More and more teachers and students are using AI – even though it might do more harm than good

Some new findings show that AI has certain benefits, such as reducing barriers for students with learning disabilities. But overall, more evidence is needed to understand how AI influences learning.
The New York Times

How One Student’s Failing Grade Became a Cause Célèbre on the Right

In November, a University of Oklahoma student named Samantha Fulnecky received a zero for a psychology paper. The assignment was a 650-word response to a study of middle school students, which found ...
minnesotareformer

A simple thing we can do about grade inflation

Grade inflation has long been a problem in higher education. I taught my first college classes in 1981. It was a concern then and remained so throughout my career. A recent article in The Chronicle of ...
MLive

‘Like a triage room’: Most third grade classes in Kalamazoo area exceed proposed cap

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- Years ago, Kalamazoo Public Schools received a federal grant to lower class sizes in the district’s high poverty elementary schools to 17 students or fewer. Melissa ...
TechSpot

Student demands $8,000 refund after catching professor using ChatGPT in class materials

A hot potato: Recent reports suggest that students' use of generative AI to cheat on school assignments is approaching endemic levels. While many worry that tools like ChatGPT erode young people's ...
The New York Times

A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I.

Students are resorting to extreme measures to fend off accusations of cheating, including hourslong screen recordings of their homework sessions. By Callie Holtermann A few weeks into her sophomore ...
The Dartmouth

Dartmouth Student Government discusses alternative grading policies to combat grade inflation

On May 4, the Dartmouth Student Government Senate met for its fifth weekly meeting of the spring term. Led by student body president Chukwuka Odigbo ’25, the Senate prepared for an upcoming meeting on ...
Futurism

Hypocrite Teachers Are Telling Students Not to Use AI While Using It to Grade Their Work

Teachers are increasingly using artificial intelligence in their work — all while telling their pupils they can’t do the same. For Rhode Island history teacher Jon Gold, using ChatGPT for lesson plans ...
Gizmodo

Judge Rules in Favor of School That Gave Student a Bad Grade for Using AI

A federal judge has ruled that a Massachusetts school was likely within its rights to discipline a student who used generative artificial intelligence to complete an assignment. Jennifer and Dale ...
The Hill

Your A student is average — don’t blame the SAT and ACT

The Nov. 1 early application deadline for most colleges is almost here. More than at any time in the year — especially since COVID upended many college admissions precedents — I get a litany of ...
Purdue Exponent

Grade inflation puffs up average GPAs

Grade point averages at Purdue have increased nearly two-tenths of a point in the last 20 years due to grade inflation, but this isn't as bad as other schools, according to one Purdue professor. "It's ...