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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

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Students should be equal participants in their learning,” says Phipps. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. All teachers should have equal access to tools that can improve their teaching.

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The Political Right Is Slamming the Door on College Access

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million in the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center--a big historical change. With the exception of wartime, the United States has never been through a period of declining educational attainment like this ,” says Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University.

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Will Banning TikTok Make Kids Safer Online? It’s More Complicated Than That

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While it’s true that young people are increasingly struggling with mental health issues at the same time social media usage is ballooning, today’s available research simply hasn’t found one of those to be the driving force behind the other — in sum, correlation does not equal causation. While the U.S.

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Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?

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When it comes to getting access to the latest scholarly articles, there’s a stark digital divide. Students and professors affiliated with most colleges have unlimited access to large collections of scholarship such as JSTOR and HeinOnline, because their institutions subscribe to site licenses.

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Young Kids in Low-Income Families Get Less Exposure to Math. Can the Right Apps Help?

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Recent public debates have focused a spotlight on K-12 math pathways. That’s why one group of researchers asked what can be done to close the cognitive development distance that opens between children from high- and low-income families, which they argue is a watershed in equality of opportunity. The result? The result?

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Do ‘Diverse’ Universities Lack Resources to Fully Serve Their Students?

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That’s one of the key questions raised by the book “ Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities.” Instead, they believe that education excellence should be accessible and inclusive. They are research universities … they tend to be in the top 200 research universities in the country.

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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.