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Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

The Hechinger Report

I’ve done demos before. Informing non-certified teachers of their options is part of a strategy for training local residents, like new Central High School 8th and 9th grade social studies teacher Tiffany Gant. Turns out they don’t just love science like she does. It’s kind of hard to please this age group,” she says.

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Is There a Problem With ‘Mathbots’?

ED Surge

Most of those teachers taught English or social studies, where the applications of chatbots are more obvious. These tools have not penetrated math classrooms to the degree that their marketing might suggest, says Dan Meyer, vice president of user growth for Amplify and the producer of Mathworlds, a popular math learning newsletter.

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