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The Austrian Data Protection Authority ("DSB") issued a decision finding that Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks students and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes.
https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-microsoft-365-education-tracks-school-child…

noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children
Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.

🐽 🇪🇺 #Microsoft 365 Education darf Schüler nicht tracken | @…
https://

MIT rejects Trump administration's offer of priority federal funding - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/10/mit-rejects-trump-compact-education-funding/

The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions
a proposed
“Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,"
along with a letter asking that MIT review the document.
After considerable thought and consultation with leaders from across MIT,
today I sent the following reply to U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth,
MIT president
--
The document also includes princi…

ExpertAgent: Enhancing Personalized Education through Dynamic Planning and Retrieval-Augmented Long-Chain Reasoning
Binrong Zhu, Guiran Liu, Nina Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07456

ExpertAgent: Enhancing Personalized Education through Dynamic Planning and Retrieval-Augmented Long-Chain Reasoning
The application of advanced generative artificial intelligence in education is often constrained by the lack of real-time adaptability, personalization, and reliability of the content. To address these challenges, we propose ExpertAgent - an intelligent agent framework designed for personalized education that provides reliable knowledge and enables highly adaptive learning experiences. Therefore, we developed ExpertAgent, an innovative learning agent that provides users with a proactive and per…

Bringing Multi-Modal Multi-Task Federated Foundation Models to Education Domain: Prospects and Challenges
Kasra Borazjani, Naji Khosravan, Rajeev Sahay, Bita Akram, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07946

Bringing Multi-Modal Multi-Task Federated Foundation Models to Education Domain: Prospects and Challenges
Multi-modal multi-task (M3T) foundation models (FMs) have recently shown transformative potential in artificial intelligence, with emerging applications in education. However, their deployment in real-world educational settings is hindered by privacy regulations, data silos, and limited domain-specific data availability. We introduce M3T Federated Foundation Models (FedFMs) for education: a paradigm that integrates federated learning (FL) with M3T FMs to enable collaborative, privacy-preserving…

Improving Assignment Submission in Higher Education through a Git-Enabled System: An Iterative Case Study
Ololade Babatunde, Tomisin Ayodabo, Raqibul Raqibul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06363

Improving Assignment Submission in Higher Education through a Git-Enabled System: An Iterative Case Study
This study addresses challenges in traditional assignment submission methods used in higher education by introducing and evaluating a customized Git-based submission system. Employing iterative software development and user-centered design methodologies, the system was integrated within a real-world university environment. Empirical evaluation, including usability testing and student feedback, indicated significant improvements in assignment tracking, collaboration, and submission efficiency. S…

"Coch and Daniel do not call for more neuroscience in classrooms, but for better scientific literacy among teachers, school leaders, and teacher educators. They demonstrate that anyone seeking to apply brain research to enhance teaching must first comprehend what that research can – and cannot – reveal."

Student-led ICE protests erupt across Washington County amid enforcement crackdowns (Julia Silverman/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2025/12/student-led-ice-protests-erupt-across-washington-county-amid-enforcement-crackdowns.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p144#a251209p144

Ukraine submits draft education language law to Hungary, awaits response: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/07/ukraine-submits-draft-education-language.html

Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs.
She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door.
She calls it “the final mission.”
But the department is not behaving like an agency that is simply winding down.
Even as McMahon has shrunk the Department of Education,
she’s operated in what she calls
“a parallel universe”
to radically shift how children will learn for years to come.…

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

These Activists Want To Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-10-08/these-activists-want-dismantle-public-schools-now-they-run-education-department

EDUMATH: Generating Standards-aligned Educational Math Word Problems
Bryan R. Christ, Penelope Molitz, Jonathan Kropko, Thomas Hartvigsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06965 https:…

