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INTRODUCTION  \nOur nation, society, and schools are at the cusp of profound change. The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) is converging with the longstanding institutional shortcomings of our nation’s education system. These shortcomings cannot be overcome simply by designing new AI-powered tools. Instead, education leaders and policymakers must design resilient, future-ready schools tailored to the needs of every student. Though these aspirations are not new, they have so far remained unattainable. AI’s disruptive potential can either help make this future a reality or exacerbate existing shortcomings.  \nIn early 2024, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) convened more than 60 state and federal policymakers, ed tech innovators, school system leaders, and advocates for the Think Forward: Learning with AI Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This group focused on the “Wicked Opportunities” AI offers and the greater role the education community must take in guiding how AI is used to transform teaching and learning.  \nIn November 2025, CRPE returned to New Mexico for a second convening and launched its inaugural Think Forward AI Fellowship Cohort, a smaller group of 40 visionary policymakers, system leaders, educators, researchers, funders, parent advocates, and tech experts. The goal of the fellowship is to leverage diverse expertise to develop a coherent approach for integrating AI into a new vision of schooling. The Fellows grounded this vision in the thorny problems of our current  \n1  \nTHINK FORWARD: BUILDING A COHERENT APPROACH TO AI IN EDUCATION  \nlandscape, wrestled with strongly felt viewpoints of what can and should be done in the next few years, and identified strategies to harness today’s opportunities while building towards a radically different future.  \nThe discussions and work sessions centered on three integral themes:  \n• Without a guiding vision from educators and policymakers, AI developers have continued to focus on time-and labor-saving tools, not on how technology can help prepare young people for, and make our schools responsive to, a radically different future.  \n• Point solutions are flooding the market, but education’s fundamental challenges are structural. Fellows emphasized the need to move beyond fragmented tool adoption toward more coherent and integrated school designs. Instead of designing “AI-powered schools,” education leaders and policymakers should focus on designing future-ready schools and consider how AI can help them realize those designs. Above all, school and learning must center on human relationships.  \n• Now is the time to think big and to think forward. The world is changing rapidly. So, too, must education. Institutional failure and profound inequities in K-12 are converging with a highly unpredictable AI future.  \nAI will either entrench the limits of today’s education system or help unlock something fundamentally better. Drawing on the 2025 Think Forward convening, this paper argues that fragmented, efficiency-driven uses of AI fall short of what students and schools need in a rapidly changing world. Left unguided, AI’s promise of efficiency risks reinforcing outdated models of schooling. Convening participants described this as an “efficiency paradox” in which systems become faster and cheaper without becoming more responsive to student needs.  \nWe call instead for a coherent, human-centered approach that is explicitly  \nambidextrous, improving current practice while intentionally building toward new learning models. We outline action priorities that attend to two time horizons at once, focused on enabling policy and infrastructure, whole-school redesign, technology aligned with learning science, reimagined teaching and assessment, and sustained investment in experimentation and fieldwide learning.  \n“If AI represents exponential computing power, education must represe","cbCaia9kwP7immrU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia9kwP7immrU","pdf",715514,"English","# Introduction\n## Core problem: fragmentation and an efficiency paradox\n# A Vision for Education in the AI Age\n## Why current AI efforts fall short","[{\"question\":\"Why does the paper say new AI-powered tools are not enough?\",\"answer\":\"It argues education leaders must address structural shortcomings that tools alone cannot fix. 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