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As Schools Move to Change How Kids Are Graded, Some Families Push Back

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When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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UCLA Life Sciences Revamped How It Teaches Math. Is It an Example Others Should Follow?

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About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. The need for biology students to understand math concepts has become increasingly important, especially with the digital revolution sweeping across science.

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5 Innovative Tech Projects for High Schoolers

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Great end-of-year projects for high school students, from the Ask a Tech Teacher team: 5 Innovative Tech Projects for High Schoolers Project-based learning has gained significant popularity in recent times. For example, a student interested in marine biology could design and 3D print a model of a coral reef ecosystem.

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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

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A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. Those teachers were largely white and from public schools, introducing limitations. When Chat GPT-4 came out, Cory Kohn was itching to bring it into the classroom. The main findings?

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Can ‘Linguistic Fingerprinting’ Guard Against AI Cheating?

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Since the sudden rise of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, many teachers and professors have started using AI detectors to check their students’ work. He’s an English teacher at Benedictine Military School in Savannah, Georgia, and he also writes a newsletter about the issues AI raises in education. Can you share that?

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Schools Are Seeing More Hate and Bias Incidents. But Educators Are Not Helpless to Address Them.

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A high school student in Minnesota tells a Black classmate that her dark skin is ugly and that she hopes she takes her life. At my own school district in Minneapolis, where I serve as a counselor, incidents related to hate, bias and interpersonal violence have been climbing since the pandemic began.

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