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How Can the Community School Model Support Newcomer Education? 

Students at OIHS drop out at nearly half the rate that newcomers students do at other Oakland high schools. The

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Kids Who Use ChatGPT as a Study Assistant Do Worse on Tests

ChatGPT’s errors also may have been a contributing factor. The chatbot only answered the math problems correctly half of the

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Is Environmental Sustainability the New Liberal Arts?

 “The scale of the challenges we face demands that all people have baseline understanding” of climate, the plan says. “[H]igher

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How to Get Kids Thinking Instead of Mimicking in Math Class

The model involves students working in small, randomly chosen groups; solving problems standing up at whiteboards; building on small bits

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Researchers Combat AI Hallucinations in Math

The Berkeley researchers took advantage of the fact that ChatGPT, like humans, is erratic. They asked ChatGPT to answer the

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To Raise Empathetic Children, Parents Must Practice Empathy Themselves

How is empathy “passed down” in this way? When parents respond to children’s distress in a supportive, empathetic way, it

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Debunking Myths About Graphic Novels and Comics to Unlock Learning

POW! SMACK! BAM! The sounds of a classic comic book fight scene have not always been associated with academic opportunities,

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Why are kids still struggling in school four years after the pandemic?

Curriculum Associates did not detect as much deterioration as NWEA, but did find widespread stagnation in 2023-24, according to a

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5 Ways the Black Panthers Shaped U.S. Schools

The Oakland Community School is regarded as one of the nation’s first community schools – a model in  which public

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10 Ways to Calm Your Kid’s Back-to-School Jitters

🗓 To ease a child’s anxiety about going back to school, help them understand what to expect. As Daniel Tiger