Insights.
Our latest thinking on the issues that matter most in education.
The year of implementation. AI policies come off the page in AY 2026-27.
Three years of AI-in-schools policy work is now being enacted in classrooms. UAE schools adopted the technology early. Now they need a considered strategy, without stifling innovation or drifting into cognitive offloading.
How do you improve a diverse school system?
A regulator overseeing approximately 200 private schools cannot pull one lever and expect it to travel. On the design of a UAE regulator's improvement function.
The COVID-19 culture lessons that apply to AI in schools.
A dissertation study of seven for-profit private schools, on what its culture findings imply for AI adoption in schools.
What are you actually buying when you acquire a school?
Academic due diligence changes the price more often than financial due diligence does.
AI is in every classroom. Now what?
Which parts of the school need to change to make AI use worthwhile, and in what order.
Why inspection-ready is the wrong bar.
Inspection ratings are the visible marker. Parents choose on other things.
Where should the next philanthropic dollar in education go?
A working view on early literacy, teacher quality, secondary transitions, and youth employability, for foundations weighing the next round of grants.
What does good look like in Arabic instruction?
A working definition, and the assessment approach that has to follow from it.