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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

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Generative AI has stormed into education. Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. The makers of these AI tools believe that technology can help stem the tide out of the profession.

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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

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But their families have managed to give them a jump-start through additional after-school programs, tutors and other resources, he says. Students in upper-track math courses are no smarter or better at math than others. But detracking is just one component, and can be a fairly technical solution concerning math disparities, Iwasaki says.

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NAEP Scores Show a Long Road to Academic Recovery. Edtech Can Help Shorten It.

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Educators, particularly those entering the field with insufficient training or experience, need immediate access to job-embedded and asynchronous professional development that they can access easily and on their own schedule. We must invest in our teachers.

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A New Feature of Teacher Prep Programs? Compensating Future Educators for Their Time

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Today, and for the last year or so, aspiring educators at American University are required to spend a minimum of 40 hours tutoring students in Washington, D.C., Earlier in their education programs, aspiring educators might engage with students in an after-school program or club. They’re hooked.

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What teachers want from AI

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An AI tutor that helps middle and high schoolers become better writers. These aren’t tools created by education technology companies. The professional development opportunity was designed by technology nonprofit Playlab.ai and faculty at the Relay Graduate School of Education. Playlab.ai

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Why Investing in SEL Now May Be the Key to an Equitable Future

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The American Rescue Plan requires local education agencies (LEAs) to spend at least 20 percent of federal funding on evidence-based initiatives to mitigate the issue. Summer and after-school programming, tutoring, truancy intervention, teacher hiring and training, and improved data systems are all part of the solution.

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Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

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Below are a few of the hypotheses I am watching in 2023: Hypothesis 1: Results Matter Education buyers—parents, schools, and talent development departments—will make more decisions based on efficacy and fewer based on relationships with vendors.

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