EDUMATH: Generating Standards-aligned Educational Math Word Problems
Math word problems (MWPs) are critical K-12 educational tools, and customizing them to students' interests and ability levels can increase learning outcomes. However, teachers struggle to find time to customize MWPs for each student given large class sizes and increasing burnout. We propose that LLMs can support math education by generating MWPs customized to student interests and math education standards. To this end, we use a joint human expert-LLM judge approach to evaluate over 11,000 MWPs …

pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata

This creates truly perverse incentives and a strange culture — and it’s not clear to me that has to cut any one particular way.
I’ve heard Harvard described as a massive investment company with a small education wing, and the desire to control risk in such a situation is overwhelming. Making a deal with Stupid Darth Vader looks ridiculous if you think Harvard’s purpose is the advancement of human thought — but if you’re an investment manager treading water through the rise of authoritarianism, well, yeah, maybe you go along to get along and kiss the authoritarian’s ass.
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On the false election between regulation and innovation. Ideas for regulation through the responsible use of artificial intelligence in research and education.[Spanish version]
Pompeu Casanovas (IIIA-CSIC)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07268

On the false election between regulation and innovation. Ideas for regulation through the responsible use of artificial intelligence in research and education.[Spanish version]
This short essay is a reworking of the answers offered by the author at the Debate Session of the AIHUB (CSIC) and EduCaixa Summer School, organized by Marta Garcia-Matos and Lissette Lemus, and coordinated by Albert Sabater (OEIAC, UG), with the participation of Vanina Martinez-Posse (IIIA-CSIC), Eulalia Soler (Eurecat) and Pompeu Casanovas (IIIA-CSIC) on July 4th 2025. Albert Sabater posed three questions: (1) How can regulatory frameworks priori-tise the protection of fundamental rights (pri…

There are many key lessons for higher education in @…'s Enshittification. One is about mission:
"...the double edged nature of vocational awe. Sure Googlers [faculty] had been willing to pull long hours, putting work before personal life and health, in order to realize the company's [university's] mission, but the quid pro quo those workers expected was for the company [university] to take that mission as seriously as they did."
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

What if submarine fibre-optic cables could do more than carry data? SUBMERSE project is proving they can.
This EU-funded project brings together 25 consortium partners, from research groups to National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and industry, including GÉANT and our member NRENs.
Together, we're exploring how existing telecom infrastructure can be transformed into scientific sensors.
🔗 Read more in the latest

Updated my "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading" Phase 2!
Added two solid EZLN Zapatista documents, one peer-reviewed journal article, and another field studies on their autonomous governance & education projects!
Happy reading: https://docs.google.com/docu…

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@dougcoulson/115693460558643639
Such a circle jerk.
"Faculty who teach a foundational education in Americanism and Western Civilization course would be eligible for tenure, including submitting expedited applications,…

Apparently quantum physics is taught in gradeschool these days, and why the heck not! I also learned today how Kepler was nearly finished his ultra-laborious book when he learned Lord Napier had just discovered how logarithms would have made those calculations SO much simpler.
Kepler's book, published posthumously, was banned anyway, but whatever…
Quantum Technology : Education Resources
https://resources.perimeterinstitute.ca/products/quantum-technology

#CFP: I AM HERE TO FIGHT! An Anthology on the Struggle for Public Education
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#CFP: I AM HERE TO FIGHT! An Anthology on the Struggle for Public Education
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Here is a link to Current Affairs to an article about the impact of AI on universities in the US.
It is a very long post, but well worth your time and attention
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-it…

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Beyond the Benefits: A Systematic Review of the Harms and Consequences of Generative AI in Computing Education
Seth Bernstein, Ashfin Rahman, Nadia Sharifi, Ariunjargal Terbish, Stephen MacNeil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04443

Beyond the Benefits: A Systematic Review of the Harms and Consequences of Generative AI in Computing Education
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has already had a big impact on computing education with prior research identifying many benefits. However, recent studies have also identified potential risks and harms. To continue maximizing AI benefits while addressing the harms and unintended consequences, we conducted a systematic literature review of research focusing on the risks, harms, and unintended consequences of GenAI in computing education. Our search of ACM DL, IEEE Xplore, and Scopus (…

Please sign this petition
I'm a chemist. As a grad student I was a TA and a tutor. I taught college chemistry classes.
That's teaching a subject, not communicating about a technical issue (yes, these really are different skills)
And climate change advocacy has highlighted how difficult communicating is.
I wish this proposal had been enacted when I was a student.
Please sign.

