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This $90M Education Research Project Is Banking on Data Privacy to Drive Insights

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The project dubbed SafeInsights, helmed by OpenStax at Rice University, is supported by a $90 million grant from the National Science Foundation over five years. This creates a safer environment for research that's easier for schools and platforms to participate in, because the data is staying where it is already.”

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Niche Raises $35 Million to Rival School Directory Review Sites

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and Tim Armstrong participated. The best public high school is Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., Sally Rubenstone, a contributor to college admissions counseling website College Confidential and an admissions counselor for more than 15 years, said in an email that U.S Arlington, Va.,

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How ‘Dialogue’ Can Create Empathy in a Divided Classroom

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A harsh debate can leave students (and instructors) feeling upset, or make them discouraged about participating in future conversations. And then confidentiality in the space, too. In many classrooms these days, student discussion can grow so heated that passion threatens to overwhelm productive conversation.

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This Company Wants to Gather Student Brainwave Data to Measure ‘Engagement’

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The brains behind BrainCo The founder and CEO of BrainCo is Bicheng Han, a PhD candidate at the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. million in seed funding in a round led by the Boston Angel Club , with participation from Han Tan Capital and Wandai Capital, to develop BrainCo’s first product: Focus 1.

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Why We Need to Share Care, Appreciation, Kindness and Empathy (CAKE) in our Classrooms  

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If individuals, including our students and colleagues, do not feel appreciated, their self-worth, loyalty, and many forms of participation in various environments may be diminished or lost. Social Psychological and Personality Science , 19485506231218360. link] Konrath, S., Martingano, A. Davis, M., & Breithaupt, F. Murthy, V.

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Challenging Implicit Linguistic Biases in Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines Through Student-Faculty Partnerships

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Pseudonyms are used to protect participant identities, and general references to disciplinary contexts are provided for confidentiality purposes. Image courtesy of Unsplash. 2024; Montenegro & Jankowski, 2017; Tinto, 2017; Winklemes, 2016). The feedback examples shared here are abbreviated for brevity.