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alisha butler

@anbutler5.bsky.social
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education policy phd | assistant professor of education studies | families, neighborhoods, and schools | runner | she/her

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Chantal Hailey @chantalahailey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Nikole Hannah Jones article has invoked a lot conversation on race, school choice for Black families. I’ve been researching how black folks choose schools for 17 years, I have a lot of nuanced thoughts. Long thread. 1/
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alisha butler @anbutler5.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Adding a recommendation for Karen Hao's Empire of AI, which was incredibly illuminating for understanding the work these companies outsource and the mental toll some of the tasks can take on workers. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569...
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Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657522 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • A New York Times Bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian, Scientific American,...
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Dear Connecticut - THIS is absurd: ctmirror.org/2026/08/24/k-1 She has NO BUSINESS ADVISING ON STATE SCHOOL FINANCE POLICY - see: schoolfinance101.com/2026/06/16/m...
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Friction emerges as K-12 education commission weighs solutions
CT's Blue Ribbon Commission on K-12 Education Funding must report recommendations by January. An expert presentation Thursday drew pushback.
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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Read Richard Lofton Jr. and Joshua Schuschke’s new article, “Passed By, Late, and Unsafe: Experiences with Public Transportation and Student Status within a Racial Quarantine” in the #HarvardEdReview’s Summer 2026 issue: bit.ly/4x9mEth
Image displaying the cover of the Summer 2026 issue of Harvard Educational Review
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New- American higher education is designed so that the academically and financially rich get richer through a well-funded education. The startling scope of this unequal structure is documented in a new study by @zbleemer.bsky.social and @jrothst.bsky.social. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/08/18/s...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
This is actually what chatgpt is for.
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Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT, Which Will Churn Out Anti-Evolution Curriculums With No Pushback
Homeschooling was already a fraught practice, even before parents began turning to ChatGPT to plan out their lessons.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Over the last couple years reading, and especially collective modes of reading, have come to mean ever more to me. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s challenge from earlier this week helped me see why. I’m going to double down on building community around books. I hope you will too.
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Neuroplasticity As A Praxis
We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy
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alisha butler @anbutler5.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Absolutely maddening
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Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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david i. backer @schooldaves.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT @derekgottliebphd.com and I are doing a podcast where we take requests and yap about your school budget kerfuffles. It's called "Budget Committee!" and we're dropping episodes soon. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1lzV...
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Budget Committee!
Education Podcast · Getting (Closer) to the Bottom of Your District's Finances
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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
School people: ICYMI, I just figured out I had a *gift link* to this article! Trump's private-school subsidy is coming January 1. The history is grim:
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Financial Hell Is About to Break Loose in American Schools
School funding is about to drop off a fiscal cliff. Costs will stay the same. What then?
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AFT @aft.org · 17/07/2026
Great conversation between @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @aaup.org member and associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware and AFT Wisconsin President Jon Shelton at the higher education breakfast this morning. Read all about it here. www.aft.org/news/practic...
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The practice of hope in higher education
Attendees at the Higher Education breakfast were treated to an inspiring conversation with Dominique J. Baker, associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware and memb...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What a tremendous interview with former FTC Commissioner Becca Slaughter and the Yale Daily News. President McInnis and the trustees come off very, very poorly. An administration that will live in infamy. yaledailynews.com/articles/alu...
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David Houston @dmhouston.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you study the politics of education (or, honestly, the politics of anything else in the U.S.), this is worth a read Jefferson helps clarify some of the issues I've been struggling with as I write a book on the causes and consequences of rising partisan conflict in K-12 education
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
New elite just dropped.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/05/2026
the clear takeaway here is that the administration wants to unlawfully seize the smithsonian and make it a temple for white supremacist “history” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...
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Curating in the Cross Hairs: Is This the Smithsonian Chief’s Last Show?
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Also for Miss Patti's birthday: The only version of the Alphabet to make you get the Holy Ghost. (Ernie gets struck like an old Black church lady in this clip.) youtu.be/G0hYxuDav0g
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Sesame Street: Patti Labelle Sings The Alphabet
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...
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Dr. Kristin Sinclair @ksinclair04.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thrilled to see this *finally* in the world and hope it provides inspiration and entry points for social studies scholars interested in taking up spatial justice in their research. As always, a pleasure to work with @timmonreal.bsky.social and Kaitlin Popielarz 💛 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The possibilities and potentials of spatial justice and social studies education research: An invitation to space
Grounded in the assumption that our worlds are inherently spatial, this conceptual article offers an invitation to meaningful dialog about how critical approaches to, and understandings of, space i...
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Happy this paper at Journal of Urban Affairs is finally out :) Planey AM, Taylor NL, Kumar AD, Cross RI, Neally S, Lewis JA, Luben TJ, Martin CL. "Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas"
