CRPE: AI research and convening plan

The challenge

The fast-emerging field of generative AI has already disrupted K-12 education and will continue to do so. The field urgently needs rapid response research to help district leaders and others manage the risks of AI, including those around bias, equitable access, and academic integrity, while also delivering on the promise for how AI might transform the job of teaching and improve student outcomes.

The approach

The Center on Reinventing Public Education, which is part of ASU's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, will rely on its “rapid response” research model, honed during the pandemic, as a starting point to understand the rapidly evolving landscape for artificial intelligence in education. The rapid response model responsively tracks school systems’ responses to a rapidly changing environment, shares real-time data and implications for students, families, and policymakers and translates understandings and data for broad audiences. Projects may include: building an AI educational typology, convening critical voices around AI pressing issues and conducting a nationally representative survey of school district leaders.

Over the long term, this work also has the potential to inform CRPE’s State of the Student annual report, which provides ongoing assessment of students’ academic and mental health progress post-pandemic, and the Evidence Project, which commissions $4 million  in research and convenes working groups and national thought leaders to explore critical questions impacting student achievement and wellbeing in pandemic recovery and transformation.