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Want Students to Flourish? Teach Human Ecology

ED Surge

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. It taught civilian survival and resilience.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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How Is the ‘College Is a Scam’ Narrative Influencing Who Chooses to Go to Campus?

ED Surge

By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. He recently served as the first civil society fellow in artificial intelligence and machine learning at the World Economic Forum, where he led research on AI, job quality and work augmentation. The value of college is something that people used to pretty much agree on.

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Is It Fair and Accurate for AI to Grade Standardized Tests?

ED Surge

Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans. A 2019 investigation by Vice found that at least 21 states use natural language processing to grade students’ written responses on standardized tests. A quarter of the scores awarded will be reviewed by human scorers.

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Fire’s Alter-Lives: Climate Change Adaption and Settler Futurity in Bolivia

Anthropology News

The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region. Narratives of climate apocalypse and Anthropocene dystopia often evoke Christian narratives of the end-times, with environmental change as a symptom of insufficient human piety.

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OPINION: How climate change and early childhood are intertwined

The Hechinger Report

climate report highlighted how our dire climate crisis is “unequivocally” and “irreversibly” caused by humans. It’s long overdue that we acknowledge the harms we as humans are causing to the planet. A recent U.N. This is the crisis facing early childhood. Not investing in early childhood has consequences into the future.

EdTech 137
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Can an AI tutor teach your child to read?

The Hechinger Report

At Brewbaker, which in 2020 served more than 700 students in pre-K through second grade, nearly 20 percent of her students are English learners and 71 percent are economically disadvantaged. In 2019, a year before Brown Wright was hired, less than 20 percent of students were proficient on the school’s reading assessments, the principal said.

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