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Trump is pushing #AI into classrooms as early as kindergarten.
"[W]e can ensure that every American has the opportunity to learn about AI from the earliest stages of their educational journey through postsecondary education, fostering a culture of innovation and critical thinking that will solidify our Nation’s leadership in the AI-driven future."
I am sure his tech-broverlords are thrilled about this.
@academicchatter #teaching #education #USPol
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Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Background.The White House
"I wish I could believe you: the frustrating unreliability of some assessment research
T Hunt, S Jordan"
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At the STACK25 conference earlier this month watched Sally Jordan present the keynote. I was very impressed and found this research paper from 2016. The co-author Tim Hunt is the main architect of the #Moodle #Quiz #engine and co-maintainer of the #STACK question type.
A trawl of job views and application data suggests #jobseekers are looking abroad as the #Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.
nature.com/articles/d41586-025… #science #sciences #research #researchers #education #healthcare #medicine #pharmaceuticals
Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain
A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.Leeming, Jack
The Trump Administration’s War on Children
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The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
propublica.org/article/how-tru…
#News #Trump #Children #Education #Parents #Government #Abuse
What really irks me about (public sector) pay not being linked to inflation is that not to do so is in essence a pay cut. Teachers, nurses and suchlike aren't asking for a real terms pay increase; they just want their pay to remain the same, year on year.
So often I read articles that are framed around sub-inflationary awards being an 'increase'. These crucial workers are so often asked to do more work for less reward.
Before the genocide, the education sector in Gaza was thriving. Despite the occupation and blockade, Gaza had one of the highest literacy rates in the world, reaching 97 percent. The enrolment rate in secondary education was 90 percent, and the enrolment in higher education was 45 percent.
Textbooks were distributed for free, and families received support to buy bags, notebooks, pens, and school uniforms.
aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/4/…
@palestine
#Gaza
#education
#schools
#universities
![Palestinians inspect the damage at the Dar Al-Arqam School after the Israeli army bombed and destroyed it, in Gaza City on April 4, 2025 [File: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/4861166 "Palestinians inspect the damage at the Dar Al-Arqam School after the Israeli army bombed and destroyed it, in Gaza City on April 4, 2025 [File: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]")
Gaza had educational justice. Now the genocide has wiped that out, too
For the first time in many years, education in Gaza is only accessible to the well-to-do.Refaat Ibrahim (Al Jazeera)
Texas is almost certainly getting school vouchers — Senate Bill 2 has passed in the state’s House and is likely to have a fairly smooth passage to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. It’s the culmination of a 30-year battle that has until now been blocked by Democrats and rural Republicans.
@TexasObserver takes a look at how it happened. Zeph Capo, the president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement: “Greg Abbott relied on a last ditch phone call from Donald Trump to bully Republican lawmakers to fall in line.”
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#Education #SchoolVouchers #SchoolChoice #GregAbbott #DonaldTrump #USA #Texas #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
5/15
Ending 30 Years of Resistance, Trump and Abbott Break the ‘People’s House’
The Legislature’s lower chamber has finally blessed school vouchers—and denied ordinary Texans the chance to weigh in.Joelle DiPaolo (The Texas Observer)
“Harvard didn’t blink. The fight starts here,” writes @Daojoan for her Index newsletter. “[It] did not act quickly. But it acted clearly. That clarity must be contagious. Because unless every university in America is ready to say no to federal ideological coercion, this moment will not be a line in the sand. It will be a footnote in the obituary of academic freedom,” she writes. “The government has already decided it can control the curriculum by controlling the cash. What happens next is not up to them. It's up to everyone else.”
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#Education #HigherEducation #University #Harvard #TrumpAdministration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
4/15
Harvard Didn’t Blink. The Fight Starts Here.
Harvard stood its ground. Now every university faces a choice: comply or resist.Joan Westenberg (The Index.)
