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‘What should be taught in schools?’: the ‘Scopes monkey trial’ turns 100

According to new research, certain personality traits make some students more likely to pass off AI-generated work as their own.

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“No one has a perspective on the ‘Scopes monkey trial’ quite like Pat Guffey, a former high school biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee. As the city prepares to mark the centenary … she is aware how its legacy proved both a blessing and a curse.”

“Her great-grandfather was a doctor called to attend to the lawyer who put the case for creationism. Her great-grandmother was related to Charles Darwin. And now she works in the courthouse where the ‘trial of the century’ … began exactly a century ago on Thursday.” 🔗

‘What should be taught in schools?’: the infamous ‘Scopes monkey trial’ turns 100 — In 1925, a Tennessee battle over teaching evolution in schools gripped the US and, as festivities commemorate the chaos, the case remains grimly relevant 🔗

“Universities can no longer rely on scarcity setting the price for the curated and credentialed form of information that used to be hard to obtain.” 🔗

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Good news: university students are satisfied with their experience. Universities Scotland Director, Claire McPherson, takes the positives and some policy lessons from the 2025 National Student Survey results, as published on 9 July.

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RT @_K_Stiles: @ConversationUS “[This higher education] model worked because the supply curve for high-quality information sat far to the l….

@ConversationUS “[This higher education] model worked because the supply curve for high-quality information sat far to the left, meaning knowledge was scarce and the price – tuition and wage premiums – stayed high. Now the curve has shifted right, as the graph below illustrates.” 🔗

AI is driving down the price of knowledge – “For a long time, universities worked off a simple idea: knowledge was scarce. You paid for tuition, showed up to lectures, completed assignments and eventually earned a credential.” @ConversationUS