Do kids enrolled in extra curricular activities feel more or less burned out after work?

After work id been extremely exhausted, I can still run, exercise if the temperature is right, and feel better at work. Or class

Submitted July 31, 2026 at 05:14PM by h0tnessm0nster7 https://ift.tt/oIu4TgS

A-G and CC courses (need help !!)

I am a student within California that is just short on A-G, I've graduated through high school already and i really wish to enter CSU's when spring semester rolls around. I haven't seen any other topic like this come up before, and frankly I don't know where to look, so I've come here to ask!

How would one be able to take any courses in community colleges (Hartnell, etc) and receive A-G requirements via said courses?

Submitted July 31, 2026 at 12:58PM by skidtheskeletonkid https://ift.tt/ug854IW

Looking for Book Recommendations

Hi all - I am trying to educate myself more on the history of immigration and the effects of illegal vs legal immigration and politics in general in both the US and Europe.

Internet seems very biased on either way so I am looking for fact based or generally well acclaimed books to read instead.

Does anyone have any good books that discusses or outlines these issues or anything similar?

Thanks in advance!

TLDR: I am looking to educate myself on political topics more and am looking for as non biased resources as possible.

Submitted July 30, 2026 at 12:06PM by anaannie454 https://ift.tt/4wfvoAV

Why?

I am starting to find those cheerful teachers/professors to be annoying...espically if they start singing in class... and prefering a more "dry" teaching style ...

The "fun" teaching style is very distractive for my learning. Wondering if anyone going though a period like this? I am confused by myself.

Submitted July 30, 2026 at 09:04AM by Objective-Agile https://ift.tt/BdbUwQq

“Red shirting” a June birthday?

I’ve decided my late August baby will be starting school at 6 years old. I just feel like starting school at barely 5 is just a bit too early, but I’m on the fence with my June kid.

i know there have been studies done about older kids having better leadership opportunities and more focus in school, as well as winter birthdays having more opportunities and even preforming better academically and in sports.

my hold up with June is it is right at the end of the age. if she was born in July or August i probably would keep her home until she was 6. but my hold up is if I send her at 6 she will graduate at 19. I wouldn’t want her to feel socially outcasted or not bond the same as her peers, since a part of her class would be 17.

does anyone have any experience with this? has anyone ”red shirted” their June bag? why or why not?

Submitted July 30, 2026 at 07:01AM by Agitated-Rest1421 https://ift.tt/9mR52N0

Teachers Using Scripted Curriculum...

My district is adopting a scripted science curriculum this fall, and teachers have been told to follow the lessons as written.

If your district uses a scripted curriculum, how closely are you expected to follow it? What happens if a lesson isn't working for your students?

Submitted July 29, 2026 at 08:57PM by Original-Swing7753 https://ift.tt/URSWkZm

Sanctimony in Education

I am looking to write an article on how sanctimony has been having a detrimental effect on education. I am mostly attempting to discuss how educators and the community in general has been pushing a sanctimonious mindset on teachers and students that has resulted in the abandonment of effective instructional practices in favor of ideologically driven practices with questionable results. I feel as if SEL practices have been one the primary examples of this.

I was wondering if this community had any examples or experiences where they have seen learning detrimentally impacted by sanctimonious mindsets or ideas.

Submitted July 29, 2026 at 01:38PM by Adorable_Pudding_413 https://ift.tt/HYje54M

What's one thing about education that nobody tells you until you're in the system?

Curious to hear from students, teachers, and parents — not the polished "this is how school should work" takes, but what actually surprised you once you were in it. Was there a moment where the reality of teaching, learning, or the system itself didn't match what you expected? And what's something you wish someone had told you earlier?

Submitted July 29, 2026 at 10:50AM by WickedKing94 https://ift.tt/bCPOaWU

Have you ever heard of this? I didn't finish high school and the education counselor said quite a few higher education institutions prefer you have a high school diploma vs a GED. (In California).

She said she's had students who had to go back to get those high school credits after finishing community college and applying to places like law school and medical school.

I'm now 26 and want to go to higher education the difference between the two is it'll take me 7 months for all my diploma classes I have a limit of submitting 15 assignments a week maximum, or minimum 1-2 months for GED. I was informed I scored highly on both english and math pre-tests.

Submitted July 29, 2026 at 03:10AM by cacklingwhisper https://ift.tt/yEao2WS

Looking for crypto donation platforms for grad school application fees (sanctioned country, no PayPal/Visa)

Hello everyone. Actually, I'm from a country under sanctions and basically have zero access to PayPal, Visa, or any normal payment method. Trying to apply to two Master's programs abroad right now (would be the first in my family to study abroad, kind of a big deal for me) but even the application fees are hard to pay because of this.

Was thinking crypto might be my only real option here, but I don't want to just throw a wallet address out there and hope for the best. So I wanted to ask if anyone actually know a decent platform for this kind of thing? Something built for individuals, not just registered charities/nonprofits (I checked a few already and they're mostly for orgs, not random people like me).

If you've been in a similar spot or know someone who has, I would really appreciate any tips.
I've tried and financed a portion of that, but I need money for the rest and I'm running out of time.

Submitted July 28, 2026 at 01:55PM by Temporary-Anxiety539 https://ift.tt/sernGu8

Thoughts and opinions on a nationalized curriculum in the USA (and/or the lack thereof)?

I have had this topic bouncing around in the back of my brain quite a bit in the past few months and I'm just wondering what others think about it.

Feel free to share your personal feelings-based opinions, factually informed opinions, any history you may know relating to this topic, pros and cons of nationalized curriculum, common arguments for/against it, implications and consequences from not having one, potential dangers in adopting one, resources to learn more about this topic/debate, etc. I'd really love to have (respectful) discussions in the comments of this post so please consider circling back if your original comment gets a response!

I look forward to reading all of your responses! Thank you for taking the time to comment!!

Submitted July 28, 2026 at 08:08AM by ithekrianmermaid https://ift.tt/H7Ju3qV

Do GCSE exams get disqualified if they include messages to the examiner?

Hey people, so I am worried that I’ll be getting U’s this August - I wrote messages in the majority of my GCSE papers to the examiners marking them (in the extra space at the back) because I thought it would be nice lol. I didn’t write anything rude or sensitive, I said things like ‘please let me pass this paper’, ‘have a good summer’ ect ect. I’m kinda regretting now lol. 🫠

Submitted July 27, 2026 at 04:20AM by Just-Task-2871 https://ift.tt/qcXKUjN

How to get grade 11 physics credit post secondary

Not sure if this is exactly the right forum to ask, but for anyone who is from Vancouver bc Canada would you happen to know how getting physics 11 credit would work and how to exactly. I didn’t do physics 11 back in secondary school because I’m quite bad at math and the idea of physics scared me.

Would love to know any advice or how you may have done it. Sorry if this seems rushed thinking about this is just keeping me up.

Submitted July 27, 2026 at 01:31AM by im_scr3ewd https://ift.tt/7Dtwi4g

HELP ME GET STRONGER

I’ve made it a goal to become a much stronger reader over the next few years. I want to increase my reading speed **without sacrificing comprehension**, improve my vocabulary, retain more of what I read, and comfortably tackle more difficult books.
I’m not looking for speed-reading gimmicks—I’m looking for methods that are actually effective, whether they’re backed by research or simply worked well for you.
What books, habits, courses, exercises, or resources had the biggest impact on your ability to read, understand, and remember what you read?

If it matters, I’m trying to read Gene Wolfes The Book of the New Sun , but I’ve heard they are at a college grade level 10, whatever that means
And right now all I read is self-help books

Submitted July 26, 2026 at 09:27PM by UpstairsHuge2956 https://ift.tt/tjOhfS9

In the age of AI, what should parents tell their children to learn?

The world is changing so fast that 'study hard' just doesn't hit the same anymore. What should we be telling kids instead?

Submitted July 26, 2026 at 05:35PM by theedushift https://ift.tt/Z0G67c8

Kipp/SST Application

Hi, I’m not sure if there’s anyone who works at Kipp/SST (Texas) or has ever dealt with their hiring process. Anyways I applied in May (for an administrative role), and had an interview (with Kipp) about the first or second week of June with like 4 people which really caught me off guard, and they told me that they’d update me on whether I’d be hired or not and I never got an answer from them. I keep checking my applications and none have been updated since nor have I gotten a rejection email.

I also applied at SST last week (Educational aide) haven’t heard from them, but does anyone know how long it usually takes?

Submitted July 26, 2026 at 02:45PM by Dry-Owl-684 https://ift.tt/SrW2Rmt

Any educational YouTube channels you would recommend?

I’m looking for more creators with educational content; Whether is be science, investing, law, math, politics, space, etc. maybe even a specific niche you are interested in or teach to your own students. I remember watching crash course with Hank/john green back when I was still in school. Any recommendations are appreciated :)

Submitted July 26, 2026 at 03:24PM by Comfortable_Pay_9697 https://ift.tt/Kn5xCaI

Need help

Can someone tell what fees structure at Himalayan nursing institute which is under techno I got 3.4k rank in jenpas ug 2026

Submitted July 25, 2026 at 06:18AM by barelywaken https://ift.tt/C7A1F8e

Threw out my lesson plan mid-class because it wasn't working, and it turned into the best discussion of the year

Structured unit was falling flat, kids checked out. A student asked a slightly off-topic but genuinely curious question, and instead of redirecting back to plan, I let it become the class. Forty minutes of real engagement, kids arguing respectfully, building on each other's points, no worksheet in sight. Learned more about their thinking in that one class than in weeks of "on-plan" lessons. Anyone else had a class go sideways in the best possible way?

