Teachers need more tools, not fewer, if they are to meaningfully address the state of education for today’s youth and incremental changes to the status quo of education will not be enough, not when the pandemic has threatened to undo decades of progress on the path toward educational equity. Can AI writing models be used to help cheat and game the system? Of course. But that doesn’t mean it will. The system has already been allowed to fail underrepresented and under-resourced students year after year without meaningful change. Enrollment of Black students has declined 60% at the top 101 public colleges in the U.S. and we know that underrepresented students were the most affected by learning loss following the pandemic.
