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Wishing the publisher the Streisand effect in full force https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled

Judge Halts Mississippi's New Anti-DEI Education Law - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/judge-halts-mississippis-new-anti-dei-education-law/

At #AIED2025 we are getting a preview of the report of the #EuropeanDigitalEducationHub, providing practical examples of how XAI-Ed could be used

Explainable AI in education: Fostering human oversight and shared responsibility - Knowledge Innovation Centre
Explainable AI in education is essential for maintaining human oversight as AI tools become more prevalent in teaching and learning. This report examines how transparency and explainability foster trust, ensure legal compliance, and preserve human agency.

“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?” – Thea Abu El-Haj
#Palestine
#Censorship

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.

«But the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal, which has not been previously reported, is a remarkable new development in a mounting list of examples of censorship of pro-Palestinian speech.»
This is just one more example of how the world is turning a blind eye to the genocide the Israeli state is perpetrating against the Palestinian people. It is, in every way, inconceivable (and yes, that word does mean what I think it means) that world leaders are able to defend th…

"Trump is the head of a cult that has figured out how to turn fear, precarity and pain into the top of a sales funnel that destroys anyone who gets caught in it."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated

Oof. Glad i only needed one of these.
@… @… FYI.
One of three affected, no need to remake the order since i only needed a single unit but thought you'd want to know

EMNLP: Educator-role Moral and Normative Large Language Models Profiling
Yilin Jiang, Mingzi Zhang, Sheng Jin, Zengyi Yu, Xiangjie Kong, Binghao Tu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15250

EMNLP: Educator-role Moral and Normative Large Language Models Profiling
Simulating Professions (SP) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to emulate professional roles. However, comprehensive psychological and ethical evaluation in these contexts remains lacking. This paper introduces EMNLP, an Educator-role Moral and Normative LLMs Profiling framework for personality profiling, moral development stage measurement, and ethical risk under soft prompt injection. EMNLP extends existing scales and constructs 88 teacher-specific moral dilemmas, enabling profession-orient…

Hard to take seriously an organization that won't call out a nazi salute for what it is and won't speak out against genocide...
**Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties** | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-07-07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties