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Why This Chicago Tutoring Center Wants to Be the ‘Whole Foods’ of Education

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We’re speaking to them in a language they understand,” Gibori says of students, “where even even if you’re ten feet from a tutor, they’d rather interact over their phone.” Besides the snacks, there are weekend movie nights and parties after big events like final exams. In this case, a custom-designed one called homework.sucks.

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” Norman Bier, director of the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University What is a scenario of how a teacher in a classroom would use your tool?

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