KCLU: Thousands of families in the Tri-Counties impacted by cut to federally funded early childhood education program
https://www.kclu.org/2025-04-04/thousands-of-families-in-the-tri-counties-impacted-by-cut-to-federally-funded-early-childhood-education-program
“There have been significant changes made to these bills, and they’re going to be heard in a closed door meeting that’s not accessible to the public. No livestream. No public comment.”
New from @josephinelee: Vouchers came one step closer to law, along with what Democrats say is a deeply inadequate public ed funding bill. https://www.texasobserver.org/house-ed-committee-approves-vouchers-and-public-school-funding/
There was a time when Twitter had industry and college chats.
This were educational and networking hubs. Students and professionals would join in these tweetchats to learn and connect. I hope we see something like tweetchats on the #Fediverse someday
#fedichats #education #edu #business #Community #flipboardusergroup
#education #indoctrination #SouthCarolina #bathrooms
"A viral video released Tuesday appears to capture a Bluffton teacher refusing to let students use the bathroom unless they stood for the Pledge of Allegiance first. 'So if we don’t stand for the pledge, we cannot use the restroom?' one student asked. 'Right,' the teacher responded. When students pushed back, the teacher continued to dismiss their concerns. He even openly mocked them when they sought to advocate for themselves. Even a student saying they have diabetes didn’t seem to matter. Whether or not South Carolina parents support the Pledge themselves, they probably don’t want it standing between their kids and the bathroom."
"Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected." – Edward G. Begle (1914-1978)
#quote #mathematics #math #maths #education
As someone who has written herself to exhaustion just trying to keep up with the Trump regime's "shock doctrine" installation of a white nationalist dictatorship through a flurry of autocratic executive orders, I can understand how the larger public might not have noticed the one about defunding and ideologically controlling the niche-sounding Institute of Museum and Library Services. After all, we live in an internet world, were millions of people are happy to ask their garbage "AI" assistant for "facts" approved by technofascist billionaires, museums aren't a big part of your daily life, and unless you're poor or from an underserved rural community, there's a good chance you have no idea what kind of "services" a public library can provide anyway. As this March 21st article in the Guardian demonstrates however, this decision is deeply political and part of the regime's openly white nationalist agenda because of which types of people it targets, what services it removes, and how it fits into the larger fascist war to rewrite history and indoctrinate our society.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/21/trump-attack-libraries-devastating
Trump’s attack on libraries was predictable. Its consequences could be devastating
"How did we arrive at this moment? The targeting of library funding appears to be financial, but it’s deeply political. Last year alone, the American Library Association reported 1,247 attempts to ban library books nationwide, largely targeting works related to race, gender identity and LGBTQ+ experiences. Librarians increasingly face intimidation simply for defending intellectual freedom, the very principle libraries have always championed.
Yet libraries remain non-partisan, practical institutions focused on ensuring equitable access to information, learning and civic participation. From Boston’s Edward M Kennedy Institute, which offers IMLS supported immersive Senate debate simulations, to voter registration drives and disability-inclusive voting programs in Illinois and Alaska, libraries sustain democracy itself."
I don't think its hard to figure out why White Trash Hitler and his government full of nazi ghouls are targeting Indigenous communities, poor families, disabled people, educators, students, and folks dedicated to registering voters; in a variety of ways all of those groups are already people the regime has marked out as enemies of the new fascist order. Crucially however, I think this executive order has to be understood as part of a larger war on our history, education, and the accessibility of viewpoints that would be fundamentally opposed to a fascist regime like the Trump administration as a matter of course. Downmarket Mussolini isn't writing these executive orders in a vacuum and I'm glad this article's author tied what's going on here into the larger fascist quest to control the content of libraries; first in schools and now through the public library systems in America.
Reading this story I was reminded of a 2023 comment in the New York Times from Deborah Caldwell-Stone of the American Library Association in the face of the nationwide crusade to ban library books by a very small number of fascists closely aligned with Trump and the larger Christian Nationalist movement. I don't have the exact quote in front of me, but Caldwell-Stone provided a great example of the "boiling frog" style of war on learning these people are waging by pointing out that two years prior, these fascists had been banning books by nonwhite, LGBTQ, and otherwise diverse authors in school libraries and telling folks that if they wanted to read them, they could just go to a public library and do so for free. By the time Caldwell-Stone had given the interview however, that very same group of ideologically motivated fascists, were pushing for all the same books to be banned in public libraries too; which makes it pretty clear that the goal isn't protecting students, but rather to keep *anyone* from consuming knowledge this Christian Nationalist movement that has coalesced around Trump, doesn't want them to read. Now that Trump is president, and working to make himself King, it's wholly unsurprising that he could continue those efforts to erase viewpoints his fascist regime cannot allow to exist, by starving and seeking to control the very public libraries where your average person would find those viewpoints in the first place.
