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Will AI Shrink Disparities in Schools, or Widen Them?

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AI has fed hopes of reaching more equality thanks to its promise to increase personalized learning and to boost efficiency and sustainability for an overworked teaching force. If you ask some researchers, though, it’s not enough. It wouldn’t be responsible to lean on AI as the quick fix for all our economic shortages in schooling.

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Teacher Pay Penalty Reaches Record High. What’s at Stake?

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The disparity between what teachers are paid and what their peers in other, comparable professions earn has reached an all-time high, according to findings published this month by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (EPI). In no state are teachers paid better than or equal to similarly qualified professionals in that same state.

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The Political Right Is Slamming the Door on College Access

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million in the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center--a big historical change. With the exception of wartime, the United States has never been through a period of declining educational attainment like this ,” says Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University.

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E-Books and Online Libraries in Modern College Education

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You can find e-books, research papers, articles, and interactive learning materials on their virtual shelves. Besides your textbook, you can use note-taking and research apps, which help streamline studying. Such applications keep researching entertaining by letting you quickly bounce between sources.

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Does the way we fund scientific research benefit everyone equally?

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Does the way we fund scientific research benefit everyone equally? Funding agencies allocate money to scientific research projects with aims that could benefit society. But how do we know what the full effects of research are, and who these benefits reach? TALK LIKE A SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY RESEARCHER.

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College Health Leaders Are Fighting COVID-19, Student Vaccine Hesitancy and Burnout

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Although some experts originally thought the pandemic would be the great equalizer in health care delivery and outcomes, it quickly became clear that the crisis exacerbated glaring disparities. However, during the pandemic, even institutions of higher learning found themselves challenged to reaffirm people’s trust in data driven by research.

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A 5-Step Plan to Improve Professional Learning in Your School

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It could even be something more abstract but equally important, such as steadily increasing student satisfaction with school. Here are the top 10 skills needed for today’s workforce, as identified by the World Economic Forum: 5. Perhaps it’s an increase of three percentage points in academics each year for the next five years.

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