Natalie Wexler

1 month ago | nataliewexler.substack.com | Natalie Wexler

Artificial intelligence has its uses in education. But it’s not a substitute for learning to write—or learning in general. A large-scale study at a public university has found that the quality of student writing improved after the advent of ChatGPT in late 2022, especially for students from families that don’t speak English. But if students just submitted text created by ChatGPT, does that count as improvement?

2 months ago | nataliewexler.substack.com | Natalie Wexler

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Efforts to improve education outcomes focus overwhelmingly on reading and math. Science often gets a nod. But social studies or history? Those subjects are generally overlooked, with many elementary schools barely teaching them at all. At higher grade levels, students often find the material boring. The result: students don’t know much about history. On the most recent national tests in US history, only 13 percent of eighth-graders scored “proficient” or above.

2 months ago | nataliewexler.substack.com | Natalie Wexler

I recently read two articles that got me thinking about what constitutes a “good school.”One was authored by the pseudonymous blogger “Cafeteria Duty,” unmasked by Holly Korbey as Patrick Hunt, a columnist and school administrator. The piece, called “Playground Confidential,” appeared on both Hunt’s own Substack and on Korbey’s Substack, The Bell Ringer.