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New Effort Hopes to Make ‘Weed-Out’ Courses More Equitable

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The project, funded from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and housed at Educause, prioritizes 20 key gateway courses, including introductory classes in biology, chemistry, English, economics and psychology, as well as math classes like algebra and calculus, and U.S. history surveys.

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Announcing Our New EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellows

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This second cohort includes eight talented educators teaching at public, charter, independent and parochial schools, from Hawaii to Michigan: Whitney Aragaki (she/they), high school biology and environmental science teacher at Wai?kea kea High School in Hilo, Hawai‘i.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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In the end, Kelly of Harvard says, the dream is to have similar courses that integrate calculus concepts in life sciences, economics, social sciences, physical sciences and engineering taught at colleges and high schools. Kelly has taught a similar modeling course for economics and social sciences for the last few years.)

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Georgia Tech Is Trying to Keep a ChatGPT-Powered Teaching Assistant From ‘Hallucinating’

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Goel hopes that the summer experiment goes well enough to move to more classes in the fall, and in more subject areas, including biology and economics. That’s the kind of stuff we have to guard against, and that’s what we’re trying to do is basically build those guardrails.”

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The engineering behind Evolutor

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BIOECONOMY — the economic potential of harnessing the power of bioscience. The team in Sheffield has over 40 years of accumulated research experience in applying an evolutionary approach to engineering biology. TALK LIKE A BIOMANUFACTURER. ENZYMES — the proteins responsible for catalysing all chemical reactions in cells.

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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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Students majoring in biology saw the biggest bump.) That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models. Those who learned from active methods did significantly better across race, gender and major, according to the study.

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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

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Jong and his team use various tools and techniques from molecular biology and genetics to study B. Jong and his team have had great success investigating the biology of B. Pathway from school to plant pathology • As well as studying biology and chemistry at school, try to get practical experience of working with plants.