Continuing on the topic of AI, how much would you pay to have a bot teach your kids?
Posts Tagged → school
Whose Civics Do We Teach?
Civics is defined in Wikipedia as the “study of the civil and political rights and obligations of citizens in a society”. And, over the past decade or more, there have been a lot of call to improve the teaching of civics in this country.
The Wrong Way to Evaluate Schools
It’s May. Time for spring flowers, Mother’s Day, summer vacation planning, and the infliction of standardized tests on most kids in this country.
Along with the time-honored (unfortunate) tradition of posting bogus “best of” high school rankings.
Math Doesn’t Make Sense
An opinion editor at the Post says “The trouble with schools is too much math”.
He’s both right and wrong.
Are We Still Doing This?
The Education Secretary in the United Kingdom, Gillian Keegan, wants head teachers (aka principals) in the country to “ban pupils from using mobile phones during the entire school day”.
Didn’t we already try that? Like more than ten years ago?