The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. For decades, a ...

Here's a little pop quiz. Multiple-choice tests are useful because: A: They're cheap to score. B: They can be scored quickly. C: They score without human bias. D: All of the above. It would take a ...

Writing is taught as both an art and a science. As we go higher in the grades, student writing becomes longer and genres broaden. Teacher loads get higher as well. A high school English teacher could ...

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Education activists are increasingly becoming concerned about the computer grading of written portions of new Common Core tests. Can a computer really grade written work as well as a human being? Here ...

Could a writing robot make novelists obsolete? It might not happen anytime soon, but then again, it might. In Japan, a short novel co-written by an artificial intelligence program (its co-author is ...

As you know if you teach at a U.S. public school – or even if you just read the June 2013 New York Times feature about it – a consortium of state boards of education recently decided that we should ...

Ramat Gan Rabbi Yaakov Ariel was asked on the Yeshiva site whether it is permissible during the intermediate days of the festival called Chol Hamoed to write for the purpose of summarizing a Torah ...

For decades, a stubborn truth has dogged efforts to create automated writing assessment tools, aka roboreaders: Computers are stupid. True, their digital brains can process torrents of data in ...