All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. Whether your New Year’s resolution was to lock in this semester, ...

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From autonomous cars to video games, reinforcement learning (machine learning through interaction with environments) can have ...

Veteran teacher Jen Roberts explains why generative tools are more than just a platform for cheating—they’re a way to make ...

In this video I walk you through how I use a bump up wall to grow kindergarten and first grade writers. I show the rubric, the zero to five writing samples, and how I coach students to “bump up” their ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s ...

Scholars have long debated how widespread literacy was among the Israelites of the seventh century B.C., during the last decades before the ancient kingdom of Judah fell to the Babylonians and its ...

Lexicographer Stamper (Word by Word) takes readers on an uproarious journey into Merriam-Webster’s somber early-20th-century office and the decades-long, behind-the-scenes Continue reading » ...

On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like an AI model. Called “Humanizer,” the ...

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