Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...

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Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies and a set of capabilities to build generative AI applications. This sample ...

Random encounters can be good, actually. And here’s how you can use random encounters to keep your game spicy. One of the biggest reasons we play RPGs is to find those moments that surprise us. We ...

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. Students, parents ...

The rise of generative AI in recent years has completely changed the way we access information. What used to be a quick Google search away is now even snappier to access with AI tools like ChatGPT and ...

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Struggly is a gamified online math supplement that encourages and rewards student persistence, creativity, and strategy in solving digital math puzzles. Aimed at students in grades preK-8, Struggly’s ...

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...

This hands-on 60-minute workshop for Columbia instructors is designed to help you harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to efficiently generate quizzes for your courses. You’ll learn how ...