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For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

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When my daughter starts an episode of CoComelon for the umpteenth time, I no longer feel mum guilt. It’s not that she’s singing “Yes, yes, yes, I want to eat my spinach” like a brainwashed Stepford ...

MORE than 5000 years after the invention of writing, you would think we would have completely nailed the best way to teach people to read – literacy is a key skill in most societies, after all. But ...

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