Folks, I grew in a patriarchal fascist household dominated by my father, who I am certain if he were alive, would fully support the fascist Trump regime today. Access to other viewpoints through public libraries is how I escaped that cracker headcage. If these nazis have their way, none of our children will ever have the same opportunities to question unjust authority and imposed racial hierarchies as I did; and the nazis know that - in fact, they're counting on it.
“School boards and boards of trustees have been infiltrated by a lot of right-wing politician. By using the board of trustees to implement pieces of anti-LGBTQ and anti-DEI law, it makes it really clear that this bill is not about parental rights, but it’s about pushing forth a political agenda.” https://www.texasobserver.org/senate-gop-parental-rights-bills-school-control/
#LGBTQIA+ #schools #education #politics #USpol #news #TXlege #Texas #censorship
Two key pieces of education legislation cleared preliminary hurdles in the Texas House on Thursday, but not before sparking spirited debate among lawmakers, including complaints about a lack of transparency around the process.
On this day in 1968: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
His leadership in the Civil Rights Movement and powerful oratory continue to inspire. Did you know his iconic "dream" section was improvised after gospel singer Mahalia Jackson called out during his speech?
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**We Need to Do Something About Student Writing**
Liza Libes
“_Most of my students, of course, are not training to create the next Great American Novel. Most of my students will continue on to secure professions in tech, medicine, law, or business. But every one of these students will benefit from good communication skills—and every one of these students is currently being failed by an education system that deemphasizes reading and writing._”
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/03/31/we-need-to-do-something-about-student-writing/
#Univeristy #College #Education #Learning #Reading #Writing #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Attention policy advisors, CIOs, future thinkers and strategists: this seminar on April 17 will help you discover opportunities, challenges and new perspectives to prepare for the future of education and research.
With topics such as ‘Hyper)personalised higher education with AI’ and the ‘TNO Technology Scan’.
Looking for inspiring climate action materials to use in the classroom?
Our newest teaching resource is for The Crisis Scientists! Introduce students to seven extraordinary people working to galvanize policy makers and the public to act to save the planet.
We offer a PDF/Slide Show and a Mini Discussion Guide for this 6-minute short film. There are two versions, one for high school and one for higher ed.
This is a great film to teach with for Earth Month! 2/2
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/the-crisis-scientists/
@education @edutooters @academicchatter @film #Education #Homeschooling #HighSchool #HigherEd #EarthMonth #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #CivicEngagement
Seeds of Resistance highlights the inspirational stories of activists working to advance climate science environmental justice.
Arresting Science and Farming While Black show us that no matter our background or profession, we all have an essential role to play in combating climate change.
Join Seeds of Resistance and discover how embracing our mortality and protecting our natural heritage can guide us toward a more mindful and sustainable future.
*This event features climatologist Peter Kalmus, one of the subjects of The Crisis Scientists, and the film's producer Holly Becker. 1/2
#EFFY #Film #Documentary #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #FilmFestival #ClimateEducation #EnvironmentalEducation #ClimateJustice #Education #SocialJustice #Yale #PeterKalmus #HollBecker @education @film
MyNotes: Carnegie Learning’s State of #AI in #Education #EduSky https://mglink.org/2025/04/03/mynotes-carnegie-learnings-state-of-ai-in-education-edusky/
OpenAI just made ChatGPT Plus free for millions of college students — and it’s a brilliant competitive move against Anthropic https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-just-made-chatgpt-plus-free-for-millions-of-college-students-and-its-a-brilliant-competitive-move-against-anthropic/ #AI #education
More Houston-area residents than not are against using state funds to pay for Texas students’ private school tuition, according to a study released this week by Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
As bullying and related youth suicides remain persistent problems in Japan, Kumamoto City is weighing whether to install security cameras as an anti-bullying measure. Experts are split, with some saying the measure will do nothing to address online abuse.
https://unseen-japan.com/kumamoto-city-bullying-security-cameras/
Quebec court upholds ruling that found parts of law abolishing school boards unconstitutional
The Quebec English School Boards Association called today's decision a recognition of the anglophone community's constitutional right to manage and control its institutions.
#law #politics #education #Quebec #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-english-school-board-court-appeal-1.7501412?cmp=rss
“[If you tell parents] that their education is being politicized, I think you can really control people’s fear. People have a lot of fear around how their kids are growing up.” https://www.texasobserver.org/senate-gop-parental-rights-bills-school-control/
#education #schools #censorship #politics #USpol #news #Texas #TXlege #FreeSpeech #LGBTQIA+
