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As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist

ED Surge

As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. But even fans of administering oral exams admit a major drawback: They’re time-consuming, and take a lot out of educators. Even so, some educators have been giving the oral exam a try.

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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

ED Surge

Educators and parents started this school year with bated breath. But while working with schools and colleges across the globe as we conducted research for our book , we realized that most interventions don’t address systemic issues causing mental health problems in the first place. Does this sound like a healthy work-life balance?

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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

ED Surge

Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit.

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What it Takes to Lead a School Where Students Love Themselves and Succeed Academically

ED Surge

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., This is a dilemma.

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Demystifying Social-Emotional Learning and the Controversy Surrounding It

ED Surge

Such arguments obscure many of the real, pressing problems in education right now—a mental health crisis, workforce shortages in sectors across the field, nearly two years of lost or lackluster learning experiences. And more than that, vilifying SEL will likely only move education in the wrong direction, educators and researchers say.

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What Preservice Teachers and Teacher Educators Can Learn from Trajectories

National Science Foundation

Teacher diversity is a contemporary issue in education circles that is prevalent in the current educational discussions. Few would discount the power and promise of diversifying the teaching force, especially in STEM fields; however, our research offers the field of STEM education new insight into the conversation.

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Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?

ED Surge

But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Even so, proponents of hybrid teaching are making a push to build on the experience so many educators gained teaching online during the pandemic. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors.

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