Anthropic is rolling out Claude for Teachers, a free offering for verified K-12 educators at US schools. It includes access to Claude along with Claude Code and the Cowork agent feature, a library of teaching-specific skills, and connections to curriculum-aligned content. The company says it covers education standards across all 50 states.

Anthropic is also releasing a free, model-agnostic AI course for educators：https://anthropic.skilljar.com/path/ai-fluency-for-pk-12-educators and a GitHub repository with agent skills：https://github.com/anthropics/k12-teacher-skills. The company plans to study Claude for Teachers' impact through a pilot program at public schools in Detroit. The new offering builds on Claude for Education：https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-brings-ai-assistant-claude-to-university-campuses/, which already serves colleges and universities. That program's learning mode came about because students said in interviews：https://the-decoder.com/students-fear-ai-could-cause-brain-rot-by-making-it-too-easy-to-skip-crucial-learning-steps/ that AI tools were eroding their ability to think independently, according to Anthropic's head of education Drew Bent. Sign-ups for Claude for Teachers are open through June 2027. Ad DEC_D_Incontent-1 Ad

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