A #School District’s Reliance on #Police to Ticket Students Is Discriminatory, Civil Rights Complaint Says
Two civil rights groups are asking the US Dept. of #Education to force the third-largest district in #Illinois to stop discriminatory discipline that involves police.
Parents are increasingly taking their children out of school & home schooling them, with the most reported reason being the mental health of their children.
To some extent, the pandemic normalised the idea of children learning from home, so we might wonder whether the threshold for concern prompting a turn to home schooling has lowered.
But, it also suggests the impact on children of the myriad crisis that have engulfed school in recent years.
@ChrisMayLA6
A concern I have as the uncle of multiple Children that are home schooled, from both wings of my family; is how it will affect their long-term prospects.
The home-schooled kids I know, are definitely less resilient, and none are far above their peers in terms of ability in anything I've witnessed, or been told about.
It could very well be a crisis we don't realise we have until they are in their 20's; a generation of kids unable to find work, or form the same relationships...
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I agree with Kenan Malik; behind the increasingly instrumental view of university education (that it should be judged by what it does for your subsequent career & earning potential), lies a class-based assessment of who should benefit from education at all.
The working class do not deserve the humanistic value of education but rather must be trained in work skills... while the privileged should be able to buy the benefits of enlightenment!
Ever hear of Russell Kirk? A conservative firebrand and contemporary of William F Buckley. His ranting that a prosperous middle class would lead to chaos captured the minds of asshats like the Kochs after the 60s. That’s what inspired them to organize, to take control of gov and wither away prosperity of all except themselves.
Education is one thing they’d put an end to. That’s when tuitions were made to climb.
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It’s free, simple, and visually powerful. Great UI / design.
@wfryer Please give „Nuudel“ (noodle) a try, which is a non-tracking service for planning meetings/events, available in English as well: https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de. It’s run bei @digitalcourage, which is a German privacy and digital rights non-profit organisation. Under the motif of preserving "a world worth living in the digital age", Digitalcourage campaigns for civil and human rights, consumer protection, privacy, freedom of information and related issues.
“"The result of this vote is a message to government and the Saskatchewan School Boards Association (SSBA) that teachers need to see real changes to classroom complexity and compensation. In feedback from members, we heard clearly that their priorities haven't been adequately addressed." #Saskatchewan#Education#Skpoli
Nice reminder from Florian Waldow (Humboldt Uni) that "utopia" is spatial and not at all temporal. Today's usage as future-oriented should really be "Uchronia".
@discoursology but then again if I don't have it wrong 'far away' and 'a long time ago/in the far future' are roughly equivalent in the multiverse, as per Max Tegmark and such? :)
Season 1 of the Galactic Cow launched in 2023, and we're starting work on Season 2. It's a great time to revisit your favorite episodes, or listen for the first time. If you are interested in what role education could play in our growth as a species ♥
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First of its Kind Medical School in Cherokee Nation Graduates First Class of Doctors
In 2020, GNN reported that the inaugural class of the nation’s first medical college on a Native American reservation had begun their studies. Well now, they’ve just graduated.
Man, the idea endowments keep the cost of college low? 🤦♂️
We see this b.s. People are drowning in debt.
We divested from South Africa years ago. We can absolutely divest from Israel. And we must. #education#USPol
One of the mantras of modern education has been the benefits of (need for) 'lifetime learning'; the utility of adults retiring to education when their skills need updating or they wish to acquire knowledge to change (or develop) their career(s).
That funding cuts since 2010 have nearly halved the numbers of adults (re)entering various levels of education is both depressing & another instance of austerity & Tory cuts constraining people's life choices (chances).
#Genocide needs to be taught in all schools. It's sad to see so many adults who obviously never learned what genocide truly is. They really believe that it's only genocide if almost every person targeted in a genocide is dead. There's more to genocide than only body counts.
@msquebanh I've not had the chance to teach in school much but I'm proud that I did a lesson about genocide. And I pointed out that the Swedish state's long policy of 'reeducation' of indigenous children could be seen as genocidal.
>160k student loan borrowers are now in line to have their balances canceled, bringing the total amount of #DebtForgiveness allowed under the Biden admin’s policies to $167B, the #Education Dept announced Wed.
“I promised to fight to ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity,” #Biden said in a stmnt Wed. “I will never stop working to cancel student debt — no matter how many times Republican elected ofcls try to stop us.”
Reminds me of my colleagues faces when I told them to just use office template files, so that people would no longer misname copies of existing files or mistakenly change last weeks document.
Since opening templates always results in a new unsaved unnamed document. 👍
Good news on open access to my works on bilingualism, the research area related to my teaching, child-raising, and using Japanese for over 40 years. I was interviewed by The Japan Times on #bilingual#education for a forthcoming paywalled article. It was a long interview, and usually a newspaper article uses only short passages from one individual. However, the #Japan Association for #Language#Teaching Bilingualism Special Interest Group (#JALT#Bilingualism SIG) would like to publish the full interview in its newsletter Bilingual Japan. Everyone should be able to read that as I back it up in research repositories. The tentative title is "English Education and Bilingual Education in Japan."
My publications on bilingualism have been backed up mostly at Academia Edu, which is not so easy to access anymore [any comment?], so I've added links to the original sources of articles, which are open access, at https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism
"But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find."
"The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized, and she could find no examples of critical race theory, an advanced academic concept that examines systemic racism."
Courtney Gore, the co-host of a right-wing online talk show, won a seat on a Texas school board on the basis that she would undo leftist indoctrination and get rid of educational materials with inappropriate messages about sexuality and race. Then she took office and actually read the curriculum, finding that the subject matter simply taught children “how to be a good friend, a good human.” The Texas Tribune talked to her about why she ran for office, what she thinks is behind the push to take over school boards, and the backlash she's faced since speaking out against the ultra-right element of the Republican party.
Since hegemons declared the pandemic "over" early in the pandemic, I have seen article after article complaining that students aren't doing well and intimating it's because "lowering standards" during the pandemic harmed them.
"for decades, American schools have been re-segregating... around 4 out of 10 Black and Hispanic students attend schools where almost every one of their classmates is another student of color.
"'If you have the tools taken away from you ... by the Supreme Court, then you really don’t have a whole lot of tools,' said Stephan Blanford, a former Seattle Public Schools board member."
— #law#racism#inequality#ushistory
