A small but growing number of parents in China are rethinking the country’s rigorous education system and switching to homeschooling, despite a current ban on the practice. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/asia-pacific/society/china-homeschool-students-youth/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #china #education #eastasia #children #schools
The number of children on waiting lists for gakudō hoiku after-school facilities fell for the first time in four years as of May 1, the Children and Families Agency has said, after authorities boosted capacity. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/japan/society/children-waiting-list-fall/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #children #schools
AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America's New Surveillance High Schools
#HackerNews #AI #Surveillance #High #Schools #Privacy #Concerns #EdTech #Student #Safety
A panel on Monday released draft guidelines for a system to check the sexual offense records of teachers and others whose work involves contact with children. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/22/japan/japan-dbs-guidelines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sexcrimes #teachers #children #schools #childrenandfamiliesagency
Nearly a million young Ukrainians are still living in an eternal lockdown, doing either all or part of their lessons online. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/22/world/ukraine-lost-generation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #schools #mariupol #donetsk
AI & Learning - How does feedback from artificial intelligence affect us and what does the future of #learning look like? Educational researcher Jennifer Meyer discusses the risks and opportunities of #AI -supported feedback in #schools, #universities and lifelong learning. 🏫⤵️
https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/learning-with-ai-feedback?mtm_campaign=bildung&mtm_kwd=socia…
Thomas Ryberg
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While the notion of student belonging & mental welfare is often invoked, the English school system, due to the frequent use of 'high-stakes' testing actually is very stressful for pupils:
Fear of failure 'can lead to reduced academic performance. It’s also linked with missed opportunities for learning, lower emotional wellbeing & higher levels of stress, burnout & depression'!
English school are disempowering & damaging our young.
Alex Akselrod
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"Blacklock's Reporter says Mohammed Hashim, CEO of the taxpayer-funded #Canadian #RaceRelations Foundation, told the #Senate #humanrights committee that criminals targeting #Jewish institutions are deliberately sending a message meant to intimidate the community.
“All these incidents across the country are to send a message, that #Jews cannot be safe here,” he said.
Hashim said Jewish #schools and #synagogues have been hit repeatedly.
#Toronto’s Kehillat Shaarei #Torah #Synagogue, he noted, has been #vandalized 10 times despite cameras, reinforced windows and fencing.
A Toronto day school, Bais Chaya Mushka, was shot at on three separate occasions.
“To every Jewish Canadian who feels unsafe or alone, who fears they need to be hidden, I want to say #Canada will always be a place of safety for you,” Hashim told senators.
Sen. Marilou McPhedran pressed him on how he could make such a promise.
“Hope,” he replied. “No one knows what the future is going to hold.” 😂
"Blacklock's Reporter says Mohammed Hashim, CEO of the taxpayer-funded #Canadian #RaceRelations Foundation, told the #Senate #humanrights committee that criminals targeting #Jewish institutions are deliberately sending a message meant to intimidate the community.
“All these incidents across the country are to send a message, that #Jews cannot be safe here,” he said.
Hashim said Jewish #schools and #synagogues have been hit repeatedly.
#Toronto’s Kehillat Shaarei #Torah #Synagogue, he noted, has been #vandalized 10 times despite cameras, reinforced windows and fencing.
A Toronto day school, Bais Chaya Mushka, was shot at on three separate occasions.
“To every Jewish Canadian who feels unsafe or alone, who fears they need to be hidden, I want to say #Canada will always be a place of safety for you,” Hashim told senators.
Sen. Marilou McPhedran pressed him on how he could make such a promise.
“Hope,” he replied. “No one knows what the future is going to hold.” 😂
While the notion of student belonging & mental welfare is often invoked, the English school system, due to the frequent use of 'high-stakes' testing actually is very stressful for pupils:
Fear of failure 'can lead to reduced academic performance. It’s also linked with missed opportunities for learning, lower emotional wellbeing & higher levels of stress, burnout & depression'!
English school are disempowering & damaging our young.
An international school in Okinawa is attracting many families from Tokyo seeking international education for their children. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/01/japan/society/okinawa-educational-relocation-international-school/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #okinawa #education #schools #okinawainternationalschool
Expenditures needed for children to enter junior high and high schools in Japan have increased, a recent survey by a nongovernmental organization showed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/27/japan/school-admission-costs-increase/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #schools #education #children
Implications of AI to schools
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1993010584175141038
#HackerNews #AI #Education #Implications #Schools #Technology #Innovation
Neil Brown
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Lisa Melton
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Federal Judge Orders Some #Texas #Schools to Remove #TenCommandments Posters
The judge sided with families of students who had argued that the displays infringed on their #ReligiousFreedom.
#law #Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/texas-ten-commandments.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Federal Judge Orders Some #Texas #Schools to Remove #TenCommandments Posters
The judge sided with families of students who had argued that the displays infringed on their #ReligiousFreedom.
#law #Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/texas-ten-commandments.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Federal Judge Orders Some #Texas #Schools to Remove #TenCommandments Posters
The judge sided with families of students who had argued that the displays infringed on their #ReligiousFreedom.
#law #Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/texas-ten-commandments.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Lisa Melton
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WTF do they think is going to happen to #schools?
#Trump admin to announce dismantling of much of #Education Dept
The Education Dept plans to announce Tuesday that it will move multiple parts of the agency to other federal depts, an unprecedented & unilateral effort to dismantle an agency created by #Congress to ensure all Americans have #EqualAccess to educational #opportunity & better coordinate federal programs.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #FederalFunding #PublicSchools
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/11/18/trump-administration-announce-dismantling-much-education-dept/
The move was described by 3 people ahead of the announcement. 2 of these people said 6 offices within the dept would be shifted elsewhere; the 3rd person said it was at least 2.
#Trump signed an EO in March seeking to close the dept & asked #Education Secy Linda McMahon to work with #Congress to do so. The agency, which was created in 1979, has long been derided by conservatives as unnecessary & ineffective. But Congress has not acted on or seriously considered Trump’s request.
McMahon has acknowledged that only #Congress can eliminate the dept but vowed to do everything in her power to dismantle it from within.
An #Education Dept spox did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Supporters of the dept say that the agency is effective in coordinating multiple aspects of education in one place & keeping priorities important to #students, #parents & #schools high on the federal agenda.
#Trump #law #SeparationOfPowers #FederalFunding #PublicSchools