Syrian ministries to reinstate employees dismissed under Assad https://www.byteseu.com/945329/ #Assad #Conflicts #development #EDUCATION #Syria

From the archives: School vouchers have proven devastating for #disabled students in #Arizona, one of several outcomes that worry experts now that a similar program will become law in #Texas. https://www.texasobserver.org/voucher-program-arizona-privitization-public-schools-disabilities/

#disability #politics #USpol #HumanRights #education #schools #vouchers #GregAbbott #TXlege #news

This has ALWAYS been the case. Why bring it up now?

To feed your #TrumpDerangemenSyndrome. It requires Recency Effect refreshing to keep you in 😱FEAR😱, because #FEAR sells copy and increases ad revenue. That's why. #Trump is a #msm jackpot.

"#StudentLoan borrowers in default face garnished wages, #Education Department says"

Ps The Edu Dept is headed(sic) by a woman who groaned in Hulk Hogan, the wrestler's, ear "I love feeling your BIG cock inside me" as hubby watched
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-loan-debt-default-garnished-wages-payments-education-department

David Eby

Stop funding private schools.
Let them pay 100%, if they don’t want to use public schools.

This isn’t complicated.

#bc #bcpoli #education

School board member admits to banning books without reading them, faces lawsuit

https://boingboing.net/2025/04/21/school-board-member-admits-to-banning-books-without-reading-them-faces-lawsuit.html

#education #bookbans #press

Something else you can thank the BBC's constant pandering to fascists for.
Tomorrow's front page of the Guardian.

#UKPolitics #Education

"Somebody had to eat the first oyster." This 1998 excerpt from our archives reveals the lengthy, and messy history of the ongoing push for school #vouchers, whether the public wants it or not ... https://www.texasobserver.org/whos-paying-for-public-school-vouchers-1998/

#schools #politics #USpol #Texas #TXlege #journalism #history #education

#Harvard doesn't want the same thing that happened due to #Columbia's overt cooperation with deporting students due to ... actually... whatever pleased #DHS and #ICE, and get SHUNNED by potential entrance level recruits, so it rejects '#Trump deal to avoid billions in #education funding cuts'

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/harvard-reject-trump-funding-deal-billions

FedMail (pdf) https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf

Reply https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/
#deportations

Anyone who is blind, or who has worked with the blind, knows how expensive our technology can be. This couldn't be more true with relation to braille displays. Even the cheapest costs at least $799, and it's already behind the newest in that line, at $899. This is the Orbit Reader 20 and 20+. Now, a student in India wants to change that by creating a display that is truly affordable (under $50)! Please pass this on, so that we can give him greater recognition within the blind community. Even if it costs a bit more than he initially suspected it would, there is no excuse for the $2,000 to $5,000 average price of such technology when cheaper alternatives can be designed! He is determined to bring this to market, so let's help him do it and show our appreciation for his hard work on this life-changing project!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinanderton/2024/11/30/14-year-old-boy-invents-digital-braille-reader-and-wins-3500/

#access #ACB #accessibility #affordability #blind #braille #BrailleDisplays #children #education #employment #independence #India #learning #NFB #ocr #parent #reading #science #school #students #teachers #technology #work #writing

I would absolutely love it if every journalist, scientist, historian, traveler, foodie, sportsman, education institution would have their instance and presence on the Fediverse.
The Buzz is fine. But in IMHO, this can be an awesome educational tool. #education #science #history #fediverse #foodie #journalism

Carole Cadwalladr said 100 Guardian journos were made redundant recently, at the same time as they signed a deal with Open AI. She had some choice things to say about that, along the lines of marrying your abuser. She is warning of the imminent death of information and the techno culture of authoritarian surveillance we now live in. #Education needs to heed her warning but currently are AI data zombies. Her recent TED talk is essential viewing.

#ai #theguardian #openai #journalism #academia

La justice américaine a estimé vendredi que le militant et ancien étudiant palestinien Mahmoud Khalil, arrêté en mars sur le campus de la prestigieuse université de Columbia, pouvait être expulsé. Les avocats du jeune homme, résident permanent aux États-Unis, dénoncent une violation de la liberté d’expression et vont faire appel.#immigration #universités #moyen-orient #manifestations #israël #états-unis #réveil #éducation #palestine #politique #justice #donaldtrump #amériques #conflitisraélo-palestinien #guerreisraël-hamas

Explore the Middle East in a new way and start this journey in your home. Here, you'll get to discover something truly remarkable and equally delicious.

Transport yourself into the homes and souks of the Middle East with these easy to follow cookbooks! They are ideal guides for both Easter and Arab American Heritage Month.

https://peoples-books.blogspot.com/2025/04/check-out-these-cookbooks-for-arab.html

#usa #uk #food #newyork #london #scotland #manchester #bbc #media #education #europe

"They came out in defense of #NationalParks & small businesses, public #education & #health care for #veterans, #abortion rights & fair #elections. They marched against #tariffs & #oligarchs, dark money & #fascism, the deportation of legal immigrants & #DOGE.

