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I'm 20 and am thinking of taking 5 different degree programs at Caltech under a Multi-degree program that allows you to create your own curriculum based on what subjects you prefer.

The five programs are:

1. Mechatronics Engineering,
2. Complex Systems Science,
3. Systems Engineering,
4. Biomedical Engineering,
5. Artificial Intelligence.

All of them are very difficult when you view them outwardly.

I think I can manage though since my gut feels excited to take them on.

I ran the scenario through ChatGPT and it says it's possible.

What do you think? Is it feasible or is it too ambitious?

I'm open to any and all feedback. Thank you.

Literally says God in it

Why can’t I wear shorts to school or a striped polo shirt?

I’ve been told this all the time. I’m wondering how I’m taught this in school? Because I spent 6th-12th grade bullied by everyone. So I didn’t learn any. Where does the learning come in? (I’m saying they’re wrong I’m asking where in school we learn the social skills?)

We are in the process of hiring a new principal/superintendent for our one school school district.

Is it normal or best practice for the one that is leaving to be on the interview panel and in the hiring process?

It feels slightly unethical.

So, I just found out my old highschool is planning on doing away with honors classes. On one hand, I do see their points. They claim it's an equity issue, and I see that - we had two middle schools feeding in, one "rich" school and one "poor" school, and after comparing notes over the 8th grade guidance counselor presentations, apparently the kids from the "rich" school got lots of information on honors and AP classes and college admissions and were heavily encouraged to take honors, while my school was heavily discouraged from taking any honors. As a result, predictably, most kids from the "rich" school took honors, but even the most advanced and intelligent kids from my school were scared off and didn't take honors. That's problematic. Furthermore, they argue that the distinction is meaningless since both levels did pretty much the exact same thing, which was absolutely true, the curriculums differed by maybe one assignment if that.

However, even if honors vs regular didn't really separate out aptitude or an ability to do a more intense curriculum very well, it did serve as a proxy for two things: involved parents that knew how to navigate the unspoken system and could instruct their kids how to do so (mainly), confidence with academics (less reliably), and a desire to get practice for college (in theory). Kids tended not to be noisily disruptive at least, but tended to be less interested in forming relationships with teachers and more interested in "playing the game".

Crucially, when I was in honors classes, the huge difference was class size. Honors sections had as many kids that would physically fit in a classroom - often in the high 30s or low 40s at least. That left more regular sections with less students. I was thinking, even if curriculum and aptitude aren't separated much, couldn't the class size separation alone be helpful?

Say you have a freshman class of 500, not counting students enrolled in special education, with 3 teachers dedicated to freshman English. Without honors, you could have 18 classes of 27-28 kids each. But now, say 40% of your school takes honors English. 14 sections of regular English could be formed, with a smaller class size of 21-22 students. 4 sections of honors English could be housed in one of the larger rooms in the school, or a retractable wall could be retracted, and classes could fit 50 honors students. If you wanted class sizes of 18-19 in regular, only 2 more sections would need to be opened.

The 50 student honors sections would provide a college-like experience to students who primarily just want a college-lite experience and probably don't need the extra help. They're more likely to have parents that can help them or help them help themselves, and many of the kids from the other school said that even the most challenging 9th grade honors courses were just a repeat of their school's 8th grade curriculum. The small regular section classes would benefit both gifted and struggling students within them - embedded honors (the school's previous solution to the equity issue) would be easier to run and thus more offered, paperwork and presentations for regular section teachers on graduation risk behaviors would be more manageable with a smaller class, and these students would get more individualized attention and help if they're struggling.

It wouldn't limit flexibility, because our school only offered honors for freshman/sophomore graduation requirement courses, when no doubling up was allowed and schedules were less flexible anyway. It might impair building schedules, if the honors classes must be housed in the slightly larger rooms - but the teachers were already moving around, and having the configuration set up to maximize space from the start would actually minimize issues with transitions between small and large classes in the same space.

