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Big Deals—Khan Academy Boosts National Civics Bee, AI Tackles Campus Safety, and Stanford Offers Online Math

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Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Chambers of commerce across 27 states will host in-person contests in their communities this school year. The deadline to enter is January 8, 2024. More than one third of U.S.

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What Does It Mean to Work Like a Teaching Resident? A Look Into NYU’s Digital Pilot Program

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Ariana Garcia doesn’t take a break as she goes from tutoring a small group of students to teaching a social studies class at the Great Oak Charter middle school in New York City. Next year, I just want to teach,” Garcia exasperatedly tells EdSurge.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

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Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated? Reed: This is a followup to Patrick.

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Learning Assistantships

Scholarly Teacher

An examination of middle school organizational structures in the United States and Australia. Benefits of a comprehensive undergraduate teaching assistant Program. Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies , 13 (1), 7584. Ellerbrock, C., Falbe, K., & Pomykal Franz, D. Jakopovic, P.,Rech,

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Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to the interview with Kimberly Eckert ( transcript ): Sponsored by Edge•U Badges and EVERFI We’ve been hearing about a teacher shortage for a while now, certainly since the pandemic, and multiple studies show that many states are seeing record high numbers of teacher turnovers and vacancies.

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans.

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How To Make Someone Not Hate Math

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A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. But a case of “senioritis” caused her to drop out of high school calculus.

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