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Sharon Lurye

@sharonlurye.bsky.social
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Education data reporter for the Associated Press, occasional gardener, former math teacher, proud member of the AP News Guild. Send tips/comments/dog pics to slurye@ap.org.

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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 2h
"The credit for coming up with the research is now shared across the entire field because the machines exploit all of our ideas at once. And in their thinking, mulling, and regurgitating they even forget where the ideas they used came from."
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So...what's going to happen when a potentially nefarious AI agent tries to become the successor to any of these people?
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh, interesting -- where did you find the API?
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Unfortunately, the opposite is true: educational spaces are often highly surveilled, with thousands of schools using AI software that send up red flags if students post troubling content (including if a student types a threatening sentence in a Google Doc and then immediately deletes it.)
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Students have been called to the office — and even arrested — for AI surveillance false alarms
Surveillance systems in American schools increasingly monitor everything students write on school accounts and devices.
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alexia winterhalter @alexiawinterhalter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
october is already here and i haven’t shared one of my favourite paintings form this summer yet! this is the mont blanc from the italian side. i love the warm palette, orange mountains might be my new obsession! #art #gouache #mountainart #landscape
a gouache painting by of the mont blanc. the mountain is orange and in the background. in the foreground there are lush patches of flowers.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Example: Everyone loses their mind when they see the estimated cost of attendance at Columbia J-School. But I don't know anyone who paid the full amount listed online. They include expenses that I know for a fact *no one* paid, like $2,000 for textbooks (not a single class I took required one).
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It 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.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I saw the most sick, twisted, violent flames wars you could ever imagine on a Neopets forum.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And if you don't kill yourself, you get murdered by bandits
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 11/09/2026
I 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.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can't believe my editor made me cut the line "much like the famous tower in Italy, PISA scores are leaning"
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Families' interest in their kids' education is falling around the globe as scores drop, test shows
Families’ interest in their kids’ education is falling in many high-income countries as school systems struggle with plunging test scores.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The 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.
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Trump administration scrubs data on gender-based bullying from school civil rights survey
The 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...
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I 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.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How many cockroaches do you need to milk for a milkshake?
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Would a person running a largely AI-written news site be eligible for this tax credit?
southshore.news
Changes Coming to South Shore News
To my readers,
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wait until you work for a wire service where *other outlets* can change our headlines!
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This advice is based on observational data with n=1. Need to see a scaled RCT.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital...
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hmmm...in that case I'd say Mexico gave the best food (because it gave the world chocolate, corn and chilis) and India benefited the most (because it got potatoes and chilis).
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Is the winner the region that provided the best food or the one that received it?
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
People in Sichuan were known to like peppery flavors (e.g. Sichuan peppercorn) prior to the Columbian Exchange, so when chili showed up it was probably like the Chosen One arriving at last
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If your results had been insignificant, you could have titled it "Kumon Feel the (Statistical) Noise"
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I maintain the cultural practice of my ancestors, which is to reuse the tea bag for at least two more cups.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly was Miley's godmother so I assume she had some personal training for those parts
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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
They 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
Text about grades from MIT's report.
3.1.6. Reconsider grades and incentives
Several peer institutions recently imposed limits on the number of A’s instructors can give in a subject. We do not advocate this kind of grade rationing, in part because we expect it to be counterproductive in helping the Institute navigate the challenges of AI. Responding to an intense societal focus on credentials and grades, students who are set on maximizing their GPA have a strong incentive to use whatever means they feel are most effective to achieve that goal. Rationing top grades would intensify the temptation to cut corners on actual learning by increasing reliance on AI.

As instructors explore new forms of assessment and experiential learning activities, MIT should take this opportunity to consider what role grades play in our overall system, and if the current approach could be improved. For instance, if instructors mainly respond by putting more weight on in-class exams, there’s a risk of narrowing what the MIT credential has long signaled: that MIT students are capable of difficult, independent, and thought-intensive problem solving, not just acing exams on paper.

