A group of University of California math and science professors just sent a letter to campus leadership with a blunt message: incoming students no longer understand middle school math. Not “struggle with calculus” — can’t handle fractions, basic algebra, foundational concepts that used to be settled by eighth grade. Nearly…
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Classrooms Go Retro to Combat AI — But the Pop Quiz Got a Warning Label
A Cornell German instructor hauls in vintage typewriters once a semester and makes her students write essays without spell-check, translation apps, or the ability to delete mistakes. No screens. No autocorrect. Just manual keys, ink ribbons, and the unmistakable ding at the end of each line. Grit Matthias Phelps started…
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Gen Z Became the First Generation to Lose Ground Cognitively — Here’s Why
Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath stood before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in mid-January and delivered a message that should have stopped the room cold: Gen Z — the cohort born roughly between 1997 and 2010 — has become the first generation since cognitive records began in…