The only issue I can think of is labs - it's not safe to hold an honors biology or chemistry lab with 50 students. However, this could be remedied by either establishing a system where some classes are combined for a slightly larger class while a teacher pulls safely sized groups for labs, or by doing this rotation inside the classes and having half the class work on an independent assignment while the other half works on the lab, then switch off a different day. We had very few labs and plenty of independent activities that we ran ourselves, so this shouldn't be too hard to do.

Students still took honors classes with larger class sizes - so why couldn't the school double down on that, make large college-like style honors classes, and very small regular sections? It seems like this would serve everyone. Kids with parents providing their primary academic and career guidance will enter honors and get practice at being independent, while kids who might not all necessarily have that or who might need some support in some domain can get teacher guidance in a small class. As long as embedded honors was bolstered inside the regular classes and rigorous standards were upheld in both, having the small class sizes for non-honors classes seems like it would be the most equitable option. It seems to my untrained eye that they're missing out on an excellent opportunity to bridge achievement gaps if they insist on combining everyone into moderately large classes, especially for freshman struggling with the transition between a small-ish middle school and an extremely large and impersonal highschool who could benefit from the extra attention.

Am I missing something? Why wouldn't doubling down on class size differences and bolstering embedded honors programs not be a far better way to promote equity? Forgive my curiosity, I'm not a teacher or anybody who knows about school policy, just a recent highschool grad who was thinking about this.

Especially for its quality. My friend actually saved money in high school by eating out because fast food was cheaper and higher quality than the school (I don’t mean healthy by quality)

“This/school is important, you’ll use it all the time.” “Grades are important.”

I feel like I’m not doing well enough, but I have two more grades left of high school. However, if I’m applying for college the fall of senior year, will they be able to look at my AP exam scores for senior year and other grades that come after fall?

Loaded question here.

Does anyone have any Early Warning Indicators which they use to determine if a student is on track to graduate? Even younger students who are showing signs of not making progress in their grade levels?

Thinking attendance, discipline, grades. Diagnostics, demographic data, state assessments, or any data pieces. Formative assessment.

And then when you do identify students at risk. What actions do you take for those students?

I’d love to come up with a tool they we could use to intervene in real time. I watch the NFL and they have all this data “powered by AWS”. Which allows players and coaches to adjust mid game. How can we do this in education? I’d love to brainstorm with everyone.

I am thinking of taking a master degree in Spain but i am not sure if it worth it. I think it is a great way to create network, get a student visa (as i am living outside of the EU and can't easily enter there). But i am not sure if it helps with the professional growth much. What do you think?

Hello and thank you very much for taking the time to read my post. I recently was made aware that my daughter is struggling in her grade 9 math. I would like to work on her math with her but since me and her mother are split up half the time she is at her moms house so it is difficult to collaborate with her and she is at the point that she needs frequent effort if she wants to be successful at her math. With that said I was wondering if there is any way her and I can connect by video call and work on the same screen at the same time. Like is there a program that will allow us to connect but also see each others work on the screen so we can collaborate with the math and basically as if we were sitting together. She has a laptop and I have a PC. We both have webcams. She also has a drawing tablet which might be nice to hand write out her answers. I am very thankful for any suggestions as helping my daughter be successful is very important.

My cousin's trying to get his G.E.D. but he's struggling. Honestly, I think his challenges have gotten worse since he started smoking weed. I read that it can affect the short-term memory but I don't know enough about learning disabilities to say if that's the problem.

There's this student that recently went on a vacation with her family. However, because of her dad's work schedule, they couldn't do it over a break.

The family was going to be gone for a week and a half, and so the daughter couldn't stay home alone anyway. But her family was going out of state, and she was concerned about her attendance and getting in trouble.

The vacation was more-so a trip to go see another family member, I should mention. And it was so that the other family member could meet her new nephew (the student now has a brother).

