Overview
American education has been quietly rebuilt for a new mission. Digital platforms promise personalized learning and career readiness, but they also collect behavioral and emotional data to build psychometric profiles from the earliest years of school. Common Core, Social Emotional Learning, Portrait of a Graduate, Competency-Based Education, and Career Pathways together create a digital infrastructure that enables AI to measure, predict, and shape how children think, behave, and understand themselves and the world.
In this Broadside, Priscilla West makes sense of this bewildering landscape. Drawing on government records, foundation reports, corporate publications, and international frameworks, West shows how decades of seemingly disconnected reforms converge into a coherent system hiding in plain sight.
The deeper story is not artificial intelligence itself. It is the construction of artificial education: a system of continuous surveillance, sorting, and conditioning – and one of the most consequential, least understood transformations of our time.
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