Submitted July 25, 2026 at 02:31AM by WickedKing94 https://ift.tt/Y1wbALq

Has Anyone Recently Been Placed Through VGI Campus Recruitment?

I was checking their website and saw 620+ job offers mentioned there. Sounds pretty good. Ngl, but beyond that I wanted to know more about the actual placement preparation.

Like when do students usually start preparing? Does the Career Development Center help with aptitude, interviews and professional skills?

Would love to hear from someone who knows about the process

Submitted July 25, 2026 at 12:37AM by TangerineTop5052 https://ift.tt/hVePST2

Only the Obedient Become Leaders (an essay on the Korean college admissions system)

The ability to solve a set problem quickly and accurately is not the same as the ability to find a question worth asking and hold on to it for years. Getzels and Csikszentmihalyi had art students draw a still life and watched how they worked. Half chose their objects in haste and began drawing at once; the other half handled the objects a long while, shifting the arrangement, setting up the problem to be drawn before drawing it. Critics judged the second group's work more original, and years later it was the second group that was still painting. This is where framing a problem parts from solving one. The real trouble now is that posts calling for the second ability are filled by people selected for the first.

Korean college admissions has no instrument at all for measuring the ability to frame problems. Whatever department a student applies to, the common gate of Korean, English, and mathematics has to be crossed. Britain does otherwise. After the age of sixteen a student picks three or four subjects from roughly eighty and goes deep into them, and university entry is decided by those few subjects. Oxford specifies required subjects course by course, and University College London keeps a list of preferred subjects and asks for two or more from it. A student bound for history is not pushed out by calculus there. Calling the system violent is exact at just this point. Every year hundreds of thousands of students are turned away without ever having had their aptitude tested.

The 2028 reform did not narrow this gate; it widened it. Elective subjects in Korean, mathematics, and inquiry have been abolished outright so that everyone is assessed on identical content by an identical standard, and inquiry, where students once sat either social studies or science, now demands both. The stated ground is fairness, the removal of advantage and disadvantage between subjects. Yet the easiest way to remove such advantage is to ask the same thing of everyone. The more uniform the demand, the further the exam drifts from what an individual department actually needs.

What a gate screens out becomes visible in those who get through it. Lee Hyejeong conducted in depth interviews with 46 of the 150 highest ranking students at Seoul National University, those with averages above 4.0, surveyed the whole enrolled student body, and carried out a comparative study with the University of Michigan. Her finding was that undergraduate education at Seoul National University tilts sharply toward receptive thinking rather than critical and creative thinking. The top students clung to receptive study, a continuation of the primary and secondary school method, instead of the study the university expected of them. The disposition that selection had demanded kept paying off inside the university. A gate does not merely screen people out; it goes on rewarding the disposition it screened for.

An exam does not only measure people, it makes them. To someone who has spent more than a decade under the premise that a correct answer lies somewhere, questioning a premise is a strange gesture, never once rehearsed. And for anyone who bore an absurd gate to the end and came through it, that gate has already become the warrant for his own record. Doubting the rule that chose you turns into doubting your own record. So compliance becomes self justification, and those screened in this way settle into the upper reaches of society.

p.s. The point of this piece is not that we should teach more creativity, but that departments should be allowed to name the abilities they need. The judgment that assessing all five areas is the better course is a perfectly tenable one. Still, if the price of that choice is failing a prospective history student on calculus, why the price must be paid is a question that has to be answered on its own.

Submitted July 25, 2026 at 12:14AM by FactStrong3204 https://ift.tt/8JgKZVj

Is there a site or shop where I can access past papers for exams?

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Submitted July 24, 2026 at 09:54AM by lydiakatrina https://ift.tt/8UTgVvp

504 for Homeschooled Students

This is all theoretical…but…due to the difference between IEPs and 504s how would a student who is homeschooled go about getting a 504 plan, especially if they have a medical diagnosis? Would it be similar to an IEP in that they would reach out to their home district’s 504 coordinator to request that the process get started?

Submitted July 23, 2026 at 04:46PM by megustamucho26 https://ift.tt/NTXhJWu

Why do PD presenters insist on talking when they see the lunch or respective meal was just delivered?

I’m sure many of you know what I mean. The hot/warm meal is obviously ready for us and now it’s lukewarm/cold by the time you stop talking. The content will be there after lunch, I promise.

Submitted July 23, 2026 at 03:27PM by SpicyChill77 https://ift.tt/M0bXTPq

Catholic school jobs

Can someone tell me if I'm doing this right?

I applied for a non-teaching position at a Catholic grade school in my neighborhood. I found the job listing on the career portal/website for my city's Archdiocese; it's also listed on LinkedIn.

On the job listing itself it says that interested/qualified candidates should email their resume and cover letter to the principal at the provided email, which I did. However, I also notice there is a downloadable job application on the website attached to the listing, but the language and fields used in the job application is specifically for teaching, which this position is not.

My question is, do I still need to fill out that job application and send it to the Office of Catholic Education despite it not being relevant to the open position and also despite me already emailing the principal with my info? Alternatively, should I also apply to the job via the LinkedIn post? I really want this job and am just worried that I'm missing a step and just sending my info to the principal isn't enough and that I'm not considered fully applied to the job despite the listing asking to send the info. Like would sending the application to the OCE act as sending it to HR to get my name on their radar, or did I do everything I needed to?

Submitted July 23, 2026 at 01:55PM by Simbus2001 https://ift.tt/2LdD0nY

Nearly half of American kids under 6 live in a licensed "child care desert." Does that match what you're seeing?

New data from the Center for American Progress dropped recently, and the numbers are stark: 46% of young children nationwide live in areas where licensed child care slots are outnumbered by demand at least 3-to-1. In remote rural areas, that number jumps to 70%. That's not a niche problem — it's basically a coin flip for any family with a toddler.

Break it down by congressional district and the picture looks worse:

• In 42% of U.S. congressional districts, a majority of young kids live in a child care desert
• In 14 districts, over 80% of young children have insufficient access to a slot
• Majority rural congressional districts are hit hardest — 49% of rural districts qualify as deserts, vs. ~42-46% in suburban/urban ones

This isn't just a data point — it's waitlists that stretch months into years; it's families who end up cutting hours or leaving jobs entirely because there's simply no care to be had; it's programs operating under capacity because they can't hire staff. For K-12 educators, it ripples forward: kids who miss out on early learning windows often show up to K-12 already behind.

🔗 Full report
🗺️ Interactive map (search and zoom into your area)
📊 Congressional district breakdown

Curious what this looks like from your POV: Do these numbers track with what you're seeing in your school or district? Are you noticing kids arriving less "kindergarten-ready" because they couldn't access early care? What does the waitlist situation look like where you are?

Submitted July 23, 2026 at 10:19AM by haileymgibbs https://ift.tt/eMSRbAB

How to educate our children in MAGA times?

I live in a red state but in a very large metropolitan area. We thought we were fortunate to get a spot for an acclaimed elementary in the magnet school lottery. Two years later, our school district was taken over by the state and our beloved principal was fired and atrocious changes were implemented (removing our award winning library, teaching to test, error-ridden AI lesson plans and constant evaluations, etc.). We fortunately had another option as we have a second home in a rural area, so we moved our primary residence to our second home and enrolled our children at the local, highly rated school. I come from a rural farm family educated in public school, so I thought this would be a good change. Unfortunately, my children were bullied for not being religious (my moms side of the family is full of extremely religious conservative preachers but I decided to distance myself and my children from that religion due to many factors). My oldest child, a daughter, is extremely smart and was the main target of bullying, so I tried to find another alternative. She was accepted to a non-religious private school. However, I have since learned that key board members are Republicans politicians or their spouses.

In preparation for the upcoming school year, we received an email discussing their dress code which included the line “students are expected to adhere to conduct and grooming per their biological gender assigned at birth.” What does conduct per biological gender mean? I am livid. If they wanted to specify dress code requirements, fine, but this is ridiculous. There are religious schools in the area, but as a non-religious school, I expected more. Other than leaving our state or homeschooling, which are not feasible due to our jobs, how should we educate our children without indoctrination and interference from politics?

Submitted July 22, 2026 at 05:48PM by Riviera_Sunset https://ift.tt/RiaU2zx

Feedback on educational video

My son has been working on fun, animated, educational videos this summer. He created this song and video about the Boston Tea Party. Is this something that would find worthwhile to share with your kids or classroom? Do you have any feedback?

Submitted July 22, 2026 at 01:30PM by tapneal17 https://ift.tt/Qgf06pT

What online college did you attend, and would you recommend it?

I’m currently researching online colleges and would like to hear from people who have attended an online program and can share their honest experience.

What school did you attend, what degree did you earn, and how was your overall experience? The biggest things I’m interested in are the school’s reputation, whether you actually liked the school, and if you would recommend it to someone else.

