In the days leading up to the 2024 presidential election, the news was filled with partisan language and misinformation about the basic ways our country functions and how elections work. Many adults, as well as the vast majority of my high school-age peers, don’t seem to understand how government works and as a result don’t…
RESTON, Va. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Stride, Inc., one of the nation’s leading technology-based education companies, has been honored as a Company of the Year by the 2024 BIG Awards for Business. The recognition highlights Stride’s commitment to delivering accessible, personalized, and career-centric virtual learning experiences. Hosted by the Business Intelligence Group, this award celebrates the…
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AI large language models (LLMs) are here. And they’re already starting to impact how we teach and learn.We’re thinking twice about their role in student writing.They’re causing us to reconsider the type of homework we assign.We’re thinking about how they might support student thinking.We’re considering how to avoid (or mitigate) AI concerns.Google is coming to…
Michigan Implements New Literacy/Dyslexia Bills Two new literacy/dyslexia laws were signed last month by Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer at Gardner International Magnet School in Lansing. “Kids won today,” said state superintendent Dr. Michael F. Rice. “This is the most consequential education legislation signed in Michigan in the past two decades, with the possible exception of…
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on November 30, 2015 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! That’s not a new finding, and it’s something most instructors already know, but it’s the size of the difference that’s often underestimated. Two recent studies, both asking different…
Throughout the election campaign, Donald Trump railed against colleges and universities for being too expensive, too partisan and too woke. “Colleges have gotten hundreds of billions of dollars from hardworking taxpayers, and now we are going to get this anti-American insanity out of our institutions once and for all,” Trump said. With Trump returning to…
Subitizing means to instantly see how many without counting. Fostering this skill is becoming more common in schools. Credit: Getty Images Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the…
Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the contradiction at the heart of what education researchers call “subitizing,” from the Latin “subito” or suddenly, and it means to instantly…