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SchoolAI Raised Another $25 Million in Funding for Its 'Classroom Experience' Platform

SchoolAI raised $25 million in Series A funding in a round led by Insight Partners. Existing investors include NextView Ventures, The General Partnership, and Peterson Ventures. SchoolAI’s total funding is $32 million to date. SchoolAI’s Classroom Experience platform combines AI assistants for teachers that help with classroom preparation and administrative work. At the same time, SchoolAI's Spaces uses personalized AI tutors, games, and lessons that can adapt to each student’s unique learning style and interests. These tools give teachers actionable insights into student performance and allow them to deliver targeted support when it matters most. According to the company, SchoolAI is used in over a million classrooms across all 50 U.S. States and over 80 countries worldwide. The platform is embedded in more than 400 school districts through strategic partnerships that train teachers and students on how to use AI safely and in a managed way. Launched for classrooms in August of 2023, SchoolAI noted how teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders are using their tools: "Personalized Learning Companions: Teacher-designed AI ‘Spaces’ that adapt to each student's interests, learning pace, and style. These 1:1 AI tutors can provide immediate support, dramatically increasing student engagement and learning. Simple Teacher Workflows: Easy-to-use AI assistants that help teachers prepare for class: lesson planning, targeted assessments, personalized feedback, and other administrative tasks–freeing teachers to focus on meaningful student connection while staying aligned to district and state standards. Deep Accessibility and Support Features: SchoolAI supports more than 99 languages for supporting multilingual students, has real-time text-to-speech and speech-to-text for younger students, custom instructions for targeted student accommodations, and additional accessibility features for easy reading and writing. Data-Driven Support Systems: Real-time dashboards can surface actionable data and insights, revealing which students need academic or other support, help students stay on track, flag concerns, and raise opportunities to improve future lessons. Seamless Integration With Existing Tools: SchoolAI integrates directly with established platforms like Canvas, PowerSchool, and Google Classroom, so teachers can use AI with the tools they and their students are already using. Enterprise-Grade Security & School-Ready Safety: A safe, managed, and secure learning environment fully compliant with FERPA and COPPA regulations, with SOC 2 certification providing the highest standards of data protection for students and schools."

SchoolAI Raised Another $25 Million in Funding for Its 'Classroom Experience' Platform
Chinese Tencent Released Open-Source AI Models that Turn Text into 3D Visuals

Chinese Tencent Released Open-Source AI Models that Turn Text into 3D Visuals

What Will Happen in 2027 with AI? Five Top Researchers Forecast the Future

What Will Happen in 2027 with AI? Five Top Researchers Forecast the Future

WordPress.com Launched a Free AI-Builder Tool for Creating Simple Websites

WordPress.com Launched a Free AI-Builder Tool for Creating Simple Websites

Harvard Professors Sue the Trump Administration While Other Universities Are Targeted

Harvard Professors Sue the Trump Administration While Other Universities Are Targeted

Two groups representing Harvard University professors (the American Association of University Professors and the Harvard faculty chapter) filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration on Friday, saying that the threat to cut billions in federal funding for the institution violates free speech and other First Amendment rights. The Trump Administration announced two weeks ago that it reviewed about $9 billion in federal funding that Harvard receives and would send a list of demands to unfreeze the money. In a statement, Andrew Manuel Crespo, a law professor at Harvard and general counsel of the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter, said the "Trump administration’s policies are a pretext to chill universities and their faculties from engaging in speech, teaching, and research that don’t align with President Trump’s views." “Harvard faculty have the constitutional right to speak, teach, and conduct research without fearing that the government will retaliate against their viewpoints by canceling grants,” Mr. Crespo added. Other universities like Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Princeton, and over fifty more have also been targeted over allegations of antisemitism or accusations of racial discrimination, stemming from their efforts to promote DEI programs. This campaign has resulted in more than $12 billion in federal funds being suspended or canceled. Earlier this month, the Trump Administration said it had frozen over $1 billion in funding for Cornell and Northwestern. The funding pause involves mostly grants and contracts with the Agriculture, Defense, Education, and Health and Human Services departments.

