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Turning Complex Topics into Thoughtful Conversations
From December 3-6, 2025, in Houston, Close Up, the National Association of Independent Schools, and the Stanford University Deliberative Democracy Lab partnered to host From Classrooms to Careers: How AI is Shaping Our Paths, a NextGen Roundtable national deliberation to help high school students critically examine the role of AI in their lives. The goal? To facilitate meaningful conversations about what the future holds with this rapidly evolving technology, to build students’ deliberation and facilitation skills, and to help them understand how they can put those skills to use back at school.
Now, we’re highlighting the opinions, priorities, and attitudes of these students through the From Classrooms to Careers: How AI is Shaping Our Paths 2025 Impact Report.
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