I’d also like to know about the cost and whether you felt the degree was worth the money. How were the advisors, financial aid office, and other staff? Were they helpful and easy to work with? How were the professors and classes? Did you feel like the online format was organized and that you were getting a quality education?

If you could go back and choose again, would you pick the same school?

I’m looking for a reputable online college with a good student experience, reasonable cost, and a degree that employers respect. Any honest opinions or recommendations would be appreciated!

Submitted July 22, 2026 at 10:00AM by Special_Ad2800 https://ift.tt/kvSydcT

need help copyleaks ai plagiarism detector

hello! i was just wondering if any of you here has copyleaks. our thesis is due today and theyre requiring us to submit an ai and plagiarism check from copyleaks but the library is closed already so i cant get it scanned there. thank u please help abgirl out 😭😭😭

Submitted July 22, 2026 at 01:51AM by Powerful_Bird_4079 https://ift.tt/gX6M0Lf

Is it no longer the norm for school buses to pick up and drop off at the students' home?

When I was growing up, it was common place for the school buses to drive through town on a particular route and pick up kids, then go to each school and drop them off. This is a small suburban town. I imagine things are different in big cities.

That was 30 years ago. Now they do pick up and drop offs at the closest school. So basically if the kid goes to a school 1 mile away, they get dropped off by parents at a nearby school, where a bus takes all the kids that get dropped off there to the different schools in the system so they can get where they need to go.

This seems inefficient even though they say it's so we can "avoid the drop off lines" at the actual school he's going to. But wouldn't this just create another drop off line at the closer school? And the drop off lines are probably long because this bus system seems so inefficient. A lot of parents figure if they have to drop the kid off at a school anyway they might as well drive a little bit further to the actual school the kid goes to.

So what's the norm in your district? And what's ideal these days? Should we have school buses picking up and dropping off directly at kids' homes? Should that just be the approach for young kids while older kids get a more standard city bus type schedule but with school buses? Or does it make sense to drop off kids at a nearby school facility and then bus them wherever they need to go in the district?

(I imagine larger cities have a single school for multiple grades in a district. Our town is one school district with multiple schools for different grades scattered all around town.)

Submitted July 21, 2026 at 02:24PM by -Clayburn https://ift.tt/pBQKhat

What do paras do during the off - periods for income?

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Submitted July 21, 2026 at 01:31PM by xray9899 https://ift.tt/cmJkE2V

Is standardized testing actually measuring what we think it measures anymore?

Been thinking about this after talking to a few teacher friends who say prepping for standardized tests has started to crowd out actual curriculum time - not because the tests are inherently bad, but because the pressure to hit benchmark scores changes what gets taught and how

Curious what people here who work in education (or have kids going through it) actually think. Is the issue the tests themselves, or how schools/districts respond to the incentives around them? Feels like there's a difference between "testing is bad" and "the system built around testing creates bad incentives," and I'm not sure which critique is the stronger one

Submitted July 21, 2026 at 07:45AM by WickedKing94 https://ift.tt/JaoRdvG

how to learn everything necessary for junior/senior year fast?

i’ve been homeschooled for so long due to personal issues and i haven’t been able to learn but i want to go back to school and be in the correct grade so i want to know how to learn everything decently fast im willing to spend 5-10 hours a day more if necessary i just want to make progress

Submitted July 21, 2026 at 06:38AM by linkotinko https://ift.tt/yDVNLjS

Kids in special Ed should have the same say as kids in general Ed in terms of classes they can take. Here my experience.

I graduated high school in 2015. I grew up in San Diego, California. And the town I grew up in near the coast Encinitas beautiful place loved living there had had a great time. My family was not rich. We were just middle-class. we moved Encinitas in 1999 and it was a time where back in the late 1990s homes were much cheaper in SoCal. But I’d say the neighborhood we moved to was just a regular middle-class neighborhood. However, the school I went to high school at La Costa Canyon. In a very affluent neighborhood, the people who live there I wouldn’t say were like super rich like there weren’t mansions everywhere. But they were definitely affluent upper middle class. Most people live here had white collar jobs, high-level business professionals, lawyers, Scientists, The type of people who probably hung out at the country club. I’d say they were upper middle-class to wealthy but not like millionaires. Not like millionaires.

So I was diagnosed being on the spectrum when I was six back in July 2003. So I since I was in first grade. I had an IEP, but during elementary school, I felt pretty included. I was in general Ed classes with the regular kids. I made a lot of good friends. The special ed services I did get was this place called the learning resource center, which was a place I would go. get help from aids and tutors, and it worked a lot. And the teachers, I had both in special ed and in general Ed we’re both very supportive of me. They believed in me a lot. Things were going really good until I finished elementary school and entered middle school.

Then once I started middle school, I was still getting the same thing thing I was still in general lead classes among the mainstream kids. I would go to the learning center or in middle school. They called an academic support. To get tutoring and help with the work from other classes. And I guess the problem I had was mostly like I started struggling with math when I was in fourth grade and we started doing fractions. Although I always struggled with math, I started struggling as early as like second grade. But I was able to keep going forward but then third grade when I got to division is when it got hard.

But once I entered high school, in august 2011 that’s when things totally started hitting the fan. And things got completely off the rails my first year of high school. I was putting in this program, called the transitional alternative program a total joke. It was like for kids with very severe disabilities. And they were making me start over like I was getting work that was like additions and subtraction. multiplication. And goals my manager, saying that I would learn to do my cursive or sign my signature. They were giving me words puzzles in 9th grade. There were two general ed classes I did have. One was a science class the other was an English class. beginning of my freshman year and I really liked it I felt I learned a lot in the class. And I thought I was doing pretty well from like the first few tests. I did pretty good on. But then two months in to my freshman year. I found it I was flunking the class and then my case manager started telling me that the class was too hard for me and that she was going to take me out. And put me in remedial courses that were taught. And I didn’t wanna do that. I thought it was offensive. And I told her I really like the class I’m in. this woman was just not a nice person. She always wanted to think she was right. She was never willing to listen to anyone’s descent. If you disagreed with her, she get really hostile. And my question is why why asking that you want to take these classes make her lose her shit.

So after that, my father went to one of the IEP meetings with her and he said well if my son wants to be in these mainstream classes, let them be in there. She never listened because she said that the whole team couldn’t agree, but I don’t know. I’m pretty sure that if the parents say no, then that should be it. And then afterwards. Like my mom and I literally asked for assistance and I was working my tail off to stay in these two classes. They didn’t do anything. They didn’t give me an aid, a note taker, any assistance. To help to pass, and then eventually they took me out of those 2 classes that I enjoyed, I was devastated.

My entire freshman year, I was miserable because I felt like I was being used as a useful idiot. And I was getting work that was early elementary level. I went home practically once a week crying. I had trouble sleeping at night, because I was so angry that they didn’t want to listen to me. And it wasn’t like I was some lazy kid, who felt entitled. No, I wanted to be challenged. I wanted to do the harder work that was grade level. They were the ones putting in all the roadblocks. Anytime, I tell him I want to take this class they’d say no. It was totally demoralizing.

So after that, they put me in these remedial classes where they were giving me like work that was like at grade level, but it was done in a slower pace. And eventually, I got out of that program the transitional alternative program. In the middle of my sophomore year.

And I got a change in case manager and I was put back into the program that was similar what I had in elementary school program for students with normal learning disabilities. Things get better. I eventually got to take General Ed classes. My junior and senior year. But it was not easy. I had to fight like crazy like work, my ass off to prove them wrong that I was capable of being in there. My junior, I had a general lead history class and I took biology General Ed. But I was in remedial English and a remedial algebra class. And then my senior year when I said that I wanted to be in chemistry and I wanted to take Spanish they both all like sayed no way. Ian’s even though I sucked at math I wanted to take civil engineering as an elective. In my case manager, when I told him I wanted to take it he called what I wanted to do “delusional”. and it just seems unfair. Like, can’t they look at the fact that they care like that they’re passionate about wanting to be in there and they’re interested and if they’re willing to work hard and put in the effort. Doesn’t that matter the most? it’s like they kept using my math struggles as a weapon against me. My whole idea is, I think a better system is exposure and learning things which is the goal of education who cares about the stupid tests. Like it’s like trying to make it like living in North Korea.

It wasn’t as restrictive when I got out. I got a lot more freedom to be in mainstream classes. Then I did when I was in the previous program. It was a great improvement but still. There were still obstacles and limitations on what courses allowed to me is offensive. You can’t do that to kids. That’s the whole reason you take classes in the first place is to learn things. You shouldn’t have a team from above deciding over you. Like in China or The Soviet Union.

Like they shouldn’t put so many restrictions I literally posted on an education form a couple months ago. And got into a bunch of arguments. People were saying that we should never ever let a child decide their educational path because their kids. That’s what this one girl said she said that if we did that they just drop out of school immediately. Another person said “ if you cant do the work, you got no business being in that class no matter how much you think you’ll enjoy it”. I’m like seriously do they have to act like I’m a bad person for saying that kids should have variety we shouldn’t be limited into what horses they want. It just seems like common sense to me. Here’s my grand idea if the kid likes the class they feel the information they’re gaining is useful to them and then so what leave them alone. Let them pursue the path they want not have somebody from the top down deciding everything. I flunked classes when I was in college, and I retook them. Same thing for high school. If the kid fails the class, let them take it again don’t downgrade their work. Why am I being talked to on Reddit? Like I’m some crazy person who escaped from a mental asylum. I’m just Saying my experience, and how I think kids In special ed and kids with IEPs should be given the same choices. In the classes they want to take as the kids in general do. Not lock them in an environment where they’re gonna make them feels like their world and life is gonna be limited.