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Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas
Historical manifestations of structural racism and discrimination (SRD; e.g. 1930s redlining) have been linked to current adverse health outcomes, yet less is known about linkages to present-day ne...
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alisha butler @anbutler5.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Adding Hexxus to this discussion www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVzY...
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Ferngully Toxic Love HQ
YouTube video by Razor Candy
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Wilhoit’s law remains undefeated. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...
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This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.
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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 10/03/2026
ICYMI - Great coverage of our working paper "U.S. Schools’ Proximity to Environmental Hazard Sites" in @edweek.org Full paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1384 www.edweek.org/leadership/m...
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Millions of Students Attend Schools Near Toxic Sites, a New Study Shows
The study explores schools' proximity to hazardous sites and students' exposure to pollutants.
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Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I replicated and extended @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social and @schoolfinance101.bsky.social's study on funding adequacy and school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their original study did not incorporate measures of local partisanship. I found... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Beth Schueler @bethschueler.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Deadline approaching! Apply for a postdoc role studying the politics of education policy at Stanford GSE: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Beth Schueler | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
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David Houston @dmhouston.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Great to see this paper finally in print (with my excellent co-author, Alyssa Barone)! tl;dr: When high-profile partisan officials engage in ed policy debates, the chief consequence is increased polarization among the public along partisan lines (surprising, I know) direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...
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How the Engagement of High-Profile Partisan Officials Affects Education Politics, Public Opinion, and Polarization
Abstract. What happens to public opinion when prominent partisan officials intervene in education policy debates? We analyzed the results of eighteen survey experiments conducted between 2009 and 2021...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
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After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
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alisha butler @anbutler5.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I keep thinking about how AI-in-classrooms would exacerbate inequity. Upper-middle/elite parents won't stand for their kids not having human interaction/feedback in K-16 classrooms. See e.g.: parents' growing tech resistance (h/t @ksinclair04.bsky.social) www.instagram.com/reel/DSTOhxj...
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Nicki Petrossi of the Scrolling 2 Death Podcast on Instagram: "I just interviewed Julie Frumin @healthier.tech. She had a very startling experience with her children’s school-issued devices - and thro...
A mother's shocking experience with A.I. chatbots on her child's school device raises awareness about the potential dangers of these tools in education. Learn how to identify and demand the removal of...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/12/2025
Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester. A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 19/12/2025
“I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with bars.
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National Education Policy Center @nepc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
New NEPC Talks Education podcast: Jarvis Givens highlights the experiences of Black and Native Americans in the origin story of American education @cmsaldana.bsky.social bit.ly/4afqzft
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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Jarvis Givens About His Book, American Grammar: Race, Education and The Building of a Nation
University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews Jarvis Givens about his book, American Grammar: Race, Education and The Building of a Nation, which offers a revised ...
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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
See @jamiecummins.bsky.social 's work
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AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
3/ I was then fortunate to publish my first academic article on #AI and #education with Jiseung Yoo, about the limits of LLMs and the need for embodied, acculturated human cognition. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The limits of large language models and the necessity of human cognition in K-12 education
This article explores the distinctive qualities of human cognition in comparison to large language models (LLMs), focusing on the implications of each for K-12 education. Drawing on insights from c...
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Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Now published with @anbutler5.bsky.social -- we study how development and gentrification shape the dynamics of school choice for of middle-class families in Detroit. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A map and a table showing the gentrification status of Detroit Census tracts over the 2013-2022 period.
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alisha butler @anbutler5.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Looking forward to listening! Yesterday, my seminar discussed Plyer’s legacy alongside this 2015 piece from Gonzales et al. www.harvardeducationalreview.org/content/85/3...
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Untangling Plyler's Legacy: Undocumented Students, Schools, and Citizenship
In this article, Roberto G. Gonzales, Luisa L. Heredia, and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales present a nuanced assessment of how undocumented immigrant students in the United States experience the public edu...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
If you have absolutely nothing good to say about A.I. come and sit by me. www.thewrap.com/emma-thompso...
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Emma Thompson Explodes in Rage Over the 'Intense Irritation' of AI: 'Will You F--k Off?!' | Video
Emma Thompson made it clear she was not a fan of artificial intelligence during her latest appearance on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert."
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"Academic freedom is not negotiable." WAHOOWA! And [deepest sigh ever because wow I disliked my PhD] Anchor Down. (Sharing screenshots with alt)
Picture of an Instagram post that reads: Joint Statement on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. Signed by Student Government Representatives of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Virginia,
University of Arzona, Dartmouth College, University of
Pennsylvania, Brown University, and Vanderbilt University.

Screenshot of Instagram post which reads:

On October 1st, 2025, the White House sent the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education to our seven universities, outlining expectations universities must meet to continue receiving federal benefits.

Although the compact's full implications remain unclear, the document outlines unprecedented expectations universities must meet to receive federal benefits. This could
systemically alter the mission of higher education and erode the independence that has long
defined our universitics. We must not allow these attempts to control what can be taught, studied, or spoken on our campuses.

Our universities represent the full spectrum of American higher education, from liberal arts
colleges to leading research institutions. As students this directly impacts us, and thus, our
voices must be heard. We know firsthand that institutional autonomy is instrumental to the perpetuation of innovation and progress. As the Compact itself acknowledges, "American higher education is the envy of the worid and represents a key strategic benefit for our Nation," yet the document undermines the very principles that make this statement true. Our administrations have been presented with a false choice between their commitments to knowledge and education and our access to the resources that sustain them. To preserve our status as world leaders in education, we must remain true to the foundation of academic freedom that has propelled us forward.

As student representatives, we stand in united opposition to the outlined conditions. We call on our community of students, faculty, alumni, and leadership to reaffirm our commitment to reject political interference and federal overreach. Academic freedom is not negotiable.

Ends with student names and institutions
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David Houston @dmhouston.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Supported by both the Fordham Institute and @wallacefoundation.bsky.social, Michael Hartney and I explored the extent to which U.S. school board members are politically and demographically representative of the communities they serve. Here's a summary of our main findings: 1/12
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Sarah W. Lenhoff @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
📢 Job Posting! 📢 We are hiring TWO postdocs at Detroit PEER at Wayne State (detroitpeer.org)! We are looking for one quant/mixed methods expert and one qual/mixed expert to work with me & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social on attendance research. Apply by Oct. 10, but flexible on start date! Please share!
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Detroit PEER Postdoc Job Description 2025.pdf
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alisha butler @anbutler5.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Folks teaching ed policy/politics this semester: One of my usual first-day activities is to discuss Henig's Reading the Future of Education Policy. 12 years after that piece...::waves hands:: What are your favorite short readings about education policy/politics post-2020? #edusky #academicsky
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Since tomorrow is Labor Day and school is in session, I'd like to argue (again) that teaching about GenAI should include discussion of the extractive, exploitative labor conditions that make the technology possible. 🧵
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Evan Yeats @evanyeats.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Indistinguishable from the Trump agenda for schools.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/08/2025
Look at Gregg’s face for that half second before he hit the button and tell me he’s not both shocked but also making all the same jokes we are in that particular instant.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups called on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection, to protect student protesters and others from government retaliation apnews.com/article/coll...
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Privacy and civil rights groups urge US colleges to end campus surveillance to protect protesters
A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups is calling on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection in order to protect student protesters from government ...
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alisha butler @anbutler5.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Lots of rambling thoughts, but this strikes me as another way that the push for AI in education is going to widen equity gaps. Students with the know-how to attend office hours/have access to writing centers and the like will get actual assistance. Everyone else gets whatever this is.
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Grammarly says its AI agent can predict an A paper
AI student agents vs AI educator agents, fight!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Once again, there is <no plan> for how to backfill 15-25% of the budget of every R1 university in the country, & 👇 is coming for every institution & voters/parents/students have no idea what this will mean in terms of courses/degrees/opportunities that will no longer exist. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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