By now, you’ve heard of ChatGPT and its text generation capabilities. It has passed a business school exam, confounded teachers looking to spot cheaters and helped people craft emails to their co-workers and loved ones. That it has accomplished those tasks is notable, because exams, essays and emails require correct […]
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Students can’t get off their phones. Schools have had enough. A new regulation this school year forbids cellphone use during instructional hours or in a school setting. Middle-schoolers now must keep phones stowed in their lockers. High school students may carry phones — and use them during lunch or between […]
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At the end of the 19th century, “The Lady With the Lamp” — or as she is more widely known, Florence Nightingale — founded modern nursing. Thanks to her strict use of hand-washing and hygiene practices while caring for wounded soldiers in the Crimean War, Nightingale and her helpers reduced […]
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It’s Cinco De Mayo! What The Holiday Is, And What It Isn’t History, fact and how it’s celebrated Today is May 5, when many people celebrate Cinco de Mayo, or “The 5th of May” in Spanish. The holiday officially commemorates the day in 1862 when the Mexican army, under the […]
Continue Reading‘Too Much to Learn’: Schools Race to Catch Up Kids’ Reading
Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his mustard-yellow polo shirt buttoned to the top. “Give us some vowels,” says his teacher, La’Neeka Gilbert-Jackson. His eyes search a chart, but he doesn’t land on an answer. “Let’s help him out,” Gilbert-Jackson says. “A-E-I-O-U,” the class […]
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