Tech companies are shifting focus from building the largest language models (LLMs) to developing smaller ones (SLMs) that can match or even outperform them. Meta's Llama 3 (400 billion parameters), ...

School districts in every state now have the green light to establish competency-based education programs and models in their classrooms—but they have a lot of work to do on the operational side to ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to correct the number of districts participating in Washington state’s Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative. Every state now allows schools to embrace competency ...