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AI+Education Summit 2026

The AI Inflection Point: What, How, and Why We Learn
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The Accelerator and AI

Across all six initiatives, the Stanford Accelerator for Learning is providing new research, learning, and convening opportunities that bring together leaders from education, science, and technology to chart an ethical, informed, and exciting path for the future.
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Create+AI Challenge

The Create+AI Challenge invited educators, researchers, technologists, and students to imagine how artificial intelligence can advance learning, augment teaching, and expand opportunity, always with humans at the center.
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Where We Focus

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning focuses on learning challenges most in need of new discoveries, evidence, and solutions, and where we believe Stanford can make the most difference.

  • Adult and Workforce Learning
  • Digital Learning
  • Early Childhood Learning and Development
  • Education Policy and Systems Change
  • Equity in Learning
  • Learning Differences and the Future of Special Education
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Learning across the lifespan

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New ways for technology to support learning

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Ensuring that every child thrives from the start

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Leveraging knowledge for better education decision making

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Creating equitable and effective solutions for all

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Expanding opportunities for diverse learners

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Accelerator Spotlight

Explore recent findings, funding, convenings, and more.

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Responsible Assessment in the AI Era

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning, in collaboration with ETS, presents session recordings for this invite-only gathering exploring the future of responsible assessments.
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Tequity in Learning

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning has accepted 11 proposals for projects at the intersection of technology, equity, and learning.
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AI challenges core assumptions in education

We need to rethink student assessment, AI literacy, and technology’s usefulness, according to experts at the recent AI+Education Summit.
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About the Stanford Accelerator for Learning

We accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges facing learners.

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning supports researchers from across Stanford to collaborate with each other and external partners to co-create scalable and equitable learning solutions that help all learners thrive.

“Learning is one of the single most important levers available for improving the human condition. ”

Daniel L. Schwartz
I. James Quillen Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Education
Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Educational Technology
The Halper Family Faculty Director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning

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