Amidst the discussions about content standards, curriculum and teaching strategies, it's easy to lose sight of the big goals behind education, like giving students tools to deepen their quantitative ...

I always tell my child that being a parent does not come with a how-to user manual, even though it would have been nice to reference standard operating procedures (SOPs) just once—more specifically, ...

With many schools canceling classes through the end of the month or the end of the semester, thousands of college students are faced with new challenges: Online courses with new pedagogies, new ...

Love it or hate it, many teachers have seen just how much technology has changed the landscape of education. Within this rapidly changing landscape, teachers have taken on a role much different from ...

In a new paper, researchers from Tencent AI Lab Seattle and the University of Maryland, College Park, present a reinforcement learning technique that enables large language models (LLMs) to utilize ...

Pakistan's education crisis is commonly framed in terms of funding deficits, outdated curricula, or inadequate infrastructure. These are serious and visible problems, yet they conceal a deeper and ...

In a piece I wrote for this blog back in April, "Critically Thinking About Conspiracy Theories and COVID-19," I discussed how conspiracy theories often come to the fore in light of catastrophes and ...