EDUCATION
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Can Tutoring at Scale Lead to Academic Recovery? One Advocate’s New Study Yields Underwhelming Results
Going forward, Kraft said he and other researchers need to “recalibrate” or adjust expectations around the “eye-popping” or very large…
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Humanizing History by Teaching with Primary Sources
Many students today are learning history through primary sources. That shift, according to Potter, arose in the last two decades…
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What Did the US Surgeon General Say About Parental Stress, And What Can We Do About It?
This post was originally published by Parenting Translator. Sign up for the newsletter and follow Parenting Translator on Instagram. Last week United States Surgeon General…
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How ‘Spotlight Reading’ Helps Students Learn to Trust Their Literary Instincts
Spotlight reading works best when done every week and for the entire school year. “The kids get into routines and…
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Kids Who Use ChatGPT as a Study Assistant Do Worse on Tests
ChatGPT’s errors also may have been a contributing factor. The chatbot only answered the math problems correctly half of the…
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How Can the Community School Model Support Newcomer Education?
Students at OIHS drop out at nearly half the rate that newcomers students do at other Oakland high schools. The…
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How to Get Kids Thinking Instead of Mimicking in Math Class
“It’s a great way to enculture [students] into a new way of being,” Liljedahl said. “They might perceive that mathematics…
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Is Environmental Sustainability the New Liberal Arts?
“The scale of the challenges we face demands that all people have baseline understanding” of climate, the plan says. “[H]igher…
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Researchers Combat AI Hallucinations in Math
The Berkeley researchers took advantage of the fact that ChatGPT, like humans, is erratic. They asked ChatGPT to answer the…
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To Raise Empathetic Children, Parents Must Practice Empathy Themselves
How is empathy “passed down” in this way? When parents respond to children’s distress in a supportive, empathetic way, it…
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