breadandcircuses, to science

I find this fascinating and beautiful. An educational work of art depicting the eras of geological time. Note the Anthropocene (us) right on top.

SOURCE -- http://www.dylangibsonillustration.co.uk/

auschwitzmuseum, to poland
@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world avatar

12 November 1922 | A Pole, Tadeusz Borowski, was born. A poet, writer & journalist.

In Auschwitz from 29 June 1943.
No. 119198
Liberated in Dachau. A lot of his post-war literature described the horrors of the camp.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts #poetry

It is that very hope that makes people go without a murmur to the gas chambers, keeps them from risking a revolt, paralyses them into numb inactivity. It is hope that breaks down family ties, makes mothers renounce their children, or wives sell their bodies for bread, or husbands kill. It is hope that compels man to hold on to one more day of life, because that day may be the day of liberation. Ah, and not even the hope for a different, better world, but simply for life, a life of peace and rest. Never before in the history of mankind has hope been stronger than man, but never also has it done so much harm as it has in the war, in this concentration camp. We were never taught how to give up hope, and this is why today we perish in gas chambers.” Tadeusz Borowski’
Tadeusz Borowski, “Night Over Birkenau™ Again the night. Again the fearsome sky Gyres like a vulture, like a beast of prey It crouches on the camp, on the dead quict. Pale as a corpse, the moon sets far away. And like a shield cast to the ground in battle. Amid the stars Azure Orion lies. On through the dark the transports’ motors rattle. Then the gleam in the crematoria's eyes Scalding and stifling. Slumber like a stone. Breath is choked out. The throat is split and red. The heavy boot pressed down on the breast-bone Cracks like the silence of three million dead. Night, endless night, and no light overland. The eyes are gassed with slumber, numb the brow. Like God's own Judgment on the world of man The fog must now come down on Birkenau. Translated by A.Z. Foreman

aral, (edited ) to technology
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

You wouldn’t have McDonald’s teaching your kids about nutrition or Philip Morris teaching them about maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Why are you happy having a surveillance capitalist like Google or Facebook teaching them about technology?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy

ahimsa_pdx, to ukteachers
@ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social avatar

I think this line bears repeating:

"There is no amount of me doing my individual best that can overcome a failure of community policy."

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/what-can-a-covid-outbreak-at-a-writing-conference-teach-us-about-community-care/

hat tip to @pixplz

brianb, to ukteachers
@brianb@fosstodon.org avatar

Is there like, a teacher BBS or something?

10 years ago, teacher Twitter was extremely helpful to me. There's the hashtag here, which is nice, but are most people still on X? Or worse, Facebook?

Trying to build that side of my timeline back up. Boots appreciated along with recommendations of who to follow.

ProPublica, to random
@ProPublica@newsie.social avatar

Supreme Risk: An Interactive Guide to Rights the Supreme Court Could Take Away

Most rights are based in statute, but dozens — like same-sex marriage, search warrants & Miranda warnings — are based on judicial rulings that the can overturn and that current justices have questioned some aspect of.

Which rights are most at risk?

Our new guide lets you filter results by justice & by issues like , , &

https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-risk/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

ProPublica, to Texas
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She Campaigned for a #Texas School Board Seat as a #GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.

Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that #students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

New, from @JeremySchwartz

#Dallas #Education #School #News #Republicans #SchoolBoard #Teachers #Books #Libraries

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore

ProPublica, to Texas
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#Texas Took Over Its Largest School District, but Has Let Underperforming Charter Networks Expand

The state took over #Houston ISD after one of its #schools continuously failed to meet academic standards.

But an analysis of records shows it’s been more generous with underperforming #CharterSchools, waiving expansion requirements at least 17 times.

#Education #Students #Teachers #School #News

https://propub.li/3toukMi

jensorensen, to college
@jensorensen@mastodon.social avatar

Latest comic: If media talked about the donor class the way it talks about college students

ProPublica, to Virginia
@ProPublica@newsie.social avatar

The Family That Helped Us Investigate How a University Displaced a Community

A longtime resident of the Shoe Lane area in chronicled the life of his community as it was demolished by Christopher Newport University.

His photographs helped a reporter seek .

https://www.propublica.org/article/family-photos-of-shoe-lane-destruction

loshmi, to Palestine
@loshmi@social.coop avatar

New joint statement by members of #UCLA’s history department, compiled from testimony of faculty present at encampment during various periods and in response to last night’s police violence against students. We make 6 explicit calls of the university administration. Read at link below.

https://history.ucla.edu/2024/05/02/statement-of-members-of-the-department-of-history-in-response-to-clearing-the-encampment-2-may-2024/

#Palestine #StudentSpring #Encampments #Universities #Gaza #Education #PoliceViolence #AcademicFreedom

helenczerski, to climate

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?

