The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2024

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Hopeful young entrepreneurs in business schools routinely pitch ideas for startup companies as part of their classroom assignments. But the ones who were doing it at the University of Vermont were still in high school. It was the inaugural Vermont Pitch Challenge, to which nearly 150 teams from 27 states and seven countries had submitted their entrepreneurial brainstorms.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

Texas is turning over some of the scoring process of its high-stakes standardized tests to robots. News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans.

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Digital Promise

MAY 3, 2024

The post How 4 Educational Leaders are Guiding their Districts in the Age of AI appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

MAY 3, 2024

The post The Kids Are Alright – Vol. 15 appeared first on Institute for Citizens & Scholars.

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Living Geography

MAY 3, 2024

Pierre Moerlen (23 October 1952, Colmar, Haut-Rhin – 3 May 2005) I had the privilege of seeing Pierre play live several times with Mike Oldfield. a superb musician with Gong, PMG and Tribute along with other bands.

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Political Science Now

MAY 3, 2024

Maya Mikelson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Maya Mikelson is a rising senior at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor majoring in political science and minoring in data science. While at Michigan, she has researched the ratification of human rights treaties with Professor Chris Fariss and developed her knowledge of various quantitative analysis tools including R.

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Living Geography

MAY 3, 2024

Another milestone has just been passed on this blog. I've just passed SEVEN MILLION page views which is quite excessive really. Thanks for visiting and reading. It's taken two and a half years to add the last million, which is about par for the course.

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