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  1. Free Buses, Dark Screens

    On the Thursday before Labor Day, the principals of New York City's public schools opened a memo from the Education Department. The free T-Mobile internet service built into 350,000 student Chromebooks would end that Sunday, August 31. Classes begin September 10. Four days of warning, ten days of scramble, and then the school year opens on machines that still power up, still glow, and can no longer reach anything. The laptop survives. The world inside it has been repossessed. During the pandemic the city handed out some 725,000 devices and never tracked how many still function; the Chromebook program was the sequel, the do-over, the one arriving with a plan attached. The plan lasted a year. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/03/free

  2. Free Buses, Dark Screens

    On the Thursday before Labor Day, the principals of New York City's public schools opened a memo from the Education Department. The free T-Mobile internet service built into 350,000 student Chromebooks would end that Sunday, August 31. Classes begin September 10. Four days of warning, ten days of scramble, and then the school year opens on machines that still power up, still glow, and can no longer reach anything. The laptop survives. The world inside it has been repossessed. During the pandemic the city handed out some 725,000 devices and never tracked how many still function; the Chromebook program was the sequel, the do-over, the one arriving with a plan attached. The plan lasted a year. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/03/free

  3. Free Buses, Dark Screens

    On the Thursday before Labor Day, the principals of New York City's public schools opened a memo from the Education Department. The free T-Mobile internet service built into 350,000 student Chromebooks would end that Sunday, August 31. Classes begin September 10. Four days of warning, ten days of scramble, and then the school year opens on machines that still power up, still glow, and can no longer reach anything. The laptop survives. The world inside it has been repossessed. During the pandemic the city handed out some 725,000 devices and never tracked how many still function; the Chromebook program was the sequel, the do-over, the one arriving with a plan attached. The plan lasted a year. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/03/free

  4. Free Buses, Dark Screens

    On the Thursday before Labor Day, the principals of New York City's public schools opened a memo from the Education Department. The free T-Mobile internet service built into 350,000 student Chromebooks would end that Sunday, August 31. Classes begin September 10. Four days of warning, ten days of scramble, and then the school year opens on machines that still power up, still glow, and can no longer reach anything. The laptop survives. The world inside it has been repossessed. During the pandemic the city handed out some 725,000 devices and never tracked how many still function; the Chromebook program was the sequel, the do-over, the one arriving with a plan attached. The plan lasted a year. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/03/free

  5. Free Buses, Dark Screens

    On the Thursday before Labor Day, the principals of New York City's public schools opened a memo from the Education Department. The free T-Mobile internet service built into 350,000 student Chromebooks would end that Sunday, August 31. Classes begin September 10. Four days of warning, ten days of scramble, and then the school year opens on machines that still power up, still glow, and can no longer reach anything. The laptop survives. The world inside it has been repossessed. During the pandemic the city handed out some 725,000 devices and never tracked how many still function; the Chromebook program was the sequel, the do-over, the one arriving with a plan attached. The plan lasted a year. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/03/free

  6. Mathematics is the canary in the coal mine of any education system: It's a delicate pyramid that crumbles if the base is not strong.

    Using IMO results, here are the countries that improved most from 2006 to 2026 and those that declined the most. Using rank percentile within each year’s field:

    Most improved
    🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 2.2% → 69.8% (+67.6pp)
    🇲🇾 Malaysia: 22.5% → 83.6% (+61.1pp)
    🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan: 14.6% → 70.7% (+56.1pp)
    🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 11.2% → 67.2% (+56.0pp)
    🇮🇳 India: 61.8% → 94.8% (+33.0pp)

    Biggest declines
    🇲🇩 Moldova: 91.0% → 55.2% (−35.8pp)
    🇮🇹 Italy: 87.6% → 68.1% (−19.5pp)
    🇫🇮 Finland: 57.3% → 39.7% (−17.6pp)
    🇩🇪 Germany: 96.6% → 83.6% (−13.0pp)
    🇹🇼 Taiwan: 89.9% → 80.2% (−9.7pp)

    #Mathematics #MathEducation #Education #STEM #IMO #InternationalMathematicalOlympiad #MathOlympiad #EducationPolicy #Learning #AcademicExcellence #DataVisualization #EducationResearch #GlobalEducation #SchoolEducation #STEMEducation #ProblemSolving #Innovation #FutureSkills #StudentSuccess #EducationalDevelopment #MathematicsMatters #Statistics #GlobalRankings #India #SaudiArabia #Malaysia #Bangladesh #Kyrgyzstan #Finland #Germany

  7. Information Literacy Crisis Is Reshaping How Americans Decide What Is True

    Information Literacy Crisis is changing how Americans evaluate facts, making misinformation more powerful than expertise and evidence.

    thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-

  8. #OEWeek24 #FeaturedEvent

    #CCCOER Presents:
    > Updates on the U.S. Department of Education’s Negotiated Rulemaking for Automatic Billing

    ⌚ 12pm PT / 3pm ET

    Presenters:
    Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education @SPARC
    Liliana Diaz, Senior Policy Analyst @WICHE

    📝 Register: bit.ly/3P5zPaD

    #opentextbook #automaticbilling #educationpolicy