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UC Berkeley Math Professor Raises Alarm Over Student Preparedness
A UC Berkeley mathematics professor says she is spending valuable calculus teaching time on material some students should have mastered years earlier. Her claim has reignited a fierce debate over what elite universities should expect from incoming students. Zvezdelina Stankova says some students arriving in her calculus classes are five to eight years behind in…
Texas Teacher Breaks Down After Seniors Struggle With Basic Writing Task
A Houston high school teacher was reduced to tears after a classroom exercise left him struggling to understand how some of his senior students had reached the final stretch of high school without being able to complete a basic writing task. Darius Williams, a career and technical education teacher at Wheatley High School, said the…
Disney Animator Behind Frozen Makes Powerful Promise With New Free ASL App
Most people know Josh Staub through the worlds he helped create on screen. As an animator and visual effects artist, he contributed to Disney hits like Frozen, Tangled, and Wreck-It Ralph, bringing beloved characters to life for millions of viewers around the world. Yet the project that has captured the most attention recently has nothing…
Wendy’s Manager Went From Serving Burgers To Earning A Full Scholarship At Yale
A teenager working the drive-thru at Wendy’s probably isn’t the person most people expect to see celebrating an acceptance into Yale University. Yet for Thalles Winner DeSouza, the path from serving burgers in Cape Cod to joining one of the world’s most prestigious Ivy League schools became reality because two employers saw something in him…
Scientists Found Just 10 Minutes of AI Use Can Make Your Brain Less Independent
Artificial intelligence has quickly become the go-to tool for everything from writing emails and solving math problems to planning vacations and answering everyday questions. Millions of people now rely on chatbots like ChatGPT as part of their daily routine, often without giving much thought to how that dependence might affect the way they think. While…
This New York School Is Letting a Humanoid Robot Teach Students, But There’s One Rule It Can’t Break
The idea of a robot standing at the front of a classroom has long belonged to science fiction. For decades, futuristic movies imagined students learning from intelligent machines instead of human teachers. That vision now appears to be edging closer to reality after a school district in upstate New York announced plans to introduce a…
These High School Students Repair Old Cars for Single Moms, and the Results Are Life-Changing
Every school has students learning valuable skills in the classroom, but one high school in Virginia has turned those lessons into something that changes lives far beyond graduation. Instead of repairing vehicles simply for grades or practice, automotive students at Louisa County High School spend months breathing new life into donated cars before giving them…
A School Ditched Laptops for Books. What Happened Next Surprised Everyone
Technology was supposed to transform education for the better. Instead, a growing number of teachers say it has made students more distracted, less confident readers, and increasingly dependent on screens for even the simplest classroom tasks. Now, schools are beginning to reverse course. One Minnesota teacher’s decision to ban laptops and phones has delivered results…
Hundreds of Teachers Stepped Up When Cancer Left Their Colleague With No Sick Leave
There are moments when a community quietly proves that kindness is more than a comforting idea. For one Florida history teacher facing the hardest battle of his life, that moment arrived after he admitted he could not do it alone. Robert Goodman had spent decades encouraging students through difficult chapters in history. Then life handed…
Florida Students Must Now Learn Cursive to Move On to Middle School
A skill that many people assumed had disappeared from classrooms is making an unexpected return across Florida. Starting this school year, thousands of public elementary school students will once again spend time practicing loops, curves, and handwritten signatures. The change comes under a new state law that requires students not only to learn cursive but…