Demonstrators had no shortage of causes as they gathered in towns and cities across the country on Saturday to protest Trump’s agenda."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/anti-trump-protests-hands-off.html

#Resist #Resistance #HandsOff #Protest #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #USA #US

Indian School of Business Celebrates Graduation of PGP Class of 2025.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/pb_indian_school_of_business_pgp_2025

#punjab #mohali #india #news #press #ISB #business #education #Masters #Graduation #GraduationCeremony

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

SOME SCHOOLS fight back😎

'#RumeysaOzturk was detained by masked #ICE thugs on 25 March 2025'

"Tufts University has thrown its weight behind the legal case for Rumeysa Ozturk, demanding her immediate release so she can finish her studies, making Tufts the first university to have done so in the wake of students being detained and arrested... over pro-#Palestine activism."

#Tufts U declares support for detained Turkish student
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tufts-university-declares-support-detained-turkish-student-rumeysa-ozturk-court @palestine #Palestinians #Gaza #Education

Having recently returned to blogging about and analyzing the news, my last four weeks have been pretty hectic; frankly I've just been trying to keep up with what amounts to a type of fascist "shock doctrine" as the Trump regime has literally sought to overwhelm its opposition by speedrunning the installation of a fascist dictatorship. In that environment, I've been forced to place a premium on short term outcomes and the very pressing dangers to anyone who doesn't support fascism presented by the regime's activities and rhetoric.

Unfortunately, this approach has left little time for me to talk about the larger, long term ideological conditioning project being undertaken by the regime to erase history, rewrite educational curriculums, and silence sources of information critical of fascism, white nationalism, and patriarchy. Given that the study of fascist propaganda, indoctrination, and the suppression of educators and media observers under fascism is both an area of expertise for me and a foundationally important part of the Trump regime's project to create a permanent white nationalist dictatorship in America, it's probably time for me to start talking about all the ways Trump is working to make sure it'll be impossible for your kids *not* to be fascists, now.

I'd like to start with this March 25th opinion piece by James Zogby writing for Common Dreams, where the author takes a big picture view of Trump's plans to rewrite history for the purposes of fascist indoctrination:

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-s-war-on-history

Trump’s War on History Is Another Slouch Toward Authoritarianism

"Buried in the flurry of President Trump’s Executive Orders is one that has been largely ignored, despite being potentially the most far-reaching of these presidential acts. Titled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” this diktat lays bare Trump’s intention to roll back the gains that have been made over the last half century by historians working to present a more accurate portrait of American and world history. Trump calls these efforts “anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false,” and demands instead that schools devote themselves to “patriotic education” that will “instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation”—in other words, to teach the kind of history we learned three generations ago."

Now to be clear, I do have some complaints about Zogby's tone here, because I feel like discussing the historical context of a white-centric, "patriotic" education in America while maintaining a calm, intellectually detached tone can give folks who're coming to this discussion without a good background in understanding fascist propaganda and indoctrination, the impression that the regime's assault on history and education is the kind of problem we can survive easily enough, because we survived it before the 1960's.

What I will remind those people however, and what I wish Zogby had spent a couple more paragraphs explaining, is that the vast majority of the powerful people in the American fascist movement are in fact a product of this type of white-centric, American exceptionalist education. This is precisely what folks like me, who study social hierarchies, and the history of fascism mean when we say that America has always embraced fascist ideology and participated in fascist indoctrination; Trump is not a wholly novel expression of American fascism, he's a product of historical fascist indoctrination in America and even just a return to that indoctrination is going to produce a whole generation of people who think it's totally fine and normal, to think like Trump does. That's literally the purpose of this project; the re-establishment of a white supremacist norm in education, historical study, and social discourse - forever.

There are of course knock on benefits for a permanent fascist order, including the ability to cast those teaching something besides this white-centric, American exceptionalist "patriotic" curriculum as enemies of the state and/or traitors. Furthermore, you can bet your ass that the Pork Reich isn't going to stop at rolling back social ideology and historical study to a pre-60's framework; these folks seem a lot more interested in returning to the 1850's, than the 1950's after all. But at the end of the day the Trump regime isn't counting on these changes to alter how you understand the world, our history, or enforced racial hierarchies; they're simply hoping that by silencing folks who know better, they can force indoctrinate the next generation of fascists as part of a permanent project to maintain a white nationalist dictatorship in America.

#Trump #Fascism #Education #History #Indoctrination #Zogby #WhiteSupremacy #Propaganda #WhiteNationalism #Patriarchy

Pocock accuses ANU leadership of misleading Senate estimates after paying consultant more than $1 million https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-03/pocock-calls-probe-anu-misleading-senate-contracts/105133848 #education

The decision to strip chapters from books that had already won the approval of the state’s Republican-controlled board of education represents an escalation in how local school boards run by ideological conservatives influence what children learn.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-cypress-fairbanks-removed-textbook-chapters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Education #School #Diversity #DEI #Books

As a professor of critical thinking, I approve this message.

Just as you don't need a calculator in every class, you don't need AI in every class. It cheats your learning experience.

"Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking"

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/30/teachers-ai-students-critical-thinking

"Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly dominant role in how students navigate school, and some teachers are warning the technology could be hurting their critical thinking skills."