A Quarter of ChatGPT Messages From College Students Relate to Learning

A Quarter of ChatGPT Messages From College Students Relate to Learning

According to a new report from OpenAI, one-third of college-aged young adults in the U.S. use ChatGPT, and a quarter of their messages relate to learning, such as starting papers and projects and exploring topics and ideas. In terms of usage, the report highlights that while three in four higher ed students want AI training, only one in four universities and colleges provide it. California, Virginia, New Jersey, and New York have the nation’s highest adoption rates, while those in Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and West Virginia have relatively low adoption rates. Experts say these state-by-state differences in student AI adoption could create gaps in workforce productivity and economic development, impacting US competitiveness. In addition, early studies⁠ show employers prefer hiring candidates with AI skills over more experienced ones without them. OpenAI's report outlines the need to demystify AI by addressing concerns about academic integrity and building proficiency in real-world applications like job searches, exam preparation, and internships. The San Francisco-based research lab encourages institutions to drive student access to ChatGPT’s free products and subsidize equitable access to the latest models.  

Higher Ed Institutions Rely Less on OPMs While Increasingly Hiring Fee-For-Service Models

Higher Ed Institutions Rely Less on OPMs While Increasingly Hiring Fee-For-Service Models

Google Releases Firebase Studio, a Free Alternative Tool to Cursor, Bolt, or v0

Google Releases Firebase Studio, a Free Alternative Tool to Cursor, Bolt, or v0

Harvard Rejects Trump's Demands and Sees $2.3 Billion in Federal Funds Frozen

Harvard Rejects Trump's Demands and Sees $2.3 Billion in Federal Funds Frozen

Virtual Reality Biology Learning Experience at ASU Shows Powerful Outcomes

Virtual Reality Biology Learning Experience at ASU Shows Powerful Outcomes

M. Amigot, IBL News | San Diego The primary outcome was that students in the virtual reality lab group were 1.7 times more likely to score between 90 percent and 100 percent on their lab assignments than students in the conventional lab group. ASU researchers studied more than 4,000 on-campus students from two biology courses over four terms — from fall 2022 through spring 2024. According to the institution's data, "The intense engagement that Dreamscape Learn virtual reality biology experiences create is leading to higher grades and more persistence for biology majors." ASU’s Dreamscape Learn Biology 181 course debuted in the spring 2022 semester, and now the experience is offered in Biology 181 and 182. These courses are intended for students in STEM majors and are required for graduation. These biology courses include 15-minute virtual-reality scenarios every week. Students travel through space to an intergalactic wildlife sanctuary, where they encounter intriguing scenarios they must solve through science. After the weekly Dreamscape Learn experience, students attend a three-hour lab, where the storyline continues. They solve the unique problems using careful reasoning. The experience is straight out of Hollywood. It was created in collaboration with Dreamscape Immersive, a company co-founded by Walter Parkes, a writer and producer of films including “WarGames,” “Gladiator,” and “Twister.” Currently, ASU is working with community colleges in California and K­–12 schools in Arizona to offer the technology, including the Pendergast Elementary School District in the West Valley.

Microsoft Introduced Two New AI Agents: Researcher and Analyst

Microsoft Introduced Two New AI Agents: Researcher and Analyst

Microsoft will start rolling out in April two AI agents to increase productivity at work this week: Researcher and Analyst. According to the company, these agents analyze vast amounts of information and have secure, compliant access to users' work data—emails, meetings, files, chats, and more—and the web. Researcher helps tackle complex, multi-step research by combining OpenAI's deep research model with Microsoft 365 Copilot's advanced orchestration and deep search capabilities. It can be used to build a go-to-market strategy based on internal, emerging, and other web data to identify opportunities for new products and provide insights and reports. It integrates data from external sources like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Confluence. Analyst has been trained to think like "a skilled data scientist, so you can go from raw data to insights in minutes," according to Microsoft. Optimized to do advanced data analysis at work, this agent is built on OpenAI's o3-mini reasoning model, moving through problems iteratively, taking steps to provide answer that mirrors human analytical thinking. It can run Python to tackle your most complex data queries, and users can view the code running in real time and check if it works. For example, this AI Analyst can turn raw data scattered across multiple spreadsheets into a demand forecast for a new product, a visualization of customer purchasing patterns, or a revenue projection. Microsoft also announced deep reasoning and agent flows in Microsoft Copilot Studio, a platform for creating, managing, and deploying agents. Microsoft also presented a Sales Agent to turn contacts into qualified leads. The agent draws on CRM, company data like price sheets, the web, and Microsoft 365 data such as emails and meetings to personalize every response. In addition, Sales Chat helps accelerate the sales cycle, giving reps actionable takeaways from CRM data, pitch decks, meetings, emails, and the web.

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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Education technology today is marked by rising AI adoption among educators and innovative personalized learning approaches.

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