AI and Equity, Explained: A Guide for K-12 Schools (EdWeek)

June 20, 2024 by EdTrust

And putting products that are untested for bias into classrooms could come at a high cost for schools and ed-tech developers, warned Nathan Kriha, a P-12 policy analyst for The Education Trust, a civil rights organization. It could mean “we will have some potentially incredibly problematic tools embedded into school systems” across the country, Kriha said. Historically, the nation has a “horrendous track record of providing equitable access to new technologies for students of color, and students from low-income backgrounds,” said The Education Trust’s Kriha. “And if we as a society are living under this assumption that these tools are going to be important for professional life, there needs to be open conversation about this equity of access.”