1、CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH DOSS,ROBERT BOZICK,HEATHER L.SCHWARTZ,LISA CHU,LYDIA R.RAINEY,ASHLEY WOO,JUSTIN REICH,JESSE DUKESAI Use in Schools Is Quickly Increasing but Guidance Lags BehindFindings from the RAND Survey PanelsThe rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence(AI)has created a fast-

2、moving,real-time social experiment at scale.AI uses for school are numerous,with some students using AI for their homework and some teachers using AI to create lesson plans,receive feedback on their instruction,or complete such administrative tasks as grading and writing recom-mendation letters.Surv

3、eys have found that the use of AI among students and educators is increasing.During the 20222023 school year,58 percent of responding teachers indicated that they use AI for school or personal reasons,with that number jumping to 70 percent in the 20232024 school year(Laird,Dwyer,and Woelfel,2025).Me

4、anwhile,surveyed high school students reported use of AI for school increased by 13percentage points between the 20222023 and 20232024 school years(Laird,Dwyer,and Woelfel,2025).However,school training and policies on AIas with any new and rapidly proliferating technologyare lagging.As of fall 2024,

5、about half of districts reported providing some AI train-ing options for teachers(Diliberti,Lake,and Weiner,2025),virtually all of which were optional for teachers.In this report,we provide a first-of-its-kind update on AI in education that triangulates survey data from nationally representative sam

6、ples of five populations:K12 teachers,school leaders,school district leaders,students in middle and high school,and their parents.We augment this quantitative data with interviews of school district leaders to provide an overview of the extent to which AI is being used in schools;guidance around its