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What Will Kids Lose If PBS Gets Cut?

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Sara DeWitt says that while the office has seen its fair share of letters over her two-plus decades with the network — fielding scores of wedding invitations and even more to birthday parties — it has not received so many graduation announcements until this season. Nine years later, the show premiered.

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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

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Over the past two years, the College Impact Laboratory at The Ohio State University has surveyed incoming Ph.D. The first step in reconciling these tensions is to anchor some of these claims in data from the student side of the equation. Do graduate students themselves want to pursue interdisciplinary aims and become “wicked”? They sure do!

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Top STEM Schools in Georgia Host High-Tech Personalized Classes Without Hours of Screentime

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Tables are covered with high-tech laboratory equipment such as atomic absorption spectrometers, autoclaves, and laboratory water baths. Pedersen says the lack of testing allows more time for laboratory experimentation. They are also expected to enter other national and regional competitions.

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Delayed Graduation, Thesis on Hiatus: In China, College Students Hit Pause

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Obviously, the library and laboratories are not available as well.” The school library and laboratories are available. For colleges in China and elsewhere, March and April is typically the prime season for students to go job hunting, often at career fairs and similar sorts of events. We are just asked to wear masks.”

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The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

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An inquiry-based education trains students for college, career and civic life — C3! The most important thing we do in social studies education is prepare citizens to live in a diverse democracy. Inquiry is a way to construct democratic laboratory experiences where students can practice living in a deliberative, diverse democracy.

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Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son

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And yes, when I was a freshman at MIT, I sought out for my freshman adviser and he ended up being my freshman adviser, Patrick Henry Winston , who was head of the artificial intelligence laboratory. And those have always been the kind of problems that computers have supported students fairly nimbly in solving.”

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. And my response to that is, I completely believe that most—99.999 percent—of the educational-technology companies out there are ethical. So you shouldn't paint them all with that unethical brush." That's not a question to me.