Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 15hIt baffles me that colleges scare so many students off of even applying by showing the full sticker price without the added context that most students pay nowhere near this amount. 220
Reposted by Sharon LuryeJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 11/09/2026I banned Meta glasses in my classes because students told me they are hesitant to speak up and engage if they think they’re being recorded. Apple releasing this feature is just another tech company setting off yet another bomb on young people trying to learn things and join society. Really gross. 220273
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Can't believe my editor made me cut the line "much like the famous tower in Italy, PISA scores are leaning"apnews.comFamilies' interest in their kids' education is falling around the globe as scores drop, test showsFamilies’ interest in their kids’ education is falling in many high-income countries as school systems struggle with plunging test scores. 041
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Trump administration suppressed every single datapoint related to nonbinary students in the nation's most important and comprehensive database on educational opportunity, including questions meant to hold schools accountable for bullying and harassment based on gender identity.apnews.comTrump administration scrubs data on gender-based bullying from school civil rights surveyThe Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender ident... 010
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I think my favorite study here is the one where they had people step on venomous snakes to find out which conditions were most likely to provoke a snake bite. Spoiler alert: don't step on a venomous snake. 000
Reposted by Sharon LuryeMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This advice is based on observational data with n=1. Need to see a scaled RCT. 121756
Reposted by Sharon LuryeJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital... 24934293
Reposted by Sharon LuryeJosh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026They make some stellar recommendations, including a whole section on grades. I'm going to post a screenshot of the section here, and then add some commentary about different pieces of it. 2/x 39728
Reposted by Sharon LuryeColin @colin-fraser.net · 18/08/2026This is not quite right. The interchangeability of words or lack thereof is already expressed by the model, independently of watermarking. The model always generates text by randomly sampling from P(next word | "The weather was cold and") = {"grey": .192382, "overcast": .13929, "wet": ...}. 3976
Reposted by Sharon LuryeJon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 18/08/2026Generative AI’s per-query footprint can be small compared to flying, eating meat, or even Zoom. Until agents show up and compute goes through the roof. How I updated my AI footprint calculator accordingly jonippolito.substack.com/p/agents-are...jonippolito.substack.comAgents are where AI’s energy bill gets uglyGenerative AI’s per-query footprint can be small compared to flying, eating meat, or even Zoom. Until agents show up and compute goes through the roof. 2145
Reposted by Sharon LuryeMegan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I'm going to talk to a huge range of people for this book: teachers, parents, students, scholars, founders, and more. If you're interested in chatting with me about literacy education, please please please get in touch! readingmachinebook@gmail.com. 94210
Reposted by Sharon LuryeThe NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 10/08/2026BREAKING: USA Today’s journalists and media workers demand that the media company end its relationship with AI firm Palantir. 329479
Reposted by Sharon LuryeEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Does Steve Kornacki get a pausa de hidratacion? 1029532
Reposted by Sharon LuryeJ. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026[shows a map of earliest sunsets under permanent standard time] everyone boos [shows a map of latest sunrises under permanent daylight time] everyone boos [suggests we keep changing the clock twice a year] everyone boos 2143
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This is such a good example of transparency when using AI in journalism! 030
Reposted by Sharon LuryeNolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Our society has associated surveillance with security (CCTV) and with love (bluetooth tags) for so long that tech companies are betting (perhaps correctly?) that people prefer being surveilled to being ignored... 624241
Reposted by Sharon LuryeEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/20263. Very few film scripts are composed entirely in Homeric Greek. In fact, I can't think of any. That's a shame, but also understandable. It would be quite unlikely to do well at the box office. 570648
Reposted by Sharon LuryeUgo Sin Hache @ugosinhache.bsky.social · 10/07/2026IMPORTANTE. Hoy es el Día Internacional del Capibara. 19592184
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A surprising age gap has emerged: 9-year-olds' test scores are growing in math and reading, while 13-year-olds are stagnating. Their reading scores are basically at the same level now that they were in 1971 when the NAEP Long-Term Test started.apnews.comTeens' reading and math scores have stagnated, US test results showYounger students have regained academic ground lost during the pandemic, but older students' test scores remain stagnant. 100
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 09/06/2026AP added the name of journalist Mariam Dagga to its wall of honor last month. My son had just been born when she was killed in an Israeli airstrike of a Gaza hospital. It was so painful for me to think about the son that Mariam left behind. Keep her memory alive. 020
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 01/06/2026An ironic correction to an article about the winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. 041
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Burger King is "piloting an AI assistant, called “Patty,” that lives inside employees’ headsets" and "listens to employees to evaluate them for friendliness. That means tracking whether they say “welcome to Burger King,” “please,” and “thank you.”" 000
Reposted by Sharon Luryeryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/05/2026fuckin crazy story. some Ukrainian kid probably saved his whole family from being killed by a Russian drone murder squad by spotting and cutting the fiber optic connection www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...washingtonpost.comIn northern Ukraine, it was boy vs. Russian drone. The boy won.A soldier taught a 12-year-old how to disable the fiber-optic drones that Russia has been using to hunt Ukrainian civilians in a campaign the U.N. has labeled a war crime. 91359359
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 14/05/2026600+ people in a PA school district have signed a petition supporting parents' rights to opt their children out of school devices. They're not anti-tech -- they just don't want tech to dominate. “Teaching how to use technology is not the same thing as using technology to teach everything else."apnews.comSome parents don't want their kids to use tech at school. But districts are pushing backParents across the country who are worried about excessive screen time in schools are lobbying educators to go back to pencils and paper. 010
