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Trump's Education Secretary mocked after critics spot embarrassing grammatical errors in threatening letter to Harvard
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14685541/Trump-Education-Secretary-critics-spot-e…

Oh oh, das gibt Ärger #Deadpool

This was foreseeable. Want to go on vacation on the state's dime? Pull your kids out of school and get vouchers.
Reminds me of the time I saw my sister-in-law tell her first grader to read a book for a treat. That was her idea of teaching her kid how to read. Both she and my brother benefited from special education throughout their schooling. The state was fine with them homeschooling. I believe they were eventually convinced by her parents to send the kids back to school. My pare…

Leveraging Generative AI for Enhancing Automated Assessment in Programming Education Contests
Stefan Dascalescu, Adrian Marius Dumitran, Mihai Alexandru Vasiluta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05990

Leveraging Generative AI for Enhancing Automated Assessment in Programming Education Contests
Competitive programming contests play a crucial role in cultivating computational thinking and algorithmic skills among learners. However, generating comprehensive test cases to effectively assess programming solutions remains resource-intensive and challenging for educators. This paper introduces an innovative NLP-driven method leveraging generative AI (large language models) to automate the creation of high-quality test cases for competitive programming assessments. We extensively evaluated o…

Small Models, Big Support: A Local LLM Framework for Teacher-Centric Content Creation and Assessment using RAG and CAG
Zarreen Reza, Alexander Mazur, Michael T. Dugdale, Robin Ray-Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05925

Small Models, Big Support: A Local LLM Framework for Teacher-Centric Content Creation and Assessment using RAG and CAG
While Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized as student-facing educational aids, their potential to directly support educators, particularly through locally deployable and customizable open-source solutions, remains significantly underexplored. Many existing educational solutions rely on cloud-based infrastructure or proprietary tools, which are costly and may raise privacy concerns. Regulated industries with limited budgets require affordable, self-hosted solutions. We introduc…

FREESS: An Educational Simulator of a RISC-V-Inspired Superscalar Processor Based on Tomasulo's Algorithm
Roberto Giorgi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07665

FREESS: An Educational Simulator of a RISC-V-Inspired Superscalar Processor Based on Tomasulo's Algorithm
FREESS is a free, interactive simulator that illustrates instruction-level parallelism in a RISC-V-inspired superscalar processor. Based on an extended version of Tomasulo's algorithm, FREESS is intended as a hands-on educational tool for Advanced Computer Architecture courses. It enables students to explore dynamic, out-of-order instruction execution, emphasizing how instructions are issued as soon as their operands become available. The simulator models key microarchitectural components, in…

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

Hard to find a single summarizing quote from the post, but it keeps coming back to two closely related ideas:
(1) the tendency of humans to blame themselves for poor tool performance (“oh I should have prompted in •that• way instead, my bad”), and
(2) what we educators call the “hidden curriculum:” people are unaware of learning they have done / habitual effort they are expending, and thus they see their own learning / ongoing effort as zero-cost, obvious, nonexistent, innate personal virtue, etc.
The existence of (2) sets people up for (1); recognizing (2) helps cure (1).
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Sentiment Analysis in Learning Management Systems Understanding Student Feedback at Scale
Mohammed Almutairi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05490 https://

Sentiment Analysis in Learning Management Systems Understanding Student Feedback at Scale
During the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the educational paradigm has experienced a major change from in person learning traditional to online platforms. The change of learning convention has impacted the teacher-student especially in non-verbal communication. The absent of non-verbal communication has led to a reliance on verbal feedback which diminished the efficacy of the educational experience. This paper explores the integration of sentiment analysis into learning management systems (LMS)…

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