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Professors Try ‘Restrained AI’ Approach to Help Teach Writing

ED Surge

When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments — that they’d click a button on a chatbot instead of doing the thinking involved in responding to an essay prompt themselves. But two English professors at Carnegie Mellon University had a different first reaction: They saw in this new technology a way to show students how to improve their writing skills.

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2025 Bernice L. Fox Classics Writing Contest

Society for Classical Studies

2025 Bernice L. Fox Classics Writing Contest kskordal Thu, 05/23/2024 - 10:37 Image The Bernice L. Fox Classics Writing Contest Sponsored by the Department of Classics at Monmouth College Topic: One or More Figures from Classical History, Literature, or Mythology as the Next President of the United States, or Running for the Office Deadline: March 15, 2025, emailed to rsimmons@monmouthcollege.edu Contest Parameters and Judging: This contest is open to any student enrolled full-time in high schoo

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New superintendents need ‘a fighting chance for success’

The Hechinger Report

Since 2020, most of the nation’s 78 urban school districts have had a new superintendent take over. Just 11 have been in their jobs for four years or more. That statistic startled Michael Hinojosa, a former leader of the Dallas Independent School District who is now superintendent-in-residence at the Council for the Great City Schools, a coalition representing those 78 districts.

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Assorted Tips for Student Theses (in My Department and Perhaps Yours)

Steven V. Miller

I'm on the top floor of that building you see in the front (albeit on the other side). I can see some of my colleagues' offices, though. (Photo: Clément Morin) Last updated: 20 June 2024. This will be a periodically updated blog post of things I want to tell students in my department (and maybe yours too) as they start writing their research papers.

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Escalating Political Violence and the Intersectional Impacts on Latinas in National Politics

Political Science Now

Escalating Political Violence and the Intersectional Impacts on Latinas in National Politics By Anna Sampaio , Santa Clara University Drawing on interviews with Latina congressional members and candidates , this article examines the impacts of escalating political violence on their professional lives and political careers, as well as the implications for the growing body of women of color who are engaging in public service at the national level.

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Thought for the Day

Living Geography

Boundaries are the inevitable product of advancing civilisation; they are human inventions not necessarily supported by nature's dispositions, and as such they are only of solid value so long as they can be made strong enough and secure enough to prevent their violation and infringement.

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Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Anna Nguyen, University of Washington

Political Science Now

Anna Nguyen is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her fields of study are American politics, race and ethnic politics, and political methodology. She received her B.S. in political science and economics from the University of Oregon, where she became interested in tenant organizing and the intersections between housing and labor struggles.

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Summer Sale for Teachers: Heinemann Audiobooks

Heinemann Blog

Celebrate summer with Heinemann Audiobooks! Audiobooks are discounted ONLY at Apple , Google Play , and Chirp from April 1 through July 31, 2024. Heinemann’s audiobooks provide you with the flexibility to listen and learn whenever and wherever you want.