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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

The Hechinger Report

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. A new study, published online on Feb.

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One Idea to Keep Teachers From Quitting — End the Teacher Time Crunch

Edsurge

And among educators from 14 different schools studied by a Harvard researcher for the 2019 book “ Where Teachers Thrive ,” most teachers said they did not have enough time to accomplish the “essential” duties of their jobs. on Teachers Pay Teachers,” a popular platform that educators use to buy educational materials from each other.

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Humans, Generative AI, and Learning from Copyrighted Materials

Iterating Toward Openness

Blatantly, demonstrably untrue: the GPT3 dataset is a little over 600GB, primarily Wikipedia, Books corpuses, WebText and 2016-2019 CommonCrawl. Recently there’s been a fairly heated conversation about whether AI should be allowed to train on copyrighted materials. The Macbook Air I am typing this on has more free disk space than that.

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Most English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and other sites are ‘mediocre’ or ‘not worth using,’ study finds

The Hechinger Report

Fordham Institute study reviewed popular English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and two other sites and found that most weren’t good. One of the most popular English lessons in the instructional marketplace Teachers Pay Teachers is a unit on how to teach William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” A Thomas B.

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BIOZONE Launches Comprehensive Environmental Science Program

eSchool News

BIOZONE has just published an exciting new AP Environmental Science title (in print and eBook) dedicated to addressing the College Board’s new APES Course & Exam Description (2019). Using engaging, current, and relevant case studies, this includes activities on: COVID-19 pandemic (snapshot up until July 2020). About Biozone.

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I Need My Professional Goals to Matter to My School Leaders. Without It, It Is Hard to Stay in the Classroom.

Edsurge

A report published in Transforming Education in 2019 examined what happens when school leaders establish a culture of trusting relationships. Though studies have proven that it is worth dedicating time to establish these relationships, it is unfortunately pretty common to learn that even the most well-intended efforts fall short.

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Seniors Need Support More Than Ever. One Startup Shows They Can Also Provide It.

Edsurge

Since launching in August 2019, more than 1,500 students have taken to the platform. “If In 2012, he founded Zaya Learning Labs , which developed portable devices preloaded with digital instructional materials for children that can be beamed to local computing devices, in areas across Asia and Africa that lack widespread internet connection.

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