ChatGPT is the homework helper for more than a quarter of teens – and the trend is accelerating

• ChatGPT’s use in schoolwork doubled in a year to 26% among U.S. teens
• A majority of teens think using ChatGPT for research is fine
• Far fewer support using ChatGPT to write essays or solve math problems

I’m old enough to remember when teachers said we couldn’t use a calculator in tests because we wouldn’t always have one in our pockets, and they would check essays that seemed familiar against their entry on the Encarta CD-ROM encyclopedia. Teachers today are faced with the far more…