At the University of Houston, educators are in the early stages of exploring the positive and negative boundaries of AI, while enthusiastically encouraging its use over prohibiting it. It’s a conscious decision that puts UH at the forefront of a movement that could fundamentally alter the way students learn. Susie Gronseth, a clinical professor in the Learning, Design and Technology program area of the College of Education, takes the philosophy one step further, stressing that AI should be used with clearly set goals, keeping outcomes front and center. She says AI should be tapped only when it meaningfully supports those goals and not for just “the trendiness of it.”

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A new UH report finds that Houston ISD’s enrollment decline has accelerated since the state takeover more than two years ago, while experienced educators are leaving the district at higher rates. According to researchers at the College of Education’s Institute for Education Policy Research and Evaluation, the intervention has coincided with significant shifts in both the district’s student population and teaching workforce. “The overarching takeaway is that the student and teacher populations in Houston ISD are very different than they were before the takeover,” said Toni Templeton, senior research scientist at the institute.