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The Feedback That Ships Without the Grade
Google Classroom’s Gemini integration shipped on time — and that was the constraint that mattered. This piece examines what the product team chose to leave out: multilingual feedback, audit logs, automated grading — each absent feature a resourcing decision, not a capability gap. The bill arrives when schools discover the tool live, teachers unprepared, and no safeguarding audit layer in place.
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Cite Your Sources, Class Three: India's Classroom AI and the Retrieval Pattern It Almost Deploys
India is installing, at national scale, a curriculum-grounded retrieval-augmented tutor: CBSE mandating AI from Class 3 upward, SATHEE running in twelve Indian languages, a target of 1 million trained teachers by 2027. The retrieval architecture is the right one. What is missing from every deployment surveyed here is the teach-versus-solve evaluation loop: the independent, automated check that determines whether the system taught a concept or merely answered correctly.
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