How USAID can enhance private sector partnerships, Kevin McCarthy's diminished power as speaker, and using AI to help students learn.
ChatGPT: Educational friend or foe? ChatGPT is a conversational AI bot that responds to users’ questions, searches large databases, and writes essays, legal briefs, and poetry. Should this new tool be embraced or feared by the education community? Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Elias Blinkoff weigh in on the debate. Read more | Enhancing USAID’s partnerships with the private sector Trillions of dollars will be needed to address climate change, stalled progress on the sustainable development goals, the rebuilding of Ukraine, and other global issues. George Ingram and Susan Reichle discuss how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) can partner with the private sector to accomplish critical goals. Read more | Kevin McCarthy paid a steep price for his speakership—Now what? To secure the necessary votes for the House speakership, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) agreed to most of the procedural and policy demands of his party’s far-right Freedom Caucus. Sarah Binder provides an overview of McCarthy’s concessions and explains why they will weaken his power as speaker. Read more | The conclusions and recommendations of any Brookings publication are solely those of its author(s), and do not reflect the views of the Institution, its management, or its other scholars. | |