- Charter Schools Are Pushing Public Education to the Breaking Point https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/02/07/charter-schools-are-pushing-public-education-breaking-point 26 comments politics
- Poll: College educated white women back Dems by 27 points in battleground districts https://thehill.com/homenews/house/410368-poll-white-women-divided-by-politics-and-education-on-house-races 543 comments politics
- Alert: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigns after Capitol insurrection, says Trump 'rhetoric' was 'inflection point' https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/amp/alert-education-secretary-betsy-devos-resigns-15854533.php 6 comments politics
- Alert: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigns after Capitol insurrection, says Trump 'rhetoric' was 'inflection point' https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/alert-education-secretary-betsy-devos-resigns-15854533.php 13 comments politics
- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigns after Capitol insurrection, says Trump ‘rhetoric’ was ‘inflection point’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/education-secretary-betsy-devos-resigns-after-capitol-insurrection-says-trump-rhetoric-was-inflection-point/2021/01/07/cb96d106-5155-11eb-a1f5-fdaf28cfca90_story.html 19 comments politics
- New Research Debunks Republican Talking Point On Higher Education Tuition http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/09/21/889571/new-research-debunks-gop-higher-education/ 3 comments politics
- Texas conservatives have seized control of the state Board of Education, using it as a platform to rewrite education standards to reflect a more conservative, "Godly" point of view and to demand that textbooks be rewritten to conform with those standards. http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/jay-bookman/2014/sep/10/texas-bellwether-conservative-thought/ 23 comments politics
- Ivanka Trump Gets Schooled After Trying To Make A Point About Education https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-education-column_us_59d5bb93e4b0becae8025586 4 comments politics
- Ivanka Trump Gets Schooled After Trying To Make A Point About Education https://www.yahoo.com/news/ivanka-trump-gets-schooled-trying-074456344.html 59 comments politics
- 5 Points On The GOP Megadonor Trump Picked For Education Secretary http://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/trump-education-secretary-pick-betsy-devos 9 comments politics
- I know not many of you will read this powerpoint, but it points to some facts about the US education system that are positively shocking. http://www.arightdenied.org/presentation-slides/ 3 comments politics
- Turning Point USA is launching an "America-first education" program to indoctrinate 5 year olds https://substack.documented.net/p/tpusa-k12-education-culture-war 187 comments truereddit
- A 10% increase in public school spending led to ca 7% higher wages, 3.2 percentage point reduction in adult poverty and 0.31 more completed years of education http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/131/1/157.abstract?etoc 744 comments science
- Here's the text of the Latina professor booed in Arizona by a pack of morons. Can you Republicans point to what is so wrong with it? You can read it here since the booing of "educated" Arizona folk drowned it out. http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0524/arizona-professor-jeered-threatened-speaking-immigration-law/ 7 comments politics
- My sister is an archaeologist that's making an educational point-and-click adventure game/comic for kids! Let me know what you guys think... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1361047337/the-time-tribe-episodic-time-travel-adventure-game 6 comments gamedev
- Attempting to avoid LGBTQ+ issues, school districts are denying basic sexual health education. Superintendents pointed to anti-LGBTQ+ culture wars and fear of repercussions as reasons why kids are not being taught sex-ed https://azmirror.com/2024/05/28/attempting-to-avoid-lgbtq-issues-school-districts-are-denying-basic-sexual-health-education/ 13 comments politics
- We've just released our educational game about climate change in the Arctic, called The Tipping Point. We collaborated with climate researchers. The game is free, about 2 hours, and is a 3D side-scroller platformer, where you cross the collapsing ice while gathering and analyzing data. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1749030/The_Tipping_Point/ 3 comments science
- Japan education ministry's social media teacher recruiting campaign blasted ... by teachers: Campaign to spur interest in becoming school teachers under fire from those already in classroom, pointing to severe working environment of Japan's educators. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210405/p2a/00m/0na/037000c 5 comments worldnews
- NEPRA wants people with foreign degrees. whats the point of higher education in pakistan if govt agencies dont value them? https://nepra.org.pk/Careers/2021/NEPRA%20Vacancy%20Announcements%20.jpg 6 comments pakistan
- [Draymond] "At this point, I'm just trying to educate myself on all of it. I don't really understand what's going on in Hong Kong or China" [..] "I'm not knowledgeable enough to say much unless I just want to just talk to talk and I never really do that." https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/draymond-green-steve-kerr-china-hong-kong-nba-14509595.php 126 comments nba
- In Qatar, Michelle Obama Delivers Pointed Message on Women's Rights: "We cannot address our girls' education crisis until we address the cultural norms and practices that devalue women's intelligence, that silence their voices, that limit their ambitions," http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/04/politics/michelle-obama-qatar-education/index.html 14 comments politics
- The landmine in labeling someone ‘black’. "The data they collected point to whites believing that the label 'Black' evokes a mental representation of a person with lower socioeconomic status, education, positivity, competence and warmth than the label 'African-American.'" http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/esther-cepeda-the-landmine-in-labeling-someone-black/2014/12/25/7425e72a-8c9b-11e4-8ff4-fb93129c9c8b_story.html 3 comments politics
- Award winning teacher at my local HS is retiring after 33 years of teaching, and just 4 away from full retirement, because he feels that "the education system is obsessed with test scores to the point that real, meaningful learning is suffocated" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/05/26/award-winning-virginia-teacher-i-can-no-longer-cooperate-with-testing-regime/?tid=pm_local_pop 61 comments politics
