Featured story: Students will learn that life circumstances are beyond their power to change. They will learn that their place and the place of others in the economy and larger society should not be questioned. Instead, they should celebrate the wealthy and powerful for their economic success. https://www.texasobserver.org/sboe-bible-curriculum-requirements/
As Sarah O'Connor (FT) points out when we think about the future of specific jobs/professions (in the face of technological change) we need to factor in what she calls "anticipatory obsolescence' - the tendency of your people to look at the prospective future & shape their educational paths on that basis;
thinking a certain job has no future reduces the incentive to train for it & in a sense becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as skilled practitioners decline....
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As Lou Doyle observes, whatever we think of recent pronouncements & proposals from Andy Burnham on skilled education....
'Nobody should expect a devolved skills strategy to undo a class-coded hierarchy that’s taken decades to settle. It will fail if we once again place the solutions to broader societal challenges on the shoulders of teachers'!
Spot on: once again it blames the victims for class-based structural inequality!
#politics #class #skills #education
https://feweek.co.uk/burnham-parity-of-esteem-starts-with-pay-not-pathways/
Emeritus Prof. Christopher May
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@peterbrown @ChrisMayLA6 I was really struck by a documentary I listened to a few years ago about Finland’s (extremely successful) education system
Students & teachers co-design the curriculum, not around discreet subject areas but around areas the students want to explore & understand or problems they’re interested in solving and the teachers pull in the different disciplines & specialisms to enable it
150 years since Dickens & Gradgrind still runs #uk #education
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@ChrisMayLA6 he should be telling them to study the things that inspire them.
That is the route to high performance.
@peterbrown @ChrisMayLA6 I was really struck by a documentary I listened to a few years ago about Finland’s (extremely successful) education system
Students & teachers co-design the curriculum, not around discreet subject areas but around areas the students want to explore & understand or problems they’re interested in solving and the teachers pull in the different disciplines & specialisms to enable it
150 years since Dickens & Gradgrind still runs #uk #education
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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Ummmm, no.
#Trump admin cancels #school #SexEducation programs designed to prevent #TeenPregnancy, now it will focus on #Marriage & Starting #Families 🤯🤬
[oh & in case you forget they outlawed #abortion]
#law #policy #education #PublicHealth #WomensRights #TradWives #MaleSupremacy #indoctrination
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/us/politics/teen-pregnancy-prevention-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0lA.CWVb._zZnE8auPMEa&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Lydia Vvinters
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Society is starting to look exactly like what happens when we spend decades treating STEM as the only path worth investing in, while sidelining the humanities.
This isn't a criticism of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. We need them. Desperately. They should be well supported.
But we also need philosophy, history, literature, languages, ethics, the arts, and every discipline that wrestles with what it means to be human. We need people who can understand the human condition, recognise propaganda, interpret context, think critically about power, engage with complexity, and ask not only how the world works, but what kind of world we ought to build.
A society built only to solve technical problems eventually forgets how to solve human ones.
#Humanities #STEM #Education #CriticalThinking #Ethics #Democracy #Society
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#journalism #media #Texas #politics #education #USpol #news #law #police
Ummmm, no.
#Trump admin cancels #school #SexEducation programs designed to prevent #TeenPregnancy, now it will focus on #Marriage & Starting #Families 🤯🤬
[oh & in case you forget they outlawed #abortion]
#law #policy #education #PublicHealth #WomensRights #TradWives #MaleSupremacy #indoctrination
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/us/politics/teen-pregnancy-prevention-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0lA.CWVb._zZnE8auPMEa&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Society is starting to look exactly like what happens when we spend decades treating STEM as the only path worth investing in, while sidelining the humanities.
This isn't a criticism of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. We need them. Desperately. They should be well supported.
But we also need philosophy, history, literature, languages, ethics, the arts, and every discipline that wrestles with what it means to be human. We need people who can understand the human condition, recognise propaganda, interpret context, think critically about power, engage with complexity, and ask not only how the world works, but what kind of world we ought to build.
A society built only to solve technical problems eventually forgets how to solve human ones.
#Humanities #STEM #Education #CriticalThinking #Ethics #Democracy #Society