Classroom Cope

“How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It),” published this week in the New York Times by Dana Goldstein, breezily presents the results of the paper’s call to American high school and college educators to describe how generative A.I. has changed their writing instruction. Nearly four hundred individuals testified personally to what is already well-known to many: the rising uptake of AI among middle school, high school and college students has made it impossible to assign students independent writing tasks outside the classroom. (Self-reported regular use of AI for homework went from 48 to 62 percent in the second half of 2025 alone.) In response, teachers are having their students write in class.