Because at the end of the day, the worst thing you can do to a kid I think is destroy their self-confidence. It’s the worst form of abuse.

Submitted July 20, 2026 at 04:42PM by Funny_Preference_916 https://ift.tt/Y1pUswn

How would you rank the top 5 most successful k-12 pedagogies?

Eg. Classical education, IB program, Waldorf
Wondering about statistically proven successful programs. I don’t have kids im honestly just curious, so this question might be misguided as I don’t have a great understanding of the true differences between educational pedagogies and the extent to which they are compared to each other.
Whenever I read about them, I get the sense that a lot of progressive educational programs boil down to “teaching kids how to learn”, so any info on the differences in leading educational theories would be cool!

Submitted July 20, 2026 at 07:49AM by marg0j https://ift.tt/4hDZjsb

Problems in education?

I have an experience of a study environment at a university where people pray for others to get lower marks so they get an advantage over others in a relative grading system. Another problem is students cheating and getting more marks not realizing they are doing two wrongs: one is compromising their own competence and the other is injsutice to the other hard working students.

Some more problems I observed throughout my academic journey at university are professor often outpacing the comprehension speed, very short duration of semester making it very difficult to adapt quickly.

Also focus is mostly on bombarding as many information as possible in very less time regardless of the understanding or intellectual stimulation for crearivity. In-depth information without intellectual stimulation is of no use.

Another problem is often very rigid academic structure with no room for creative learning process and administration being very unsupportive of new ideas and try to maintain status quo.

I am open to your feedback and get some other valuable perpsectives of these problems or even some new ones.

Thanks.

Submitted July 20, 2026 at 06:34AM by Wise-Foundation-274 https://ift.tt/MZ2mKS3

Does Your School Prohibit Returning Students' papers?

Greetings teachers,

Recently, our school (which is private) asked teachers not to return papers to students, that is, unit tests, quizzes and worksheets. Their reasoning is that they are afraid that a teacher might have made an error and don't want to field complaints from parents.

I think this is wrong on so many levels, beginning with the fact that yes, teachers occasionally do make mistakes, but that's because we are human too; not the end of the world. Firstly, I think this small task falls under best practices, which all teachers and schools should adhere to at all times, but more importantly, returning papers to students allows them to learn from their mistakes. I guess you could also say that schools that put forth such a policy don't support their teachers.

Is this happening at your school? What's the reason?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Submitted July 20, 2026 at 01:19AM by mrdipthong https://ift.tt/9OBiZeu

How does it work to get in as substitute SNA in schools in Ireland?

So I emailed a few schools before the holidays started and 2 got back to me to have garda vetting complete- no word from the rest. I plan to re-email them again when schools start back..

Do I contact the other schools who I have completed garda vetting with to remind them or do I wait for them to contact me if needed?

What is the way this is done as I am new to this area

Submitted July 19, 2026 at 05:41PM by Chance_Somewhere_246 https://ift.tt/FRTr8im

I feel like I've wasted two years of my life. Need genuine help

Hey everyone,

I'm 19M, in a really bad place right now, and I honestly don't know what to do anymore.I've always tried to stay positive and set small, realistic goals for myself. During high school, I worked as hard as I could. I pulled all nighters, studied for hours, and genuinely believed I'd score maximum marks and even earn a medal. Instead, I ended up with average grades and almost failed one subject (I even had bad marks in the last two grades of hs). It felt like I had disappointed both myself and my parents (even though they've never pressured me). After that, I applied to unis, but family issues, financial problems, and some personal situations involving my brother made everything much harder. I'm not blaming them,I know I got distracted and eventually severely burned out. After I failed to get into my dream university, I completely lost the motivation to keep trying.I took a year off after high school to work on my mental and physical health, but things at home only got worse.

I even ignored all that but at this point I've lost all the motivation to study, I don't know if I'm just dumb some people around me made me feel that way too, friends and family.

Studying feels like my only way out, yet I can't seem to make myself do it consistently. I genuinely feel like there's something wrong with me. I've seen people who were in worse situations than mine end up doing much better, and I'm not saying that out of jealousy I'm just trying to understand what I'm doing wrong. I'm not doing well financially don't have much resources or money to spend in expensive courses or stuff.

Has anyone here been in a similar place? Have you managed to rebuild your discipline, improve your mindset, and get your life back on track? If so, what actually helped? Not motivational quotes,I'm looking for practical advice or habits that genuinely made a difference.

For context, my goal isn't just to get good grades. I want to build a better mindset, become more disciplined, improve my social skills, and eventually build a career in finance and economics. Right now, though, I feel like I've wasted almost two years of my life and have nothing to show for it.I know I'm still young, but it's getting harder and harder to believe that things can get better. I'd really appreciate hearing from people who've been where I am and made it out. And please drop any resources/pages on any social media platforms/yt, or any books that helped you! or helped you improve yourself!

Submitted July 19, 2026 at 11:27AM by brooklynxb4by https://ift.tt/GqwM1ds

3d Educational models

I am a Student and Educational Models are very Expensive for me, alternativly i have used 3d Printing and it is cheaper for me So i made a website which is free, Teachers can find 3D models files easily and they can order the model from there nearest 3d printing farm in the country they live in.

what do you think?

Website- Amikos.lovable.app

Submitted July 19, 2026 at 06:24AM by SeaWin3586 https://ift.tt/Whd8Rom

Website for Teachers to find Educational models Fast

I am a Student and Educational Models are very Expensive for me, but 3d Printing is cheaper So i made a website its also free for everyone, so Teachers can find the best 3d models and they can order it from there nearest 3d printing farm,

what do you think?

Here - Amikos.lovable.app

Submitted July 19, 2026 at 05:25AM by SeaWin3586 https://ift.tt/4dEazAM

Charter and Private Schools

Teachers who have taught in a charter or private school what has your experience been like?

Have you taught in a public school? If so, how is it better or worse than public schools?

What is your pay like?

What are the students like behavior wise?

How is your funding for the school and for the classrooms?

What state is your school located in?

My first job was a charter school and it was not a good experience. However, I know that charter and private school experiences vary. So I'm curious to know.

Submitted July 18, 2026 at 12:13PM by No-Common7872 https://ift.tt/gVTCMqX

after BMLT course...?

after BMLT course...?

Career guidance for a BMLT graduate from a small town—Job vs. Higher Studies?

Hi everyone, my sister recently completed her BMLT (Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Technology) and we are currently at a crossroads regarding her next steps.👣

We are from Mandla, a small town in Madhya Pradesh, where job opportunities in this field are very limited.

Her Current Situation:💭

🔽***Option*** 1:

Start Working (Job): Is it better to relocate to a larger city (like Indore/Bhopal) for a Medical Lab Technician/Phlebotomist role to gain hands-on experience? Does starting in a private diagnostic chain help with long-term career growth?

🔽***Option*** 2:

Higher Education: If she pursues an M.Sc. (MLT or related), how does the admission process work? Is there a central "common" entrance exam (like CUET PG) for top colleges, or do we need to target specific university-level exams?

Any advice, tips, or experiences you can share would be incredibly helpful for her career journey. Thank you so much!😭🙏🏻

Submitted July 18, 2026 at 07:26AM by DarkInternational797 https://ift.tt/O19Nk2z

Sonam wangchuk

Sonam Wangchuk’s protest isn’t politics—it’s a wake-up call. When millions of students face exam leaks and uncertainty, silence from leadership becomes the real issue. Accountability in education isn’t optional—it’s essential. Reform the system, restore trust. #Educationreform #StudentsFirst #educationminister

Submitted July 18, 2026 at 06:14AM by Abneesh-Thakur-08 https://ift.tt/b7968nW

DPU is the worst university

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Submitted July 18, 2026 at 02:11AM by ConversationFar9296 https://ift.tt/yDeWjvO

Seeking Advice

Hello, I'll try to summarize.

Basically, I'm 18 now. I struggle really really hard to pay attention because of a pretty severe amount of ADHD. My mom would usually artificially manage this stuff by sitting next to me 24/7 and helping me out personally + some medication that didn't help as much as I really would've preferred, but I was 13 or whatever so it took me ages to ever realize it wasn't doing it so I could swap.

Okay, fast forward to today. I failed a lot of things in high school. Due to circumstances, my mom has pretty much no intention to help me anymore, and obviously 'im an adult i should be able to do this' so.. I'm trying to pull it all together.

I got very, very depressed and failed many classes in my college prep school. It was a wonderful track I completely let slip through my fingers because I was 14-16, but so miserable and inattentive I couldn't work. I want to make things work again. I am now in a virtual school, in a program where I'm basically homeschooled.

I really want to find a way to get my high school diploma. I've heard it's more beneficial than a GED or homeschool diploma and I really want to find a way to get into some sort of higher education. I don't have a particular goal in mind as I've been so exhausted and I have an immunocompromised family member + a very young sibling (mom immuncompromised as my brother was born during COVID) and I have spent so many years inside, I don't know what I can even do with myself.

