Intersections - Feb. 26, 2023 (Pt. 1)
KDKA's public affairs show talks about community problems and shining a light on community solutions.
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Wake elementary school teacher suspended after allegedly insulting students in note
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The ‘brainless’ policy introduced in China to reverse its low birth rate
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Mexican government puts grammatical 'errors' into textbooks
Mexico’s president on Monday defended the apparent insertion of what teachers have long considered grammatical errors into school textbooks. Copies of the new textbooks posted on social media show them using words like “dijistes,” long considered an incorrect or uneducated way of saying “dijiste,” meaning “you said.” “It is important to make students conscious of the fact that there are different ways of speaking, in order to avoid judgements based on ways of speaking,” according to an insert instruction to teachers in what appears to be an early grade-school textbook.
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Alibaba founder Jack Ma returns to China to discuss impact of artificial intelligence on education
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A professor says he's stunned that ChatGPT went from a D grade on his economics test to an A in just 3 months
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Letters to the Editor: When America blew its chance to be a multilingual country
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Who was Nashville shooter Audrey Hale?
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