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Politicians step up attacks on the teaching of scientific theories in US schools
Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. Almost 100 years ago,…
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What the towering 20th-century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators
Like most mathematicians, I hear confessions from complete strangers: the inevitable “I was always bad…
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AI pioneers want bots to replace human teachers – here’s why that’s unlikely
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy envisions a world in which artificial intelligence bots can be made…
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Anthropology students present their research in poetry, plays and op-eds in this course
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.…
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Students with mental health struggles linked to absenteeism and lower grades, showing clear need for more in-school support
Parents are reporting worse mental health for their children than they did a decade ago,…
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Future lawyers learn key lessons from studying poetry in parks in this course
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.…
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Philly schools are in disrepair − the municipal bond market is 1 big reason
The Conversation, CC BY Many of Philadelphia’s schools are in terrible shape. The average public…
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Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them
The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, when a white supremacist murdered…
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International students will offer a big boost to the US economy this back-to-school season
Of the millions of young adults heading off to college this fall, many will be…
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How Ohio schools reduced chronic absenteeism
Schools in Ohio, like other schools across the country, are struggling to reduce chronic absenteeism,…