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By: Zach Varnell
In August 2021, on the West Ridge of Mount Stuart in Washington State, Kimber Cross was running out of time, water, and altitude. Off-route in 97-degree heat, her heart rate had climbed to 180 beats per minute. Her climbing partner — a trained EMT and firefighter — pressed the SOS button on their GPS tracker. What followed was a 15-hour res...
Editor’s Note: In all platform images, student and employer names have been altered to preserve privacy.
While far better than nothing, work-based learning (WBL) has a credibility problem. A student completes an internship, clocks their hours, gets a line on their resume — and then what? Without rigorous, verifiable evidence of what skills were actually dem...
My deepest convictions about educational assessment were shaped outside the classroom with my late wife of seven decades, Dr. Susan Gordon M.D., a pediatrician. I watched her treat a diagnosis of medical status as a starting point for understanding, never an endpoint of judgment or mere classification. Closing charts of medical status data, she wanted to know about a ch...
One of the best ways to understand how national governments are approaching AI implementation in schools appears in the opening paragraphs of a recent report issued in China.
According to the Chinese report (translated here), t...