I've recently pretty much all but finished my 11th grade requirements, but I unfortunately just barely missed the ability to start the full time virtual school that's available. Now I'm stuck feeling like.. "What should I do now?"

I mainly came here to ask for suggestions, but also if I could possibly do half of the 12th grade stuff in homeschooling and then transfer into fulltime halfway, would this achieve me the diploma I seek?

Any thoughts welcome.

Submitted July 17, 2026 at 11:01PM by zornography1 https://ift.tt/D0aOyXt

Should I study psychology, linguistics, law or physical therapy?

I am an American studying in Poland. I have completed my first year of study at Music University though I decided I want to add a second major to have more stability in the future. I got accepted for English-German linguistics, psychology and law for regular studies with the option of studying physical therapy on weekends (for which I would unfortunately have to pay).

I am much better in humanities than STEM and my Polish is fluent but I don't understand some more complicated words. Law is probably the most prestigious but I'm not sure if I would be good in it and if I want to be a lawyer. Psychology is interesting but I'm not sure if it will lead to a job. Physical therapy is probably the most practical as far as finding a job and it won't conflict with my music degree since it's on weekends, but I'm not good at STEM and unfortunately I would have to pay a lot of money for it.

I appreciate any advice. I need to make a decision in a few days. Thank you!

Submitted July 17, 2026 at 11:30AM by Sudden_Ad_2567 https://ift.tt/iBgejOm

handwriting is quietly disappearing and kids hands literally hurt when they write

Been paying attention to this for a while and it feels like something shifted. Kids who are otherwise sharp, good readers, decent at math, just cannot write legibly or sustain it for any stretch of time without complaining their hand hurts. Like physically holding a pencil feels foreign to them.

Part of me gets it. Tablets and keyboards from age three, touch screens before they could spell their own name. The muscle memory that used to build up naturally just doesn't get built anymore.

What bugs me is that schools keep adding more screen time as a solution to engagement problems, and handwriting practice gets quietly dropped because it feels old fashioned or low priority. Nobody makes a big announcement about it. It just disappears from the schedule.

There's also a decent chunk of research connecting handwriting to memory retention and notetaking quality, so this isn't purely a nostalgia thing. If students can't physically write comfortably, it affects how they process and record information during class.

Curious if this is showing up in other schools or if it's more localized. And whether anyone has actually pushed back on reducing handwriting instruction or found a way to keep it in without it feeling like punishment to the kids.

Submitted July 17, 2026 at 05:29AM by WickedKing94 https://ift.tt/zjINE6B

How do you feel about the state of Education?

I have been teaching for 12 years. I remember pre-covid that student behavior was bad, but it wasn't as terrible as it is now. I'm sure many of you on this subreddit who have been teaching longer than me can probably attest to that.

So I want to know how you all are feeling about the state of Education right now?

Do you think AI will completely overtake teaching?

Do you think that the reading and math epidemic is going to continue?

What reforms would you like to see to education?

I know I have my own opinions but I really want to know from all of you as well. Maybe my opinion can change.

Submitted July 16, 2026 at 06:46PM by No-Common7872 https://ift.tt/3JZ69s4

Trump administration caps how long international students can stay in the US

Trump administration has finalized a rule that will prevent international students from staying in the U.S. for more than four years unless they obtain the federal government’s approval, the DHS said Thursday, announcing a departure from long-standing practice.

Submitted July 16, 2026 at 02:45PM by wds1 https://ift.tt/0UXsBf1

What Masters to do?

What would be the best masters to get after a criminal justice degree and a minor in homeland security? Context active duty about to get out. Was a military police officer got the easiest degree because I was young and dumb. I have a gi bill I want to use for a masters program when I get out which one would allow me to enter a new job with the highest earning potential?

Submitted July 16, 2026 at 03:38AM by Disastrous-Fig-8966 https://ift.tt/hXFK3j7

NEED HELP

Hello. I am looking for good online college courses I can get a degree in. I’m currently 26 years old and my company I work for offers 5,000 a year for schooling to help benefit myself. It has to be something to do with my job. I work in a steel mill, so it can’t be classes on carpentry. It would have to somewhat benefit the company they say. I know 5000 isn’t a lot for college, but I figured over the next 7-10 years taking classes here and there I could get a degree. I work swing shift so attending in person classes would be almost impossible.

Submitted July 15, 2026 at 09:21AM by Ok-Age2854 https://ift.tt/S8Xfxyw

In desperate need of tuition assistance

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I applied to a graduate program abroad, and it was advertised as a full-tuition scholarship. Unfortunately, there seemed to be a dilemma of clear miscommunication, leaving a cost that needs to be paid in about 2 weeks. I asked every avenue about additional assistance programs, payment plans, and deferment in addition to my income. However, to no avail or resolution by August 1st. I am asking to see if there are any additional options that maybe I am not aware of. This is for an international program, but I am from the United States. I made a donation page, but I still want to try more options if any.

Submitted July 15, 2026 at 07:23AM by Both-Length-139 https://ift.tt/OAzvXkg

Teachers: Honest Question about Administrative Support.

A principal recently shared something with me that I honestly hadn't considered.

He said many principals don't explain the pressures or realities behind certain discipline decisions because they believe teachers will simply see those explanations as excuses.

That made me wonder...

Do you agree?

If your principal openly explained what happens behind certain discipline decisions, would it change how you viewed those decisions, even if you still disagreed with them?

I'm genuinely curious. I'm not asking whether it would make the situation less frustrating, because I know it wouldn't. I'm asking whether greater transparency would build trust or simply sound like excuses.

Submitted July 14, 2026 at 08:23PM by Original-Swing7753 https://ift.tt/uyTXkYZ

Non Teacher School District Employee Question

I’m looking for advice from those who have taken a similar path. I’m not a teacher or former campus administrator. I’ve worked as a Construction Project Manager for a large public school district in Texas since I was 25, and I currently manage the construction of new facilities for the district. I’m now 27, and my goal is to become an Executive Director of Facilities and eventually an Associate Superintendent of Operations or Chief Operations Officer for a school district. I currently hold a Masters Business Admin in Finance and have been considering either an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership or a Doctor of Public Administration. Do you think pursuing a doctorate would be worth it for someone with my background and career goals? Any advice would be appreciated.

Submitted July 14, 2026 at 07:17PM by ZealousidealTear2707 https://ift.tt/WVizmyN

Middle School Curriculum Needs

I'm an elementary teacher partnering with a local edutainment business over the next few months to transform some of their activities into practical, standards-aligned, low- to no-prep curriculum that can be easily implemented in middle school classrooms.

As part of this project, I'm conducting research to better understand the curriculum needs of middle school teachers based on their personal classroom experience. Your feedback will help ensure these resources are engaging, practical, and designed to meet the real needs of teachers and students.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdizwROpa9BB4pKEFRXUsBeF1kh3kgwiNKyNwDwTw7QNsdW0A/viewform?usp=header

Submitted July 14, 2026 at 04:20PM by ManicDynamic https://ift.tt/sZxYaD5

Integrating physiological safety data into school swimming curricula

Cold water immersion triggers an involuntary respiratory response when water contacts the face. This autonomic mechanism involves an immediate, uncontrollable intake of air, which presents significant risks during sudden water entry. School swimming programs currently utilize heated pools, which do not allow for the practical application of this biological information.

Incorporating the science of this respiratory reflex into health education is a necessary step to increase safety awareness for diverse water environments.

Submitted July 14, 2026 at 01:32PM by Putrid_Draft378 https://ift.tt/UVfodR8

Is AI doing to student writing what calculators did to mental math, and does it matter?

There was a big debate a few decades back about whether letting kids use calculators in class would rot their number sense. Some schools banned them, some embraced them, and we still argue about it. Now the same argument is playing out again, but with writing and AI tools.

A student who uses ChatGPT to draft an essay might still understand the argument they're making. Or they might have no idea and just submitted something that sounds coherent. The problem is it's getting hard to tell from the outside, and maybe from the inside too.

What bugs me is that writing isn't just output. The act of struggling through a draft is where a lot of the actual thinking happens. If you skip that process, you might be skipping the learning entirely, not just the assignment.

But then again, a calculator doesn't stop you from understanding what multiplication means, it just handles the execution. Maybe AI can work the same way if used right.

The posts here about students wanting to stop using AI suggest this isn't a theoretical concern anymore. Curious whether teachers are drawing any useful distinctions between AI as a crutch versus AI as a tool, and whether that line even holds up in practice at the high school or college level.

Alt titles: Are we repeating the calculator debate but with AI and writing skills | Does using AI to write actually skip the thinking or just the typing | The calculator argument is back and this time it is about writing

Submitted July 13, 2026 at 06:52PM by nighthawk2906 https://ift.tt/5BQFG4p

Collegiate Grade Inflation

Frank Bruni, professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University and NYT columnist, in this week's newsletter (here, without paywall, too) says the following about grade inflation in higher ed.:

I know I’m old because I remember when a B+ was a respectable grade.

Now it’s more like an indictment. I’m a masochist if I hand down too many of those.

