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College Board Changes AP Exams Again to Accommodate Pandemic-Era Testing

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These changes come on the heels of the College Board’s decision last month to move away from SAT subject tests and optional essay tests, which it also produces. We knew errors would happen—if there was a local internet outage when a student tried to submit their test, they’d need to retest.

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Here Are the 10 Stories K-12 Readers Couldn’t Put Down in 2024

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As we look back at the K-12 stories that resonated the most with our readers last year, a trend quickly emerges: 2024 was the year of the personal essay. Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right.

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School’s Out for the Latest Y Combinator Batch, and Here’s What Its Edtech Graduates Are Up to

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The five-hour long test comes with about 100 questions. There are multiple-choice questions, coding exercises and two essay questions. Students take the test on their own laptops and are free to use the internet as they see fit, as CSPA is s an open-book test.

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Everything you need to know about AI in education

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When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. When answering basic questions, AI can read a student’s answers.