A landmark study by Stanford, Harvard, and Dartmouth researchers released on May 13, 2026, reveals that U.S. student test scores have been declining since 2013 β seven years before the pandemic arrived. Data from 70 million students across 38 states rewrites the story of American education.
In 1984, Benjamin Bloom demonstrated empirically that one-on-one tutoring produces achievement two standard deviations higher than group instruction. Forty years later, is AI tutoring solving this once-"impossible" problem?
According to OECD PISA research, digital device distractions in the classroom cost students the equivalent of three-quarters of a year's worth of learning. Smartphones may be the key driver behind the global PISA score decline since 2009.