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6 votes
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A homework task prompts kids to reflect deeply on learning, and its limits
6 votes -
The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection breathes new life into iconic stories
3 votes -
Ohio governor signs bill allowing armed school employees
15 votes -
Texas school shooting kills nineteen children, two adults
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Adolescents in the US are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times.
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Short-sightedness has become an epidemic
7 votes -
School police
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Accused of cheating by an algorithm, and a Professor she had never met. An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education.
17 votes -
My students cheated... a lot
27 votes -
Canadian colleges: Lethbridge vs. Manitoba for Computer Science?
Hi everyone, I recently got accepted into University and Lethbridge and University of Manitoba for Computer Science second degree. Both of them have co-op programs, but I don't know which would be...
Hi everyone,
I recently got accepted into University and Lethbridge and University of Manitoba for Computer Science second degree.
Both of them have co-op programs, but I don't know which would be better for me. Ideally, I want to go the uni with a better job market for CS, so Lethbridge seems to be the winner since it is close to Calgary. But I am also looking to immigrate to Canada in the future, and I know that Manitoba has easier requirements for Permanent Residence nominations.
I am in a bit of a bind, and I am trying to gather as much information as I can before I make a decision. Anything you have to share would be much appreciated. Thanks!
P.S. I know Toronto and Vancouver are much better places for jobs, but sadly I missed the deadline to apply to most of the colleges there. I do plan on applying for jobs in those cities though.
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My college students are not ok
23 votes -
Schools offering “Finnish education” are emerging across Indian cities – activity-based learning over textbook-based, test-oriented education
9 votes -
Illinois law bans schools from fining students. So local police are doing it for them.
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Nebula Classes
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Autopsy of Adam & Eve: Looking at a selection of paper instruments from the 15th-17th century, at the Royal Society
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Greenland offers a roadmap for how to get Inuktut taught in Nunavut's schools
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I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner
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How an Ivy League school turned against a student
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MIT is reinstating its SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
10 votes -
A forever student loan pause? Why US President Joe Biden is likely to continue freezing payments
14 votes -
Local school districts are caught in the middle of the culture wars as the right tries to gain control
10 votes -
US lawsuit says sixteen elite colleges are part of price-fixing cartel
8 votes -
Scriptless
18 votes -
Why the depth year was my best year
4 votes -
The data are clear: The boys are not all right
13 votes -
America is facing a great talent recession
9 votes -
Notes on work
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Teachers are leaving and few people want to join the field. Experts are sounding the alarm
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Tennessee school board bans Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ – author Art Spiegelman condemns the move as ‘Orwellian’
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Former NJ librarian told students in DC to reenact Holocaust scenes, report says
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Jordan Peterson’s resignation is about one thing: Money
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The SAT will go completely digital by 2024
5 votes -
University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error
17 votes -
The White House will freeze Federal student loan repayments until May 1
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Denmark says it will take measures to protect teachers' freedom of expression and prevent the risks of self-censorship
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Finnish teacher Ilona Taimela secretly taught IS children in Syrian camps by text through the Lifelong Learning Foundation
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I'm stuck and could use some help, pretty please
okay tildes here to tell suspended to leave their kid alone about discord on the school computer. that was easy advice to give! But how about a real challenge in what-should-i-do-about-the-boy?...
okay tildes here to tell suspended to leave their kid alone about discord on the school computer. that was easy advice to give! But how about a real challenge in what-should-i-do-about-the-boy? hold onto your HATS bc I've got a TOUGHIE~!
see I was tutoring this 13yo last year. He was super isolated and he still is. He deals with a range of insecurity and frustration. He leaps to conclusions and struggles with anger at the people around him, especially his mother. I used to spend time with him daily, but then I moved towns and now our contact is limited to chat and video call. We talk throughout the week but we always video call on wednesdays. His mother asked me if we could switch days, because she wants him to go to after school sessions with a math teacher who has noticed his grades falling. When I talked to him about the possibility of swapping so he could attend the afterschool, he told me that he didn't want go to sessions for dumb kids. I said I was flexible regardless so he can't use the time I reserve for him as an excuse not to go -- but I worry that his perception that the sessions are for dumb kids reflects a stigma that will prevent him from asking for help when he needs it.
How do I push back on the idea that getting extra help with school could imply that he is somehow inexcusably deficient? I sense that most of his other teachers are setting the bar even lower for him than they did last year; his take-home assignments are uniformly inane, and he knows it. How would you communicate around why it is important to try and to practice trying when so much of what is expected of him is transparently pointless? My friendship with him has become important, I think, but I worry a lot that I have no chance to guide him toward a better life and this episode has been a keen example.
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Grades as communication
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Supreme Court weighs mandating public funds for religious schools in Maine
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Pseudowork and real work
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US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools
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Why I'm tired of hearing about wokeism
7 votes -
He created The Oregon Trail and he didn’t make a penny
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Where the humanities aren't in crisis
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‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books
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Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading
12 votes -
Goodbye, MIT
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Improving MIT’s written commitment to freedom of expression
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UCSB Student Housing Cube
6 votes