How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos Across the Country
In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges. Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every participant was white.
I’m making some “fractions sensitivity training” warm up questions for grade five and six. Any particularly silly or subtle suggestions would be a big help. These are too boring.
A. How is 15min like $0.25?
B. How are three cat paws like 45min?
C. How is 12min like holding up one finger on one hand? .. or like $0.20?
D. How is one ant leg like 10 min?
F. How is holding up four fingers on one hand like 48min? … or like 8 dimes?
At the risk of reigniting a debate that has been had in my timeline in the past... here's a report of a University of Valencia that looked at over 20 paper examine the differential effects of reading digitally & on paper.
The research confirms my experience (my own & in the reading of my erstwhile students) that reading digitally is less likely to lead to long-term educational (knowledge) benefits...
The growing controversy in the N.B. legislature stemmed from N.B.'s review of & changes to Policy 713, which established minimum standards for schools to ensure a safe, welcoming & inclusive environment for LGBTQ students
I live on the west coast of Sweden, just north of Gothenburg. I'm married and we have a son who will turn 18 in just a few days. I work in tech, with business-critical systems for the eCommerce sector. I'm #autistic and have #ADHD, was not diagnosed until I was 34. My interests are many, such as #science#tech#politics#climatechange#education#healthcare#travel#space and of course everything about #ecommerce.
A bill in Louisiana, HB 777, would make it a crime for librarians to use public funds to join the American Librarian Association or attend an ALA conference, punishable with prison time and hard labor for up to two years.
Very good point made at a launch event yesterday for UCL’s new Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education - we might teach the Industrial Revolution in schools as a critical transition period, but really, it’s 1950 onward (the “Great Acceleration”) that really made the biggest difference. Why aren’t we teaching that in history classes?
The belief that private school students can just waltz into grammar schools as some kind of "second choice" is a perfect example of the educational exceptionalism these people think is their right.
I met so many stupid people from public schools at my university. The idea that they would have either been selected or passed the 11+ to get into my (or any other) grammar school is for the birds.
Paying for a "first class education" doesn't make you intelligent.
The day before Miami-Dade schools reopened, hundreds take the streets in Miami marching on the School Board, protesting Desantis' fascist laws of indoctrination.
Hey, Mastodon! Indiana's attorney general has created an anti-teacher snitch portal for people to report school teachers for being too woke. It allows you to upload files and everything!
There appears to be no safeguard against entering any text you want in any of the boxes, and no location/residence checking.
The teacher profession has lately been hard in the US, and is going to be made even harder by LLMs. I reject the article's comparison with calculators, these are exact and you need to know what to ask before getting a useful answer from them. On the contrary LLMs satisfy neither of these propositions by accepting arbitrary prompts and outputting only plausible answers which might be useful or not.
I believe the introduction of accessible LLMs will further the divide between privileged students who will reap the benefits of homework vs the others who will use free LLM tools to skip homework, a cheap short-term win that will end up costing them in the long run. #education#LLM
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While many would agree that A-levels are too narrowly focussed, the move to a baccalaureate system without significant reform of the rest of the system would be a disaster;
and reforming the rest of a system currently in crisis & with a lack of goodwill from #Teachers sounds more like another swing of the wrecking ball rather than a real desire to improve the UK's #education
What are we doing to our children that around 28% are avoiding #school due to #anxiety?
We pressurise children more & more, make #education a test-based, inflexible activity, stress out those delivering it & then expose them to all sorts of sh*t on #socialmedia..... and then tell them to fail at school is to fail at life.
People who have created a fediverse account for your lab: how did you decide on a server?
We want to share our research updates with a lab account, but there are so many considerations to make regarding moderation, federation, donation, visibility, etc etc 🫨
Australian public school funding falls behind private schools as states fail to meet targets (www.theguardian.com)
Calls for special deal to be struck for NT, which has biggest funding gap between public and private schools
UK teachers want cash skills to replace religious studies lessons, study finds (uk.news.yahoo.com)
BRITAIN wants personal finance lessons to replace religious studies on the school curriculum, new national research reveals.