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Writing things down may help you remember information more than typing
Writing words down increases connectivity linked to memory and learning between different areas of the brain, with the same not being true when things are typed out on a computer
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How Short 'Bursts' of Tutoring Can Boost Early Reading Skills
An ongoing study of early literacy tutors finds learning gains over two years.
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What is Science of Reading and why you are hearing so much about it?
The way our schools are teaching kids how to read is changing.Schools In Indiana will be required to align curriculum to Science of ReadingScience of Reading is
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Writing instructors are less afraid of students cheating with ChatGPT than you might think
A survey about college writing instructors’ fears and anxieties about AI demonstrates that student cheating isn’t their only concern. And in fact, many have embraced it as a teaching tool.
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More States Require Schools to Teach Cursive Writing. Why?
Technological advances notwithstanding, advocates give a long list of reasons for teaching students cursive.
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Raising a Reader: 5 Novel Ideas for Motivating Kids to Read
Turn reading from homework to a hobby with fun, engaging ideas for encouraging reading in kids and teens.
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Can creative writing be taught?
MAYA ROSE FERNANDES I’m a published novelist and short story writer, who also teaches creative writing in Goa. I’ve been doing this for close to eight years.
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How To Rekindle Your Love Of Reading
Revive your inner bookworm
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How to Fix Wordy Writing
A writer and teacher shares a lesson for helping students understand the importance of clear, concise writing, and spotting needless words.
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The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.
ChatGPT traffic dropped when summer began and schools closed. Now students are back, and they're using the AI tool again more.
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Judge sides with teachers who say their religion requires them to out trans kids
The school tried to protect trans kids but the judge said that the teacher's religious right to out students is more important...
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A few schools mandated masks. Conservatives hit back hard.
The politics of pandemic-mitigation returned with the new school year.
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The California Megachurch Pushing Public Schools to the Far Right
From fights over LGBT rights to prayer at school board meetings, Chino Valley public schools have become ground zero for the culture wars.
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Schoolkids in 8 states can now eat free school meals, advocates urge Congress for nationwide policy
When classes resume for kids in eight states, they won’t have to worry about where their next meals will be coming from because they’ll be free.
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In Oklahoma, a new test of religion in public schools
A new lawsuit is challenging what would be the nation’s first publicly-funded religious charter school.
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‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
Major UN report issues warning over excessive use, with one in six countries already banning the devices
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How to learn as an adult — no classroom required
Teaching an old dog new tricks.
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AI likely to spell end of traditional school classroom, leading expert says
Recent advances in AI are likely to spell the end of the traditional school classroom, one of the world’s leading experts on AI has predicted. Prof Stuart Russell, a British computer scientist based at the University of California, Berkeley, said that personalised ChatGPT-style tutors have the potential to hugely enrich education and widen global access by delivering personalised tuition to every household with a smartphone. The technology could feasibly deliver “most material through to the end of high school”, he said.
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Trans woman, bookstore, teacher sue over Montana law banning drag reading events
The complaint calls the new law “a breathtakingly ambiguous and overbroad bill, motivated by anti-LGBTQ+ animus.”
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Ransomware criminals are dumping kids' private files online after school hacks
Ransomware gangs have been stealing confidential documents from schools and dumping them online. The documents describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents — even suicide attempts.
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