Education Week

2 Districts Overhauled How They Teach English Learners. Here’s How

Years ago, the Beaverton school district in Oregon participated in a study to determine the right models for improving English learners’ academic achievement. The results, which came out in 2019, ...
VentureBeat

Tencent’s new AI technique teaches language models ‘parallel thinking’

In a new paper, researchers from Tencent AI Lab Seattle and the University of Maryland, College Park, present a reinforcement learning technique that enables large language models (LLMs) to utilize ...
Education Week

English Learners Need Equal Access to Rich Texts. How One School Makes That Happen

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. As the coordinator for an English-learner program, Lisa Hoelmer walks a fine line. She ...
Forbes

Here’s How Big LLMs Teach Smaller AI Models Via Leveraging Knowledge Distillation

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the rising tendency of employing ...
SD Times

Microsoft releases Orca 2 to teach small language models how to reason

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...