Alex Spurrier

The Leading Indicator: AI in Education Issue Seven | Bellwether

Issue 7 of Bellwether's Leading Indicator: AI in Education is here! In this issue, we cover:

🤖 Major "deep research" launches from several orgs
🔬 New studies on AI & education
🏫 Why content knowledge *still* matters – especially in the AI era

And more!

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Leading Indicator: State Education Finance Issue One | Bellwether

Launching a 💵 State School Finance 💵 Newsletter at Bellwether. In the 1st issue: Amid federal chaos, what are governors saying about education funding? How are state revenues shaking out, and how might that affect schools?
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FWIW, the more advanced models can be helpful with tasks like this! I fed your prompt into ChatGPT's o1 model and it produced LaTeX code to create the graph. From there, the 4o model is able to use the code to produce an image of the graph: chatgpt.com/share/67b762...

The Leading Indicator: Issue Six | Bellwether When artificial intelligence (AI) comes up in the education sector, one of the most frequently asked questions we hear is: How should AI be used in schools? It’s a good question, but after this year’s...

❤️‍🩹 Time to DTR ed tech "situationships"?
⏱️ 60 Minutes shines a spotlight on AI tutors
✂️ AI as a tool for cutting red tape?

…and much more in Issue 6 of Bellwether's Leading Indicator: AI in Education newsletter: bellwether.org/ai-newslette...

What Michigan’s New Concentrated Poverty Funding Can Teach Other States | Bellwether High levels of school and community poverty can have a compounding effect on low-income students’ resource needs. To address systemic inequities in K-12 education funding at the state level, it may ...

Find me this week at the PIE Net Summit with colleagues @minnekrista.bsky.social @alspur.bsky.social nerding out on state funding formula modeling techniques. Then you can tell me your thoughts on concentrated poverty weights, like Michigan's new policy. bellwether.org/blog/what-mi...

Splitting the Bill: A Bellwether Series on Education Finance Equity | Bellwether Bellwether Education Partners’ series Splitting the Bill: Understanding Education Finance Equity gives advocates a crash course in the fundamentals of education finance and in key questions to ask...

Looking for some introductory briefs on K-12 school finance? 🤔

Bellwether just released an update to our "Splitting the Bill" series, includes 3 🆕 briefs on:

- How a "base" amount works 💰
- 💵 for econ. disadv. students
- Facilities 🏗

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K-12 school funding is an important part of state+local budgets, but public data on how these dollars flow are often inaccessible in outdated, unusable, or incomplete formats —  such as PDFs.

It doesn't have to be this way.

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