📢 Save the Date!
#DCIFJahrestagung2025
Wissen. Wettbewerb. Wandel. - #CompetitiveIntelligence neu denken
27. & 28. Oktober 2025, Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule, Darmstadt
Wir freuen uns über Minesoft als Silbersponsor der Jahrestagung sowie di…

Education Department's out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown are unconstitutional, judge rules (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/education-department-shutdown-emails-unconstitutional-judge-rules-rcna242653
http://www.memeorandum.com/251107/p90#a251107p90

"On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced that it had reached a settlement with the state of Missouri to end the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program, which allowed more than 7 million mostly low-income Americans to reduce their federal student loan payments."
Trump admin blasted for 'unrelenting push to jack up costs' with new 'backroom deal' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/linda-mcmahon-2674384567/

I should get a humanities education. I'm emotionally unintelligent.

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/

My guess here at a distance is that it’s a terrible mistake to think of “Harvard” as a single anthropomorphic entity with a single mind. There are surely terrible internal battles raging at Harvard right now: between those who think it’s truly for education and those who think it’s truly for ROI, between those protecting the dollars and those protecting the brand reputation, between those cowering at the short-term financial risk of angering an authoritarian and those who see the long-term risks of capitulating.
What does “Harvard” think? Harvard is a bunch of different people. I wish them luck, and wisdom. Heaven knows they’ll need it.
/end

This is how a US federal employee comments on their out-of-office signature being hijacked for political gains:
"Nobody follows the law anymore, so why does it matter? It seems like laws are dotted lines now, not solid lines. It seems there’s no one to hold this administration accountable to laws"

Education Department employees' emails changed automatically to blame Democrats for shutdown
Education Department employees furloughed this week discovered their email accounts had been manipulated while they were out of office to include partisan talking points that blamed the government shutdown on Democrats.

LLM-Driven Rubric-Based Assessment of Algebraic Competence in Multi-Stage Block Coding Tasks with Design and Field Evaluation
Yong Oh Lee, Byeonghun Bang, Sejun Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06253

LLM-Driven Rubric-Based Assessment of Algebraic Competence in Multi-Stage Block Coding Tasks with Design and Field Evaluation
As online education platforms continue to expand, there is a growing need for assessment methods that not only measure answer accuracy but also capture the depth of students' cognitive processes in alignment with curriculum objectives. This study proposes and evaluates a rubric-based assessment framework powered by a large language model (LLM) for measuring algebraic competence, real-world-context block coding tasks. The problem set, designed by mathematics education experts, aligns each proble…

Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith to Launch Firm With Ex-DOJ Lawyers | On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced that it had reached a settlement with the state of Missouri to end the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program, which allowed more than 7 million mostly low-income Americans to reduce their federal student loan payments.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-jack-smith-special-counsel/2025/12/09/id/1237718/

A mathematical model of vaccine hesitancy: Analysing the impact of political trends and the interaction across age and education groups in the USA
Wajid Ali (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK), Javad Mohamadichamgavi (Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland), Juan Ramirez (IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain), Jose Aguilar (IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain, Universidad de Los Andes, M\'erida, Venezuela), Antonio Fern\'…

A mathematical model of vaccine hesitancy: Analysing the impact of political trends and the interaction across age and education groups in the USA
Vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 disease has significantly reduced its mortality rate and spread. However, despite its availability, a considerable proportion of the public has either refused or delayed getting vaccinated. This reluctance is known as vaccine hesitancy. The aim of this paper is to present a mathematical model to investigate how social interaction can impact vaccine hesitancy. The model describes the temporal transitions between different vaccination classes of the population (…

Judge orders Education Department to halt 'partisan' employee email messages (Juan Perez Jr/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/07/judge-orders-education-department-to-halt-partisan-employee-email-messages-00643270
http://www.memeorandum.com/251107/p68#a251107p68

Replaced article(s) found for physics.ed-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ed-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Chained computerized adaptive testing for the Force Concept Inventory
Jun-ichiro Yasuda, Michael M. Hull, Naohiro Mae, Kentaro Kojima

Free Moon Study and Observation Program
For Windows 7 to 11 and Linux
Already downloaded near 2 millions worldwide. Used in several books, foreign observatories, by CNRS research professors, websites, TV shows, astronomical magazines and to prepare the Chandraayan 1 lunar mission. Used by the European Space Agency (ESA) in the framework of the NELIOTA program. Recommended by the French Ministry of National Education.
https://www.ap-i.net/avl/en/start

"Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change"
#Education #Climate #ClimateChange

Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change
As federal support and financial incentives for climate action wither, this sort of local action is becoming more difficult but also more urgent, advocates say.

