📚 Education Jul 24, 2026 · Eric Tucker

Schools Are Testing the Past: How Assessment Must Evolve for Writing, Speaking, and Listening in the AI Age

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Our son Robert took the annual Arizona state writing test. The browser was locked. The tabs were closed. The phone was away. No notes, no search, no chatbot.



Then he enters the world the test claims to prepare him for. There, writing rarely begins with one person and a blank page. A memo may begin with research and an AI prompt, move through edits and fact-checking, and end with human review; a meeting becomes a transcript, summary, and action list.



What counts as work is changing. Asses

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