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Smart devices, not phones, now drive most exam malpractice in England, and Ofqual admits wearable AI is outrunning invigilation.
A Bett/YouGov survey of 1,033 UK teachers finds weekly AI use has doubled, but only a third report working fewer hours — and optimism about AI is falling for the first time.
England's Department for Education expanded its generative AI product safety standards to 13 in January 2026, but compliance is voluntary and unverified by any regulator.
New York City has banned generative AI for 600,000 pupils up to age 14, while England pushes AI literacy into the curriculum for the same age group.
The DfE has handed eight firms, including Google and Pearson, an equal share of £2.88m to build AI tutors for 450,000 disadvantaged pupils, ahead of the evidence.
Boston Public Schools is funding one AI-trained teacher per high school before rolling out AI literacy lessons — a sequencing choice England's curriculum mandate skipped.
Two collapsed or contested US school AI contracts show the same failure: governing bodies approved AI tools without scrutiny. UK leaders can borrow the checklist that followed.
A new census of US 9-17 year-olds finds most know the school AI rules but weren't taught to use it safely or spot bad output. UK schools are close behind.
Over half of NYC's council and 260-plus child-health experts want a multi-year pause on classroom AI, a fight UK schools should watch closely.
A University of Georgia study found an AI grader was accurate just 33.5% of the time on its own, rising to only 50% with a detailed rubric — evidence against unsupervised AI marking.
OpenAI's new K-12 Educator plugin automates exit tickets, family updates and standards-aligned practice tests, but it's locked behind a US-only district scheme UK schools cannot join.
Maryland's AI Ready Schools Act forces districts to vet AI tools against a state rubric before purchase, a procurement-first model UK academy trusts don't yet have.
Google made Gemini in Classroom on-by-default for under-18s worldwide from 10 August 2026, but supervised UK accounts remain excluded, leaving admins with divergent settings to manage.
Idaho, Maryland, Oklahoma and Virginia now require every district to adopt a state-aligned AI policy, with Maryland's deadline landing this autumn.
The EU AI Act's high-risk rules for school and university AI were due 2 August 2026, but a last-minute Digital Omnibus pushed them to December 2027 — leaving only disclosure duties in force now.
An EEF-funded RCT found ChatGPT cut teacher lesson-planning time by 31 percent with no quality loss — modest, real evidence in a market that mostly runs on none.
Florida's proposed opt-in rule for classroom AI aims to protect students but risks excluding the struggling readers and SEN pupils who benefit most from adaptive tools.
A German study finds teachers and students sharply disagree on who should control classroom AI, and that some teachers hide monitoring from pupils on purpose.
England's curriculum reform makes AI literacy compulsory and replaces the Computer Science GCSE, but a Royal Society survey found just 14% of teachers feel confident teaching it.
Regulators are moving on AI chatbots used for emotional support, but most UK schools have no pastoral policy covering it, well ahead of any cheating debate.
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