Google announced on November 3, 2026 that Guided Learning is globally available in Google Classroom and will be piloted in Search at select U.S. schools later in November 2026, alongside plans to make several AI products opt-in for K-12 student accounts. Chris Phillips, Google’s vice president and general manager of education, introduced the updates around a design principle Google calls “productive struggle”: keeping students actively challenged without becoming so overwhelmed that they give…