#AI #criticalthinking #education

Written by a university teacher; They're Illiterate with 8th grade writing skills. I dropped out of NYC public school in the 9th grade. My Iowa test scores in an 8th grade, middle of curve class level, was 12th grade vocabulary and 10th grade grammar

At a local community college decades later their 'assesment' person wanted to put me in intermediate algebra. I never had an algebra class. Says something.

"The average college student today"
https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today #education #enshittification

Yale fires scholar for refusal to comply with inquiry into her ties to PFLP-linked group

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-848188

Yale Law fired Helyeh Doutaghi for refusing an inquiry into her alleged PFLP ties; she denied the claims and accused Yale of suppressing pro-Palestinian speech.

#Yale #Palestine #Hamas #PFPL #education #press

#FWakeHamas #FWakeGaza

#SupportMalala WHY is everyone grey-rocking #Malala on social media world wide?
#MalalaGreyRocked /\ #Palestine #Gaza /\ #Education /\

#RCC1803G ++ #Situ202503I ++

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1jnc6g1/hamas_begins_brutal_crackdown_on_gaza_protests/mkiifwy/

Plus que jamais face à l'offensive génocidaire d'Israël, il faut frapper ensemble ! Le @cupjs prend ses responsabilité !
Nous appelons tout les travailleurs et les jeunes à en faire une marche de masse !
Il faut reprendre la rue, la mobilisation, l'action si vous voulez pas finir dans les TROUPES COLONIALES FRANÇAISES
#manifestation #Paris
Marche pour la terre #palestine Samedi 29 Mars 14h00 Republique #antifas #education
#palestine #kanaky #antifas #antimilitarisme

More capitulation.

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#USA #trump #ColumbiaUniversity #education #HigherEd

“Labour’s proposed cuts to education will be the ‘worst in a generation’: Going backwards”

by James Wright in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“On the back of years of Tory austerity, the education sector is preparing for the ‘worst financial situation for a generation’ after chancellor Rachel #Reeves’ Spring Statement on 26 March. #Headteachers have already warned that schools face ‘death by a thousand cuts’”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/24/labour-education-cuts/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg

#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #Cuts #Education #Austerity

And just as I'm switching off I see this.
FFS.

Times: "Private companies cash in on demand for special-needs schools
A lack of suitable schools for children with special educational needs means councils are paying more than £100,000 a year for places in the private sector"

https://archive.is/9JbHI

#UKPolitics #Education

So, Labour voters in Scotland, are you regretting the shiny baubles that were promised and then vanished with the rising sun? Fed children are not just a moral obligation but a practical one as well. They can learn.

Meantime ‘Erasmus’ the pisspoor replacement for the EU exchange program looks to be scrapped as well.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25030965.education-secretary-suggests-cutting-free-school-meals/

http://archive.today/2025.03.24-115705/https://www.thenational.scot/news/25030965.education-secretary-suggests-cutting-free-school-meals/ (archive)

#Ukpol #Labour #WhatFuture #Education

"A Statement by Members of the Teachers College, #Columbia #University Faculty

The Attack on American #Education, ..

The intention of the Trump administration is clear. By gutting important systems of education, they can shape our thoughts and words, creating a new generation without the skills required to actively participate in our #democracy ...

We call on university leaders, on our #campus and beyond, to use all of the tools at their disposal, including collective efforts across the sector and litigation, to stand for academic #freedom, and for First Amendment rights of #freespeech, inquiry, and debate, and thus to stand for our democracy."

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZH3DuqmAZ17oMTztUtBRKzjJ36rtnhoCRK_DIjdLGoo/preview?tab=t.0#

More cops, mask bans, and no academic freedom. The fascist neoliberal dream university is manifesting at Columbia.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/columbia-trump-federal-funding-protests

#Palestine #Columbia #academia #education

#BoredOfEducaton #BoardOfEducation #DepartmentOfEducation #DOE #Education #PoorlyEducated #ILoveThePoorlyEducated #DestructionOfUS #DeconstructionOfUS #US #USA #America #News #School #Schools #SchoolsOutForSummer #SchoolsOutForEver #DonaldTrump #Trump #ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Maga #Republican #Republicans #Dumb #Dummy #Dummies

I’ve been really struggling lately. The #immigration abuses, the attacks on and capitulation of #Media , law firms and institutions of higher learning, the dismantling of social safety nets, public #Education environmental protections, alliances etc. The #billionaires ‘ power grabs (even more pronounced now than usual) The clear intent to dismantle #Democracy …

… #america is a huge country but it’s beginning to feel claustrophobic.
#columbiauniversity #paulweiss #Trump

“The #Trump Administration’s cancellation of critical #education funding is shameful and illegal,” said Platkin. “We are thrilled with today’s Court of Appeals decision, and we will not rest in our fight to block this cruel termination of programs for #kids with special needs and those in urban and rural districts. We will always stand up for our students, families, and #educators in #NewJersey.”
#DOE
https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/washington-dc/appeals-court-rules-trump-must-reinstate-teacher-preparation-grants-in-eight-states/