The students getting them may fill out negative course evaluations, which could mean empty seats in my future classes and professional grief. Some students will show up in my office to argue for a more generous appraisal, forcing uncomfortable conversations. That’s not because they’re snowflakes or brats but because they’re smart, motivated, self-protective denizens of a higher-education system in which so many professors dole out so many A’s that even an A- is a setback, and a grade-point average of 3.8 instead of a 3.9 can mean rejection from law and medical schools.

They’re just trying to keep their most deeply felt ambitions alive, and a B+ is a dagger in hope’s heart. Do I really want to wield it? And be the assassin of their dreams?

This month marks my five-year anniversary on the faculty at Duke University. I arrived as more and more Americans began to look askance at higher education, which was often cast in caricature. It’s untrue, for example, that professors tiptoe across a minefield of microaggressions, at the mercy of humorless students itching to cancel them for insufficient wokeness. The overwhelming majority of the young people I teach are just earnestly trying to figure out the world and their places in it. They’re more curious than censorious.

But grade inflation is as bad as they say, and it drains students’ transcripts of meaning, deprives professors of agency and turns schools into approval factories. We should be ashamed, and we should fix it.

To do that, we must recognize why it happens: The incentives to join the affirmation jamboree dwarf any incentives not to. There’s no punishment, only reward, for being the kindly professor with a goody bag of easy A’s.

In my time at Duke, I’ve had several colleagues tell me that they’ve awarded all or all but one or two of the young people in their 12-student or 15-student seminars A’s — and I do mean A’s, no minus attached. Not one of those colleagues mentioned, or seemed to fear, being questioned about their munificence.

Then again, they didn’t see it as munificence. They claimed that all of the assignments they received were superb, and they pointed to Duke’s acceptance rate, which is down to about 5 percent, as a reason that such uniform greatness should be no surprise. I don’t buy it. It contradicts what I've seen, which is work of widely varying quality from students who are gifted in some but not all subjects, who have diligent semesters and lazy ones, who struggle with certain tasks, who were evaluated for admission on a range of criteria beyond just scholastic aptitude.

Duke, to its credit, makes its grading data publicly available. Enough Duke students attain a near-perfect or perfect cumulative G.P.A. of 4.0 that last May, seniors needed at least a 3.947 to land in the top 20 to 25 percent of their class in the university’s college of arts and sciences and graduate cum laude (“with honors”) or higher. (At Duke, as at most schools, an A is worth 4.0; an A-, 3.7; a B+, 3.3.) Assuming a Duke student took a common allotment of 32 courses over four years, the student could afford only two B+ grades if the other 30 were A’s and only five A- grades if the other 27 were A’s.

Duke isn’t an outlier. According to a May article by Sarah Rivas in The Yale Daily News, Yale College students needed at least a 3.91 G.P.A. to graduate with some form of Latin honors (cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude), which distinguished the top 30 percent of the class. The article also noted that a 2023 report by a Yale economics professor showed that more than 75 percent of the grades routinely given to Yale College students were either A or A-.

Harvard’s cornucopia of A’s prompted a recent vote by its faculty to limit the number of A’s in a given course to 20 percent of the students, with an allowance of as many as four additional A’s. That’s not so strict: In a seminar of, say, 15 students, nearly half the class — or seven students — could still get A’s, and the other eight could still receive grades of A-, for which there’s no limit. But in a lecture course of 100, only 24 students could get an A.

It’s a start, and other schools should follow Harvard’s lead with restrictions and prescriptions of their own, which are a necessary counterforce to the dynamics fueling grade inflation.

It’s obvious how we got here. Over recent decades, colleges began to compete ever more aggressively for top students, sprucing up campuses, spicing up dining options and layering on all sorts of amenities to justify price tags that, at some private schools, are near $100,000 a year for tuition and living expenses. Tough grading isn’t much of a come-on and doesn’t go over well with customers forking over that much.

Also, child-rearing increasingly stressed positive reinforcement. Then the pandemic hit, professors rightly treaded more carefully and supportively than ever and we got stuck.

Once everybody starts dispensing A’s like so many Pez, everybody else is pressured to do likewise: If they don’t, they’re giving grades that no longer communicate — to students, to prize committees, to graduate schools — what those grades were intended to signify. I may personally consider an A- a compliment, but if the culture regards it as a gentle remonstration, am I stubbornly choosing to speak an extinct language at my students’ expense?

To what benefit? No department head or dean will compliment me on my high standards. No formula will interpret and adjust my course evaluations for how generous or stingy I was with A’s. My courses will be less appealing. And school administrators generally prefer professors who attract students to professors who repel them.

But fewer A and A- grades wouldn’t turn them away if they understood that as a new norm reflecting new limits placed on all faculty. When I taught at Princeton for one semester in 2014, its grading policy — since abandoned — insisted that no more than about a third of the 16 students in my seminar get A or A- grades. As a result, I was able, assignment by assignment, to give many a B+ and even a B without students feeling victimized and freaking out. I could make important distinctions that showed them precisely how well they were performing, exactly how much they could improve and what true excellence was.

Princeton abandoned that policy shortly after I left; the school and its “grade deflation,” as students called it, were hanging out there alone. But if Princeton and Yale and Duke and other renowned universities now emulate Havard — if enough schools band together — no one of them will feel exposed and need to fret that its students are being disadvantaged, that its campus has become less appealing, that its applications will drop. A 3.5 G.P.A. will be the new 3.9. The law and medical schools will know that.

And at each school, professors will be able to grade students in a more discerning way that treats them not only as customers to be satisfied but also as conscripts to be seriously challenged. Grade deflation would counter many Americans’ cynical takes on exclusive schools as permissive playgrounds, better prepare students for the dispassionate and even tough judgments of many workplaces and endow an A with more meaning than it currently has.

Because I want my own students to stretch and because I want an A to make them robustly proud, I’m sparing with that mark, at least by today’s standards. I typically award A’s to no more than a quarter of the students in any class. But I give A- grades to too many of them, and I often feel obliged to tell students, at the start of the semester, that if they’re intent on a G.P.A. close to 4.0, I’m not a safe bet. A few drop the class, and I respect that. Most stay — but they stay knowing what’s what, which saves all of us awkwardness and bitterness.

I shouldn’t have to issue that warning. I shouldn’t be giving only a handful of B+ and B grades. I should be distributing a diversity of marks that speak to the many variations in student performance, even at Duke. It’s not that I want to be harsher; I want to be honest. Isn’t higher education about the pursuit of truth?

Submitted July 13, 2026 at 05:54AM by Ok_Pumpkin_6369 https://ift.tt/lam94fW

We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask

Although this article (see Opinion | The Problem With Google’s A.I. Overview - The New York Times ) is not directly related to education, it discusses the effects that systematically using AI chatbots to get answers to any online question can have on developing and maintaining an individual's capacity for curiosity.

The author explains how curiosity, the ability to learn, and the capacity to seek answers are closely linked. Unfortunately, online searches are increasingly reduced to reading and copying the result provided by the AI ​​chatbot at the top of the page. To be fair sometimes this summary can be very well done and contains a lot of useful information, at least to begin with. However, a large proportion of users are often satisfied with this answer and are less and less inclined to explore the other suggested answers, links, and websites that are also proposed.

Several problems then arise. Among them, the fact that people begin to be satisfied with a ready-made, summarized answer makes them more susceptible to absorbing content and answers that may be superficial, incomplete, or biased and they would become unable to evaluate this. Beyond reducing their capacity for curiosity, such users risk losing the ability to develop critical judgment or to confront and evaluate different sources of material, sometimes providing answers developed in different contexts.

Submitted July 13, 2026 at 05:27AM by brainquantum https://ift.tt/DZAdaWk

Professor's chart exposes the scale of AI cheating in college exams

https://www.techspot.com/news/113049-professor-chart-exposes-scale-ai-cheating-college-exams.html

However, Serrano soon noticed signs that something was amiss. When 86 students signed up for his welfare economics course that semester, compared to the usual 30, he suspected that many had taken it because he allowed take-home exams, providing them the opportunity to use ChatGPT or similar AI tools.

The professor's suspicions were just about confirmed when the midterm scores averaged 96%. This was far above the typical range of 65% to 80% despite Serrano's efforts to make the test more difficult to account for the students' unlimited time.

He gave a take-home midterm exam, and the ave. score was 96 percent. He gave an in-person final exam, and the scores ranged from 65 to 80 percent.

The implication is that teachers will now have to use more class time for in-person exams, handwritten drafts for papers, etc., plus do things like oral reports with almost no notes allowed, seminar-type classes, and so on in order to limit the use of AI (and probably even computers and similar devices connected to the 'net) for cheating.

Submitted July 12, 2026 at 06:45AM by FickleApartment2151 https://ift.tt/fEbOq7M

I just failed my baccalaureate year and i'm currently 20 yrs old, i'm feeling left behind.

so i'm coming from a developing country....as the title says, they say university has no age dedicated to it, but i'm heavily feeling like i'm being left behind on the matter of entourage, like when I get to university all my peers will be way younger than me, i'm 2006 they're 2009, furthermore it'll be harder to socialize with them, make friends, relationships......etc...etc, I failed only 1 year in highschool, and another one in middle, and now it's baccalaureate that's 3 years, and plus i'm gonna be ejected from school so i'll be doing it as a "free candidate" and when i do the courses everyone will be younger than me...how will it work out, there's also the plan of me and my friend getting the baccalaureate together and going abroa.d, and it all seems like falling down....will it work out ?

ps: just realised that this sub is regarding American schools and yall got a credit system that prevents you from failing an entire year only repeating the subject you failed in the time after.

which got yall wondering how tf did this guy fail too many years xd.

