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Pepperdine University Professor Seeks to Give High School Students a Head Start

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A Pepperdine University professor has been working on a pilot instructional program to give high school students a head start when it comes to understanding math. Roberson, who teaches statistics in Pepperdine’s political science program, served as one of the initiative’s teachers, instructing students on algebra.

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As AI Continues to Progress, Opportunities and Warnings Abound

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The bot is designed to help students understand code and improve it, as well as to answer common basic questions, freeing up teaching assistants and professors to deal with more complex concerns. Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions.

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AI: A Brilliant but Biased Tool for Education

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Brown, director of academic integrity at The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (CSU). We need to teach our students the places we’re likely to see bias in a particular discipline,” says Scott. “I I teach business law, and I know about areas of law where there is structured bias built into that law.

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Expanding Federal Work Study to Create a More Diverse Teacher Pipeline

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Thanks to a new change in America’s federal work-study program, thousands more students like Halima could soon become tutors in America’s public schools to aid in the national pandemic learning recovery — and potentially diversify our nation’s teaching workforce. Jilo Tisdale On May 10, 2023, US Department of Education Secretary Dr. Miguel A.

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Panel Spotlights Registered Apprenticeships at MSIs

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Registered A pprenticeships—programs that combine school instruction with paid on-the-job training, allowing students to “earn while they learn” — are critical on-ramps to good jobs. There is also training on diversity, equity, and inclusion, featuring modules on implicit bias, intersectionality, and micro and mac ro- aggressions.

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Districts are still struggling with low reading proficiency. These barriers are probably why.

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However, despite district leaders investing significant time and resources on teaching reading, they often see few lasting results. Higher Education Inadequately Prepares Teachers to Teach Reading Effectively Teacher preparation programs rarely prepare educators to teach reading. These barriers are probably why.

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ASU Faculty Receive $1.6 Million for Program to Better Teach K-12 Educators about Civics, History, and Media Literacy

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Department of Education for a program to teach K-12 teachers about civics, history, and media literacy. Teachers who have been hired to teach history and social studies in [high-poverty schools] may not have had much coursework in history, civics and media literacy themselves or training in how to teach these subjects,” Harris said.

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