About 150 Chicago schools sit half-empty, while 47 operate at less than one-third capacity.
The city “doesn’t seem to be having an honest conversation about the challenges it’s facing,” one school finance expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-public-schools-enrollment-costs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Earlier: “If a young queer person fears that their parents might not be affirming, they need an outlet to process that. Having access to counselors at school can be a lifeline to young queer people who are trying to make sense of how they fit in the world and also trying to maintain a healthy relationship with their parents.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-lege-2025-anti-lgbtq-bills-passed/
#politics #USpol #LGBTQIA+ #Texas #law #education #healthcare #news
#StudentLoans interest charges to kick back in for roughly 8 million borrowers
Interest charges will return on Aug. 1 after a yearlong pause on payments.
Roughly 8 million student loan borrowers will see their interest charges restart next month, #Trump Dept of #Education announced Wednesday.
Borrowers on the #Biden-era Saving on a Valuable Education Plan — about 7.7 million people — will have interest charges return on Aug. 1 after a yearlong pause on payments.
#law
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/student-loan-interest-charges-kick-back-roughly-8/story?id=123611422
Have any math teachers on here used minecraft (eg arrows to teach about parabolas. You can use command blocks to make the parabolas physical arcs when you fire. Or redstone for logic?)
There is also something called "educational minecraft" apparently.
Thought I might mess around with it this summer, but don't know if it's worth the time or if I'm just making up an excuse for me to play video games. (very possible)
Curious what it was like *in a class*
When George Mason University president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.”
But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.
https://www.propublica.org/article/george-mason-university-antisemitism-investigation-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #University #HigherEd #Education #Trump #Virginia #DEI
French educator Louis Braille was born #OTD in 1809. He was the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people.
At just 15 years old, Braille began refining Barbier's system, developing a code based on a six-dot cell structure that allowed for efficient representation of letters, numbers, and even musical notation.
#SCOTUS is allowing #Trump to put his plan to dismantle the #Education Dept back on track & go through with firing nearly 1,400 employees.
With the 3 liberal justices in dissent, the court on Monday paused an order from US District Judge Myong Joun in Boston, who issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs & calling into question the broader plan.
The SCOTUS action enables the admin to resume work on winding down the department.
#law #AbuseOfPower
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-7-14-2025?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-14-Breaking+News
Providing children (and ourselves) with tools to manage anxiety is important. Our executive director Jennifer Fischer shares the books and tools that work for her family at Multicultural Kid Blogs.
#Anxiety #MentalHealth #MentalWellness #MentalHealthMatters #SelfCare #Education #Homeschooling #Parenting #Families @education @edutooters @bookstodon
I think seeing captured film reels from WWII in grade 10 social studies of bodies being bulldozed into mass graves by Nazi labourers and hearing classmates gasp, several of them breaking down, openly weeping, was a turning point in my view of humanity; I expect parents today would be outraged at such shocking material being put before schoolchildren...
#history #media #journalism #education #genocide
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Science Lit for Kids Holds a Mirror Aloft
Over decades, books that rouse children’s interest in the natural world have morphed in style and approach—an evolution reflective of tectonic societal change.
By Jessica George
Education at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/297
The UK based #QS & #THE world university ranking scam exposed:youtu.be/lavCJDZiWdk No wonder the #UK, and the rest of the world, are mass hiring Filipinos and non-Filipinos who graduated from #Philippines universities—because we rank very low.#Education
The British Made Filipinos Loo...
The UK based #QS & #THE world university ranking scam exposed:
No wonder the #UK, and the rest of the world, are mass hiring Filipinos and non-Filipinos who graduated from #Philippines universities—because we rank very low.
In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids, which means rich families had to make sure the schools the kid went to were good, which meant the rich were prompted to invest in public schools. Finland, take a bow.
If Austrian economics is the only true economics, why isn't it taught in universities?
The answer is that the #bureaucracy, the state cannot profit from it. Because people who know the real economics will not allow the bureaucrats, the state to do what they can do now.
#economics #austrianeconomics #science #statism #education
The #Trump admin has *declined* to release nearly $7 billion in federal #funding for #schools that helps pay for after-school & summer programs, support for #students learning English, #teacher training & other services.
The money, which was already allocated by #Congress, was expected to be released by Tuesday. But in an email on Monday, the Trump *#Education* Department notified #state education agencies that the money would not be available.
#law #policy #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Introduction Hashtags, so I can pin this post and take them out of my profile:
#Education #Research #Phd, #BCS #Computing #Teacher #CCT
#CSEd #Programming #BCS
#ActuallyAutistic
#ActuallyADHD
I live with #MultipleSclerosis
#Zen / #Nonduality #Buddhist, weirdly into #Jung
#Research topics:
- #EdAI / #AIEd - #LLMs in #Education
- #CriticalStudies of #EdTech
- #Neurodiversity in #Education, and the experience of ND educators.
#lispyGopherClimate https://communitymedia.video/w/5gDoZAFpthDiZzRafWqy2n #archive #technology #lisp #podcast
We got the face of #FOSS computing in #Aotearoa #NZ joining us live.
https://davelane.nz/my-open-history
Dave has worked extensively over the decades on #libre #education , #OER . Dave is a herptophile so we better talk about #logo #turtleDrawing at least!
Lots of questions about education-focused-programming-languages (like LOGO!).
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In #books: It’s typical of José Skinner’s approach that his main protagonist is not some self-assured reflection of his own qualifications, but rather Quigley, a dopey gringo vacillating between colonial-gaze fascination and fear of a world he doesn’t understand. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-search-committee-border-literary-canon/
Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools.
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Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-thirds of that.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-rural-schools-funding-legislation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Trump Went to War With the Ivies. #CommunityColleges Are Being Hit.
Measures intended to punish elite #universities are inflicting collateral damage on the nation’s two-year #colleges, which educate 40% of all undergraduates.
#education #law #AcademicFreedom
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/magazine/trump-community-college-anti-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk8.O9vd.hhK-1Pm-KwAA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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This week's net.wars, "Machine learning", chats about chatbots in education with a tiny unrepresentative sample of those dealing with them: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/08/08/machine-learning/ #NetWars #education #AI
