{"id":250761,"date":"2026-05-20T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/could-artificial-intelligence-improve-special-education-consider-this-from-npr-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:15:12","slug":"could-artificial-intelligence-improve-special-education-consider-this-from-npr-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/could-artificial-intelligence-improve-special-education-consider-this-from-npr-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Could artificial intelligence improve special education? : Consider This from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/20\/nx-s1-5828907\/could-artificial-intelligence-improve-special-education\">Could artificial intelligence improve special education? : Consider This from NPR : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/20\/nx-s1-5828907\/could-artificial-intelligence-improve-special-education\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/20\/nx-s1-5828907\/could-artificial-intelligence-improve-special-education<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 16:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.npr.org\">www.npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Riverview Middle School special education teacher Mary Acebu says using AI to help with the paperwork part of her job helps her spend more time interacting with her students in a meaningful way.<\/p>\n<p>                    Talia Herman<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Talia Herman<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Special education teachers are using artificial intelligence to manage crushing paperwork. Could it help instructors spend more time with their students?<\/p>\n<p>Millions of students qualify for special education and they need qualified\u00a0 teachers to help them.<\/p>\n<p>But burnout for these teachers has caused many to leave the profession \u2013 one reason \u2013\u00a0 the paperwork\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, a growing number of special educators are using A-I to speed up that paperwork and some research shows that despite the risks \u2013 it could help them spend more time with students.<\/p>\n<p>For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.\u00a0Email us at considerthis@npr.org.<\/p>\n<p>This episode was produced by Tyler Bartlam.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was edited by Steven Drummond, Nirvi Shah and Courtney Dorning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/20\/nx-s1-5828907\/could-artificial-intelligence-improve-special-education\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could artificial intelligence improve special education? : Consider This from NPR : NPR https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/20\/nx-s1-5828907\/could-artificial-intelligence-improve-special-education Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4500x2531+0+0\/resize\/1400\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd5%2Ffb%2F44f19caa4b67b76a20d62e2c73e5%2F22d4f18b-1b99-4630-999b-bdf2f1cd0fd8.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250765,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250761\/revisions\/250765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}