Melania Trump Launches AI Education Summit as 1,500 Classical Schools Expand Across the U.S.
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Updated · Fox News · May 18
Melania Trump Launches AI Education Summit as 1,500 Classical Schools Expand Across the U.S.
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 18
Melania Trump launched the "Foster the Future" summit on March 24 to frame AI as a classroom tool that can widen children’s opportunities rather than replace learning.
AI readiness drove the event, with supporters arguing U.S. students need stronger reading, reasoning and critical-thinking skills to handle an economy and culture increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.
Alpha Schools CEO MacKenzie Price was among attendees, highlighting a model that uses AI for accelerated academics before shifting students to afternoon "life skills" such as finance and entrepreneurship.
Classical education advocates tied that approach to a broader movement that emphasizes grammar, logic, rhetoric and great books; they say it teaches students how to think and resist manipulation and misinformation.
More than 1,500 classical schools served about 700,000 U.S. students in 2024, with over 250 new schools opened since 2020, underscoring the movement’s rapid growth.
As AI tutors promise 10x learning, is the boom in Classical Education a wise safeguard or a retreat from the future?
With AI able to produce any answer, how can schools prove students are actually learning and not just prompting?
AI schools claim to build future-proof kids, but what is the true cost of harvesting their biometric and surveillance data?