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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Seventy percent of high school juniors and seniors believe AI-powered tools, including ChatGPT, can be a resource in brainstorming ideas for their college essays or short answer responses. AI-powered tools can help students brainstorm ideas for a college essay.

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Essay Exams Testing Reading 274

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

I was working as a special education teacher in Cobb County School District at the time. The clear discrimination towards the special education population really bothered me, mostly because I could see that it was systemic and possibly out of my reach to fix. This is especially true for at-risk students.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 133

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

A study by the Council of the Great City Schools found that Portland and Oregon students are some of the least-tested in the country when it comes to mandated standardized exams. The tests are designed to last less than nine hours, or 1 percent of the school year. Oregon students took the Smarter Balanced tests for the first time last spring.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 124

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The 25-year-old teacher is herself a student—an apprentice, in fact—and must use that quiet period to crank through some homework, study for an exam, start drafting an essay or take a quiz. Only, for Mercedes-Perez, that sacred time is cut short. For one assignment, she observed her students and assessed their personality types.

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Achievement Education Coaching Attention 143

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AUGUST 21, 2018

There are multiple-choice questions, coding exercises and two essay questions. Currently, the app focuses on materials for Turkey’s university-entrance exam, but plans on expanding to India. ExceptionALLY Pronounced as two words (“exception - ally”), the Atlanta-based startup offers what it dubs a “TurboTax for special education.”

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Multiple Choice Questions Testing Questions Essay 105