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Major changes are coming to the ACT college admissions exam in the spring, the CEO of ACT announced Monday. From a report: The exam will be evolving to “meet the challenges students and educators face” — and that will include shortening the core test … Continue reading Changes Are Coming To the ACT Exam
In a post on X today, Andrej Karpathy announced that he is “starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.” Karpathy taught deep learning for computer vision at Stanford University, left to co-found OpenAI in 2015 and then moved on to direct arti… Continue reading Former Tesla, OpenAI Exec Andrej Karpathy Founds ‘AI Native’ Education Startup
Eton College, Britain’s elite boarding school with alumni that includes Princes William and Harry, as well as George Orwell and a long list of others, is banning incoming students from having smartphones. Instead, the school will provide students with … Continue reading British Boarding School Bans Smartphones, Hands Out Nokia Phones Instead
In this Help Net Security interview, Koma Gandy, VP of Leadership and Business at Skillsoft, addresses the critical aspects of the cybersecurity skills gap, the need for diverse talent and continuous upskilling in areas like AI and cloud computing. Gan… Continue reading Exploring the root causes of the cybersecurity skills gap
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A bunch of eighth graders in a “wealthy Philadelphia suburb” recently targeted teachers with an extreme online harassment campaign that The New York Times reported was “the first known group TikTok… Continue reading First-Known TikTok Mob Attack Led By Middle Schoolers Tormenting Teachers
New York City announced a “major citywide initiative” to increase “math achievement” among students, according to the mayor’s office.
93 middle schools and 420 high schools will implement an “Illustrative Math” curriculum (from an education nonprofit … Continue reading Curricula From Bill Gates-Backed ‘Illustrative Math’ Required In NYC High Schools
An anonymous reader shares a report: Eton College, one of the world’s most prestigious boarding schools, is planning to ban smartphones for its incoming first-year students and replace these with old-school Nokia phones instead, a spokesperson for the … Continue reading Eton Replaces First-Year Student Smartphones With Nokia ‘Brick’ Phones
Alabama’s education superintendent said some data was breached during a hacking attempt at the State Department of Education.
The post Some Data Is ‘Breached’ During a Hacking Attack on the Alabama Education Department appeared first on Sec… Continue reading Some Data Is ‘Breached’ During a Hacking Attack on the Alabama Education Department
theodp writes: As with last year,” tweeted College Board’s AP Program Chief Trevor Packer, “the most challenging free-response question on this year’s AP Computer Science A exam was Q4 on 2D Array.” While it takes six pages of the AP CS A exam document… Continue reading High School AP CS A Exam Takers Struggled Again With Java Array Question
Peter Scarfe, a researcher at the University of Reading’s School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, conducted an experiment testing the vulnerability of their examination system to AI-generated work. Using ChatGPT-4, Scarfe’s team submitted … Continue reading ChatGPT Outperforms Undergrads In Intro-Level Courses, Falls Short Later