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    Is AI dulling critical-thinking skills? As tech companies court students, educators weigh the risks

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ai-critical-thinking-tech-companies-students-educators-weigh-risks/?intcmp=gift_expired Is AI dulling critical-thinking skills? As tech companies court students, educators weigh the risks In Depth Your brain on AI Will tools designed to help...
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    Teachers Are Not OK

    https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/ Teachers Are Not OK · Jun 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching." Image by Taylor Flowe on Unsplash Last month, I wrote an article about how schools were...
  3. DrBanneker

    Black male college gap driven by slower Black woman decline, not Black women gains

    Inspired by this post from @get these nets which talks about how the current Howard undergrad population is only 19% Black men. I pulled some numbers I downloaded from Department of Education tables (which I have on my drive since they may disappear soon) A lot has been discussed about male...
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    A black man explaining how he fell in to the alt right community

  5. DrBanneker

    Trump finalizing plans to shutter Department of Education

    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/03/trump-finalizing-plans-shutter-education-department-00202225 Glad I got the data for that HBCU thread two years ago. I might just download some of the DB.
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    She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity

    https://www.npr.org/2023/09/23/1199469798/youtube-star-scientist-sabine-hossenfelder She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity September 23, 2023 8:01 AM ET By Scott Neuman Theoretical physicist and YouTuber Sabine Hossenfelder, shown in a...
  7. DrBanneker

    Black men attendance fall at HBCUs -- some details

    This is a response to this thread: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/black-men-attendance-of-hbcu-declining.1060288/ I wanted to dig into the numbers there but I didn't have time. I finally got some and will talk about it here: short answer is there is a decline in Black men at HBCUs but the way...
  8. DrBanneker

    Chris Rufo to meet Trump; wants to cut 4-year college students by 1/2, withdraw any federal funds to schools with DEI/Affirmative Action programs

    WSJ article is here though you may get hit with a paywall: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/christopher-rufo-education-trump-dei-bb9e7178?st=n1dgi9 Here are highlight quotes: Note, just about all schools get federal funding for things like research, aid, etc. This would directly...
  9. Dafunkdoc_Unlimited

    Coli Parents: What's the Last FULL Book Your Children Read?

    Trying to see if something I've noticed over the years is actually happening or it's just my opinion.
  10. DrBanneker

    2023 births show Black immigrant kids will be 24% of all Blacks, over represented at high and low education next gen

    So the 2023 consolidated birth number data is out from the CDC. I was going to do a post on IR births (Blacks still lowest but fastest growing) and such but I found something interesting regarding births by education and the immigrant backgrounds of mothers. Birth certificates track whether the...
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    Ex-OpenAI and Tesla engineer Andrej Karpathy announces AI-native school Eureka Labs

    https://venturebeat.com/ai/ex-openai-and-tesla-engineer-andrej-karpathy-announces-ai-native-school-eureka-labs/ Ex-OpenAI and Tesla engineer Andrej Karpathy announces AI-native school Eureka Labs Taryn Plumb @taryn_plumb July 16, 2024 3:23 PM Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney v6...
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    Clarence Thomas rebukes Brown v. Board of Education ruling, saying, "it was a serious overreach"

    Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a strong rebuke of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling on Thursday, suggesting the court overreached its authority in the landmark decision that banned separating schoolchildren by race. Why it matters: Thomas attacked the Brown decision in a...
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    New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school

  14. RedCloakBlackWraithe

    The talmud and some of its teachings

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    Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers

    https://www.reuters.com/world/mathematics-reading-skills-unprecedented-decline-teenagers-oecd-survey-2023-12-05/ Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers By Leigh Thomas December 5, 20236:09 AM ESTUpdated 4 hours ago Schoolchildren work in a classroom on the first...
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    An American woman said she was shocked to discover that Alaska isn't actually an island, calling for an 'overhaul' of the school curriculum

    https://www.insider.com/woman-shocked-to-discover-alaska-isnt-an-island-2023-11 An American woman said she was shocked to discover that Alaska isn't actually an island, calling for an 'overhaul' of the school curriculumAimee Pearcy Nov 15, 2023, 9:35 AM EST Alaska is the largest US state...
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    An educator explains the dire situation her profession is currently in.

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    Texas state representative James Talarico explains his take on a bill that would force schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom

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    Idaho Sheriff Won’t Return Library Books He Thinks Are Obscene

    https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article279934629.html Idaho Sheriff Won’t Return Library Books He Thinks Are Obscene BY GARRETT CABEZA THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 4:17 PM Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris poses with books he said he found offensive and wants...
  20. DrBanneker

    40% of Black college grad couples' kids live in only 6 metro areas

    Everyone knows about the reverse Great Migration back South and how a few cities are the biggest beneficiaries. What you might not be aware of is that migration is heavily biased towards the young and educated. The overall migrant population is more educated than the Black community at large...
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