New York City Public Schools and the Los Angeles Unified School District introduced broad restrictions on student use of artificial intelligence for the 2026–2027 academic year. New York City's one-year moratorium bars students through eighth grade from using generative AI tools while permitting limited, supervised use in some high school classrooms; Los Angeles temporarily blocked student access to generative AI tools across all grades. The restrictions respond to concerns from parents, teachers, and education professionals about AI's effects on children, while districts such as Dallas and Houston have taken less restrictive approaches.
Guo Peng, director of the Ministry of Education's development planning department, said at a State Council Information Office briefing on September 23 that Double First-Class universities added a cumulative 62,000 undergraduate enrollment places from 2024 to 2026, including 24,000 in 2026. The 15th Five-Year Plan outline calls for an increase of more than 100,000 undergraduate places at these universities, meaning at least 76,000 more places are needed from 2027 to 2030. The expansion is structural, officially described as focusing on frontier and emerging interdisciplinary fields such as artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, biomedicine and new energy.
Snow College in Utah received a $3 million federal grant to establish the Snow College Center for Rural AI Adoption and Integration and to lead a five-year AI initiative. The initiative will begin by providing enterprise-level AI access to students, faculty and staff, integrating AI literacy throughout the college experience, and expanding through its campuses in Ephraim, Richfield and Nephi and its rural concurrent enrollment network. The college expects the initiative to bring AI education to hundreds of rural high school students and educators annually.
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The Ohio State University and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership in October 2026 spanning scientific research, campus technology, AI education and student services. The initiative will establish an AI-focused space within Ohio State's Innovation District and create research collaborations involving Google DeepMind; researchers will gain access to Google's AI-optimized computing infrastructure and more than 200 AI models. Select students, faculty and staff will receive access to Google Workspace for Education and Gemini Enterprise, and the university plans to launch a 24/7 AI-powered student concierge.
Coursera and Udemy released their first joint Global Skills Report in 2026, drawing on data from more than 300 million learners and introducing an AI-Human Skills Synergy Index covering 98 countries. Germany and France lead the index, followed by Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong; the US ranks eighth, the UK 19th and China 28th. The report also notes that 75% of organizations are experimenting with or implementing AI, while only 18% say most of their workforce has been trained; 96% of surveyed students and teachers use AI, but only 26% of educators say their institution has a formal AI policy.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is positioning Boston Public Schools as the first major U.S. city to declare all students will graduate "AI literate," through a $1 million public-private partnership with UMass Boston to design an AI curriculum for grades 7-12, and launched an inaugural cohort of 25 "AI educator ambassadors" this summer. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced in September a student-facing generative AI moratorium for preschool through eighth grade for this school year, covering nearly 600,000 public school students, and the city is disabling AI in nearly 40 allowed educational software programs.
Beijing recently released the 2026 edition of its Guide for the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Education, setting red lines for student AI use by age group. The guide states that infants aged 0 to 3 are not advised to directly contact AI tools, toys or AI-generated content; children aged 3 to 6 may have limited experiences accompanied by parents; primary school students are not advised to use AI tools alone; middle school students may explore under teacher or parent accompaniment; and high school students may conduct inquiry-based learning with teacher permission. The guide establishes three lists—prohibited, limited use and encouraged use—and requires schools to set their own AI guidelines and teachers to state in advance the permitted scope of AI use in assignments.
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