Banning AI Will Not Solve the Cheating Problem
Cheating predates AI. Bans miss the real problem: schools built more for compliance than learning. Here's what LightHouse does differently.


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The experiment
An inquiry into learning in the age of AI.





What is school for now?
These questions emerge from 11 years of building a new way to school.
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Cheating predates AI. Bans miss the real problem: schools built more for compliance than learning. Here's what LightHouse does differently.
Essay · 5 min read
When AI can produce the assignment, schools must ask what the work was for. Meaningful learning builds judgment, curiosity, and the capacity to do things that matter.
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AI is changing what machines can do—and sharpening the case for education built around curiosity, agency, judgment, collaboration, and learning how to learn.
Field note · 6 min read
LightHouse (Holyoke, MA) is a competency-based middle and high school. Notes on career pathways in the age of AI, from our August Long Table.
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Essay ·
Cheating predates AI. Bans miss the real problem: schools built more for compliance than learning. Here's what LightHouse does differently.

Essay ·
When AI can produce the assignment, schools must ask what the work was for. Meaningful learning builds judgment, curiosity, and the capacity to do things that matter.

Essay ·
AI is changing what machines can do—and sharpening the case for education built around curiosity, agency, judgment, collaboration, and learning how to learn.

Field note ·
LightHouse (Holyoke, MA) is a competency-based middle and high school. Notes on career pathways in the age of AI, from our August Long Table.