I was featured in the local paper, the "Wiesbadener Kurier," on Wednesday.
I put an English translation of the article in the Alt-Text area of the first screen capture.

The trouble with being Harvard is that your name is the most valuable thing you own. It’s bigger than anything the institution actually does.
Yes, there are some amazing and excellent people at Harvard — and some utter dingbats, as anywhere else — but whatever actual excellence Harvard offers in education or research is secondary. Harvard is a •brand• first and foremost. It’s a name people put on their resumes to make themselves worth more money in capitalism’s eyes.
1/ https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:36n7wd7gg4tapamnog4zyyc6/post/3m2r4uuijyc2r

TeachLM: Post-Training LLMs for Education Using Authentic Learning Data
Janos Perczel, Jin Chow, Dorottya Demszky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05087 https://…

TeachLM: Post-Training LLMs for Education Using Authentic Learning Data
The promise of generative AI to revolutionize education is constrained by the pedagogical limits of large language models (LLMs). A major issue is the lack of access to high-quality training data that reflect the learning of actual students. Prompt engineering has emerged as a stopgap, but the ability of prompts to encode complex pedagogical strategies in rule-based natural language is inherently limited. To address this gap we introduce TeachLM - an LLM optimized for teaching through parameter…

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director
Susan Monarez is scheduled to testify about her high-profile firing from the agency at a hearing next Wednesday before the
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said the hearing will allow lawmakers on the committee to directly learn about the circumstances surrounding Monarez’s ouster and the resignations of other top officials at the CDC.
Cassidy said his commit…

Oklahoma State Board of Education to 'reset' accreditation process, review social studies standards https://nondoc.com/2025/10/23/state-board-of-education-to-reset-accreditation-process-review-social-studies-standards/

State Board of Education to 'reset' accreditation process, review social studies standards
Citing a desire to reset in a new administration, Oklahoma's State Board of Education declined to issue accreditation warnings Oct. 23, 2025.

Furloughed feds find their email response changed to violate the Hatch Act.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna235211

Schools, Skills and Community: Education in Northampton, 1913–1924 https://edintone.com/schools-education/ In the early 20th century, the increasing demands for a skilled workforce required investment. @…

Schools, Skills and Community: Education in Northampton, 1913–1924 - Miscellanea Edintone
In the early 20th century, the increasing demands for a skilled workforce required investment in education, both formal iinformal, in Northampton.

Did you know that the Learning With AI toolkit has a speakers bureau for AI and education? Filter for expertise like "agents administration" or "data bias," then click on presenters to watch recordings that demonstrate their presentation styles.
Have a speaker to recommend who's not on the list? DM me and I'll send you a form to submit a name, specialty, and recording of any events for consideration.

If anybody has a job going in Switzerland in corporate IT management, datacenter management, vendor management, or even compliance management adjacent, I'm open to getting off this blighted island. Experience in both education and financial sectors. Technical background in network ops/eng, Linux/UNIX syseng.

How to fix a post-secondary sector in crisis, forced by decades of shrivelling provincial funding to rely on high international tuition paid by students who can no longer enrol in anywhere near the same numbers since the feds decided to play the facile and xenophobic card of blaming them for a housing crisis they had nothing to do with and to slash student permits? Marketing!!!!*
*Aimed, of course, at potential international students not governments.

Canada's education sector has a new idea to lure international students back. Here's what it is
Canadian Bureau for International Education is leading an effort to try to save Canada's reputation as a top destination in the face of drastic cuts.

Defining a Strategic Action Plan for AI in Higher Education
Nikolaos Avouris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03343 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03343

Defining a Strategic Action Plan for AI in Higher Education
This paper discusses key challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Education, with main focus on higher education institutions. We start with reviewing normative actions of international organizations and concerns expressed about the current technical landscape. Then we proceed with proposing a framework that comprises five key dimensions relating to the main challenges relating to AI in higher education institutions, followed by five key strategic actions that the main stakeholders need to take…

Apparently some universities have started using mostly-AI tought courses. And are surprised students don't apprrciate them fully:
“There are some useful things in the presentation. But it’s like, 5% is useful nuggets, and a lot is repetition. There is some gold in the bottom of this pan. But presumably we could get the gold ourselves, by asking ChatGPT.”

