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 trying to carve out the time to write the blog posts has been challenging.
I teach this novel as part of a unit on Native Voices—Native literature and history—in a cross-curricular elective for seniors at my school. This elective is technically titled What’s Goin’ On:…
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 researching the relationship between arts education and student success.
Over the years, Kisida, an expert on education policy, has seen the culture of education shift dramatically.
“I saw the impact that the culture-obsessed test had on schooling, students’ mental health and enjoyment of learning,” Kisida…
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 data and then fine-tuned for specific tasks with labeled data. In contrast, prompt-based learning models can autonomously tune themselves for different tasks by transferring domain knowledge introduced through prompts.
The quality of the output generated by a prompt-based model is highly dependent on the quality…
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 to Title IX that would make it illegal for schools to broadly ban transgender students from competing on sports teams that don’t align with their sex assigned at birth.
Clyde asked Cardona to defend the proposal by first defining “what is a woman.”
Cardona dodged…
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 to ban transgender athletes from playing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity,
“Can you please tell me or can you please define for me what is a woman?” Clyde asked Cardona.
The Biden administration official deflected the question, only answering that the focus…
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 to Education Transformation” to lay a roadmap for how to move from COVID-19 school closures to systems change. Donor institutions like the Global Partnership for Education’s most recent strategy centers on systems transformation, and groups like the Global Campaign for Education are advocating for broader…