EDUCATION

A Researcher’s View on Using AI to Become a Better Writer

That’s when AI could be most helpful, she thinks. With some prompting, a chatbot could provide immediate writing feedback targeted

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A New Nation’s Report Card Shows Drops in Science, Math and Reading Scores

Today, the assessments in math and reading are given every two years to a broad sample of students in fourth

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Teaching Civics in a Divided Age? Intergenerational Dialogue Should Go Both Ways

Research shows intergenerational programs can improve students’ empathy, literacy and civic engagement, but developing those relationships outside of the home

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More Students Head Back to Class Without One Crucial Thing: Their Phones

Next year she hopes to be at college and is looking forward to the freedom. Transcript: STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: More

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7 Insights About Chronic Absenteeism, a New Normal for American Schools

“Chronic absenteeism affects disadvantaged students more often, but the rise in chronic absenteeism was an unfortunate tide where all boats

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How Prepared are ‘COVID Kindergartners’ for School?

“Just being in utero during a highly stressful time had some developmental effects on infants,” Dani Dumitriu, a pediatrician and

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Tutoring Was Supposed to Save American Kids After the Pandemic. The Results? ‘Sobering’

Their preliminary results were “sobering,” according to a June report by the University of Chicago Education Lab and MDRC, a

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Friendship Break Ups Can Be Devastating for Tweens. Here’s How Adults Can Help

Friendship is a skill set, according to Denworth, and kids don’t automatically arrive with all the tools they need. A

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These Programs Help Poor Students with College. Trump Wants to Pull the Funding

But Griffith’s stepsister had introduced her to a federal program called Upward Bound. It places high school students in college

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Inaccurate, Impossible: Experts Knock New Trump Plan to Collect College Admissions Data

“You’ve got this effort to add these elements without a mechanism with which to vet the new variables, as well