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100 Of The Greatest Books In The English Language

TeachThought

Labeling a book “great” is a matter of opinion, but when you pile together the opinion of 13 other book-loving folks, you start to get somewhere close to credibility. Alistofbooks.com compiles 13 lists of the greatest books ever published, using contributions from individuals and organizations ranging from The Harvard Book Store to the BBC.

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Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests

The Hechinger Report

Does AI actually help students learn? A recent experiment in a high school provides a cautionary tale. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school students who had access to ChatGPT while doing practice math problems did worse on a math test compared with students who didn’t have access to ChatGPT. Those with ChatGPT solved 48 percent more of the practice problems correctly, but they ultimately scored 17 percent worse on a test of the topic that the students were

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Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils

Political Science Now

Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils By Adam Michael Auerbach, Johns Hopkins University , Shikhar Singh , Duke University and Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania Governments across the Global South have decentralized a degree of power to municipal authorities. Are local officials sufficiently knowledgeable about how to execute their expanded portfolio of responsibilities?

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OPINION: English language arts instruction needs to change immediately. Here are some ways that can work

The Hechinger Report

In many middle and high schools, students spend hundreds of hours a year on English language arts (ELA) assignments that don’t ask enough of them. Too many students are working on below-grade-level tasks using below-grade-level texts. That approach, while well-intentioned, is not closing gaps or preparing students for life after high school. Is it any wonder that reading scores haven’t improved in 30 years?

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Meeting the Core Human Needs of a Teacher

Cult of Pedagogy

Image: Paolo Nicolello Listen to the interview with Elena Aguilar ( transcript ): Sponsored by EVERFI and Listenwise This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

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Mapping time: The surprising overlaps of history’s most influential minds

Strange Maps

“Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards,” Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard noted in his diary in 1843. But it’s not just your own life that’s best understood in the rearview mirror: If you look back on the world’s most famous figures, you may find surprising connections and overlaps that reshape your understanding of history’s timeline.

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Shmuel Nili joins the Perspectives on Politics editorial team as Associate Editor in Political Theory

Political Science Now

APSA is happy to announce that Shmuel Nili , Associate Professor at Northwestern University, is joining the Perspectives on Politics editorial team as Associate Editor in Political Theory. Shmuel Nili is an Associate Professor of political science at Northwestern University. His research in political philosophy ranges across meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics.