Education Reform Thread

[archibaldcrane]

Oh yeah, Mormons are pretty racist, huh?

They disallowed black people from becoming leaders in the church until 1978, thinking that blackness was the sign of a curse.

[NotGreyheim]

They disallowed black people from becoming leaders in the church until 1978, thinking that blackness was the sign of a curse.

And I believe that in 1978, God changed his mind about black people!

Spoiler: show

[Day]

They disallowed black people from becoming leaders in the church until 1978, thinking that blackness was the sign of a curse.

well lets hear them out

[Dantrag]

[NotGreyheim]

Made it about a minute and a half before tapping out. If I convert can I get in on some of that endless celestial sex, or do I have to do the whole "BECOME AS GODS" thing first?

[Gredival]

This is also broadband news, but it is more fitting here.

Because Biden is basically trying to go straight back to what they were doing in the Obama admin before Trump took over, he wants to restart the FCC update of E-Rate from Sept 2016 (which is, itself, a follow-up to the 2013/14 facelift that Obama did) that Ajit Pai killed. Got contacted by people I was working with previously about how the program needs to be updated for the Zoom era of school.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/dhmontgomery/sta...07393520914435
https://twitter.com/ElizShockman/sta...95610211037186

Basically it means that public school's budgets will get slashed, again.

[Lokus]

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/f...ances-11981599

Florida Republicans pushing a bill to limit one of the more popular State scholarships to only majors the state deems "employable".

[Guyverarmor]

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/f...ances-11981599

Florida Republicans pushing a bill to limit one of the more popular State scholarships to only majors the state deems "employable".

See, this is where I am 50/50 on it. On the one hand, higher school of learning should be open to all fields...but at the same time, a scholarship provided by the state should be used for degrees in fields that will yield a positive result to society and the economy as a whole (Technology, Architecture for example).

[synistar]

As someone in the science field, we should not neglect college level writing. The terrible writers in the science field makes me appreciate the skill of technical writers.

[Jaybar]

I took a job for the last 3 years as an architect/engineer and the amount of technical writing was astounding. I definitely needed more time to get better at it, but happy I dont need to be writing reports anymore. College would have been a great place to learn that skill instead of on the job.

[Ksandra]

I came across this article I thought I’d share with you all as it sums up the teacher burnout that is happening:

https://toughnickel.com/finding-job/...chers-Quitting

We haven’t gotten any Covid-era statistics yet on teachers quitting, but I can say that it is definitely a factor. In general some of the problems from the article has increased significantly due to teaching during the pandemic.

I really really hope there will finally be a tipping point to start reworking what we’ve done to education.


I learned a couple weeks ago that some schools are required to give students no less than a 50% on an assignment. The kid could scribble smiley faces everywhere and they will get a 50%.


It’s because trying to go from a 0 to 70 halfway through a semester might be “too much work for the kid to handle.” Essentially finding easier ways to pass kids when they didn’t actually learn enough.


I hate to say it, but looking at the pandemic and we really should be making kids repeat grades if they did poorly during distance learning. We have to stop treating moving to the next grade as a right instead of something earned.

And there could’ve very valid and sympathetic reasons why a kid didn’t do well during distance learning, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they are not ready to move on.

[Mrbeansman]

I really wanna see the failure rate between schools who have been in person all year and remote schools I bet its pretty jarring.

[Ayn]

To some of the earlier points, as someone that's teaches writing across disciplines, yeah, kind of important.

Probably helps that I have a bunch of friends outside of the education area in various industries that are like "make sure they pay attention, I'm sick of people that can't write for a damn"

To Ksandra's article.. yeah that checks out; with the K-12 institutions that I've partnered with, it was bad years ago and it's only heightened now. One of the teachers I ran into some years back had left already I think; sucks cause she was great, but I get why she did.

[synistar]

Probably helps that I have a bunch of friends outside of the education area in various industries that are like "make sure they pay attention, I'm sick of people that can't write for a damn"

Scroll up above Ksan's post and Jay and I were just saying this lol.

Otherwise, I'm not shocked at the issues for teachers. It's a multifaceted issue that doesn't have a cure-all. I'd chime in but that article pretty much has all the commonly observed angles covered.

[Ayn]

Scroll up above Ksan's post and Jay and I were just saying this lol.

Otherwise, I'm not shocked at the issues for teachers. It's a multifaceted issue that doesn't have a cure-all. I'd chime in but that article pretty much has all the commonly observed angles covered.

Excuse my good sir but I did say friends. I am willing to include Jay on that list because his avatar frequently cracks me up.

But seriously, yeah -- it was actually both of your posts that made me chime in with that, so it was definitely nice validation.

From my own experience, when I went on interviews years ago with some tech companies they one guy basically told me "The tech-adjacent stuff in this job we can bring you up to speed on. The writing and communication stuff? You have those skills already, and we don't have time to teach people that stuff, so you're a desirable candidate"

[mallister]

my lead is barely able to write complete sentences.

yeah.

[Jaybar]

Excuse my good sir but I did say friends. I am willing to include Jay on that list because his avatar frequently cracks me up.

^_^

[Gwynplaine]

Georgia passed their new Republican voter suppression bill today and now this.

Full video here:https://t.co/JGNK2CnVdj?amp=1

https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status...307104773?s=20

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/salaam/status/13...332118016?s=20