Schools Face Challenges Measuring AI's Impact on Students

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Schools Face Challenges Measuring AI's Impact on Students

Schools experimenting with artificial intelligence are finding it difficult to assess its effects on students, NPR reports.

Many share the same challenge: determining whether the technology is beneficial or harmful. Their experiments highlight the difficulty of measuring AI's impact in schools.

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