Failure rates are up for new students at New York's state universities and community colleges. Fewer students start with the basics -- or study skills.

Professors use AI-detection apps to spot cheaters. Cheaters use the same apps to "humanize" AI's work.

Most college students can't read at the college level, says instructor.

AI has killed the take-home assignment. Teachers have students write in class to ensure it's their own writing.

"Your personal story is powerful!," says AI, if it thinks the writer is black. Students labeled "white" get critical feedback on how to improve.

Writing by hand develops learning, memory and thinking skills.

Humanities professors can teach students to resist AI cheatbots and learn to read, write, converse and think.

Without SAT or ACT scores, University of California at San Diego is seeing a "steep decline" in academic readiness.

Students who say "no" to AI are willing work harder to build writing and thinking skills -- and to maintain their self-respect and their "humanity."

AI can critique students' writing and get them to improve without doing the thinking for them, says the designer of "Level Up."

The college essay favors students who know how to exaggerate their adversity and fake humility.

Handwriting is part of literacy, but many students never learn to write in cursive.

"Balanced literacy" guru Lucy Calkins has become the " scapegoat for America's reading crisis ," suggests Helen Lewis in The Atlantic. ...

Studying pop-song lyrics in English class doesn't prepare students for college reading or writing.

A majority of students use AI to help write papers, and AI detection tools remain unreliable.

It's the start of the college application season, and 12th-graders are searching their lives for subject matter for essays, writes Robert...

Minority students are only slightly less likely to write about their racial or ethnic identity in college admissions essays , according...

A new AI writing coach will work from a student's notes, turning ideas into sentences.

Can teachers ban AI for students' writing but use it for grading?

It's time to dump college admissions essays, writes Matthew Levey on The 74. Test scores and good grades in challenging courses are...