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U.S. Department of Education Notifies Columbia University's Accreditor of Columbia's Title VI Violation (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-notifies-columbia-universitys-accreditor-of-columbias-title-vi-violation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p128#a250604p128

The Mindful Educator
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Adult education programs in limbo as Trump administration withholds grant funds : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/04/nx-s1-5454689/adult-education-programs-in-limbo-as-trump-administration-withholds-grant-funds

The Revolution Has Arrived: What the Current State of Large Language Models in Education Implies for the Future
Russell Beale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02180

The Revolution Has Arrived: What the Current State of Large Language Models in Education Implies for the Future
Large language Models have only been widely available since 2022 and yet in less than three years have had a significant impact on approaches to education and educational technology. Here we review the domains in which they have been used, and discuss a variety of use cases, their successes and failures. We then progress to discussing how this is changing the dynamic for learners and educators, consider the main design challenges facing LLMs if they are to become truly helpful and effective as …

The FOMO about the 10-year University of Cambridge REAL Centre Anniversary Celebration Conference is *real*.
If you can't be there in person, join online.
Incredible lineup.
12 June 2025
https://www.eventbrite.co…

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand."
"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon, in a statement, said Columbia’s leadership
“acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students on its campus”
and urged the accrediting body to keep the department informed of any actions taken to ensure Columbia’s compliance with accreditation standards.
“Accreditors have an enormous public responsibility as gatekeepers of federal student aid,” McMahon said.
“Just as the Department of Education has an oblig…

Education Dept. says Columbia fails to meet accreditation standards
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/trump-columbia-education-antidiscrimination.html

Judge preserves Education Department injunction over time extensions for states’ Covid fund spending | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-preserves-education-department-injunction-over-time-extensions-for-states-covid-fund-spending/

Education Department pausing plan to garnish Social Security checks over defaulted loans
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5329805-education-department-pausing-plan-garnish-social-security-checks-defaulted-loans/