**2024 NAEP Reading Scores Decline, Adding to a Decade of Declines**
“_Average reading scores declined in 2024 for students in 4th grade and 8th grade by 2 points nationally, compared to 2022._”
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I don't think most observers, even those who understand the importance of propaganda to the rise of Trumpism in US political life, understand how important the establishment of a state of false "unreality" is to an ongoing fascist project. You can learn a lot about how this works by studying interwar Germany and the rise of the Nazi party, but since mainstream understanding of Nazism in broader US society pretty much doesn't start until Hitler invaded Poland, or worse, the Nazi regime started conducting the Holocaust, the extreme lengths fascists in Germany went to propagandize to and indoctrinate people, young people in particular, is rarely examined to provide context to our modern "fascist moment" under Trump. This has created a media environment where even the most crass, pro-Trump cult of personality propaganda efforts are reported mostly in the context of flattering Downmarket Mussolini's massive ego, with little focus on the downstream cultural effects of these efforts to mainstream fascist ideology, glorify a would-be dictator, and alter the understood historical record of our society.
This lack of attention to historically documented details is also exacerbated by the very human tendency to externalize our experiences; because most adult observers in our discourse understand Trump cultists are lying, even folks who continue to actively support the regime, the assumption is that other people also know that these distortions, lies, and revisions are propaganda too. The problem with this theory is that is presumes a well informed US public, and in particular it totally ignores young people who are not necessarily equipped with the baseline knowledge and lived experience that allows them to identify propaganda, fascist or otherwise.
You know who doesn't ignore the malleability of young people's opinions when they don't have the knowledge or lived experience to know they're being manipulated? Fascist regimes, including fascist regimes like the one Trump is running. In fact, they're actively relying on indoctrinating young people to generate long term support for their enforced unreality and a permanently-fascist society. Which is of course why recent reports that the GOP controlled government of Oklahoma will begin teaching Trump's "big lie" about the 2020 election being stolen (among many other ahistorical obscenities') as fact, should alarm the crap out of you.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/oklahoma-high-schools-election-conspiracy-theories
Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact
"After a group of parents, educators and other Oklahoma school officials worked to develop the new social studies standards, Walters assembled an executive committee consisting mostly of out-of-state pundits from conservative thinktanks to revise them. He said he wanted to focus more on American exceptionalism and incorporate the Bible as an instructional resource.
Among those Walters appointed to the review committee were Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and a key figure in its Project 2025 blueprint for a conservative presidential administration, and Dennis Prager, a radio talkshow host who founded Prager U, a conservative non-profit that offers “pro-American” educational materials for children that some critics say are not accurate or objective.
In a statement to the Associated Press, Walters defended teaching students about “unprecedented and historically significant” elements of the 2020 presidential election."
Folks who aren't familiar with politics in Oklahoma or unhinged fascist cultists who worship Trump may not be familiar with state school superintendent Ryan Walters, but calling him an "ideologue" really doesn't cover how committed to the Trump regime's enforced unreality he is. This is the guy behind Oklahoma's wasteful and corrupt purchase of Trump-branded Bibles, as well as a Project 2025 style plan to restore "religious education" to Oklahoma public schools; he's also a big proponent of new innovations in making taxpayers support religious charter schools.
As the article notes, in addition to teaching the Big Lie as fact, Oklahoma schools, Walters also wants to teach kids that Covid came from a lab in China and "remove education about Black Lives Matter and George Floyd’s murder," just in case you were worried he might not be racist enough. In other words, it's safe to say that indoctrinating kids with horrifying reactionary ideas that support an objectively fascist agenda, is pretty much Ryan's jam.
Finally it should be noted that teachers in Oklahoma told The Guardian that these guidelines still leave room to teach kids the truth; but I think that's a rather naïve position that ignores the purpose of this project. Fascists in Oklahoma are establishing an official narrative for reality, and you can bet your ass that they're not going to tolerate public workers teaching in opposition to that "reality" for long.
The Guardian · Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact
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“_The process of writing — not the final product — is what sharpens our logical reasoning and self-expression. For students who don’t use AI in smart ways, the result is essays that are all product, no process — and no process means no real learning._”
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Mashable · I'm a college professor. My advice to young people who feel hooked on tech
Has anyone heard any new news on #ERIC, the #Education #research database? Last I heard (Apr. 28th), the contract with ACM was renewed, but I've heard nothing about whether IES plans to stop indexing certain #journals. Previous reports had said cuts of up to 45% were planned.
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Also, if anyone thinks I’m missing any hashtags I should be using please do shout!
#EduBlogger #education #edutoot #edutooter #edutooters #educationuk #teaching #Igbtq
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Year 11 gain time creeping in so actually getting time to get some blogposts written. It’s been a while but got a few on the go and hope to get back to posting in the next few days. In the meantime do catch up on some of the old ones here…
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Defense Department schools for service members’ children are removing books the Trump administration doesn’t like. Some military parents are objecting, saying that will hurt education. #DEI #Trump #education
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The Christian Science Monitor · Some military parents say DEI purge hurts their kids’ schools. They’re suing.
