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A pressure audit that separates useful expectations from comparison, identity threat, outcome control and an education portfolio with no room to recover.
An access-or-target test for deciding when AI reduces a disability-related barrier and when it unintentionally performs the skill being taught or assessed.
A practical way to tell whether AI is extending a student’s reasoning or quietly replacing the judgment an assignment was meant to build.
A risk-tiered boundary for using AI in practice feedback, formative assessment and consequential grades while keeping educators accountable.
A family agreement that adapts to different assignments, teachers and ages—without banning AI or monitoring every prompt.
A process-evidence stack for designing assignments that reveal student thinking without making the false promise of AI-proof homework.
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