I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

Friends @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is doing well— she’s at home, released last night. I’ll let her speak on the ordeal when she’s ready but for now wanted to share this update.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has issued an executive order to ensure COVID vaccines are accessible to everyone and insurers continue to cover them.

“Failed to live up to the hype” is a lesson with tech that we will never learn

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

I gave my students an anti-AI spiel on the first day of our class today, and a student asked if all of us had been to a training, because all of her professors spent about 15 minutes doing the same thing this year. I told her no, but it seems like maybe the tide is turning!

We expanded who reaches 12th grade. That’s the educational miracle of the last 35 years. Today’s 12th graders aren’t 1992’s 12th graders. Beyond cohort change, this is not only a school story; adult PIAAC scores in the bottom half of the distribution have tanked, too, and that’s not about schools.

Anyone have teaching tips for a *very* small undergrad class? My junior/senior seminar may just have 4-5 students in it. Last year I had 12 students and ran it like a grad seminar, and that worked well. But this is going to be so small!

"This guide is for anyone studying or working in universities, or in research environments within healthcare, local government, NGOs, charities, or other health and social care organisations.

It is designed to help you calm, focus, connect in order to prioritise your safety, rights and wellbeing."

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Are Black students under-referred to special education?

@rachelefish.bsky.social, Kenneth Shores & @jmsoutomaior.bsky.social challenge recent claims of under-representation.

📄 Full paper here: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1227

Yet another 100% fossil-fuelled data centre site popping up - 1.4 gigawatts.

This was definitely all very predictable!!!

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

WARZEL: What if Gen AI is “just good enough, useful to many without being revolutionary? ..

“.. Good enough .. would likely mean that not enough people recognize what’s really being built—and what’s being sacrificed—until it’s too late.”

@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“the productivity gains following the introduction of LLMs in the workplace were quite small: they found only a 2.8% increase in time-savings. On the flip side, the introduction of AI tools created new work for 8.4% of these workers, including people who do not use the tools directly”

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

...oh wow

I wish this piece was on the front page and not the opinion section, because it's more fact-based than the majority of the reporting I've seen on the state of boys and men.

We urge policymakers, researchers, and education leaders to be more cautious and develop better research methods for understanding racial disproportionality in special education. The stakes are high for kids who are struggling in school - with and without disabilities.