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We Must Avert an Intellectual Dark Age
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We Must Avert an Intellectual Dark Age

One of the greatest risks of AI technology may be a degradation of the learning process itself, and thus a new intellectual dark age. It is up to teachers and teaching institutions to do all they can to avert such a catastrophic outcome. 

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Why Your Kids Can’t Write

Why Your Kids Can’t Write

Do you mean to say you’re still having to teach basic grammar even when your students are at senior level? Convince me that this isn’t a Monty Python sketch. 

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Pride Week Infects 200 New Zealand Schools

Pride Week Infects 200 New Zealand Schools

This isn’t about hate. It’s about honesty. And if the only way these programmes can survive is by pretending there’s no criticism, lying about protest threats, and dismissing concerned parents as “bigots”, then maybe it’s time they were pulled out of schools altogether.

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California High School Could Test Trump

California High School Could Test Trump

It’s unclear when or if the Department of Education, in conjunction with the Justice Department, will investigate so-called “indoctrination” activities taking place in elementary and secondary public schools as Trump’s late January executive order pledges to do.

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Don’t Let Them Tell You That, Either

Don’t Let Them Tell You That, Either

We used to have outstanding early childhood education in this country. It was provided by mothers without qualifications, in homes without certification and at a cost to the taxpayer of precisely zip.

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This Could Have Ended Badly
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This Could Have Ended Badly

Why did no one bother to ask the questions I did on the actual day? When I was at school, that’s exactly what would have happened.

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