...in my country there's a point system which counts all the points you've got from each subjects...there's a threshold that the points must reach and if they don't then you'll fail the whole year...the same way being "held back" works for your elementary schools..

just want help...if you were in my shoes how would you think...act.

Submitted July 12, 2026 at 06:03AM by AdPuzzleheaded6577 https://ift.tt/eUymdC3

I just failed my baccalaureate year and i'm currently 20 yrs old

so i'm coming from a developing country....as the title says, they say university has no age dedicated to it, but i'm heavily feeling like i'm being left behind on the matter of entourage, like when I get to university all my peers will be way younger than me, i'm 2006 they're 2009, furthermore it'll be harder to socialize with them, make friends, relationships......etc...etc, I failed only 1 year in highschool, and another one in middle, and now it's baccalaureate that's 3 years, and plus i'm gonna be ejected from school so i'll be doing it as a "free candidate" and when i do the courses everyone will be younger than me...how will it work out, there's also the plan of me and my friend getting the baccalaureate together and going abroa.d, and it all seems like falling down....will it work out ?

ps: just realised that this sub is regarding american schools and yall got a credit system prevents you from failing an entire year only repeating the subject you failed in the time after that

which got yall wondering how tf did this guy fail too many years.

...in my country there's a point system which counts all the points you've got from all subjects...there's a threshold that the points must reach and if they don't then you'll fail the whole year...the same way being "held back" works for your elementary schools..

Submitted July 12, 2026 at 05:29AM by AdPuzzleheaded6577 https://ift.tt/WUKnSA1

Who has done EFP12 ONLINE THROUGH NIDES

What mark did you get
Who was your teacher
Were the marks fairly given

Submitted July 11, 2026 at 11:40AM by Efficient_Reading561 https://ift.tt/d2Qc7X0

What's one classroom rule you swore you'd never have... until you started teaching?

When I first started teaching, I wanted my classroom to feel relaxed.

I imagined students would naturally stay engaged if the lessons were interesting enough, so I avoided making too many rules.

That lasted maybe a week.

After a while, I realized a lot of rules were not really about control. They were about making sure 30 different people could actually learn in the same room.

Assigned seating reduced distractions. Phone restrictions kept students present. Small routines like raising a hand before speaking or waiting until everyone was quiet saved more time than I expected.

I used to think some of my own teachers were just being strict for the sake of it.

Now I understand that a rule can look pointless from the student side and still be doing a lot of quiet work for the classroom.

It reminded me of my own attention after work too. If I tell myself I'll just check bcg for a minute, suddenly that tiny exception becomes a routine.

For teachers or people who work in education, what rule did you dislike at first but later realize was actually necessary?

Submitted July 11, 2026 at 09:07AM by Impressive-Prune6339 https://ift.tt/vKO056w

GroupMark - free Gradescope alternative

I'm a high school Physics teacher. I've been using Gradescope to help mark tests and exams for years, but it has some missing features and is (now) crazy expensive. So I vibe coded an alternative.

GroupMark is a Windows app, rather than a website. No student data leaves the user's device.

The teacher makes a class, and assigns students to the class. They can have email addresses, or can just be names.

Then the workflow for each task is:

• Create a task, and 'upload' a blank copy of the test to be marked.
• Manually highlight answer regions, and assign each one a maximum score. (Or let AI do it for you.) (!)
• Students complete the test as usual on paper. Scan them with a photocopier and upload the pdf to GroupMark.
• GroupMark splits the bulk upload(s) into individual tests.
• Using local handwriting recognition, GroupMark tries to pair students with their own test. Or you can do it manually. (This works really well on my Mac; less well on Windows.)
• The teacher marks the tests, question by question. GroupMark can try to automatically group similar answers, to speed this up (locally). AI can also suggest possible answers and marking schemes. Importantly, the teacher does the marking and can do all this manually, override the suggestions, etc. Again, no student data leaves the device. (!)
• Alternately to all of this, you can also generate and mark multiple choice question bubble sheets, all locally on device. (!)
• Questions can also be tagged, eg with content descriptors, skills, performance standards they address, etc. This can also be manual or done by AI. (!)
• When the test is marked, the teacher can see a detailed breakdown. Average scores for each question, scores by student, scores by tag.
• The teacher can optionally send marked versions of the tests to students, if student emails and a teacher email login have been added.
• Tags can be used on multiple tasks, so you can see how a student is progressing with a particular skill or concept over the year. (!)

Lots of these features (!) are missing from Gradescope - the grouping answers is a paid feature, but all of the AI-assisted features have to be done manually on Gradescope, and Gradescope’s tagging is pretty limited (and manual).

I was originally planning on monetising this but decided that was, frankly, too hard. Schools don't like using untested software. So it's free. You can find GroupMark on the Windows Store.

Let me know if you have any questions, happy to explain my logic or do any troubleshooting.

Submitted July 11, 2026 at 07:45AM by ThePatchedFool https://ift.tt/vcCKrMY

Is AI actually making students worse at sitting with confusion?

Something keeps coming up in conversations about learning and I'm curious if others are seeing it too. When students hit a hard problem now, the instinct is to immediately ask an AI rather than just stewing in the discomfort for a while before figuring it out yourself. That struggle period, even when it feels unproductive, is where a lot of real learning happens. The frustration is kind of the point.

It's not that AI tools are bad in every context. But there's a difference between using one to check your thinking versus using one to skip the part where you have to think at all. A lot of students seem to be landing firmly in the second camp, and it's hard to blame them when the tool is right there.

What bothers me more is that this might be eroding something harder to measure than test scores. The ability to tolerate not knowing something for a few hours and keep working anyway. That capacity matters a lot beyond school.

Curious whether teachers or students here have noticed this shift, and whether anyone has found a way to actually address it in a classroom setting without just banning devices entirely.

Submitted July 10, 2026 at 01:51PM by WickedKing94 https://ift.tt/cUBjEAp

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Submitted March 25, 2019 at 07:25AM by Asclepias_metis https://ift.tt/puxhAKS

How difficult is it to switch into education?

I’ve been unemployed for over a year now with most of my grad-level academic and freelance experience over the past 3 years being in visual media. However, due to my lack of success in finding work in this area, I’m considering switching into education instead.

My BA in History was completed back in 2020 however, and I was seriously considering going into education before COVID happened. And, much of my visual media work has been educational and especially history-based in its content. So, the switch hopefully wouldn’t be as jarring as it might appear for someone with mostly media experience credentials. I genuinely do enjoy teaching others, and I’m also incredibly good with kids and teens, so perhaps I might make a decent teacher after all.

Regardless, how saturated is the education field at the moment when trying to become a history, geography, government, or social studies teacher in today’s job market? I hear it’s surprisingly under-saturated from family in upstate New York, but I’d like to hear from others as well.

Submitted July 10, 2026 at 07:16AM by PajamaChess https://ift.tt/RjScBY9

Insight on Public Elementary School Experience vs. Homeschool

I am seeking to hear people’s experience, opinions, and insight on homeschooling vs. public school for elementary school.

The title says it all, so you don’t need to read the body of this to give advice, but if your interested in our situation so far, this is it:

My kids are 5, turning 6 next month and we have homeschooled them for their first year. Originally, I wanted to homeschool because I felt that my public school experience was full of busy work and, in older grades, significant negative influences. I thought that we could give the kids a better education ourselves at home.. and I think they’re ahead for their age… but my concern is not that they aren’t getting what they need academically right now, it’s more about environment, life experience, and socialization. Im worried that they are missing out on opportunities to make friends and build life skills that come naturally in the public school setting by interacting with many different people, learning from different instructors, meeting the expectations of people that aren’t your parents, etc.

I just want to gain some perspective and hear other peoples opinions and experiences. I want to make the decision that is best for my children, but am having a hard time deciding what that is… so any benefits, negatives, experiences, etc. that you’d like to share could help me get the perspective I need. I am interested in any insight you all can provide.

Thank you!

Submitted July 10, 2026 at 06:27AM by Most-Employer3779 https://ift.tt/yaZUlGg

Who Speaks for Anthropology: An Ethnographic Approach to the Vanderbilt Report

A 2026 commission declared anthropology the single worst case of scholarly deterioration in the humanities. This essay applies basic ethnographic principles to that verdict. In sixty-two years of fieldwork, from Arembepe in Brazil to Madagascar, I have learned that no single consultant speaks for an entire community. No single Lorax speaks for the trees. The same is true of academic disciplines. Before accepting the report’s portrait of anthropology, we should ask who was consulted, and who was not.

Substack, anthropology, Boghossian report, academic freedom, ethnography, Joseph Henrich, humanities scholarship

Submitted July 9, 2026 at 03:07PM by cpkottak101 https://ift.tt/7cRBZC1

What is the actual difference between university and college

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Submitted July 9, 2026 at 01:32PM by Responsible-Talk-898 https://ift.tt/9FQX57l

What phrase or word do you hear in education that makes you irrationally irritated?

For me, it’s definitely calling younger kids, “littles.” Some fun summertime thoughts to help clear our heads before the new school year.

