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Big Deals: New AI Inititiaves in Phonics Instruction and College Counseling

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A Chat History where users can revisit their saved chats, so they never forget the crucial college admissions advice they’ve received. Students have the option to freely write admission essays and receive AI-provided feedback or can brainstorm using common application prompts.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

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The essay, in particular, appeared to be key in distinguishing between students who finished and didn’t finish their applications. Out of the students who eventually applied, 94 percent wrote at least 100 characters for their essay; whereas just 43 percent of students who did not write at least that much ended up applying.

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Are Schools Disproportionately Surveilling Students Who Rely on School-Owned Devices?

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Using these tools, schools can filter web content; monitor students’ search engine queries and browsing history; view students’ emails, messages and social media content; and/or view their screens in real-time. Parents have become increasingly wary of this practice.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

The team members can present their work to the teacher, class, or better yet, a real audience such as an invited audience, university counsel, or municipality. Reenactments : Students might create a reenactment of an event they took in their history course or any past event such as a political agreement.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

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Should their essays have a thesis statement? She promises to share an example essay soon. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history. Todd has focused his own research on art history. Writing an essay about a timeless text. Take kindly the counsel of the years.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

The team members can present their work to the teacher, class, or better yet, a real audience such as an invited audience, university counsel, or municipality. Reenactments : Students might create a reenactment of an event they took in their history course or any past event such as a political agreement.

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Can middle schoolers handle college? This San Jose school is finding out

Cal Matters

The dean of the community colleges counseling department, Victor Garza, refused an interview request from CalMatters but issued a written statement. As part of the class, she has to study a career, write a short essay about it and present it at a career fair. She picked intellectual property law.