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NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade Gifts $3M for Literacy, Scholarships

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Marquette University alumnus and NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade has committed to a $3 million gift to extend the Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program and establish the Wade Scholars as well as support a new men’s basketball practice facility in a future expansion of the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

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Winn is also a former elementary and high school English teacher, who examines the intersections of language, literacy, and youth culture — and how nondominant communities have engineered teaching and learning communities at the contours of and adjacent to school settings.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

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a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. She has partnered with FOSSI, or the Future of STEM Scholars Initiative, to give financial literacy workshops to FOSSI scholars. She is also the founder and president of Moore Wealth, Inc.,

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Study: Outcomes of Students in Policy Debate Programs Linked to ELA Improvements and Postsecondary Enrollment

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“We found that debate was linked to improvements not only in overall ELA achievement but specifically in those ELA competencies requiring critical thinking skills,” said study co-author Dr. Beth Schueler, an assistant professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development.

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As AI Continues to Progress, Opportunities and Warnings Abound

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Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors. If we have computers that can operate certain aspects of the higher education environment, then we can re-prioritize what humans do. Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions.

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Study: Number of Universities Requiring Physical Education Courses Decreasing

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Cardinal “There’s an enormous amount of scientific evidence supporting the value of physical activity,” said Dr. Brad Cardinal, study co-author and professor in OSU’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences. Researchers found that 56.2% of institutions did not require PE; 31.7% had a partial requirement.

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AI: A Brilliant but Biased Tool for Education

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Those assignments acknowledge the usefulness and the limitation of the technology, which cannot detect or differentiate human bias and negative stereotypes in the almost limitless field of data and information from which it pulls its answers. Many faculty have found ways to mix AI with human-driven writing solutions, marrying the two skills.

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