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Schools bought millions of Chromebooks in 2020 — and three years later, they’re starting to break
Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops that they could send home with their students. Quite a few turned to Chromebooks. Three years later, the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund concludes in a new report called Chromebook Churn that many of these batches are already beginning to break. That’s potentially costing districts money; PIRG estimates that “doubling the lifespan of Chromebooks could result in $1.8 billion in savings for taxpayers.” It also creates quite a bit of e-waste.
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Texas Senate approves bills requiring 10 Commandments in K-12 classrooms, Bible time in school
Church v. State
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Study identifies processes linking parent's anxious overprotection to reduced academic confidence in their children
New research sheds light on how parents’ tendency to be overly anxious and protective affects their child’s academic performance in college. The study, published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, identifies several interpersonal and intrapersonal processes that play a key role in linking parental overprotection to reduced academic confidence.
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ChatGPT is now writing college essays, and higher ed has a big problem
Is higher learning doomed?
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ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it
The narrative around cheating students doesn’t tell the whole story. Meet the teachers who think generative AI could actually make learning better.
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Kanye West’s School Is a Failed Tribute to His Mother, Ex-Teacher Says
Cecilia Hailey, who is suing Donda Academy for wrongful termination, tells The Daily Beast that her students were years behind in math and not allowed to learn about the Holocaust.
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Recovery high schools help kids heal from an addiction and build a future
A few dozen high schools across the U.S. combine education with treatment for substance use disorders to keep kids in recovery — and in school.
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The future of education in a world of AI
The first place that AI panic hit was classrooms. AI’s potential for cheating, and for new forms of teaching, is so immediately obvious that I run into people all the time who believe the whole education system is going to collapse. But I actually think the opposite is true: education will be able to adapt to AI far more effectively than other industries, and in ways that will improve both learning and the experience of instructors.
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ChatGPT: Cardiff students admit using AI on essays
University students have confessed to writing essays with the help of ChatGPT's artificial intelligence program. Cardiff University students said they had received first class grades for essays written using the AI chatbot. ChatGPT is an AI program capable of producing human-like responses and academic pieces of work.
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Humor Writing: Not Just Something to Laugh at
Humor allows us to understand complex emotions and the human experience, further allowing humans to connect to one another on a deeper level. Humor can be funny and can make important statements through a comedic medium, but additionally it brings people together.
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Why students are picking up fiction writing as a hobby
Humans are natural storytellers. Since the very beginning of time, humans have created and passed down stories from generation to generation.
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An Inglewood charter school looks to literacy to build success among its Black students
Wilder’s Preparatory Academy in Inglewood boasts test score results that reflect performance far above that of the state average for all schools regardless of racial composition.
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'I didn’t want to give up on my dreams': ASU student pushes past nerve disorder to graduate with four degrees
The average undergrad graduates with 120 credits. However, one Arizona State University student is going above and beyond that, even when the odds were against her. After being diagnosed with a rare nerve condition, Sydney Abel has continued to push through every challenge she's faced.
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An Indiana school is fueling student literacy gains with some unusual help: bus drivers
At KIPP Public Schools in Indianapolis, some bus drivers turn into tutors to help students with individual letter sounds and other key elements of literacy instruction. It’s part of a larger push in Indiana to use the “science of reading” with students.
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Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? Universities Aren’t Ready for the Answer
AI is here to stay. It’s up to educators to articulate why writing still matters
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These Native American Boys Are Being Told To Cut Their Hair Due To School Policy
The school system's policies prohibit “extreme” and “radical” haircuts. Extreme and radical to whom, exactly?
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Parent Calls Bible ‘PORN’ and Demands Utah School District Remove It From Libraries
A parent is arguing that if banned books like 'Gender Queer' are pulled from shelves, the Bible—with its sex scenes, incest, and murder—should be banned, too.
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5 N.Y. Schools Evacuated After Bomb Threats Over LGBTQ+ Books
The person threatening the schools was upset about “groomers,” which is a far-right wing slur to attack LGBTQ+ people who work with children.
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Breaking Barriers to Literacy: Using Audiobooks to Overcome Reading Challenges
To empower students to not only be able to read but also to want to read, a holistic approach — offering intensive care for the most at-risk students and specialized attention for those with moderate literacy needs — is key.
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Virtually writing together: creating community while supporting individual endeavour
Lessons in setting up and running a virtual writing group that facilitates individual and collaborative work through a supportive community of practice
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