#k12-education — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #k12-education, aggregated by home.social.
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🎓 Breaking news: Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA is infiltrating K-12 schools with more #buzzwords than a corporate PowerPoint presentation! 🤡 Because nothing says "student well-being" like politicizing recess and turning nap time into a debate on fiscal responsibility. 🙄
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/how-charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa-is-expanding-its-reach-to-k-12-schools/2025/09 #TurningPointUSA #K12Education #Politicization #StudentWellBeing #NapTimeDebate #HackerNews #ngated -
Turning Point USA Is Expanding Its Reach to K-12 Schools
#HackerNews #TurningPointUSA #K12Education #SchoolReform #EducationPolicy #YouthEngagement
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I spent about a month working with Claude Code to create a high-low book for #AdultEnglishLearners. It is about the fictional Rivera García family and should work with high school #EnglishLearners also because the family in the story includes 3 children, including one in high school.
The book is written at about a 3rd or 4th grade level.
I would very much appreciate any feedback.
#ESL #k12education #k12 #education #ESOL #teaching #reading #writing
https://www.chrisspackman.com/writings/high-low-series/01-la-cocina.html
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At a school district I worked at, a school board member was found to be sexting a student. Your local school board is not composed of academically minded people - they're mostly local business leaders ensuring they get a cut of district contracts.
And a lot of pedophiles.
‘God, you’re hot’ Tennessee school board member says to student during board meeting
https://www.wsmv.com/2026/04/06/god-youre-hot-tennessee-school-board-member-says-student-during-board-meeting/#education #publiceducation #schoolboard #boardofeducation #k12education #k12 #localgovernment
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I think my #OhioTesolConference presentation went well today. About 60 or 70 attendees.
Some had trouble with the spreadsheet and script, but they can now at least create multilingual #Google Forms by hand. I also demo'ed 3 languages together in questions and using sections & jump logic for several languages in one Form.
No time to talk about collating data spread b/t several columns or files.
Tomorrow: re-leveling and enhancing readings.
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Putting the finishing touches on my #OhioTesolConference presentations for tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow is family engagement with #MultiLingual #GoogleForms during the B time slot.
Friday is re-leveling texts with #AI / #LLMs, but it went more to #VibeCoding to enhance texts. Sort of the reverse of re-leveling.
Re-leveling is lowering the complexity of the text.
Enhancing is adding supports so students can access the original text.
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Imagine using technology to relax instead of rush! 🌿 Digital Mindfulness Gardens let students create calm digital spaces with soothing sounds and visuals. They turn tech into a tool for peace, focus, and emotional growth. A modern, mindful trend for today’s learners. 💻✨
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Scott Aaronson's blog post takes us on a bizarre journey where quantum computers don’t magically fix problems, and somehow pivots to K12 education #reform 🧙♂️🔮. Meanwhile, the dramatic narrative about a murderous past reads like a rejected Hollywood script 🤦♂️.
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9082 #quantumcomputing #K12education #storytelling #ScottAaronson #bizarrejourney #Hollywoodscript #HackerNews #ngated -
Took the midterm test for the #CyberSecurity class that I'm taking (so can teach college level classes at #HighSchool).
Went well, but not great. 7 long-answer questions, worth 17, 18, or 20 points each. 135 points total.
I should get full points on at least 3 of them. Decent points on 2 or 3 more. One or two, I'll probably only get half points or so. Won't know for a while, so not going to sweat it.BTW, MA-level class; I'm #ESOL.
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A bill banning Diversity, Equity and Inclusion work in Texas' K-12 schools is on its way to the governor's desk.
#Education #EducationNews #LGBTQ #News #Politics #Texas #89thTexasLegislature #DiversityEquityAndInclusion #K12Education #Lgbt #TexasLegislature #TexasPublicSchools
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After weeks of negotiation, a panel of Texas senators met Thursday to discuss a multifaceted public education finance package that would dedicate an additional $8 billion to Texas public schools.
#Education #News #Politics #K12Education #KUT #SchoolFunding #SpecialEducation #TeacherPay
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The Texas House is currently debating Senate Bill 2 on the floor. If passed, the contentious proposal would create a $1 billion dollar Education Savings Account plan allowing parents to use public funds towards private school tuition.
#Education #News #Politics #DustinBurrows #GregAbbott #K12Education #KUT #PreK #PresidentDonaldTrump #SchoolFunding #SchoolVouchers #TeacherPay
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Two key pieces of education legislation cleared preliminary hurdles in the Texas House on Thursday, but not before sparking spirited debate among lawmakers, including complaints about a lack of transparency around the process.
#Education #News #Politics #K12Education #SchoolFunding #SchoolVouchers
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Turning 80-ish (usa letter-sized) pages of reading into Google Slides so students can read more comfortably on their Chromebooks.
I really wish I could just use an HTML page, but last I looked Google Drive won't display HTML files as web pages.
