The large majority of K-12 students spend many or most of their school hours staring at Microsoft and Google’s hardware and software, which are now loaded with generative-A.I. tools that can contribute to cognitive atrophy and loosen our collective hold on reality. Beyond A.I. concerns, both tech companies have been accused of illicitly collecting and using student data, yet “in many districts, opting out of Google Classroom would be close to opting out of public school altogether,” Jessica Winter writes. Read how public schools in the U.S. have effectively surrendered much of their pedagogy, curricula, and operating systems to a handful of trillion-dollar technology companies: newyorker.com/culture/progre…