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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 4h

Just in from USA Today- Trump and Republicans laid off Friday critical mass of those who work on special education funding for schools. Per the source: "He was unsure how those programs will exist moving forward." #EduSky #Inclusion #AcademicSky ♾️ #Disability

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 6h

this is so deeply upsetting

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 8h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 1d

♾️ So exciting! Article on mathematics and art in @nytimes.com featuring cool art by my favorite mathematician/artist, Edmund Harriss! Check out his piece which is a very cool piece of wood . . .
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

Every Artist Has a Favorite Subject. For Some, That’s Math.

www.nytimes.com

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 1d

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.
• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.

source:
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.
These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

Arrest her?

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

Longhorns have an open letter they can sign here

bit.ly/nodealtexas

A flyer reading “Keep Texas Free” with a picture of a state of Bevo on the strip

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 3d

Heard someone describe this recently as the goal of AI is to colonize all human interaction and extract rent from it and I think that about covers it

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 3d

This blog on the "offer" made to universities by the Trump administration is very useful. A university signing it puts itself into a position in which Trump admin can arbitrarily decide if policies are exactly to their liking. It is a trap, one that no university needs to sign. #EduSky #AcademicSky

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 4d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 4d

Alumni of the 9 schools Trump is threatening with taking away ALL funding if they don't agree to his ridiculous demands: you can sign this petition and also call/email the school leadership. Brown, U of Arizona, Dartmouth, MIT, UPenn, USC, University of Texas, Vanderbilt U, U of Virginia

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 6d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for those words, Dr. Jane Goodall!

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 6d

was it 1899 that the Committee of Ten decided that HS math should culminate in calculus? So much has changed, she said sarcastically . . .

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 6d

AND, I will be there to provide info on research in math games, including a resource sheet on current research about math games and what we are learning in our Games Time Project, here we are at a previous NCTM www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLzW...

Designing Math Intervention for Joy | Rachel Lambert

YouTube video by WebsEdgeScience

www.youtube.com

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 6d

Roll to Riches. rolls2riches.com?srsltid=AfmB...

Image of people playing a game. Images of numbers 1 - 6 with dies on them, and cards that have money amounts like 50,000

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 6d

♾️ Hey Math Ed friends, who is coming to Atlanta this week for NCSM and NCTM? I am, and as always I am particularly excited for Games Night! Wednesday October 15 Doors Open at 8:00 pm Omni International Ballroom. I will be bringing a game that is new to me, that I have loved playing with teachers 1/

NCTM Game Night Wednesday October 15 Doors Open at 8:00 pm Omni International Ballroom E Cash Bar Bring a Friend Bring a Game or Just Bring Yourself! Sponsored by Benjamin Banneker Association and Todos

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 9d

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:

"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

aaup-penn.org

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations! This is wonderful!

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, I found a version of it that I need! Thanks Amie!

Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 12d

"There’s no such thing as a thought without emotion or an emotion without thought."
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
www.edutopia.org/article/proj... #EduSky #AcademicSky

Projects, Purpose, and the Teenage Mind

Neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino-Yang on why adolescent students search for deeper meaning—and what that tells us about designing schools that engage teens.

www.edutopia.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12d

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 12d

👏Newsom signs California bill regulating top AI companies into law
flip.it/-DXy8L #ProudCalifornian

California bill regulating top AI companies signed into law

The law is one of the first in the U.S. to place new regulations on AI companies.

flip.it

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 12d

I have that book! It was literally in the SAME ROOM as me as I searched online to no avail. Thanks Annie!

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