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"Opening the records of a university’s curriculum does not enslave it to the whims of a tyrannical majority — the institution ...

In a recent interview at Semafor's Trust Media Summit in Washington, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr ...

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We compared AI-composed personal-essay paragraphs with those written by real people, which opened up surprisingly rich discussions about perspective, the uncanny specific detail that makes nonfiction ...

A high school teacher reflects on how adult choices around AI use—particularly their approaches to transparency and focus on efficiency—can affect classroom culture.

Last we heard about the Bikeable Portland plan it was being considered for funding amid a special allocation from the Portland Clean Energy Fund. It was not chosen for funding, but backers plan to ...

The real problem is not the use of AI itself. The problem is that writing classes have often focused too much on the finished essay and not enough on the thinking behind it.

I had thought problem sets were only for STEM courses, with the notable exception of economics. But despite my initial reservations, I quickly discovered that this problem-set format, most commonly ...

The agentic engineering intern. While AI is boosting software development, examples of frontier coding agents exhibiting ...