I guess it’s a good thing, but “the first doctoral program of its kind”? At least from a European perspective, this seems to be a very bold claim.
https://mastodon.education/@bryanalexandee/115260508479458558

Chrysalis: A Unified System for Comparing Active Teaching and Passive Learning with AI Agents in Education
Prashanth Arun, Vinita Vader, Erya Xu, Brent McCready-Branch, Sarah Seabrook, Kyle Scholz, Ana Crisan, Igor Grossmann, Pascal Poupart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05271

Chrysalis: A Unified System for Comparing Active Teaching and Passive Learning with AI Agents in Education
AI-assisted learning has seen a remarkable uptick over the last few years, mainly due to the rise in popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs). Their ability to hold long-form, natural language interactions with users makes them excellent resources for exploring school- and university-level topics in a dynamic, active manner. We compare students' experiences when interacting with an LLM companion in two capacities: tutored learning and learning-by-teaching. We do this using Chrysalis, an LLM-b…

Brilliant week in Bristol.
Especially invigorating to present the invited talk, 'Private Education Capital: Beyond Caste-based Educational Exclusion as "Tradition"' at Centre for International Research in Education. I also gave a Roundtable Presentation, 'Epistemic Humility as Experienced Provocation' for doctoral students.
Grateful to wonderful colleagues who took such care, asked such thoughtful questions, and showed me beautiful Bristol with scrumpt…

This is a brilliant take on education and on AI.
#llm #ai

Education software maker Anthology files for bankruptcy, listing $1B to $10B in both assets and liabilities after its Blackboard merger debt became unmanageable (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/v…

Veritas-Backed Software Provider Anthology Files for Bankruptcy
Anthology Inc., the Veritas Capital-backed education-software provider, sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US after a failed attempt to sell the company or parts of the business outside of court protection.

A controllable anti-P-pseudo-Hermitian mechanical system and its application
Yanzheng Wang (Huanjiang Laboratory, Zhejiang University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri), Jianlei Zhao (Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking University), Qian Wu (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri), Xiaoming Zhou (Key Laboratory of Dynamics and Control of Flight Vehicle of Ministry of Education, School of A…

A controllable anti-P-pseudo-Hermitian mechanical system and its application
A novel anti-P-pseudo-Hermitian mechanical system that integrates piezoelectric actuators and sensors with non-reciprocal coupling into mechanical beams is proposed. This configuration enables the system to exhibit programmable exceptional points (EPs), which are critical for enhancing sensitivity in sensing applications. Our theoretical analysis, supported by numerical simulations and experimental validation, demonstrates the system's capability to detect minute mass variations and identify su…

«The moment was absurd but revealing; the university wasn’t resisting bullshit education, it was onboarding it. Education at its best sparks curiosity and critical thought. “Bullshit education” does the opposite: it trains people to tolerate meaninglessness, to accept automation of their own thinking, to value credentials over competence.»
An excellent read about how/why uni admin pushes the use of "AI" and the impact
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

I grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.
There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.
It was also much, much easier to start a business there than in the US. (Literally took an hour!)
People who wanted to get rich still could do it (there’s a few Austrian billionaires even).
I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Regarding the Compact -- The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight ... (Sally Kornbluth/orgchart.mit.edu)
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p39#a251010p39

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.ed-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ed-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Effectiveness of Quota Policies Across STEM, Biological, and Humanities Programs
Ricardo D. Matheus, Elmer M. Gennaro, Marcelo T. Yamashita

DischargeSim: A Simulation Benchmark for Educational Doctor-Patient Communication at Discharge
Zonghai Yao, Michael Sun, Won Seok Jang, Sunjae Kwon, Soie Kwon, Hong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07188 …

DischargeSim: A Simulation Benchmark for Educational Doctor-Patient Communication at Discharge
Discharge communication is a critical yet underexplored component of patient care, where the goal shifts from diagnosis to education. While recent large language model (LLM) benchmarks emphasize in-visit diagnostic reasoning, they fail to evaluate models' ability to support patients after the visit. We introduce DischargeSim, a novel benchmark that evaluates LLMs on their ability to act as personalized discharge educators. DischargeSim simulates post-visit, multi-turn conversations between LLM-…

