Education

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The AI ‘Hivemind’: Why So Many Student Essays Sound Alike

Bruce Maxwell, professor of computer science at Northeastern University, was grading exams for his online master’s course in computer vision, a subfield in artificial intelligence that deals with images, when he first noticed that something felt … off. “I’d see…

Cursive Is Back. But Should Students Be Learning the Skill?

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that’s not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. In Sherisse Kenerson’s after-school classroom, Sandi takes out a piece of…