Students Use AI for School Writing at 67%-90% Rates as Educators Push Back
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 17
Students Use AI for School Writing at 67%-90% Rates as Educators Push Back
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 17
Summary
Recent surveys show roughly two-thirds to 90% of U.S. high school and college students already use AI for schoolwork, often to help write assignments.
Writing’s difficulty helps explain the surge: producing a solid essay demands vocabulary, grammar, planning and sustained mental effort, making AI an easy shortcut for reluctant writers.
A growing group of educators says that shortcut strips students of core thinking and composition practice, raising fears that they are outsourcing the learning process itself.
Blue books, handwriting and proctored in-class essays are returning in some classrooms as teachers try to force unaided writing and limit chatbot use.