Education Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to pitch in with work
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/06/education-department-civil-rights-office-trump/87643095007/

pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata

AI-Driven Grading and Moderation for Collaborative Projects in Computer Science Education
Songmei Yu, Andrew Zagula
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03998 https://

AI-Driven Grading and Moderation for Collaborative Projects in Computer Science Education
Collaborative group projects are integral to computer science education, as they foster teamwork, problem-solving skills, and industry-relevant competencies. However, assessing individual contributions within group settings has long been a challenge. Traditional assessment strategies, such as the equal distribution of grades or subjective peer assessments, often fall short in terms of fairness, objectivity, and scalability, particularly in large classrooms. This paper introduces a semi-automate…

Life on college campuses has changed dramatically in the last 10 months.
While institutions of higher education continue to reel from the Trump administration’s top-down attacks and scramble to adjust,
workers on campus say that their universities are simultaneously expanding their own internal repression and surveillance apparatuses to squash dissent

Campus life is unrecognizable in the Trump era: ‘There’s so many cops everywhere’
As the federal government continues its top-down assault on higher education, universities are internally building repression and surveillance machines that mirror the Trump administration.

Surveying the State of Writing Education in Physics and Astronomy
Briley L. Lewis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03493 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03493

Surveying the State of Writing Education in Physics and Astronomy
Writing is a critical skill for modern science, enabling collaboration, scientific discourse, public outreach, and more. Accordingly, it is important to consider how physicists and astronomers are trained to write. This study aims to understand the landscape of science writing education, specifically in physics and astronomy, in higher education in the United States. An online survey probing various aspects of their writing training in both undergraduate and graduate school was administered to …

Teaching with AI: A Systematic Review of Chatbots, Generative Tools, and Tutoring Systems in Programming Education
Said Elnaffar, Farzad Rashidi, Abedallah Zaid Abualkishik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03884

Teaching with AI: A Systematic Review of Chatbots, Generative Tools, and Tutoring Systems in Programming Education
This review examines the role of artificial intelligence (AI) agents in programming education, focusing on how these tools are being integrated into educational practice and their impact on student learning outcomes. An analysis of fifty-eight peer-reviewed studies published between 2022 and 2025 identified three primary categories of AI agents: chatbots, generative AI (GenAI), and intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), with GenAI being the most frequently studied. The primary instructional object…

Towards an Efficient, Customizable, and Accessible AI Tutor
Juan Segundo Hevia, Facundo Arredondo, Vishesh Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06255 https://a…

Towards an Efficient, Customizable, and Accessible AI Tutor
The integration of large language models (LLMs) into education offers significant potential to enhance accessibility and engagement, yet their high computational demands limit usability in low-resource settings, exacerbating educational inequities. To address this, we propose an offline Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline that pairs a small language model (SLM) with a robust retrieval mechanism, enabling factual, contextually relevant responses without internet connectivity. We evalua…

#CFP: I AM HERE TO FIGHT! An Anthology on the Struggle for Public Education
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I Am Here to Fight!
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#CFP: I AM HERE TO FIGHT! An Anthology on the Struggle for Public Education
I Am Here to Fight!

I am not as pessimistic as the writer of this article, still an absolute must-read,
"AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

A landmark special education law is 50. Some fear for its future : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5591152/trump-special-education-disabilties-schools

Senate Dems to McMahon: Efforts to shift Education Department responsibilities illegal (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5634520-education-department-program-breakup-criticized/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p134#a251204p134

Regulating Social Media: Surveying the Impact of Nepali Government's TikTok Ban
Prerana Khatiwada, Alejandro Ciuba, Aditya Nayak, Aakash Gautam, Matthew Louis Mauriello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07200

Regulating Social Media: Surveying the Impact of Nepali Government's TikTok Ban
Social media platforms have transformed global communication and interaction, with TikTok emerging as a critical tool for education, connection, and social impact, including in contexts where infrastructural resources are limited. Amid growing political discussions about banning platforms like TikTok, such actions can create significant ripple effects, particularly impacting marginalized communities. We present a study on Nepal, where a TikTok ban was recently imposed and lifted. As a low-resou…