The committee encourages MIT to explore alternative systems of grading and assessment, including those that work in other countries (such as the UK system, which uses percentages to express relative mastery against an expert standard), and newer paradigms such as competency-based and mastery-based assessments. As one thought experiment, the committee discussed the idea that if MIT did not have grades, many of the incentives around AI cheating would disappear. Note that MIT already refrains from the common practice of awarding summa/magna/cum-laude diplomas, because we believe that earning an MIT degree stands as distinction enough.

Grades are far from the only way for students to demonstrate mastery or gauge their own progress; real-time feedback during an oral exam or presentation, or written comments reflecting …
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This design is so simple yet so good. #dataviz
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 18/08/2026
This 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": ...}.
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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 18/08/2026
Generative 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...
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Agents are where AI’s energy bill gets ugly
Generative 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.
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'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.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
One of my colleagues wrote about a college professor who did indeed bring back typewriters: apnews.com/article/type...
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A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons
Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms ...
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tip: Congress mandated increased safety standards for dressers so they would be less likely to tip over and hurt children, which impacts all dressers manufactured after September 2023. So I would NOT get a used dresser that's >3 years old. www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/...
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New Dressers Pass CR's Tip-Over Tests, but Riskier Ones Are Still for Sale - Consumer Reports
New dressers are less likely to tip over, Consumer Reports' tests found, but older and riskier dressers are still for sale from Amazon, Walmart, and other retailers.
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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 10/08/2026
BREAKING: USA Today’s journalists and media workers demand that the media company end its relationship with AI firm Palantir.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wow! That is stunning!
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Does Steve Kornacki get a pausa de hidratacion?
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It gets better: Her appointment was suggested by the inventor of the Rubik's Cube.
A screenshot of a paragraph from a Guardian article, which says: "As news emerged that Sulyok had signed the legislation, bringing an end to his time in office, Magyar proposed nominating Polgár as his replacement. The idea was first floated in an open letter signed by 16 prominent Hungarians, including Ernő Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik’s Cube."
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
There's a walking simulator called Pools and someone commented "isn't this just Piranesi" and you know, they're not wrong. www.threads.com/@allymalinen...
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Ally Malinenko (@allymalinenko) on Threads
Why is this video Piranesi and if you get what I mean we are now best friends
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thank you!
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Look, if one of the parents is an economist, there's no way you're going to parent without a spreadsheet. MANY spreadsheets. And if both parents are economists...God help us all.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The link has expired -- any chance there could be another gift link?
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
only solution: abolish time as a construct
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J. 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
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is such a good example of transparency when using AI in journalism!
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
spoiler alert: there are twists, also turns
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Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Our 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...
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
3. 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.
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Ugo Sin Hache @ugosinhache.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
IMPORTANTE. Hoy es el Día Internacional del Capibara.
Capibara con sus crías paseando entre un montón de hojas verdes.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
NAEP officials scrupulously avoid answering any questions about *why* we see the trends we do. But they did point out two things. 1, teens were in 2nd/3rd grade when the pandemic hit, while the 9-year-olds were in PreK. 2, scores started dropping after 2012 -- coinciding with the rise of screens.
Line chart shows percentage of 13-year-old students who scored 250 or higher on the NAEP Long Term Trend test in math and reading. Students at this level understand numerical operations and beginning problem solving in math and can interrelate ideas and make generalizations in reading. The percentage of students scoring at this level in math peaked at 85% in 2012 and has fallen sharply since then to 70% of 2025. 66% of students reached this level in reading in 2012, down to 58% in 2025. Line shows percentage of students who scored 200 or higher on the NAEP Long Term Trend test for reading and math. Students at this level show beginning skills and understanding in math and reading. Math and reading scores rose steadily from 1990 to 2012 then fell after that, but have risen again since 2022.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A 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.com
Teens' reading and math scores have stagnated, US test results show
Younger students have regained academic ground lost during the pandemic, but older students' test scores remain stagnant.
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Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It's soooo much fun. Tubing down the Bogue Chitto with friends in Louisiana, sharing random drinks on the water with strangers, getting massively sunburned = peak Southern experience.
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