Educational psychologyAI and edtech harmsPublic education policy

Roxana Marachi, PhD

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A research-minded watchdog of the technologies, markets, and policies reshaping public education.

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The curator

A critical reader of education’s technological turn

Roxana Marachi, PhD, works in the space where educational psychology meets public accountability. Her Scoop.it activity is quiet in voice but sharp in selection: a research-minded record of how technology, finance, testing, and privatization reshape schools, often before the public has had time to understand the risks.

The psychologist as watchdog

Marachi’s selections show an educational psychologist watching technology enter schools through the side doors: apps, assessments, chatbots, platforms, dashboards, and procurement promises. Her current attention is fixed on AI, not as novelty, but as a system of risks for students, teachers, and institutions.

A public-education defender

Earlier topics built a sustained critique of privatization in public education. Charter schools, high-stakes testing, social impact bonds, and teacher-prep ratings were followed as questions of power, evidence, equity, and accountability rather than as isolated policy disputes.

A civic resource builder

The archive also reveals a practical civic streak. Dormant topic on safe schools, youth development, health, SEL, and local Bay Area resources gathered tools for families and educators while still asking hard questions about surveillance, commercialization, and student rights.

What defines this work

A long public record

Across 4,201 analysed posts and a public record dating back to 2011, this is a long-form archive rather than a passing feed. Its strongest current center is the active topic on educational psychology, AI, and emerging technologies, with earlier topic layers showing how the same concerns developed over time.

Evidence over enthusiasm

The work favors research reports, institutional testimony, court complaints, policy documents, advocacy briefings, and serious journalism. Even when Roxana Marachi writes little in the insight field, the source choices make the argument: evidence first, promotion last.

A harm-prevention lens

The recurring question is who benefits and who is exposed to harm. Student data, surveillance, privatization, testing systems, social-emotional software, digital identity, and charter finance are connected through a rights-oriented lens.

Policy reach beyond one niche

Although the strongest focus is U.S. education, the archive has also followed global digital identity, blockchain, impact finance, climate education, and public health. The reach is meaningful: more than 125,000 views and 72,000 unique visitors across topics.

Topics

❖ Educational Psychology, AI, & Emerging Technologies: Critical Thinking on Current Trends

The active flagship topic tracks AI, edtech, data privacy, surveillance, school cyber risk, deceptive AI claims, and the effects of automation on teachers and children. It is the clearest expression of Marachi’s present-day work: critical, cross-disciplinary, and policy-aware.

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 ♥ Safe Schools & Communities Resources and Research

This topic followed school safety as a whole-child issue, linking climate, mental health, violence prevention, online exploitation, data privacy, and surveillance overreach. Its past work treated safety as a matter of rights, not just security hardware.

471 postsen
 ¤ Charter Schools & "Choice": A Closer Look

This topic built a substantial archive on charter schools, choice, privatization, oversight failures, fraud, closures, disability rights, segregation, and corporate policy networks. It framed local scandals as evidence of broader structural pressures on public education.

639 postsen
 ⚡ Screen Time, Tech Safety & Harm Prevention Research

This topic followed screen time, wireless safety, child development, mental health, facial recognition, student tracking, and digital addiction. Its past work connected public-health caution with privacy and school technology debates.

480 postsen
 ▦ "Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3..."

This topic covered high-stakes standardized testing, algorithmic scoring, proctoring, student data exploitation, accessibility barriers, and legal challenges. It treated assessment as an equity, privacy, and civil-rights issue.

423 postsen
 ¤ Social Impact Bonds, "Pay For Success," Results-Based Contracting, and Blockchain Digital Identity Systems

This topic followed social impact bonds, pay-for-success finance, blockchain identity, digital ID, smart contracts, biometrics, and Web3 skepticism. Its distinctive past angle was the link between impact finance, surveillance infrastructure, and exclusion.

181 postsen
 ♥ Social & Emotional Learning and Critical Perspectives on SEL Related Initiatives

This topic began with SEL practices such as empathy, mindfulness, resilience, and restorative approaches, then moved toward critical questions about commercialization, psychodata, surveillance, and equity. It shows Marachi’s habit of revisiting familiar school reforms when their institutional uses change.

123 postsen
 ⚑ Community Connections: Events and Resources To Support Youth Development

This topic served Santa Clara County and the greater Bay Area with events, resource guides, youth-development supports, student privacy material, and equity-focused education advocacy. It was a local civic layer of the larger education-justice project.

112 postsen
 ✎ Educational Leadership Posts, Videos, Articles, and Resources

This topic treated educational leadership through discipline reform, anti-bias work, school pushout, privatization, safety, and data ethics. It was less about management advice than about the social responsibilities of school systems.

41 postsen
 ⚗ NCTQ's "Teacher Prep Review" Discredited: Failure to Meet Basic Standards for Research

This topic assembled critiques of NCTQ’s Teacher Prep Review, emphasizing research standards, methodological flaws, institutional rebuttals, and the public consequences of weak evaluation. It reflected Marachi’s concern for evidence quality in education policy.

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Deep dives

AI in education, read against the sales pitch

This active topic reads like an evidence desk for education in the age of AI. Roxana Marachi follows the words that often soften technology debates, then brings the focus back to concrete harms: privacy loss, surveillance, bias, deceptive claims, and the gap between institutional adoption and public accountability.

Risks vs. Harms: Unraveling the AI Terminology Confusion // Montreal AI Ethics Institute

Teachers are not treated as an afterthought here. The selections repeatedly ask what large language models and automated systems do to educators’ labor, judgment, and professional authority, especially when tools are sold as solutions before schools have examined their consequences.

"Don't Forget the Teachers": Towards an Educator-Centered Understanding of Harms from Large Language Models in Education // Harvey, Koenecke, & Kizilcec, 2025 // Cornell University

The topic also keeps child development and mental health at the center. AI chatbots, therapy bots, data breaches, toys, and school apps appear not as separate tech stories, but as part of one social environment where children, families, teachers, and districts absorb the risk.

Examining the Harm of AI Chatbots // Written Testimony of Mitchell J. Prinstein, PhD, ABPP, Chief of Psychology, American Psychological Association // U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee // September ...

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