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Renegotiating the Education Social Contract for the Age of AI (SSIR)
- Latest: Four forces push reform—pandemic disruption, teen mental health, AI arrival, and funding shifts toward private options.
- Proposes a new social contract granting learners more agency and data ownership through portable mastery records (LERs).
- Funding should follow the learner with weighted support for poverty and disability to widen opportunity.
- A spectrum of learning options is urged, including charter, district innovation, microschools, and community hubs.
- Lifelong learning under a modern system requires civic service to build shared national cohesion.
- AI is viewed as an 'arrival technology' requiring system design around it rather than reactive adoption.
- The piece warns against wealthier families opting out without civic obligations, risking democratic erosion.
- The proposed design emphasizes data sovereignty and accountability tied to public purpose.
- Three horizons approach guides building a system shaped by human agency, connection, and sustainability.
- Portability of credentials and mastery-based learning are central to future education design.
- The article frames four essential commitments: flexible funding, agency, a civic service spectrum, and supply-side stewardship.
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