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Foundation Awards $116M Grant to LaGuardia Community College

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I wanted to create a place where students have access to high-quality programs and facilities and can learn the skills they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world," said Alex Cohen, president of the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation. Adams said the goal is to make a positive difference in people's lives. "I

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JSTOR's Digital Archives Now Reach Over Half a Million Incarcerated Learners

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More than half a million incarcerated people can now access scholarly materials and texts online via digital library JSTOR’s expansion of its availability in U.S. She is also the one leading the JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative. Then, COVID happened, technology became more accessible to people inside.”

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As AI Continues to Progress, Opportunities and Warnings Abound

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Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions. If we’re going to use generative AI for instruction, we need to make sure that our students all understand how to use the technology effectively,” said Conatser. “If There are also concerns that AI tools could be biased.

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Panel Spotlights Registered Apprenticeships at MSIs

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Registered A pprenticeships—programs that combine school instruction with paid on-the-job training, allowing students to “earn while they learn” — are critical on-ramps to good jobs. In the program, s tudents learn construction , electrical and plumbing basics, blueprint reading and drawing, math , and worksite safety.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

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Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs.

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AI: A Brilliant but Biased Tool for Education

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When ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) AI that can generate long, detailed answers to complicated questions, was first made accessible to the public in November 2022, it changed the landscape of education forever. “As As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive. Dr. Vaughn A.

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Districts are still struggling with low reading proficiency. These barriers are probably why.

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Few prep programs, if any, include a curriculum conferring scientifically-based reading instruction methods or the five components of literacy. To support districts and teachers, we provide unrestricted access to our science of reading implementation resources.