong About Education
Imperial Valley College trained 173 students for lithium industry jobs that never arrived. The Hechinger Report covered it. Here's what it means for how we prepare kids to work in an unpredictable future.
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China's Grand AI Education Experiment: Should US Parents Care?
China's Squirrel AI has tutored 43 million students by closing every knowledge gap fast. Before US parents sign up for the same, it's worth asking what finish line you actually want for your kid.
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Early Math Is a Future Skill, and Most Parents Are Missing the Window
The Hechinger Report tracked 1.7 million students and found third grade math scores predict Algebra I success. Here is what that actually means for your kid, and what to do about it.
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Training Kids for Jobs That Don't Exist Yet: Are We Getting It Backwards?
A California program trained 173 students for lithium industry jobs. Only 16 got them. The pattern repeats with every new industry. Here is what Globeskool thinks schools should be building instead.
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Return to 15th-Century Pedagogy: Why AI in Schools Might Force an Ancient Fix
AI made written homework an unreliable signal of learning, so educators went back to oral examination. Here is what that shift means for kids aged 8 to 16 right now.
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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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