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  • The 2014 midterm election is about a month away. Florida’s gubernatorial race is close in the polls and garnering national attention. Current Governor…
  • Governor Rick Scott will make some new education proposals this week, including more access to charter schools and debit cards for teachers to buy…
  • Compare the presidential candidates' education policies, from college tuition to universal pre-K to "patriotic" curriculum.
  • President-elect Barack Obama is said to have chosen Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan to serve as education secretary. Duncan has run the country's third-biggest school district for the past seven years. He has focused on improving struggling schools, closing those that fail and getting better teachers.
  • The names that many big-city schools, teachers and students use to describe themselves are changing. Exhibit A: New Orleans.
  • The Harlem Children's Zone Baby College program offers classes and supplies to expectant parents and those with kids up to age 3. It also helps create a vital sense of community.
  • NPR's Noel King talks to Jessica Hulsey Nickel, president and CEO of the Addiction Policy Forum, about how losing both her parents to opioid addiction set her on a path of advocacy.
  • "Cesar Chavez understood that (Bobby) was one of the only white politicians — maybe the only one — who truly and instantaneously got what was going on with the farm workers." Biographer Larry Tye
  • More than 50 years after the federal government forced hundreds of Alaska Natives into boarding schools, their descendants are haunted by — and trying to overcome —residual trauma.
  • When OpenAI released the first publicly available, so-called ‘generative AI chat bot’ called ChatGPT, it didn’t take long for users — especially tech-savvy ones — to realize it was a game changer. While forms of artificial intelligence have been used in systems and applications for decades they weren’t this new form of generative AI that were being powered by what are called Large Language Models — or LLMs. As these systems have quickly become more powerful companies and organizations are finding ways to integrate them into all sorts of applications. We talk with two people from the Lastinger Center for Education at University of Florida to find out they’re using these rapidly advancing Large Language Models in the work they do.
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