Hidden Figures In a sneaky but clever experiment, researchers at a United Kingdom university turned in AI-generated answers to real tests at their own institution, hoodwinking fellow professors and earning better grades than actual students. The study, done at Reading University and published in the journal PLOS ONE, exemplifies how AI is upending education overall […]
Reflecting a statewide trend, third through eighth grade students in the Austin Independent School District are struggling in mathematics while their reading proficiencies vary across grade levels, according to recently released scores from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness. Compared with last year, reading scores declined for those grade levels except for sixth […]
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released its Spring 2024 STAAR assessment results for grades 3-8, which showed mathematics and science performance across all grade levels declined. TEA said in a news release that this decrease in math proficiency had not “recovered to pre-pandemic levels.” 2024 STAAR results show Texas students’ ‘steady performance’ […]
Jun. 10—The 2024 KIDS COUNT Data Book is out, and while West Virginia is steadily climbing rungs in its general showing from last year, the state still remains in the lower tier of the nation related to children’s health. West Virginia’s composite rating was 35th in the country — up from 42nd last year — […]
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University student Mohamed Bouftas appeared to have a grade-point average of 3.85, until it was learned he was forging professors’ signatures to change grades of F, D, C and B+ to A. His real GPA is 1.68, and his legal status is convicted felon for forgery. Bouftas, 23, of West Lafayette, […]
May 14—EBENSBURG, Pa. — Starting next school year, all Central Cambria School District students in third, fourth and fifth grades will attend Cambria Elementary School in the Ebensburg area. The Central Cambria School District board approved the long-suspected reconfiguration of the district’s two elementary schools by a 7-1 vote at Monday’s meeting. Patricia Allbaugh cast […]
A group that organized pro-Palestinian protests on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus last week is calling on faculty and teaching assistants to withhold grades to “demand amnesty” for students facing disciplinary actions. It was unclear Monday morning how many instructors are joining the call to withhold grades, though university leaders told deans and department chairs that […]
(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia raised the price of its flagship crude to Asia for a third consecutive month, as the kingdom tries to tighten the oil market to prevent a global surplus. Most Read from Bloomberg State-owned Saudi Aramco raised the June official selling price of Arab Light crude for customers in Asia by 90 […]
Patient satisfaction scores at hospitals nationwide are improving for the first time since the pandemic, according to the spring 2024 safety survey from the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit that has been offering analyses of hospitals’ safety records for 12 years. Infection rates at hospitals also have steadily improved since the pandemic. The safety survey assigns […]
This article was originally published in Arizona Mirror. A Republican state senator wants to give students at Arizona’s public universities a new way to challenge grades that they believe were handed down due to a professor’s political bias. Sen. Anthony Kern, of Glendale, who has previously described himself as “not a university guy,” has taken […]
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – On his one-year anniversary as St. Louis City’s top cop, the police chief fielded questions surrounding his accessibility and police-involved crashes rather than discuss the decrease in violent crime. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Tracy took nine questions at Tuesday’s news conference. Mayor Tishaura Jones scheduled the event to […]
Teachers no longer lead parent conferences at Arundel Elementary School. The school, which serves 400 students pre-kindergarten through second grade in Maryland’s Baltimore City Public Schools, is rethinking the way it operates to boost parental involvement, said first-grade teacher Kaylah Crawford. Crawford, who is in charge of family engagement at Arundel, said every student will […]