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Suffering From Labor Shortages, States Look To Build Up K-12 Digital Transparency.

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The American workforce statistics may be starting their slow climb out of the pandemic. As states struggle to keep pace with the economy, some of them are now turning to K-12 credential transparency, in the hopes that it will show them how to give their workforce the leg up. The unemployment rate, for example, has fallen to 3.8

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In College Math, Faculty Is Key. But Will This Insight Actually Help Students?

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A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus. But the process of experimentation is not straightforward.

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

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After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”). She typically teaches mechanical engineering courses with 100 to 150 students.

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Teenagers on the Journey Toward Good Lives

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He was considering studying business in college, having started to reconsider his previous goal of working in medicine. After graduating in spring 2021, Dino enrolled at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he now studies. Now he has a new enterprise: selling T-shirts through a website called Villain Headquarters.

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Join in 80 Days of AI and HI – Day 1 #80DaysOfAIandHI

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And my response to him was, Now you know how you're going to succeed. A Whole New World And so now, the shift that happened then is happening again with what some claim is the “ fastest-growing software in history ,” Chat GPT. How do we teach and learn now? It started with human intelligence. Let's now start.

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How the FAFSA Fiasco Affects Students

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While students noticed the troubles with FAFSA at the end of last year, it actually started much earlier. But for now, for current college students, the immediate distress is based on delays. She’s studying computer science and engineering. So for now, she says, “It’s fine.” An Annoyance, or Worse?

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What Can Colleges Do Better to Help Latino Students Succeed?

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Weighing the ‘Opportunity Cost’ of College While Latinos across the board are earning more degrees, Latinas are outpacing their male peers and now making up 60 percent of Hispanic degree earners. in electrical engineering. I think that's fine to say that, but we also have to put the onus on institutions and decision-makers.”