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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.
READ MOREThe Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2026 State of Higher Education Study finds that 57% of US college students use AI weekly, and 16% have already changed their major because of AI. Meanwhile, half of institutions still formally discourage or prohibit AI β a policy gap with real consequences.
READ MOREThe OECD's Digital Education Outlook 2026 revealed an uncomfortable truth: students using AI produced better assignments, but scored up to 17% lower on follow-up tests without AI. When a tool does the thinking, real learning disappears.
READ MOREAs of 2026, 42 U.S. states and Washington D.C. have passed laws or implemented policies mandating evidence-based reading instruction. The decades-long 'reading wars' are reaching a verdict. Georgia just invested $70 million to place literacy coaches in over 1,300 schools.
READ MOREThe US Department of Education has reached consensus on its most sweeping higher education accountability reform in decades. Every college programme will now be evaluated against graduates' earnings data. Programmes that produce median earnings below the high school graduate wage could lose eligibility for federal student loans. At the same time, the same Department is investing $169 million in AI education. Cuts and investment are happening simultaneously β and the paradox reveals a great deal about where American higher education is heading.
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