India, June 8 -- Earlier this year, Cambridge University Press & Assessment published its first Future Ready Learners report, drawing on the voices of over 3,000 teachers and nearly 4,000 students across 150 countries, including India. One line from its foreword stays with me: "Never has the role of schools and teachers been more important."

While this was written before the current wave of AI tools entered classrooms at scale, it feels more true now than when it was published.

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That conviction resonates with particular force in India right now. The country's education landscape is undergoing one of its most consequential transformations, as the education policy ...