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Besides administering standardized pre-college tests, America’s nonprofit College Board designs college-level classes that high school students can take. But now they’re also crafting courses “not just with higher education at the table, but industry p… Continue reading America’s College Board Launches AP Cybersecurity Course For Non-College-Bound Students
Over the past two decades, school districts have spent billions equipping classrooms with laptops, yet students have fallen further behind on essential skills, Michael Bloomberg argues. With about 90% of schools now providing these devices, test scores… Continue reading ‘Kids Are Spending Too Much Class Time on Laptops’
Harvard University on Monday announced that tuition will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less starting in the 2025-26 academic year. From a report: “Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widen… Continue reading Harvard Says Tuition Will Be Free For Families Making $200K or Less
Educational institutions and businesses looking to implement technology-driven learning solutions often face a key decision: should they invest… Continue reading Custom vs. Off-the-shelf Educational Software
Philosophy/ethics professor Troy Jollimore looks at the implications of a world where many students are submitting AI-generated essays. (“Sometimes they will provide quotations, giving page numbers that, as often as not, do not seem to correspond to an… Continue reading ‘I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats’
PhD students trained in small research groups are more likely to remain in academia than those from larger labs, according to a comprehensive analysis published in Nature Human Behaviour.
The study, which examined 1.5 million scientists and 1.8 milli… Continue reading Study Reveals Lab Size Impacts PhD Students’ Academic Careers
Dozens of schools and thousands of individuals are impacted by a data breach resulting from a ransomware attack on Carruth Compliance Consulting.
The post Many Schools Report Data Breach After Retirement Services Firm Hit by Ransomware appeared first o… Continue reading Many Schools Report Data Breach After Retirement Services Firm Hit by Ransomware
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, experts have debated how widely AI language models would impact the world. A few years later, the picture is getting clear. According to new Stanford Unive… Continue reading Researchers Find Less-Educated Areas Adopting AI Writing Tools Faster
Job placement rates have declined at all top U.S. business schools [non-paywalled source] since 2021, leaving MBA graduates anxious about their expensive degrees’ return on investment. Harvard Business School, which produced Wall Street titans like Bil… Continue reading Graduates From Top MBA Programs Are Struggling To Land Jobs
Job placement rates have declined at all top U.S. business schools [non-paywalled source] since 2021, leaving MBA graduates anxious about their expensive degrees’ return on investment. Harvard Business School, which produced Wall Street titans like Bil… Continue reading Graduates From Top MBA Programs Are Struggling To Land Jobs