Why Teachers Secretly Hate Grading Papers. By John Tierney. January 9, 2013. Share. Save. For many, it's the most stressful part of the job -- partly because it's so hard to be fair.

6 in 10 teachers use AI to grade papers, ... Published June 25, 2025, 10:03 a.m. ET. For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun.

In a notable shift toward sanctioned use of AI in schools, some educators in grades 3–12 are now using a ChatGPT-powered grading tool called Writable, reports Axios.The tool, acquired last ...

Teachers Use AI to Grade English Papers Last summer, Jen Roberts, an English teacher at Point Loma High School in San Diego, went to a training session to learn how to use Writable, ...

The students at Berry Elementary School in Waldorf, Md., use colored pencils to edit each other's papers. By the time teachers get to grading, Jones said, the color they use isn't that important.

(The paper is under peer review for publication and is still undergoing revision.) Most remarkably, the researchers obtained these fairly decent essay scores from ChatGPT without training it first ...