Teaching Tommy Orange’s There There: Part One | huffenglish.com Tommy Orange discusses Native writers, his process, and his book There There Is it just me, or is February the busiest time of the year? I’ve been meaning to start this blog series on teaching Tommy Orange’s phenomenal novel There There for a long while, but […]
Brian Kisida June 20, 2023Contact: Eric Stann, 573-882-3346, [email protected] Growing up, Brian Kisida always enjoyed going to school. He especially enjoyed the broad spectrum of subjects he was able to explore, including the arts. Now, as an assistant professor in the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, he is […]
What Does Prompt-Based Learning Mean? Prompt-based learning is a strategy that machine learning engineers can use to train large language models (LLMs) so that the same model can be used for different tasks without re-training. Traditional strategies for training large language models such as GPT-3 and BERT require the model to be pre-trained with unlabeled […]
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., shared a tense exchange with Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Tuesday after Cardona repeatedly refused to define “woman” or definitively explain the extent of “equal access” for transgender students under the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules . Cardona appeared before the House Appropriations Committee to defend his proposed change […]
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona dodged questions from Rep. Andrew Clyde on Tuesday, when the Georgia Republican asked the Biden administration what it means to be a “woman.” The tense back-and-forth took place during a House Appropriations Committee hearing where Cardona defended proposed changes to Title IX rules that would make it illegal for schools […]
Education systems transformation is creating buzz among educators, policy makers, researchers and families. For the first time, the UN secretary general convened the Transforming Education Summit around the subject in 2022. In tandem, UNESCO, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, UNICEF, the World Bank, and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) co-authored “From Learning Recovery […]
