by Team LOY | Jan 22, 2026 | Pillar 2
A quarter century ago, E.D. Hirsch Jr. published a cleverly titled essay: ‘You Can Always Look It Up’…Or Can You? His concern was prescient. The internet was placing information at our fingertips, but students weren’t building enough foundational knowledge to make...
by Team LOY | Jan 22, 2026 | Pillar 2
Think about a particularly powerful and enduring learning experience you had, growing up. Where did you encounter it? Why did you choose this particular experience? If you’re like most Americans, that experience was not to be found in your everyday schooling. More...
by Team LOY | Jan 22, 2026 | Pillar 2
Most mornings, Maya begins her day like many high school students: finding her seat, opening her laptop, and diving into a lesson with her classmates. But for Maya, learning doesn’t end when the bell rings. After class, she walks to the public library, where she edits...
by Team LOY | Jan 22, 2026 | Pillar 2
What do our core school subjects – including math – look like in the age of AI? With today’s tools, the entirety of human knowledge is immediately accessible, computational procedures of any scale are not only possible but also cheap to automate, and pocket-size...
by Team LOY | Jan 22, 2026 | Pillar 2
Generative AI has forced education to confront a question we can no longer avoid: What is school for when knowledge is everywhere and automation is cheap? When machines can generate essays and solve algebra problems, the answer is not to compete with technology....
by Team LOY | Jan 22, 2026 | Pillar 2
A Changing Frontier Millions of graduates will walk across the stage this spring – diplomas in hand, ready to face a world transformed by artificial intelligence and automation. But many will soon discover that knowledge alone doesn’t equip them to navigate a job...
