Last fall, my children's school district — in a suburb north of San Francisco, in a community connected to leading tech companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — issued a call to parents. The ...

As students increasingly use artificial intelligence for homework help, parents face a new problem of figuring out whether AI is actually teaching your child or simply doing their homework for them.

Some of my strongest memories from growing up, while not my fondest, are struggling with my math homework at the kitchen table while my parents fruitlessly tried to help me. OpenAI today hopes its ...

To test whether an AI tutor could really help, Oreopoulos collaborated with Michael Liut, an associate professor of mathematical and computational sciences at UTM, to build NUMI, an AI tutor designed ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district — ...

Homework for students has been a broken concept for years, since it rewards finished pages more than it rewards thinking. The benefits of homework can still be real, but AI makes the old debate ...

Who needs to know things like your own phone number or home address or how to solve a simple equation like 3x2?