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Students already have AI homework help. The question is no longer whether to allow it, but what shape of help you are willing to defend at a parent meeting.
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Every guide here is written from the same position: the tool is already in the building, the policy is late, and somebody has to answer for the student data. None of them predict what classrooms will be like in ten years.
What Khan Academy publishes, what older quotes said, and what a 600-student school actually pays across Khanmigo, MagicSchool and Coeducate.
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MagicSchool publishes two prices and quotes the third. What Free, Plus and Enterprise actually cost, and the number a district quote has to beat.
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SchoolAI lists three plans and prices none of them. What Pro and Scale include, why review-site prices are guesses, and the benchmarks a quote has to beat.
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HMH prints no Read 180 price. Nine public quotes and contracts do: $109 per student a year at list, $30 to $60 for Flex, and a first year that runs about $140 to $250 per student all in.
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Edpuzzle prints its teacher prices and quotes schools privately. Twelve board records from ten school systems show what a Pro School license costs.
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Nearpod prints its teacher prices and marks every school quote confidential. Board documents from nine school systems show what districts actually pay.
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Edmentum quotes Study Island by state, students and subjects. Two College Station ISD board packets and two Pequea Valley agendas show what schools pay.
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ExploreLearning took the prices off the Reflex buy page. The NCII chart, a Rockford order form and a 2026 renewal notice show what a school and a district pay.
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Pear Deck prints only its teacher price. Its pricing page, its product terms and order forms from six districts show what a school and a district actually pay, and what renewal adds.
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Seesaw sells only to schools and prints no price. Its own floor, two consortium price sheets and two signed district orders show what a school and a district pay.
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BrainPOP prints teacher and family prices and quotes schools on enrollment. Price lists and signed orders from seven school systems show what a building pays.
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DeltaMath prints most of its prices. What PLUS and INTEGRAL cost a teacher, a school and a district in 2026-27, which route is cheapest, and what two signed contracts show.
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IXL prints its family and classroom prices but not its school price. Ten district quotes and two co-op price sheets do.
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Renaissance prints no price for Accelerated Reader. Nine district quotes and board documents do, platform fee included.
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Istation prints no price on its site any more. Its 2022 Texas filing, Polk County quotes, five district documents and four state contracts do.
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Imagine Learning prints no price. Fifteen district quotes, state price lists and contracts do, from $100 per student in Louisiana to $6,647 for an Imagine Math site.
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Amira prints no price. Its NCII chart entry, two line-item quotes and six district and state contracts do, from $35 per student at list to about $15 on statewide deals.
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Brisk lists its school plans as Custom Pricing. A district quote, a board vote and a check register show the real numbers, from $8.50 per student at list to $21,083 for 7,270 students.
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Diffit prints a teacher price and hides the school price behind a calculator. Six district documents show what schools paid, from $1,360 for one school to $45,000 for a district.
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MobyMax prints one price. District purchase orders, card reports and a group price sheet show the rest, from $995 to $4,795 per school and $9 to $11.99 a seat.
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Zearn prints no price. A 2018 price sheet, seven district agreements and a 2026 RAND study do, from $2,500 per school to $39 per student all in.
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MIND Education publishes no ST Math price. A 2024 Texas quote, Massachusetts purchase orders and MIND itself do, from $3,500 to $12,000 per school a year.
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Imagine Learning publishes no Edgenuity price. Seven district quotes do, from $200 per enrollment to a $24,750 high school site license.
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Newsela publishes no school price. Eight district documents and one state memo do, from $6.22 per student to $153,229 for a district suite.
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Discovery Education publishes no school price for DreamBox. Six district order forms, quotes and contracts do, from $19.72 per student to $7,437 per school.
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Achieve3000 prints no school price. Two signed quotes in public board packets show the site fee, the per-seat rate, the setup fee and a 45 percent discount.
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McGraw Hill publishes a K-12 rate card for ALEKS, and public board quotes show how far below it districts actually pay. Every figure linked to its source.
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Lexia publishes no price. Three public documents do: two district quotes and a study of what districts actually paid, ranging from $11.88 to $58.42 per student.
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Curriculum Associates publishes no price. Public board quotes do: per-student, per-site and what Toolbox and PL add. Every number linked to its source.
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The phrase AI teacher does a lot of damage in a staff meeting. Here is the split that makes the conversation productive again.
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Flashcard generators, summarizers, solvers, voice tutors. A survey of what is actually in use, and what each one hides from you.
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Most AI policies fail because they are unenforceable. This one is built around what you can actually observe.
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Routines that work in a room with 31 students, one cart of Chromebooks and four minutes of passing time.
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The useful line is not about the tool. It is about whose words are in the prompt box.
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Every guide here argues that the teacher needs an artifact, not a transcript. The Mastery Check demo produces that artifact from a piece of student work in a few seconds.
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