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OpenAI announces three new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex, designed to help students and educators use agentic AI capabilities with course materials, available via ChatGPT Edu and ChatGPT for Teachers.

Bloomy is an AI-powered mastery-learning platform for K-12 that diagnoses skill gaps, creates personalized learning paths, and provides a Socratic AI tutor to help students achieve mastery in Math, English Language Arts, and Writing.

This paper introduces an agentic workflow that uses LLMs and VLMs to iteratively generate and improve high-quality mathematical diagrams for K-12 education, addressing the reliability gap in AI-generated visual aids.

OpenAI Academy, in partnership with the Walton Family Foundation, is hosting a summer AI Skills Jam for K-12 educators across US cities to provide hands-on training in using AI for teaching and administrative tasks.

Introduces AIriskEval-edu-db2, a new dataset for pedagogical risk assessment in AI-generated explanations for K-12 education, with 1,639 explanations and structured risk annotations. Includes validation experiments comparing LLMs for risk detection and explainability.

Bloomy is an AI-powered mastery learning platform for K-12 that uses a Socratic AI tutor to help students learn faster, with early pilots showing 2x growth on NWEA MAP assessments.

This paper evaluates a multimodal framework for speaker identification in K-12 classrooms by combining acoustic embeddings (ECAPA-TDNN) with LLM-derived semantic context from transcripts, improving accuracy from 39% to 50.3% overall and from 64.9% to 76.9% for longer utterances.

Introduces LiveK12Bench, a dynamic multimodal benchmark for evaluating large models on real high school exams across multiple disciplines, revealing substantial performance gaps under realistic constraints.

OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Teachers, a free workspace available through June 2027 that includes GPT-4.1 Auto, education-grade privacy/FERPA compliance, collaboration tools, and integrations with Google Drive, Microsoft 365, and Canva, aimed at K-12 educators and school administrators in the U.S.

OpenAI and the American Federation of Teachers launch the National Academy for AI Instruction, a five-year initiative to train 400,000 K-12 educators (about 1 in 10 US teachers) in AI usage and integration in classrooms. OpenAI is contributing $10 million in funding and resources, with support from Microsoft, Anthropic, and the United Federation of Teachers.

Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers, offering verified US K-12 educators free access to premium Claude capabilities, curriculum-aligned lesson planning, and integrations with educational tools like ASSISTments and Canva Education.