When Jeremy Sell saw the word “poignant” spelled correctly in an essay, the jig was up. Sell, a high school English teacher in California, already suspected that his student had used a generative AI ...

Last spring, CNN published an article on teachers using generative AI to grade student writing. On social media, a few of my colleagues at other institutions instantly complained—before reading the ...

It’s a common sentiment from English teachers facing an onslaught of AI-generated writing in their classrooms: When students rely on ChatGPT to write their essays, they aren’t engaging their brains as ...

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