A Survey of LLM-Based Applications in Programming Education: Balancing Automation and Human Oversight
Griffin Pitts, Anurata Prabha Hridi, Arun-Balajiee Lekshmi-Narayanan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03719

A Survey of LLM-Based Applications in Programming Education: Balancing Automation and Human Oversight
Novice programmers benefit from timely, personalized support that addresses individual learning gaps, yet the availability of instructors and teaching assistants is inherently limited. Large language models (LLMs) present opportunities to scale such support, though their effectiveness depends on how well technical capabilities are aligned with pedagogical goals. This survey synthesizes recent work on LLM applications in programming education across three focal areas: formative code feedback, as…

pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata

A Maslow-Inspired Hierarchy of Engagement with AI Model
Madara Ogot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07032 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07032

A Maslow-Inspired Hierarchy of Engagement with AI Model
The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) across industry, government, and education highlights the urgent need for robust frameworks to conceptualise and guide engagement. This paper introduces the Hierarchy of Engagement with AI model, a novel maturity framework inspired by Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The model conceptualises AI adoption as a progression through eight levels, beginning with initial exposure and basic understanding and culminating in ecosystem collaboration and …

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Investigating Students' Preferences for AI Roles in Mathematical Modelling: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Wangda Zhu, Guang Chen, Yumeng Zhu, Lei Cai, Xiangen Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06617

Investigating Students' Preferences for AI Roles in Mathematical Modelling: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Mathematical modelling (MM) is a key competency for solving complex real-world problems, yet many students struggle with abstraction, representation, and iterative reasoning. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been proposed as a support for higher-order thinking, but its role in MM education is still underexplored. This study examines the relationships among students' design thinking (DT), computational thinking (CT), and mathematical modelling self-efficacy (MMSE), and investigates their prefere…

**Senate Dems to McMahon: Efforts to shift Education Department responsibilities illegal**
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5634520-education-department-program-breakup-criticized/

Lawsuit filed over the Education Department's manipulation of employees' email messages (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/lawsuit-education-department-manipulation-employee-email-rcna235518
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p137#a251003p137

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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- Pilot Study on Generative AI and Critical Thinking in Higher Education Classrooms
W. F. Lamberti, S. R. Lawrence, D. White, S. Kim, S. Abdullah

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Department of Education seeks to delay student loan forgiveness in Sweet settlement: 200,000 borrowers would be affected | Marca
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/personal-finance/2025/12/08/6936c14122601dd8238b45a3.html

Trump’s Department of Education has announced that it will partner with right-wing think tanks and organizations to develop a new curriculum for “patriotic education” in American classrooms.
Earlier this week, the Trump administration redirected $137 million initially meant for programs aimed at minority students toward what it described as “American history and civics education.”
Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced Wednesday that the money will be directed toward discret…

Trump Ed Dept. Partners With Right-Groups to Spread White-Washed Civics Lessons in 'Schools Across the Nation' | Common Dreams
The Department of Education has announced a new initiative to instill "patriotic education" across the US by giving grants to schools that adopt a US history curriculum written by MAGA-aligned groups like PragerU and Turning Point USA.

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The challenge of moving special education out of the Education Department (Mackenzie Wilkes/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/29/advocates-push-for-education-department-to-keep-programs-for-children-with-disabilities-00669701
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p44#a251129p44

Excited, Skeptical, or Worried? A Multi-Institutional Study of Student Views on Generative AI in Computing Education
Isaac Alpizar-Chacon, Hieke Keuning, Imke de Jong, Ioanna Lykourentzou, Susan Rings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03107

Excited, Skeptical, or Worried? A Multi-Institutional Study of Student Views on Generative AI in Computing Education
The application of Artificial Intelligence, in particular Generative AI, has become more widespread among educational institutions. Opinions vary widely on whether integrating AI into classrooms is the way forward or if it is detrimental to the quality of education. Increasingly, research studies are giving us more insight into the consequences of using AI tools in learning and teaching. Studies have shown how, when, and why students use AI tools. Because developments regarding the technology a…

U.S. Department of Education Announces Final Rule on Public Service Loan Forgiveness to Protect American Taxpayers (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-announces-final-rule-public-service-loan-forgiveness-protect-american-taxpayers
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p81#a251030p81

