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Melania Trump is promoting robot teachers, but few think bots will replace humans in the classroom.

Starting all students in college-level math was supposed to speed their path to a degree, writes Kath erine Mangan in the Chronicle of Higher Education . Instead of starting in no-credit remedial math, poorly prepared students are placed in college-level classes and offered a corequisite  "math lab" or extra catch-up class to learn missing skills. But the short cut is not working for many unprepared students , she writes. They end up taking longer because they keep flunking m

What's a diploma worth in Massachusetts? Without a state test requirement, graduation rates -- but not test scores -- are way up in Boston.

Learning isn't natural. Teachers need to teach, not just "guide" or "nurture."