by Beth Holmes | Feb 22, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Bernie Sanders has promised to fight for a $60,000 minimum salary for public school teachers in a town hall speech this week. “We should be paying public school teachers a minimum of at least $60,000 a year,” Sanders said at a town hall in Washington D.C. on Monday...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 6, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
ChatGPT, favorite new tool of academic cheaters, has released a new tool to help teachers detect cheating using AI like itself. ChatGPT is an AI application created by OpenAI, which is free to use and can write paragraphs and pages on just about any topic on demand....
by Beth Holmes | Jan 30, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Censorship or jail is being offered to Florida teachers, told to remove ‘unvetted’ books from their classroom libraries or be charged with felonies. Governor Ron DeSantis and his fellow Florida Republicans pushed hard the narrative that teachers and...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 23, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Hamlin University in Minnesota has dismissed a professor for showing a controversial image in her world art class. Erika López Prater was an adjunct professor at the small private college Hamlin University when she put up a 14th century painting of the Prophet...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 16, 2023 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Holding social media accountable for the behavior they reward is why several Seattle schools are suing Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. The role of social media in public behavior has become increasingly concerning in the last few years, brought into the...