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
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#News #Trump #DOGE #Data #Climate #Health #Environment #Immigration #Science #Education
Just out from @josephinelee and Joelle DiPaolo: After three decades of fighting back against #vouchers, the governor enlisted the help of the president to destroy the last vestiges of Republican resistance this week. texasobserver.org/abbott-trump…
#education #schools #Trump #GregAbbott #politics #USpol #news #TXlege #Texas #Republicans #democracy
Ending 30 Years of Resistance, Trump and Abbott Break the ‘People’s House’
The Legislature’s lower chamber has finally blessed school vouchers—and denied ordinary Texans the chance to weigh in.Joelle DiPaolo (The Texas Observer)
As Trump’s executive orders restrict classroom discussions on race, gender and identity, some teachers are quietly pushing back — using creative, community-driven approaches to support students and uphold inclusive values.
theconversation.com/educators-…
Educators find creative work-arounds to new laws that restrict what they can teach
An education scholar explains how some teachers and school counselors are quietly resisting what they see as political incursion into the classroom.The Conversation
#Harvard
#Fascist #Alignment of #Education
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...cow, you always good for the jugular of the biggest bully there. After subduing him, all others will fall into line.
It is the same strategy the #OrangePeril is pursuing with #NGO's: if he manages to bankrupt #Greenpeace, which other NGO will oppose him afterwards?
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US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon at the ASU+GSV Summit, an event focusing on educational innovation largely on artificial intelligence in education, said, “A1” when apparently meaning AI multiple times.
#USpol #education #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Is Firebase GDPR compliant ? I mean, if I build an AI-app would it be legal to use it with students ?
Scientists created Shark AI, a free curriculum that lets students build computer vision models to classify fossil shark teeth, helping teachers integrate AI into science lessons in a fun way.
theconversation.com/shark-ai-u…
#education #artificialintelligence #AI
Shark AI uses fossil shark teeth to get middle school kids interested in paleontology and computer vision
Lesson plans incorporating shark fossil teeth help prepare kids to live and work in an AI world.The Conversation
🤬 #SCOTUS allows #Trump officials to freeze #teacher training grants over *#DEI*
A divided #SupremeCourt on Fri cleared the way for the admin to at least temporarily freeze up to $65M in #educational grants designed to address #TeacherShortages, which the govt says fund programs that promote #diversity, #equity & #inclusion [as they should, though the Trump admin’s definition of DEI is humanity].
#law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #indoctrination #education #idiocracy
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More of this please:
The #NY State #Education Dept issued a defiant response to #Trump’s threats to pull federal #funding from #PublicSchools over #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs, a remarkable departure from recent conciliatory approaches of other institutions. A day earlier, the federal govt issued a memo to education ofcls across the nation, telling them to confirm the elimination of all programs it argues *unfairly* promote #DEI.
#law #democracy #FreeSpeech
nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/poli…
New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order
New York’s stance differed from the muted and deferential responses from other major institutions to the administration’s threats.Troy Closson (The New York Times)
The decision to strip chapters from books that had already won the approval of the state’s Republican-controlled board of education represents an escalation in how local school boards run by ideological conservatives influence what children learn.
propublica.org/article/texas-c…
U.S. - #Education in #Danger 🙀
source: arstechnica.com/security/2025/…
A prominent computer #scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on #cryptography, #privacy, and #cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his #professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his #employer, #Indiana #University, and had his homes raided by the #FBI. No one knows why.
#usa #problem #politics #crime #future #news #fnord #wtf #omg
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
*** This report may not be accurate. Times of India is the only outlet reporting it. ***
Hundreds of international #students have received an email telling them their #visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus #activism or #SocialMedia posts.
#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #Education #Universities #Colleges #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState
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Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism
US News: Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the US Department of State (DOS) asking them to self-deport owing to campus act.Lubna Kably (Times Of India)
buff.ly/mzbgZ5X #Edstadon
Mississippi’s education miracle: A model for global literacy reform
The state, once ranked near the bottom of education standings, dramatically improved student literacy rates while using little money.The Conversation
"I just hope that people realize that it’s not because we don’t want to serve you. It’s because we have people in power right now who want to break this system and who want to get rid of the fact that #education is an equalizer."
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#politics #USpol #news #Trump #HumanRights #schools #Project2025 #ElonMusk #DOGE
'We're Not Just Some Bureaucrats': DOE Employees on How Their Work Helps Texas Students
Department of Education workers and union leaders in Texas say kids will pay the price for Trump’s decision to “break this system.”Josephine Lee (The Texas Observer)