I was told that her mother received a letter saying that if their daughter missed anymore school or was late to school, child and family services would be contacted about it.

Our school has this option where parents can phone in and inform the school that their child will be absent for however long, and the child will be excused if there's a good reason for it (like going out of state or a family emergency or something). The daughter told me that everything her family tried to call in and say that she was going to be absent, no one answered the phone. Last time they had to call in, it was two weeks before they got a call back, and that was the only time they'd ever spoken with the attendance line.

Because of this, I'm wondering if the letter was fair or not. If they did try to call in but were unable to reach the attendance line, then why send this letter to them? Wouldn't it be the attendance line's fault for not answering? And, beyond that, was bringing up the idea of family services necessary?

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Just curious as to why they don’t? Idk just seems like it’d make sense. Depending on the trade a student can earn an Associates to Bachelors or even Masters in a trade by taking liberal arts classes in conjunction.

Hello! I'm currently working on a research project where I'm analyzing the effect that a literacy sponsor's attitude/behavior towards a learner has on that learner's efficiency and attitude with that form of literacy. Personally, I learned tennis from an ex with anger issues and now hate the idea of playing tennis as well as having learned nothing. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Just wanted to share this old video on prop 227. If you notice, the man being interviewed (who co-wrote prop 227) has no background in learning or language development.

Prop 227 video

I work in Florida at a public high school. I'm concerned about one of my kids, in particular, as he has just been given ten days of OSS for a write up that I sent in for skipping. He feels, and it certainly sounds like, they're trying to get him to drop out. In my first conversation with my previous principle, he directly told me that if kids weren't doing well or weren't motivated, that I should encourage them to drop out. This really doesn't sit right with me, but I'm not sure what can be done.

I am a final year Software Engineering student and I will not pass the final year project. But I can get my degree without the Hons. part by not doing the fyp at all.

Or my other option is to do the fyp in the next year and get the degree with the Hons. But I am already 24 years old and I will be too old when graduating next year.

At the moment I am hopeless with my life and education was the only thing I had with me, but now it is also fading away from my life.

What should I do in this situation? Thank you in advance.

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as international student, after graduation i want to take opt in usa and my question is can i move to another state and take the opt or do i have to work in area of my college? thanks for help

I'm currently in year 13 and am most likely going to do psychology degree in university however. I've done some research and found out that to become I psychotherapist I have to do postgraduate studies which is fine I suppose. I just wanted to see if anyone knows how long it takes to become a psychotherapist from year 1 in uni to actually getting all the qualifications and finish studying?

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I have twin boys in general education class, Grade 1. Today I received an GT eligibility letter for applying for one of them (Let’s call him Twins A) . He has mostly 3/4 and some 2”s . The other twins (Twin B) who has mostly 4’s and only two 3 (No 2’s). Our teacher has always telling me to try for GT program for Twin B. I was so surprised when I received eligibility letter for Twin A only. Who actually decides the eligibility? The school or DOEc? We are fro NYC

We all know that the current public education system is made to produce workers however with AI automation is progressing at extreme rate and as result lots of jobs and careers are being taken with it. How do we prepare young adults to not only enter this world but be able to adjust to it as changes come along?

Hi 21yo stay at home mom here! First time applying to my local university and i would like help on how to start this Ive read google tips and images of other person written statments that google searches. Im choosing health care aid. Is it okay to talk about my personal life? Like my 4 yr old little boy, and my special needs sister that i take care of? My mom recently passed away she was once a LPN til she chose to stay home to take care of my special needs sister for the rest of her life. Idk. I feel like that could go into my personal statement because NOW I take care of my sister, and my little boy. And i think getting an education for myself will help me help them. Ive struggled with addiction, lost my mom because of addiction. You know, im just trying to do better and i need help, tips, guidance :) even show me your personal written statment will help me just kiddinggg 😭 hope i chose the right community or whatever