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Chasen Stahl April 29, 2026

The Emperor's Algorithm: What Current Research Actually Says About AI in Education (And Why We’re Getting It Wrong)

A dissection of Stanford's 2026 Evidence Base on AI in K-12, with apologies to the hype machine. Read the full report here. There is a religion forming around AI in education. Perhaps several. Like most religions, there are zealots and heretics, prophecies and apostates. The…

Chasen Stahl April 20, 2026

The Neurobiology of Rigor in IB Contexts

How should we define rigor in an IB context and how can we cultivate the conditions necessary to enable it? There is a question I have been unable to satisfactorily address throughout my career so far: how do we maintain the high academic standards the…