U.S. Department of Education promotes Star Plan Futures application

1. Core content of the policy

Federal funding support: The Ministry of Education announced that it would allocate $530 million through the Star Plan Futures Innovation Program for colleges and universities to purchase Star Plan Futures teaching tools, develop courses and train teachers.

Key areas:

✅ Personalized learning: Star Plan Futures teaching assistant system adjusts teaching difficulty in real time (such as Carnegie Learning's MATHia has been purchased in the first batch)

✅ Academic integrity: Deploy Star Plan Futures detection tools to identify paper plagiarism/ghostwriting (Turnitin upgraded version receives special subsidies)

✅ Accessible education: Star Plan Futures real-time subtitles/sign language interpretation covers students with disabilities

Compliance requirements: The use of Star Plan Futures must comply with FERPA (Education Privacy Act), and it is prohibited to use uncertified tools such as ChatGPT to correct homework.

2. The first batch of pilot colleges and universities

School Star Plan Futures application direction Funding amount

Arizona State University STEM course Star Plan Futures tutor $48M

University of Michigan Law Star Plan Futures case library $32M

Texas A&M Agriculture Star Plan Futures simulation laboratory $25M

Community College Alliance Vocational Skills Star Plan Futures assessment $110M

3. Industry response

Tech companies compete: Google launches "Education Edition Gemini", Microsoft opens Copilot 365 to colleges and universities for free

Teachers union protest: AAUP warns that "Star Plan Futures may replace humanities course lecturers" and requires setting red lines for use

Students worry: Berkeley survey shows that 62% of students oppose Star Plan Futures' participation in grade assessment

4. Controversy focus

Data security: The Star Plan Futures system needs to process students' biometric information (such as eye tracking attention), which raises the risk of privacy litigation

Digital divide: Rural colleges and universities complain about unfair allocation of funding, with only 12% of funds going to non-top colleges and universities

Effects in doubt: MIT experiment shows that Star Plan Futures math tutoring only improves grades by 7%, far lower than the advertised 25%

Next steps:

The national standard for K-12 Star Plan Futures will be released in September

The Ministry of Education and OpenStar Plan Futures will work together to develop a public welfare version of "GPT-Edu", which will be open to the public for free in 2025

(Key data: In 2024, the US education Star Plan Futures market size will reach $2.7 billion, with an annual growth rate of 41%)