#climate #education #schools

paul_denton, to ukteachers French
@paul_denton@mastodon.social avatar

Le ministère de l'Education nationale supprime sa vidéo d'hommage à Martin Luther King. Les lauréats (tous blancs) ont été récompensés par Pap Ndiaye, se justifie le ministère (comprenez, le ministre était noir donc la vidéo ne peut pas être raciste). Pire justification du monde et fail qui pourra servir à tous les cours de communication... #Politique #Racisme #Education #Gouvernement #PapNdiaye #SOS

MonsieurLu, (edited ) to ukteachers French
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Theeo123, to Idaho
@Theeo123@mastodon.social avatar

https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-students-educators-show-us-effects-of-underfunded-schools

and

https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-hasnt-assessed-school-buildings-30-years-students-educators-helped-us-do-it

@ProPublica has an in-depth look at a horrifying situation, in Idaho where Schools have been denied funding for repairs for almost 30 years. The schools are literally falling apart. Classes are being held in stairwells and closets, amid frequent power outages, and no one is doing anything.

jensorensen, to random
@jensorensen@mastodon.social avatar

Latest cartoon on "contrarian" pundits who pretend to care about freedom of speech.

Chron, to news

A Texas middle school teacher has been fired from a Beaumont-area school district after assigning an illustrated version of "The Diary of Anne Frank" to her eighth grade reading class.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/texas-teacher-anne-frank-fired-18375331.php

auschwitzmuseum, to ukteachers
@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world avatar

Volunteer Academy 2023 - online project of the Auschwitz Memorial - call for participants

🗓️ 13 Oct - 23 Nov

We invite everyone interested in the history of Auschwitz & volunteering at our Archives. All meetings will be conducted online & in English.

Registration & details: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/volunteer-academy-2023-invitation-to-participate-in-the-project-,1639.html

SURF, to ukteachers
@SURF@social.edu.nl avatar

Thanks for all the support for our exit on X 🧡!

A warm welcome to all the new followers on our account 👋.

We are SURF, the Dutch IT cooperative for education and research.

Did you know that we have our own Mastodon server social.edu.nl?

We started a Mastodon pilot in February 2023 for education and research in the Netherlands.

Read more about the Mastodon pilot: https://www.surf.nl/en/mastodon-pilot-for-research-and-education

ChrisMayLA6, to ukteachers
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The cost of a university education is increasingly falling on students & their families as inflation eats into available support.

This is not an accident but rather an evident shift away from an approach that saw 'massification' of higher education as a good thing.

We're slowly (but clearly) moving back to a situation where a university degree becomes only plausible if you have family financial backing....

University is returning to its earlier class composition.

#education #universities

jackiegardina, to ukteachers
@jackiegardina@awscommunity.social avatar

Here is a statement from a West Virginia Linguistics professor whose entire department has been eliminated. It provides additional context to the Provost's decision to cancel 38 majors and the tenure and untenured faculty lines associated with them.

https://community.wvu.edu/~jokatz/Closure/?fbclid=IwAR1BIcLhe__wEivDYWWz2UeyUHvFuiGg3T2KDtHdlS93X-_KPi2gM-YFbbI_aem_ATi1jeijVosmXwGlwcoYwc8OU1e8tXm08Y0nPDH2hdMqqHYZKNN3R8Qmr3nLw1tXKrM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

ProPublica, to Illinois
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Ticketed at as a Teen, a Young Black Woman Is Suing an City for Violating Her Civil Rights

It took four years and a jury trial for Amara Harris to beat the ticket that accused her of stealing another girl’s AirPods.

Now she’s heading back to court in the hope of stopping from using to discipline .

https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-naperville-school-ticketing-amara-harris-civil-rights-lawsuit-airpods

ProPublica, to DadBin
@ProPublica@newsie.social avatar

This #School for #Autistic Youth Can Cost $573,200 a Year. It Operates With Little Oversight, and Students Have Suffered.

No state agency has authority over Shrub Oak, one of the country's most expensive therapeutic boarding #schools.

As a result, #parents and staff have nowhere to report bruised #students and medication mix-ups.

#News #Education #NewYork #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/shrub-oak-school-autism-new-york-education-oversight?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

shojiwax, to climate
@shojiwax@mastodon.online avatar

“in Norway they tax the fossil fuel industry and give kids free university education, in Australia we subsidise the fossil fuel industry and charge kids a fortune to go to university.”

— Richard Dennis

#climateChange #education #Auspol #Australia

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