Wednesday 5th June, 9 am CEST, is the new deadline to apply for the role of GÉANT Chief Executive Officer (#CEO).
The CEO will be based in Amsterdam and will be entrusted with the dual responsibilities of overseeing GÉANT’s day-to-day operations and guiding the long-term strategic direction of the organisation.
#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.
>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.
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A South Korean province removed more than 2,500 books on sex education, gender equality and feminism from school libraries.
The person behind the campaign claims the books promoted the “early sexualization” of children through “sexual explicitness” and the “promotion of homosexuality.”
The #Colorado#GOP is absolutely nuts (not to mention completely hateful). Their attack on public schooling has taken a more direct tact. This is the crazy train, folks.
#China's internet #censors have deleted a video in which #children at a private #PerformingArts school in the southwestern province of #Sichuan dance to British rock band #PinkFloyd's 1979 hit "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" which featured a choir of #schoolchildren protesting overbearing authority & "thought control" in #education.
“Once again, François Legault sticks his neck where it doesn’t belong, interfering in the affairs of a university he’s defunding, in a city he otherwise doesn’t care about.”
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
Four years ago today, I would have logged onto Zoom to "attend" a Winnipeg Pentecostal church service that adherred to pandemic restrictions (thankfully it wasn't more extreme like many NAR Christian nationalist churches in the US). Now I don't know what to believe anymore.
But here's the first thing I discovered after leaving Christianity.
You know how in the Bible in Romans 12:2, it says "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by renewing your mind"? The first question I asked when reading this verse again 20 years later was this "What is the pattern of this world currently?"
I soon realized the pattern pretty much goes something like this:
Obey your parents
Go to school
Get a job
Work 8 hours a day or more
Get married
Pop out tons of babies if you're a woman
Pay your bills
Go to church on Sunday and hang out with church members before going to work on Monday
Buy a car
Buy a house
Watch talking heads on Fox
Listen to "podcasts"
Buy the latest thing because it helps keep the economy going
Watch the latest TV shows but keep it G or PG rated
Listen to music unless it talks about drugs, sex, or has tons of swear words
Start a side hustle if you can't get a job
Help your neighbors if they're nice to you and not trying to shove an "agenda" down your throat
The second question I asked was "How does any of this renew the mind or transform a person?" And I found that all it does is remove their freedom to simply be and exist, while following a social order that "fights for spiritual freedom."
The third and final question I asked, going back to the idea of the pattern of this world, is "What group pushes the pattern of this world on its citizens the most?"
And the answer I came up with is very simple: straight vvhite American Christians.
#Illinois School Districts Sent Kids to a For-Profit Out-of-State Facility That Isn’t Vetted or Monitored
A state #law was meant to help #families by allowing the use of public money to fund students’ tuition at special education boarding #schools around the country.
But in solving one problem, lawmakers created another.
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"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."
70 years ago, the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education led to the desegregation of schools. However this also led to thousands of Black teachers losing their jobs. "Prior to 1954, there were about 82,000 Black teachers in the United States," write a team of academics for @TheConversationUS. "A decade later, with hundreds of segregated schools closing, more than 38,000 Black teachers had been fired by white school leaders." Read more about the importance of Black teachers and why 70 years after Brown, school educators are still mostly white.