I suppose I could make it 8.5x5.5 landscape PDF, but not sure how well that would work on their screens.
Any thoughts?
(Reading started in #TexLatex, so I can #pandoc it into just about anything.)
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The Texas House filed a bill last week that sets out a plan to allow parents to use state funds to pay for private school tuition.
#Education #EducationNews #News #K12Education #KUT #SchoolVouchers #TexasLegislature
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From what I've read elsewhere, PowerSchool paid the ransom and watched the hackers "delete the data" live on a videoconference. Uh huh, yeah sure, the data was deleted 🙄
PowerSchool breach worse than thought, company says "all" student and teacher data accessed
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/powerschool-breach-worse-than-thought-company-says-all-student-and-teacher-data-accessed#databreach #powerschool #k12education #k12sysadmin #k12schools #education #studentprivacy #infosec
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Teaching about slavery in schools and doing it well isn’t just about teaching the harshness of slavery. And educators can make #Juneteenth about so much more than the end of slavery.
Today’s holiday offers abundant opportunities to teach about what it means to fight for freedom and maintain a sense of self-determination in the face of oppression.
https://theconversation.com/juneteenth-offers-new-ways-to-teach-about-slavery-black-perseverance-and-american-history-206056
#BlackMastodon #Education #K12education #Histodons @histodons -
“More than half of the increase in segregation in the 2000s can be attributed to the rise of charter schools, whose numbers began to increase rapidly in the late 1990s. In many cases, either white or Black families flocked to different charter schools, leaving behind a less diverse student body in traditional public schools.”
#CharterSchools #segregation #k12education
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-5-takeaways-segregation-70-years-after-brown/ -
Recent YouGov surveys show 35% of American workers are concerned about AI impacting their jobs. Additionally, 21% believe K-12 students should learn AI skills. The debate on AI's role in education and employment continues.
#AIImpact #JobConcerns #EducationReform #YouGov #Future #AISkills #K12Education #Workforce #JobLoss #jobcuts #Education #CareerPreparation #AIAdvancements #Disruption #EducationDebate #AIandJobs #EmploymentTrends #AIEducation #YouGovData #TechImpact #AmericanWorkers
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#Schools will go all in on #AI. Every vendor is pushing their "cutting-edge" AI "tools." Administrator conferences are full of AI hype. They'll fall for it like they've fallen for every #edtech fad for as long as I've been doing this (~30 years). If you don't know how to ask, "How, exactly, will this help our students learn and grow? Why is it an improvement?" and interrogate the answers, you will fall for any hyped-up nonsense that comes your way. #K12 #k12education
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Anyone have advice on speech to text specifically for math and math equations? #math #k12education #assistivetechnology
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High school teacher and students sue over Arkansas' ban on critical race theory | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/critical-race-theory-arkansas-huckabee-sanders-lawsuit-65dc017adfd53114be703bc1e6fb5634
#arkansas #arpx #ArkansasPolitics #CriticalRaceTheory #education #woke #k12education #k12schools #academicfreedom #blackhistory #teaching #teacher -
Proposed Missouri bill would make teachers register as sex offenders if found supporting transgender students who socially transition | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/us/missouri-lawmakers-felony-transgender-students-reaj/index.html #lgbt #transrights #Christiannationalism #education #teachers #transyouth #k12schools #k12education -
More Arkansas school districts hiring unlicensed teachers to cope with staff shortage - Arkansas Times
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/03/04/more-arkansas-school-districts-hiring-unlicensed-teachers-to-cope-with-staff-shortage
#arkansas #education #k12schools #schools #k12education #teachers #teaching #Teacherpay #teachershortage #arpx #arpolitics #ArkansasPolitics -
Parents, you should be concerned about this adaptation of our schools into job training centers.
Education does not exist to train workers or scholars. It exists to create better humans who then want to make a better future.
#education #parenting #schools #jobtraining #k12education #k12schools
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America underfunds its schools, and an entire vulture industry now exists to exploit children to sell their wares while giving the schools pennies on the dollar.
Why do schools in the U.S. rely on kids to raise money? : Planet Money : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1197958355/school-fundraisers #education #funding #k12education #vulturecapitalism #capitalism #children -
To Fix U.S. Education, Free Our Teachers
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonbusteed/2024/02/23/to-fix-us-education-free-our-teachers/ #education #k12education #k12learning #k12 #learning #teachers #teacherstrike #teaching -
I am definitely not going to teach *2* extra classes on top of my regular #k12Education job ever again. Until the next time, that is.
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Published "ELA Journal, Day 3" of my AI in #education near-future #scifi short story. The assignment, and the story, ends with Day 7.
After a short rant from the protagonist, it introduces a few more characters as well as the open source group working on Nnedi's AI.
I think I have a clearer idea of where this story is going. Work on Day 4 is progressing well.
https://www.osugisakae.com/blog/ai-future-day-03.html
(Start at Day 1 if you haven't read yet.)