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 13/05/2026NEW: America's literacy crisis is growing. Only five states, plus D.C., have made any meaningful improvement in reading scores since 2022. What those states all had in common: science of reading reforms. But it's not a silver bullet.apnews.comKids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to declineResearchers are warning that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession, a slide that predates the COVID-19 pandemic. 100
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Really like how they built "Size of Canada / Size of Alaska" into the y-axis! 120
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Disappointing to see people on this website unaware of the greatest piece of investigative journalism of our generation.grubstreet.comThe Very Real, Totally Bizarre Bucatini Shortage of 2020What the hole is going on? 073
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 07/05/2026If anyone happens to know someone who won 4th place in an Olympic event and/or has been divorced more than three times -- hit me up. 100
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The federal government has always been incredibly slow to update education data but now we'll likely be waiting even longer. All this data is still out there but siloed across states and districts, making it a laborious task to collect and harmonize. 010
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Fellow data journos! Does anyone know an example of a newsroom AI guidance/ethics document specifically made for data journalism teams? I have found plenty of examples for newsrooms as a whole, but not data journalism-specific. 100
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Black students were told they have a "powerful" "personal story," Hispanic students were told to use "proper" English and girls were told "I love your confidence!" -- fascinating writeup by @jillbarshay.bsky.social about how AI grades student essays hechingerreport.org/proof-points...hechingerreport.orgAI gives more praise, less criticism to Black studentsA Stanford experiment found that AI feedback shifts on identical essays depending upon the identity and characteristics of the student. 031
Reposted by Sharon LuryeAP NewsGuild @apnewsguild.bsky.social · 22/04/20261/3 “News doesn’t reveal itself from a distance. It has to be witnessed.” AP Executive Editor Julie Pace affirmed the importance of “eyewitness journalism,” while AP is offering buyouts to more than 120 U.S. guild covered employees across multiple formats. How can AP be on the ground without us? 1913
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 09/04/2026School districts across the Twin Cities area saw absenteeism spike during the ICE crackdown. In St. Paul, over 9,000 students were absent in mid-January; Minneapolis had over 8,000 students stay home in one day; Fridley saw attendance drop by nearly a third.apnews.comMinnesota districts ask judge to restore limits on immigration enforcement near schoolsTwo Minnesota school districts and the state’s main teachers union have asked a federal judge to block a Trump administration change in policy that gave immigration authorities a freer hand to conduct... 010
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 09/04/2026When you see Drs. Abbot, Shen or Ellis show up on the Pitt 010
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Do yourself a favor today and check out the STUNNING photos and videos in this AP story on Indonesia's coral reefs: apnews.com/article/clim...apnews.comOcean protections clash with mining pressure in Indonesia's most diverse marine ecosystemThere is an explosion of color beneath the surface in Raja Ampat. The remote archipelago is in eastern Indonesia where sharks, reef mantas and sea turtles glide alongside vast schools of fish through ... 111
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 03/04/2026"The failures are the curriculum. The error messages are the syllabus. Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn't leave you diminished..." 021
Reposted by Sharon LuryeCameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026This is so, so well-articulated. 97107663882
Reposted by Sharon LuryeAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Genuinely one of the best parts of my job is that I get to wander around the Terminal. For instance I was testing out the mapping function and in the process learned that the Waffle House location with the highest revenue in the country is the one near Arizona State's campus 29115985
Reposted by Sharon LuryeRJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 02/04/2026I went looking for one Japanese chart book and ended up with 19 prewar volumes, a new collecting method, and a stronger conviction that graphic history is far from fully known. www.chartography.net/p/ascending-...chartography.netAscending into the Realm of Japanese ChartsA prewar collection crosses the Pacific. 44514
Reposted by Sharon LuryeMatt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 17/03/2026New— The backlash to ed-tech is growing, with some prominent voices making the case that it's at the root of recent learning declines. I took a look at the evidence. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/03/17/j...chalkbeat.orgA viral anti-screen argument is shaking schools. The evidence is more complicated.A neuroscientist’s warning about ed-tech is spreading fast with parents and lawmakers. But the research is more nuanced and up for debate. 1236
Reposted by Sharon LuryeJoshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 30/03/2026🚨New working paper alert! 🚨 The US spends huge $ on special education services for students with disabilities. Is that spending effective? Today we released a working paper suggesting it is. "Special Education Substantially Improves Learning: Evidence from Three States" Let me explain... 522291
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 16/03/2026I was using ChatGPT to help write some code, but when I pointed out an error, it bugged out and starting writing to me in Japanese. That’s what you call…the Ghost in the Shell. 021
Reposted by Sharon LuryeMark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...fortune.comThe U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | FortuneNeuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.” 8025971136
Reposted by Sharon Luryee.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/02/2026US Government Deploys Elon Musk’s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables ok, that's enough 2026 for today futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comUS Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of VegetablesThe US government deployed xAI's Grok to give dietary advice -- and it's giving some eyebrow-raising advice. 1419252
Reposted by Sharon LuryeAnn Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 16/02/2026VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here! New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more! edopportunity.org/segregation/edopportunity.orgThe Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking ProjectUse our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community. 112558
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 16/02/2026If you feed a mess of notes into a machine, and you don't know what you want to say, you will produce confused garbage. If you know what you want to say, craft your notes in an organized fashion so that the machine produces a coherent article...that's writing. You've only saved yourself some typing. 150