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• Schools are using AI counselors to track students’ mental health. Is it safe? March 3, 2026
  As hundreds of schools implement an automated monitoring tool, educators say that students can find talking to chatbots ‘more natural’ than confiding in a human• Produced in partnership with EdSurgeThe alert came around 7pm.Brittani Phillips checked her phone. A middle school counselor in Putnam county, Florida, Phillips receives messages from an artificial intelligence-enabled therapy platform […]
  Daniel Mollenkamp
• Welsh ‘revolution’ required to hit target of 1m speakers by 2050, says report March 3, 2026
  Welsh language commissioner calls for ‘transformative’ intervention, amid Reform UK threats to undo new powersA “revolution is required” to protect the Welsh language, according to a major new report.While the number of Cymraeg speakers has remained more or less stable for decades, it has not risen in line with significant population growth, making the language […]
  Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent
• Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI March 3, 2026
  I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attackTwo years ago, at the age of 39, I began training to be a school teacher. I wanted to teach English – to help young […]
  Peter C Baker
• The Guardian view on schools: Send reforms aside, the government’s white paper lacks focus | Editorial March 2, 2026
  Plans to resurrect the children’s services decimated by austerity are appealing. But schools also need attentionHeavily trailed reforms to special educational needs and disabilities (Send) education dominated coverage of last week’s schools white paper. But Bridget Phillipson’s policy of in-sourcing special provision, creating a new tier of support and making mainstream settings more inclusive, is […]
  Editorial
• Learn With Ms Rachel review – undoubtedly the TV event of the year for millions of us March 2, 2026
  The queen of children’s edutainment is back after four very long months, with her most extraordinary, envelope-pushing and moving special yet. Cue absolute relief for parents the world overFor those whose cultural experiences are largely absorbed through the prism of their mewling infants’ demands for the same thing 437 times in a row, it’s been […]
  Archie Bland
• Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones March 2, 2026
  The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignoreThe west is in the midst of the most serious assault on free speech and academic freedom since the heyday of McCarthyism seven decades ago. For years, we were told the danger […]
  Owen Jones
• ‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda March 2, 2026
  Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exileIn order to watch the Oscar-nominated documentary in which many of them have starring roles, pupils at Karabash School No 1 have had […]
  Amelia Gentleman
• ICE has detained this high schooler for 10 months. Here’s what he and his classmates want you to know March 1, 2026
  Dylan Lopez Contreras, a student at Ellis Prep academy, was taken by ICE in May. The Guardian invited him and five of his classmates to share their lives and dreamsLeer en español en DocumentedThe students at Ellis Prep academy – like most high schoolers – have a lot on their mind right now.Essay deadlines, college […]
  Maanvi Singh, with words and photography by Ellis Prep academy students