Alpha School's '2 Hour Learning' Model — A Cautionary Case of AI-Led Schooling With Unpublished Outcomes
Alpha School's AI-led model promises two years of learning in two hours a day, yet 2026 investigations found no released outcome data, …
Alpha School's AI-led model promises two years of learning in two hours a day, yet 2026 investigations found no released outcome data, …
Ecuador offered to leave ~846m-1.5bn barrels of oil under Yasuní National Park in return for $3.6bn in international compensation (2007); only ~$13m …
A £5.77m pilot referred 8,339 people with mental-health needs to nature-based activities across seven English health areas (2020-23); a university evaluation found …
Mexico City covered over 1,000 highway columns with vertical gardens funded via roadside advertising from 2016, but a no-bid contract, an undisclosed …
Two independent 2025 Paraguayan surveys — 108 students at UNIDA and 294 of INAES's 1,238 enrolled students — found frequent ChatGPT use …
Austria's data protection authority issued two 2025-2026 rulings finding Microsoft 365 Education tracked schoolchildren with unauthorised cookies and breached GDPR access and …
The FTC's final order (5 June 2026) found K-12 software vendor Illuminate Education failed to secure data on 10.1 million students after …
Nine current and former Lawrence, Kansas students sued their school district in federal court, alleging its AI monitoring tool Gaggle intercepted journalism …
UNAM ran Mexico's largest university entrance exam fully online for the first time in 2026. Score anomalies — top marks nearly quintupling …
One of Africa's largest soil-carbon offsets — covering 4.9 million hectares and 33 conservancies, sold to Meta, Netflix and others — was …
Karnataka announced AI facial-recognition attendance for 52,686 schools and ~5.2m students under 'Nirantara' in June 2025. After educators, activists and Privacy International …
In January 2026, Bhanu Municipality in Nepal's Tanahun district trained 90 public-school teachers in three groups of 30 on classroom AI use, …
Australian Catholic University logged nearly 6,000 AI-cheating referrals in 2024 — 90% of misconduct cases — via Turnitin's AI detector, then dropped …
NUST launched Namibia's first Bachelor of Artificial Intelligence and AI Honours degrees, built on the AIRA robotics and AI laboratory the university …
Addis Ababa's flagship plan targets 69 km of riverbanks with parks and stormwater ponds, but an independent review found most promised measures …
El Salvador launched DoctorSV nationwide in April 2026, an AI telemedicine app flagging chronic-disease risk and drafting lab orders. Independent reporting found …
Münster's 2022 Gale-Shapley update to its Kita-Navigator daycare-allocation software could not natively match sibling pairs, and a configuration error mismatched requested and …
Hackers exploited Canvas's unverified "free for teacher" signup to exfiltrate ~275 million records from ~8,800 schools and universities; Instructure reportedly paid a …
A GPT-3 and NLU chatbot built by PUCE researchers, with partners in Ecuador and Spain, answers applicants' questions during admissions. Researchers report …
Mehran University and the IEEE Karachi Section built BrailleGenAI, an edge-AI and generative-AI device that reads tactile Braille blocks aloud and gamifies …
Paraná's education department used facial recognition for attendance in over 2,000 public schools, covering about 1 million students. Brazil's ANPD suspended the …
At World Summit AI Qatar 2025, MCIT and MoEHE launched a national AI platform with Scale AI to personalise content for public-school …
On 29 August 2025 Turkmenistan's Ministry of Education and UNESCO IITE convened scientists and educators in Ashgabat for the country's first international …
Belize funded a national AI-enabled CCTV and facial-recognition programme with a $30M CABEI loan, but paused its flagship facial-recognition vendor deal in …
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