Featured story, from @josephinelee: The Observer carried out a wide-ranging investigation into whether Texas Partnerships, state-backed charter arrangements. have actually benefited Lone Star State kids in struggling schools. The results were troubling. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-partnerships-sb-1882-charter-schools/
The Texas Observer · Texas Already Gives Public Ed Dollars to Private Operators. Here's How That Worked Out.The state created “Texas Partnership” charter schools to turn around struggling public campuses, but an Observer investigation has uncovered numerous academic and financial issues.
The lobbying behind Brazil’s booming distance education sector
#politics #brazil #education
https://valorinternational.globo.com/commentary/bruno-carazza/commentary/the-lobbying-behind-brazils-booming-distance-education-sector.ghtml?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=compartilhar
valorinternationalThe lobbying behind Brazil’s booming distance education sectorPrivate groups resist new regulation aiming to raise training standards and curb low-quality online degrees
America's College Towns Go From Boom To Bust - America's regional state universities are experiencing steep enrollment declines, ... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/20/1554221/americas-college-towns-go-from-boom-to-bust?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #education
After a few weeks off for upkeep, Max’s Mobile Museum #M3 from the Western Science Center is back in action! Today we’re visiting Alta Murrieta Elementary in Murrieta CA! #scicomm #museums #education #paleontology #fossils
#Companies from high #income countries are responsible for 700% more #environmental conflicts in low & middle income countries than companies from #China are.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378025000433
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Explanation:
What shines in the world at night? Just visible to the eye, a rare electric blue glow spread along the shores of Victoria Lake on January 16, 2013. Against reflections of a light near the horizon, this digitally stacked long exposure recorded the bioluminescence of Noctiluca scintillans, plankton stimulated by the lapping waves. Above, the night skies of the Gippsland Lakes region, Victoria, Australia shine with a fainter greenish airglow. Oxygen atoms in the upper atmosphere, initially excited by ultraviolet sunlight, produce the more widely seen fading atmospheric chemiluminescence. Washed out by the Earth's rotation, the faint band of the southern summer Milky Way stretches from the horizon as star trails circle the South Celestial Pole.
One superintendent said the Senate #education bill was like “your house being on fire and the fire department showing up with a 12 ounce cup of water, throwing it at your house and saying, ‘See, look how much good we’ve done.’” https://www.texasobserver.org/school-districts-senate-finance-plan/
The Texas Observer · Texas School Districts Slam the Senate’s School Finance Plan“It’s like your house being on fire, and the fire department showing up with a 12 ounce cup of water”
𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: "𝑬𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎" - 𝑵𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔 -
For years, my entire pedagogical philosophy has been captured on my automobile license plate. Let me explain. . . .
https://waywordsstudio.com/essay/education-is-freedom-nine-answers/
Please boost, this is for a kid! (Potentially long post)
I am teaching a well spoken 10 year old kid on how to read and write, he's been struggling with it for a while now evidently.
The kid knows his phonics in a way that he would be able to recall the letter in requirement in response to being given a sound but struggles to come up with the letter for the spelling of words by himself.
He eventually gets the spellings for the words correct after lots of guidance, but it takes more help than is available in the real world. He would regularly spell a completely different word if given a word to spell out, for eg: he loves to spell out "t h a t" when given "t h e y" or "t h e r e" (when given the whole world and not its phonic explosion. He would also give me letters for a spelling for which no sound has been uttered by me (which would suggest that he needs to work on his phonics but when he pays attention it shows that he has his phonics right to the core when asked questions such as "what letter makes the ***given*** sound?"))
I've completed the various sounds that the alphabets make by themselves and when used with "h", for example how "phone" starts with the sound of "f" because of the use of "h" with "p". And that has certainly helped him attempt to come up with the spellings. I've been working on sight words as of right now and am hoping to start dictating whole sentences for him to write (he does this already with his parents and I've done so atleast once with him).
There is some signs of attention deficiency in his evaluations but nothing as concrete as to diagnose him with ADD or ADHD has come up yet. In short he hasn't yet been diagnosed with anything so far.
I'm wondering what proactive steps i could take to help this kid as a first time tutor, feel free to ask me any questions about him.
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The Critical #AI Literacy module that was co-developed by our librarians is now openly available:
https://maken.wikiwijs.nl/217082/Critical_AI_Literacy#!page-8294070
The module is designed to help foster a critical and reflective mindset regarding novel AI technologies, with a specific focus on text-based generative AI technologies such as #ChatGPT.
Aditionally, they have published all the materials to recreate this course openly licensed on EduSources:
wikiwijsCritical AI Literacy - Wikiwijs MakenDit is een Wikiwijs versie van de Critical AI Literacy module van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, oorspronkelijk beschikbaar gemaakt op de Brightspace omgeving van RUG.
De module behandelt de werking
De module is oorspronkelijk gemaakt door Lilian Tabois, Martijn Blikmans-Middel, Alicia Streppel, Rob Nijenkamp en Yvonne de Jong. Deze Wikiwijs versie is gemaakt door Martijn Blikmans-Middel
A Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.
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The Garrison School is part of a special education district that had students arrested at the highest rate in the country. It had pledged to change how it disciplines kids after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation and subsequent federal probe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/garrison-school-illinois-autistic-student-dragged-ankle?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
ProPublicaA Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.
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