Utilizando o captador de guitarra como sensor: Construindo um kit para abordar a Lei de Faraday em sala de aula
Hugo de Luna, Daniel Avila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07129 https…

Utilizando o captador de guitarra como sensor: Construindo um kit para abordar a Lei de Faraday em sala de aula
The approach to the concept of electromagnetic induction in physics education can present challenges, particularly regarding its distance from students' everyday experiences. The functioning of an electric guitar pickup can serve as an interesting example to contextualize the topic, allowing students to understand the correlation between the variation in magnetic field flux and the induced electromotive force. This study aims to present a low-cost project to explore Faraday's Law of Induction t…

AI Education in Higher Education: A Taxonomy for Curriculum Reform and the Mission of Knowledge
Tian Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23363 https://arxiv.o…

AI Education in Higher Education: A Taxonomy for Curriculum Reform and the Mission of Knowledge
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping higher education, yet current debates often feel tangled, mixing concerns about pedagogy, operations, curriculum, and the future of work without a shared framework. This paper offers a first attempt at a taxonomy to organize the diverse narratives of AI education and to inform discipline-based curricular discussions. We place these narratives within the enduring responsibility of higher education: the mission of knowledge. This mission includes not only…

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue dismantling the Education Department,
ending the agency’s broad role in supporting academics at elementary and high schools and in expanding access to college.
Those responsibilities, which had been overseen by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Office of Postsecondary Education,
will instead be largely taken over by the Labor Department.
Additional changes include movin…

Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department
Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies.

Trump administration restarts student loan forgiveness - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/04/trump-administration-restarts-student-loan-forgiveness/

Exploring Student Choice and the Use of Multimodal Generative AI in Programming Learning
Xinying Hou, Ruiwei Xiao, Runlong Ye, Michael Liut, John Stamper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05417

Exploring Student Choice and the Use of Multimodal Generative AI in Programming Learning
The broad adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) is impacting Computer Science education, and recent studies found its benefits and potential concerns when students use it for programming learning. However, most existing explorations focus on GenAI tools that primarily support text-to-text interaction. With recent developments, GenAI applications have begun supporting multiple modes of communication, known as multimodality. In this work, we explored how undergraduate programming novices choose and w…

Developing Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education
Noah Q. Cowit, Sri Yash Tadimalla, Stephanie T. Jones, Mary Lou Maher, Tracy Camp, Enrico Pontelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21713

Developing Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education
Many institutions are currently grappling with teaching artificial intelligence (AI) in the face of growing demand and relevance in our world. The Computing Research Association (CRA) has conducted 32 moderated virtual roundtable discussions of 202 experts committed to improving AI education. These discussions slot into four focus areas: AI Knowledge Areas and Pedagogy, Infrastructure Challenges in AI Education, Strategies to Increase Capacity in AI Education, and AI Education for All. Roundtab…

Newsom threatens state funding for California universities that agree to Trump demands (Sophia Bollag/San Francisco Chronicle)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-trump-education-funding-21081560.php
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p5#a251003p5

Assessment Twins: A Protocol for AI-Vulnerable Summative Assessment
Jasper Roe (Durham University, UK), Mike Perkins (British University Vietnam), Louie Giray (Mapua University, Philippines)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02929

Assessment Twins: A Protocol for AI-Vulnerable Summative Assessment
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping higher education and raising pressing concerns about the integrity and validity of higher education assessment. While assessment redesign is increasingly seen as a necessity, there is a relative lack of literature detailing what such redesign may entail. In this paper, we introduce assessment twins as an accessible approach for redesigning assessment tasks to enhance validity. We use Messick's unified validity framework to systematically m…

Malaysia's AI-Driven Education Landscape: Policies, Applications, and Comparative Insights for a Digital Future
Fadhilah Jamaluddin, Ahmad Hakiim Jamaluddin, Faridzah Jamaluddin, Faathirah Jamaluddin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21858

Malaysia's AI-Driven Education Landscape: Policies, Applications, and Comparative Insights for a Digital Future
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming education globally, and Malaysia is leveraging this potential through strategic policies to enhance learning and prepare students for a digital future. This article explores Malaysia's AI-driven education landscape, emphasising the National Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2021-2025 and the Digital Education Policy. Employing a policy-driven analysis, it maps AI applications in pedagogy, curriculum design, administration, and teacher training across p…