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AI vendors are funding the union that trains teachers to use their tools. That's a real conflict worth naming — and the safeguards deserve a fair hearing too.

OpenAI is courting teachers with a free workspace while districts ban ChatGPT for students. Is that a contradiction — or two different problems wearing one name?

An Oregon NEA rank-and-file caucus wants an end to what it calls 'AI grift.' Here's what that grassroots pushback represents — and what it doesn't, within a mixed union landscape.

An MIT study found students who used ChatGPT to write essays showed weaker cognitive engagement. Here's what that implies for student use — and why teacher use is a different case.

Major districts banned ChatGPT over integrity and quality fears. Now OpenAI is courting those same districts with free teacher accounts. Are the two positions contradictory?

AI-writing detectors run roughly 80-90% accurate — and most don't publish rates at all. Here's why that's not good enough to be a teacher's primary defense.

A Study.com survey found over a quarter of teachers have caught a student cheating with ChatGPT. Here's what that number actually measures — and what it doesn't.

The AFT's academy promises to train 400,000 teachers on AI in five years. But scale and depth pull against each other — can standardized training build real literacy?

A fair critical review of OpenAI's free teacher course — what it teaches well, and the gaps around AI grading, hallucination, and detection it glosses over.

OpenAI's AI Skills Jam took the teacher training on the road — in-person workshops across US cities that drew 1,600+ educators. Here's what the format looks like.

OpenAI Academy runs two free courses for K-12 teachers: AI Foundations and ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers. Here's the actual syllabus, section by section.

OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic compete everywhere else — but co-funded the same $23M union program to train 400,000 teachers. Here's why.