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K-12 AI Infrastructure: Findings from Educator and Developer Outreach

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Authors: Rebecca Griffiths, Vanessa Peters Hinton, Shelton Daal, and Megan Pattenhouse https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/309 Abstract This report presents findings from the K-12 AI Infrastructure Program’s outreach to educators, edtech developers, and other stakeholders, conducted during late 2025 to mid-2026. It examines what educators want from AI tools, where current AI applications fall short, how education technology developers … Read more

The Effect of High-Frequency, Automatically-marked Formative Assessments on Student Outcomes in A-Level Sciences

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Authors: Matey Yordanov, Mikhail Bychkov, Andrei Kuchma Abstract: Traditional human marking in upper-secondary STEM education creates a structural bottleneck that restricts the frequency of formative mock examinations. This quasi-experimental, mixed-methods longitudinal study (N = 142) investigates the efficacy of deploying a fully automated, handwritten assessment marking platform to remove this bottleneck. Students preparing for STEM … Read more

Formative Assessment and Public Goods for AI in Education

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Author: K-12 AI Infrastructure Program Team  Download a PDF copy of this Formative Assessment page Definition Formative assessment is a key aspect of many applications of AI to education. Through production of public goods (as defined in the Request for Proposals), the K-12 AI Infrastructure program seeks to aid developers of AI-enabled products and services. … Read more

Building the Future of EdTech: 5 Essential Reads from The Learning Agency

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Building high-quality AI-enabled edtech requires an adaptive understanding of open licensing, structured pipelines that involve humans, and leveraging the open-source benchmarks, datasets, and models already available to the community. If you are looking to learn more about building more responsible and effective AI-enabled edtech for education, here are resources from The Learning Agency to explore: … Read more

Sandpiper for Education

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Sandpiper is a new open-source annotation app developed by the National Tutoring Observatory (NTO) to help researchers, educators, and organizations analyze tutoring interactions at scale. Learn more: Sandpiper Launch Recording

Blueprints for Better AI in Education: Insights from the K-12 Infrastructure Program

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Originally posted on January 16, 2026 | By Keun-woo Lee, Pati Ruiz, Jeremy Roschelle and Rebecca Griffiths on the Digital Promise Blog. Key Ideas AI infrastructure must reflect the full diversity of learners to avoid widening opportunity gaps Datasets, models, and benchmarks should be infused with the learning sciences Sustainable public goods require more than … Read more

Collaborative Led by Digital Promise Launches AI Grants Program for Education

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Author: K-12 AI Infrastructure Program Team Originally posted on November 3, 2025 | On the Digital Promise Blog. New initiative, managed by a team of research, data and privacy experts, will fund AI infrastructure projects with the potential to deliver broad benefits to students and teachers Key Ideas The K-12 AI Infrastructure Program will fund … Read more