Submitted July 9, 2026 at 08:02AM by SpicyChill77 https://ift.tt/y0rEVwp

With AI in the Classroom, Professors Are Walking a Tightrope

https://www.chronicle.com/article/with-ai-in-the-classroom-professors-are-walking-a-tightrope

After a paper is submitted, Adler checks every reference to see if any are fabricated. Students must also provide quotes from key works and submit proof that those quotes exist, so Adler can check them. He asks students to write a reflection on parts of their paper that connect with topics they discussed in class. If he has any concerns, he then meets with the student to ask them to explain specific elements of their paper.

...

Asked what strategies they employ to curtail unauthorized AI use outside of class, professors described a variety of approaches. Some have moved from assigning well-known texts to more obscure ones, thinking AI tools will be less likely to produce a decent essay. Others ask students to connect what they are writing about to something discussed in class, cite specific passages in an article, write by hand, or annotate printed reading material.

Submitted July 9, 2026 at 06:38AM by FickleApartment2151 https://ift.tt/kIzENw1

I struggled with learning new things… so I built something to help me

A while back I noticed something weird. I'd spend hours every day doom scrolling Reddit, YouTube, Instagram... and feel bad that I didn’t really learn anything. And when I wanted to learn, I'd run into the same problem. "What should I even learn today?"
Wikipedia is amazing, but opening it without something specific in mind is like walking into the world's biggest library and hoping a random bookshelf has the coolest information ever. Anywhoos, long story short, instead of learning something, I channeled my inner engineer (and because I have mild ADHD) to build an app. The original idea was simple: every day you'd get one interesting topic to learn about. That's it. As I kept working on it (and after plenty of brutally honest feedback from my wife), it slowly turned into something much bigger and frankly the coolest thing ever (Im totally not biased here)

Now it has professionally written bite-sized articles (5 mins or less to read), audio versions you can listen to like a mini podcast, daily facts, word games, and a bunch of topics across science, history, space, technology, food, and more.

It's honestly become part of my morning routine over my morning latte, and I've learned way more random things than I ever expected.

If I’ve caught your attention, and you’re intrigued to check out what this crazy Redditor is talking about, you can check it out at gekno.app.

Also, I'm truly not trying to sell you anything. The app does have some paid “premium features” but I really just want people to fall in love with learning like I have. So I'm giving away free lifetime Premium access to any interested. No catch, no gimmicks, no strings attached, nadda—just leave a comment and I'll send you a code.

I'd also genuinely love feedback. If there's anything that would make learning every day more fun, I'm all ears.

Submitted July 8, 2026 at 04:47PM by Latte-Art-3845 https://ift.tt/LQcUrYx

Texas Tech sued for erasing LGBTQ+ people and Black history from university classrooms

Texas Tech is being sued over policies that legal advocates say censor professors from teaching about race, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

The lawsuit says faculty were forced to delay or remove lessons on Dred Scott, Black history, LGBTQ+ Holocaust victims, and transgender patients.

Submitted July 8, 2026 at 01:05PM by Fickle-Ad5449 https://ift.tt/OequMAk

Question about returning to high school after graduating with online degree.

If someone leaves high school in 10th grade to complete their degree online, and they graduate in 11th grade, can they still go back and finish out their 12th year.

I know it sounds crazy but I'm wondering if a family member can do this. They regret leaving school in the first place.

Submitted July 8, 2026 at 12:04PM by Ok_Zombie_2026 https://ift.tt/gx9D50B

I built a system that turns any STEM concept into an animated explainer — testing which subjects it actually helps with

Following up on something I posted a while back about animated math lessons. I originally built this for statistics and linear algebra, but the underlying approach — turning a concept into a fully animated visual explanation instead of a static slide or a talking head — isn't actually specific to math. I've been testing whether the same method holds up for physics and other science concepts too, since a lot of the same "seeing it move matters more than reading about it" logic seemed to apply.

Channel is MathUnlockedYT if you want to see what the output actually looks like — it's mostly stats and linear algebra so far, working through neural networks next.

Genuinely asking here because I don't want to assume: for the science/physics people, which concepts have you found actually need a visual to click, versus the ones where a clear explanation works just as well? Trying to figure out where this is worth expanding into before I put more time into subjects I don't have a background teaching.

Submitted July 8, 2026 at 05:32AM by No-Mango8172 https://ift.tt/0yOxf24

What can we even do at this point about civic education...

Came across this article: Poll: 46% of Americans Unaware of July 4 Meaning

All of the research tells us how to make civic instruction stick: prioritize active learning and focus on relevant topics. But policymakers and politicians can't even agree on what the purpose of civic education is; parents and corporations keep trying to fight battles in schools that don't matter. How can civic education be framed as a nonpartisan, collective benefit?

Submitted July 7, 2026 at 06:52PM by Zealousideal_Sir5415 https://ift.tt/URtveAp

Need help on spending grant money

Hello everyone! I work at a rec center for teens in the homework lab. We received about $680 in grant money and I need to come up with a list of things to get.

Things we currently have:

• 4 desktop computers from 2009
• lots of books and board games
• basic homework supplies (calculators, pencils, paper, rulers, etc.)
• legos
• marble run
• DnD stuff

Things I'm thinking about putting on my list

• dry erase boards
• headphones for the computers
• lego kits
• mini 3D printers

Submitted July 7, 2026 at 12:06PM by whaIeshark https://ift.tt/FdXr85P

Advice on what to do to finish highschool needed desperately

Hello everyone,
For a bit of background, in the fourth grade my mother took me out of public school due to the pandemic and enrolled me in homeschool. Our definition of homeschool was my education not being tended to and dismissed entirely, my grades being falsely put in the system and they never checked anything. The last time I did proper schoolwork was the fourth grade.

For English, I would say 1 am well off as l've authored my own books and have done numerous cowriting projects with my friends and things like that. In math, i am on maybe a fifth or sixth grade level. I do not know on science, but I learn history exceptionally quick.

Over the past six years, my mother passed and we lost our home and i got removed from my mothers side of the family and placed with my dad who is now urging I try public school once more. I'm wondering if it's truly possible for me to do so, having to go back in eleventh grade. I am willing to go behind a grade at the latest. Is there any chance id be able to go back to public school? Do I qualify for the whole no child left behind thing or will i just be told to get my GED?

My entire life I've dreamed of going into NASA but I worry i will never get the chance due to my family's situation. I yearn to go back to public school and have the chance at a somewhat normal experience rather than just doing nothing. I know getting my GED is an option, but I just want to know if there's any way that I can go back to public school before i throw away my last straw at ever having the highschool experience and being a normal teenager. Advice is needed desperately. Thank you

edit: by no child left behind i meant that like if i would be left behind in regards to proper education. I actually didn’t know about a law lol

Submitted July 7, 2026 at 02:57AM by W4ystarroyco https://ift.tt/oOLXypK

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Submitted July 6, 2026 at 12:59PM by Additional-Use9945 https://ift.tt/h1movAB

Maybe a big part of the education problem is there's too much to learn in too short a time?

While browsing Reddit this AM I came across this post with the headline claim that "college students are testing at the level of 10-year-olds", and it perked my interest. I read the article and it seemed to be more of the generic complaints about young people not being up to snuff academically.

As it turns out people test out at different levels under different circumstances- whether that's meaningful or not isn't my point here.

I flashed back to a discussion I had some years ago with an older brother. It was this very same lack-of-academic-proficiency topic, and I brought up what was to me a fairly new thought - around 1900 one could learn all the known physics math within months or maybe a year. Nowadays it takes multiple years just to be up to date with very narrow areas such as particle point vs quantum gravity.

The amount of gained and retained knowledge has expanded exponentially as the means to collect, collate, and disperse information have grown in size and use from the Guttenberg press to today's literal world wide web of interconnected communications.

But we're still asking children and pre-adults (as well as alleged adults such as you and I) to be able to absorb a timeline of information - a timeline that has become more full and subject to subtleties - the world they're being asked to grow in to.

Not trying to be original, just thinking out loud.

Submitted July 5, 2026 at 04:39AM by RamaSchneider https://ift.tt/gXm1JT5

I used to mentor students in math, now I'm testing whether animated visuals actually replace what I did in person

Submission statement: this is a personal project I built myself, not monetized, sharing it here transparently to get real feedback, not to promote anything.

I spent time mentoring students in math before, mostly one-on-one, working through the stuff that's hard to get from a textbook or a lecture: seeing how a distribution actually shifts, why a vector operation does what it does, that kind of thing. Following up on a post I made here a few days ago about whether animated visuals can do some of that same work.

I built a small YouTube channel to test it directly, turning the concepts I used to walk students through by hand into fully animated lessons, from basic statistics up through linear algebra and neural networks. Search MathUnlockedYT on YouTube if you want to see what it actually looks like.

The open question for me is the same one I had when I was mentoring in person: does a student actually get it faster when they can see the concept move, or does a good explanation on paper do the same job if it's written well? I don't think animation is automatically better, I think it depends on the concept.

If you've taught or tutored these subjects, I'd like to know which specific concepts you found genuinely needed a visual to click versus the ones where a clear explanation was always enough.

Submitted July 5, 2026 at 02:54AM by No-Mango8172 https://ift.tt/R1FOCsi