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Retraining workers automated out of the workforce; blending the digital and the physical in the classroom; democratizing credentialing—this page covers the trends and news that will guide the future of education.

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By Makayla Muscat For Daily Mail Australia Published: 10:52 EDT, 2 April 2024 | Updated: 11:08 EDT, 2 April 2024






Female teachers have spoken out about how young boys are being influenced by controversial social media star Andrew Tate.The self-proclaimed champion of 'misogyny' and...
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https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/office-jobs-increasingly-threatened-by-ai/48499042
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So far automation and digitalisation have mainly led to job losses in manufacturing, but the growing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) will also jeopardise office jobs, according to a study.
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A young man allegedly told deputies that he loved his mother — even after he turned himself in for stabbing her to death. Emmanuel Espinoza, 21, committed an "inexplicable, vicious murder" by killing beloved elementary school teacher, Elvia Espinoza, 46, said Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, Florida.
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Theoretical foundation of unbiased estimation of healthcare productivity To test our central hypothesis—that autonomous AI improves healthcare system productivity—in an unbiased manner, we developed a healthcare productivity model based on rational queueing theory30, as widely used in the...
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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1327789/full
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Junior high school students are in early adolescence. Due to the rapid physiological and psychological changes, they often have various mental health problems, particularly depression (Vander Stoep et al., 2011), which has been widely concerned by researchers. Depression will...
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Dartmouth College announced this morning that it would again require applicants to submit standardized test scores, starting next year. It's a significant development because other selective colleges are now deciding whether to do so. In today's newsletter, I'll tell you the story behind...
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Universities around the world can preserve academic integrity from the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) by resisting corporate pressure and prioritizing ethics, according to a new paper by researchers from Charles Darwin University (CDU) and Babeş-Bolyai University in Romania.

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Social anxiety is a maladaptive emotional experience characterized by apprehension, fear, and worry in response to real or imagined social interactions and situations [1]. Research indicates that college students are a high-risk population for social anxiety, with a lifetime prevalence rate...
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https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/03/12/umass-to-triple-early-college-enrollment-for-high-school-students-over-five-years/
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The University of Massachusetts system is planning to triple enrollment in early college programs for high school students, UMass President Marty Meehan said in a State of the University address posted Tuesday.
"Within the next five years, we plan to expand our early college initiatives to serve...
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/glebtsipursky/2023/05/16/a-mental-commute-can-help-prevent-remote-worker-burnout/
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Remote work can lead to burnout if proper work-life boundaries are not established, according to a recent study in the Organizational Psychology Review. This is because the loss of "liminal space" from the lack of commuting. The commute provides a...
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Two teenage students allegedly shot their former teacher in the leg outside their coaching institute in Agra and then boasted on social media that they would pump more bullets into him six months later. Image used for representational purpose only. The police said they have nabbed both the students, aged 16 and 18, after the incident on Thursday noon.
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https://reason.com/volokh/2023/10/12/stanford-instructor-suspended-for-alleged-identity-based-targeting-of-students-in-connection-with-the-israel-gaza-war/
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From the Forward (Beth Harpaz): An instructor at Stanford University has been suspended for what the president and provost called "identity-based targeting" of students in connection with the Israel-Gaza war. Rabbi Dov Greenberg, director of the Chabad Stanford Jewish Center, said he was told by...
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https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2185475/city-japan-uses-ai-technology-analyse-cases-school-bullying
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Otsu, in western Japan, will run an AI analysis of 9,000 cases of bullying in primary and secondary schools over the six years through fiscal 2018
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Published: 01:58 EST, 11 November 2023 | Updated: 02:00 EST, 11 November 2023 An MIT student disrupted a math lecture to yell 'free, free Palestine' and accuse the prestigious university, Israel and the U.S. of 'perpetuating genocide'.Lecture recording footage captured the dramatic moment a...
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https://hechingerreport.org/column-the-climate-change-lesson-plans-teachers-need-and-dont-have/
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"Mom, are there any more Earths?"
Angelique Hammack, a teacher in California, creates lesson plans about climate change for the website SubjectToClimate. She often starts from a question posed by one of her four children.
Her 7-year-old, who has autism, has been really interested in space...
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Some students were "seriously affected" by the movie.A school in Florida, United States, has come under fire after a mathematics teacher showed a horror movie to fourth graders which left them traumatised, as per a report in the New York Post. The students were expecting to have a fun day at...
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The bodies of five university students were found stuffed into a vehicle on a remote road in northern Mexico, authorities said.
The five male victims, who were all students at Latina University of Mexico, were found Sunday outside Celaya, which has been wracked by cartel violence in recent years,...
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Dow and Teach for All Expand Support for STEM Education To Impact Underserved Youth




Expanded partnership will impact 6,000 students and teachers across Argentina, Nigeria, Spain and Japan


MIDLAND, Mich., July 6, 2023 /3BL/ - Dow (NYSE: DOW) announced an expanded...
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President Biden announced another round of federal student loan debt cancellation on Wednesday despite the Supreme Court's rejection earlier this year of the administration's previous $430 billion forgiveness program. The White House stated that the administration plans to cancel $4.8 billion in federal student loan debt for an additional 80,300 borrowers.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched a public working group on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It wil build on the success of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (RMF) to address this rapidly advancing technology, according to NIST. The Public Working Group on Generative AI will help address the opportunities and challenges associated with AI that can generate content, such as code, text, images, videos and music.
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Nurses and midwives will get help to pay off their university debts in a bid by the Western Australian government to attract more workers to remote and regional hospitals.The $4.2m of state government funding, to be included in Thursday's budget, will be available for up to 350 recently qualified...
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On a crisp fall day at Birmingham-Southern College, the students were making their way to class, stealing a few cold minutes under the golden ginkgo trees. Inside the red brick buildings that dot the 192-acre campus, professors were preparing exams for finals week, while administrators readied...