In this episode we explore three stories that reveal where AI in education actually stands, not where the industry says it is headed, but what schools are dealing with right now.

Topics covered:

• Why Claude for Teachers raised student-data and FERPA concerns• Why district governance must come before teacher adoption• What the collapse of InBloom can teach today’s AI companies• How AI data centers are affecting laptop and Chromebook prices• Why some schools are pulling back from one-to-one devices• Y Combinator’s vision for AI tutors• The influence of The Diamond Age and “The Primer”

Sources:

https://drjoephillips.substack.com/p/anthropic-launched-claude-for-teachers?r=5qyht

https://www.idahoednews.org/top-news/schools-face-soaring-laptop-costs-as-ai-data-centers-squeeze-supply/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/technology/chromebook-remorse-kansas-school-laptops.html