- Arizona State Instructor Followed, Injured by Turning Point USA Crew. Police investigate an altercation with queer ASU educator as possible aggravated assault by an operative of the right-wing group.|| Will Turning Point USA get sued out of existence for 'watch-list' like Project Veritas? || https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/diversity-equity/2023/10/14/arizona-state-instructor-followed-injured-turning 35 comments law
- East Japan high schoolers strike to protest school reopening amid virus pandemic - The notice pointed out that the school environment is "prone to high infection risks" but that "the prefectural board of education hasn't provided any specific guidelines for infection prevention." https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200411/p2a/00m/0na/009000c 9 comments worldnews
- East Japan high schoolers strike to protest school reopening amid virus pandemic - The notice pointed out that the school environment is "prone to high infection risks" but that "the prefectural board of education hasn't provided any specific guidelines for infection prevention." https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200411/p2a/00m/0na/009000c 10 comments worldnews
- A new paper from a team of prominent economists says that a simple strategy — an SAT “bonus” of 64 to 160 points, like that effectively seen in legacy admissions — would go a long way toward decreasing economic segregation in American higher education, and give a boost to social mobility through the https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/us/sat-bonus-ivy-league.html?te=1&nl=the-upshot&emc=edit_up_20200213&campaign_id=29&instance_id=15949&segment_id=21248&user_id=b6e55f6f6979146395b2946f4fb0e01e&regi_id=6833752020200213 27 comments science
- Not 'Free Stuff,' But Public Goods: Ocasio-Cortez Denounces Neoliberal Talking Points on Publicly-Funded Education and Housing - "I never want to hear the term 'free stuff' ever again." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/25/not-free-stuff-public-goods-ocasio-cortez-denounces-neoliberal-talking-points 679 comments politics
- [Weiss] “The rules are only as good as the enforcement.” - Monty McCutchen “But like I said, that shit’s annoying.” - Terry Rozier: A deep dive into how the NBA’s new Points of Education on freedom of movement could alter the game. https://twitter.com/jaredweissnba/status/1047812781431508992?s=19 3 comments nba
- UK Labour Party Manifesto Published: Party vows to 'create a unified National Education Service (NES) for England to move towards cradle-to-grave learning that is free at the point of use' https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/may/16/general-election-2017-labour-tax-plans-manifesto-politics-live?cmp=share_androidapp_copy_to_clipboard 6 comments worldnews
- Letter from Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (main body for accrediting physicians in the United States): " we will continue to point out to the public and the profession the profound moral distress this EO has provoked within the health care community." http://www.acgme.org/portals/0/pdfs/nasca-community/nasca-letter-immigration-2-2-17.pdf 3 comments politics
- Empathy for others is affected by race but this can be modulated by a secondary cognitive response, according to a study published online this July in Neuroscience. The study points to the importance of education and social integration to overcome racism. http://www.psypost.org/2016/08/brain-signatures-detect-racially-biased-and-politically-correct-behaviors-44476 102 comments science
- Vaccination rates are plummeting at top Hollywood schools, from Malibu to Beverly Hills, from John Thomas Dye to Turning Point, where affluent, educated parents are opting out in shocking numbers. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/los-angeles-vaccination-rates/ 186 comments science
- Tamilnadu's striking progress in welfare. The better education and health outcome indicators in the southern states compared to the north, has been acknowledged for a long time. And yet to see it with one’s own eyes really drives home the point. http://www.indiatogether.org/2012/sep/gov-tnwelfare.htm 33 comments india
- Quebec Student Protests: "Canada can point to high tuition fees and ask why Quebecers aren't paying more. Or we could ask why we're paying so much. ... but it's a matter of priorities. Perhaps the rest of the country should ask itself why cheap tertiary education isn't one..." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/27/quebec-tuition-fee-protests-canada-listen?fb=native&cmp=fbcnettxt9038 157 comments worldnews
- Creationism for Credit: Alabama Blaine Galliher (r) introduced HB 133, which would “authorize local boards of education to include released time religious instruction as an elective course for high school students.” The point of the bill, he said, was to “balance” the presentation of evolution http://www.thegoodnewsclub.com/blog/2012/03/creationism_for_credit 5 comments politics
- it takes hard work, years of religious indoctrination, the failure of public education & the fulfillment of Neil Postman's prophecy about "entertaining ourselves to death" to get a country to the point where a Beck or Trump is not simply laughed off the national stage by an informed public http://frank-schaeffer.blogspot.com/2011/04/if-religion-kills-america-there-will-be.html 150 comments politics
- The fact that a 2.1 GPA in physical education gets the same or more financial aid as a 3.9 point GPA in physics, engineering or economics has caused a disaster. Increasing funding for education has greatly increased the number of college grads that work in jobs which do not require a college degree. http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/12/what_happens_when_college_is_o.html 5 comments politics
- Jindal further cutting Louisiana higher education spending to a point where some programs will have to be eliminated. What a great way to increase education in a State that constantly ranks last. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/80767257.html 14 comments politics
- "Now, the flip side is I think that the U.S.and the West generally, we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam. And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries .... http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/transcript-of-the-interview-of-the-president-by-laura-haim-canal-plus-6-1-09/ 3 comments reddit.com
