DrALJONES
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

The billionaires called it an "excess of democracy", & they worked out how to defeat it:

THE PLAN

In 1975, Samuel P. Huntington said the "excess of democracy" was caused by mass education in the 1960s.

It followed that education had to be de-democratised. Along with the media.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/an-excess-of-democracy-how-corporations-killed-the-campus,15165

HOW IT'S GOING

2025: SCOTUS complies:

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/15/headlines/scotus_greenlights_dismantling_of_education_department_unleashing_untold_harm

#Plutocracy #TrilateralCommission#USPol #PowellMemo#EuroPol#Education#Racism#Autocracy .

America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War Il, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent. The report summed up the threat thus — education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable: The more educated a person is, the more likely he is to participate in politics, to have a more consistent and more ideological outlook on political issues ,and to hold more “enlightened” or “liberal” or “change- oriented” views on social, cultural and foreign policy issues. ...Black political participation,’ the report said, ‘was the product primarily... of increased group consciousness.
America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War Il, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent. The report summed up the threat thus — education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable: The more educated a person is, the more likely he is to participate in politics, to have a more consistent and more ideological outlook on political issues ,and to hold more “enlightened” or “liberal” or “change- oriented” views on social, cultural and foreign policy issues. ...Black political participation,’ the report said, ‘was the product primarily... of increased group consciousness.
America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War Il, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent. The report summed up the threat thus — education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable: The more educated a person is, the more likely he is to participate in politics, to have a more consistent and more ideological outlook on political issues ,and to hold more “enlightened” or “liberal” or “change- oriented” views on social, cultural and foreign policy issues. ...Black political participation,’ the report said, ‘was the product primarily... of increased group consciousness.
The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

With techniques such as cross-ventilation and materials such as clay, architects around the world are adapting schools to climate change without the use of air conditioning. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/17/climate-change/schools-built-extreme-heat-aircon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #education #climatechange #schools #heatwaves #architecture #pritzkerprize

jbz
jbz boosted
activity timestamp 11 hours ago

🧑‍🏫 An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

｢ Current GenAI technologies represent unacceptable legal, ethical and environmental harms, including exploitative labour, piracy of countless creators' and artists' work, harmful biases, mass production of misinformation, and reversal of the global emissions reduction trajectory ｣

https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-from-educators-who-refuse-the-call-to-adopt-genai-in-education-cb4aee75

#ai #genai #education
DrALJONES
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

The billionaires called it an "excess of democracy", & they worked out how to defeat it:

THE PLAN

In 1975, Samuel P. Huntington said the "excess of democracy" was caused by mass education in the 1960s.

It followed that education had to be de-democratised. Along with the media.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/an-excess-of-democracy-how-corporations-killed-the-campus,15165

HOW IT'S GOING

2025: SCOTUS complies:

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/15/headlines/scotus_greenlights_dismantling_of_education_department_unleashing_untold_harm

#Plutocracy #TrilateralCommission#USPol #PowellMemo#EuroPol#Education#Racism#Autocracy .

America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War Il, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent. The report summed up the threat thus — education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable: The more educated a person is, the more likely he is to participate in politics, to have a more consistent and more ideological outlook on political issues ,and to hold more “enlightened” or “liberal” or “change- oriented” views on social, cultural and foreign policy issues. ...Black political participation,’ the report said, ‘was the product primarily... of increased group consciousness.
America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War Il, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent. The report summed up the threat thus — education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable: The more educated a person is, the more likely he is to participate in politics, to have a more consistent and more ideological outlook on political issues ,and to hold more “enlightened” or “liberal” or “change- oriented” views on social, cultural and foreign policy issues. ...Black political participation,’ the report said, ‘was the product primarily... of increased group consciousness.
America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War Il, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent. The report summed up the threat thus — education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable: The more educated a person is, the more likely he is to participate in politics, to have a more consistent and more ideological outlook on political issues ,and to hold more “enlightened” or “liberal” or “change- oriented” views on social, cultural and foreign policy issues. ...Black political participation,’ the report said, ‘was the product primarily... of increased group consciousness.
Scott Campbell
@susurros@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

"We, the presidents of Gaza’s three non-profit universities— Al-Aqsa University, Al-Azhar University-Gaza, and the Islamic University of Gaza — together accounting for the vast majority of Gaza’s students and faculty members, issue this unified statement to the international academic community at a time of unprecedented devastation of higher education in Gaza."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/14/an-open-letter-from-the-presidents-of-gaza-universities

@palestine#Palestine#Israel#Gaza #education #academia
Scott Campbell
@susurros@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"In a move that activists are saying is an attempt to quell the passionate student and worker movement for Palestinian liberation within the City University of New York (CUNY), student organizer Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik has been suspended for a year.

"Along with CCNY’s academic sanction case against Malik, CUNY has also fired four faculty members."

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny-suspends-student-activist-leader-fires-four-faculty-members-in-escalation-of-repression-against-palestine-activism/

@palestine#Palestine#Israel#Gaza#CUNY#NYC#NewYork #education #academia
The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Emperor Naruhito has visited a private school in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, that incorporates Japanese-style education, with its school uniforms, school lunches and club activities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/11/japan/emperor-mongolia-school/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan#emperornaruhito#imperialfamily #mongolia #ulaanbaatar #education #schools #temples
EdenDestroyer
@edendestroyer@solarpunk.moe  ·  activity timestamp last week

DuckDuckFedi (please boost, this is a mutualaid request)

Do any one of you certify or know someone who certifies as a fellow, associate, or educator in the Orton-Gillingham Method (an approach used to tutor students with dyslexia) who is willing to tutor me (a third-world living tutor that earns 35 dollars a month from the student I'm helping) in the OG way? I'm trying to tutor a kid with dyslexia and would like to learn the ethical and methodological ways of doing so.

I'm willing to pay you the full 35 dollars a month that i earn, I'm trying to help the kid and get trained at the same time.

Tags: #Dyslexia #edutooter #education #literacy #boost#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Roland
Roland boosted
brume ⏚ 🤔 ⛵ 🐧 ☮️ 🇵🇸 🍉
@brume@piaille.fr  ·  activity timestamp last week

Les « groupes de niveau », un échec politique face aux inégalités du collège
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/07/08/les-groupes-de-niveau-un-echec-politique-face-aux-inegalites-du-college_6619826_3232.html

L’inspection générale de l’#éducation nationale :
"L'organisation en groupes de tous les cours de français et de math, n’a « clairement pas bénéficié » aux élèves les plus fragiles. Inopérante pour « résorber la grande difficulté scolaire », elle présente « un risque fort d’accroître les écarts entre les élèves ».
Face à ces résultats, l’inspection recommande d’« abandonner le modèle actuel ».

La Rue de #Grenelle a préféré maintenir le cadre en l’état pour la rentrée prochaine.

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