1. Taleemabad finds a 100× cheaper route to local-language AI

2. Ghana has signed Intel into its public school system to bring AI teaching to more than 700 schools, with nothing published yet on grades, teacher preparation or how results will be judged

3. Ten African education organisations spent four months building their own generative AI tools, producing a voice-based reading companion for low-bandwidth Kenyan classrooms and a teacher chatbot in South Africa

A Nature paper covering five randomised trials that found a basic phone call beats almost everything else in education for eleven dollars a child, ministers adopting a joint statement in Paris, and two arguments about why edtech keeps failing on implementation and on connection.

A tiny Kiswahili reading model just beat Gemini 3.1. This week: free AI expands across Africa, and what that same offer cost American schools a decade ago.

AI is filling classrooms conflict has emptied of teachers. This week: Nigeria's literacy rollout, Pakistan's AI-cloned teachers, and Malawi's exclusion warning.

Committing to AI in education is easy. This week: what it actually costs to afford, staff, and govern it, from Punjab's rollout to Malawi's policy gap.

AI's biggest proven win in education is reading. See how Ghana's literacy programme, India's national roadmap, and US classroom data all point the same way.

A new benchmark aims to catch unproven AI tools before they reach kids. This week: India's rollout, hands-on training in Nigeria, and tools built for no internet.