Corey Turner

In a speech at the National Press Club, Weingarten laid out a 10-point plan to help schools navigate what she called a crossroads.

The points include no screens or online tests for kids from pre-K through second grade, no student-facing AI across the elementary school grades, and a total ban on social companion chatbots for students until at least age 16.

Weingarten also called for the creation of an independent research group to study the effects of AI, screens, and technology on students,

and for what she called a tech tax on big tech companies to, quote, pay their fair share for the adverse and disruptive consequences of AI.

Corey Turner, NPR News.

The annual report is called the Education Scorecard, and it comes from researchers at Stanford, Harvard, and Dartmouth.

Pouring over decades of math and reading scores, the researchers say America's students hit a learning recession, not during COVID-19, but around 2013.

Stanford researcher Sean Reardon.

As for why learning got so derailed, the researchers have two theories.

One, a big federal education law was essentially abandoned around 2013, meaning school leaders started feeling less pressure to improve.

And two, social media use among U.S.

youth started to skyrocket.

Corey Turner, NPR News.

We have a lot of things to discuss.

I wouldn't say Iran is one of them, to be honest with you, because we have Iran very much under control.

In fact, you wouldn't really know there was a pandemic effect if you just looked at the last 10 or 12 years of test scores.

There's been just a steady kind of decline.

NPR's Corey Turner.

Instructure responded by taking Canvas offline.

It discovered that the hackers had accessed the platform through special free accounts for teachers.