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The move by #SCOTUS represents an expansion of #PresidentialPower, allowing #Trump to functionally eliminate a government department created by #Congress, without legislators’ input.

It comes after a decision by the justices last week that cleared the way for the Trump admin to move forward with cutting thousands of jobs across a number of #FederalAgencies, including #HUD, #State & #Treasury.

#law #education #AbuseOfPower
nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/poli

The emergency application to the justices stemmed from efforts by the Trump administration to sharply curtail the federal government’s role in the nation’s schools.
The New York Times · Supreme Court Allows Trump to Gut Education Department With Mass FiringsBy Abbie VanSickle

"Another seismic decision fundamentally reshaping our system of govt issued on the shadow dkt with not even a single word of explanation."
-A R-Melnick

"SC GRANTS🚨Trump’s bid to fire EDU Dept employees while his admin pushes forward with plans to dismantle the agency & a legal showdown with Dem sts."
-K Reichmann

CON: based on enlightenment *fueled by the belief in HR & progress, brought about transformative changes in areas such as #education, social welfare & the abolition of slavery.
#USPol

The #SupremeCourt on Monday allowed the #Trump administration to resume #layoffs #firing at Dept of #Education. The big picture: The unsigned 6-3 decision overturns a federal judge's order that found #Trump and #Education Secretary #LindaMcMahon did not have the power to shutter the agency. The court's three liberal justices blasted the decision for abetting Trump's #lawlessness. #maga #government #politics #corruption #SCOTUS #democracy #religion in #schools supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd

#SCOTUS is allowing #Trump to put his plan to dismantle the #Education Dept back on track & go through with firing nearly 1,400 employees.

With the 3 liberal justices in dissent, the court on Monday paused an order from US District Judge Myong Joun in Boston, who issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs & calling into question the broader plan.

The SCOTUS action enables the admin to resume work on winding down the department.

#law #AbuseOfPower
apnews.com/live/donald-trump-n

"We, the presidents of Gaza’s three non-profit universities— Al-Aqsa University, Al-Azhar University-Gaza, and the Islamic University of Gaza — together accounting for the vast majority of Gaza’s students and faculty members, issue this unified statement to the international academic community at a time of unprecedented devastation of higher education in Gaza."

aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #education #academia

Al Jazeera · An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universitiesBy Ayman Sobh

Has anyone played around with encouraging (but not requiring) students to teach one another?

One way of demonstrating mastery of the material is teaching it to others. I feel like if student A says "Student B really helped me understand the material" that increases my Bayesian posterior that student B understood the material really well (and also that student A understood it, since presumably after student B explained it, student A understood it at least better than they did before).

I wouldn't do this as the only, or even major, part of their grade, but it seems like if the grade is to reflect learning, that teaching it to others certainly reflects on their learning.

(Additional context: this is for a university-level elective technical course in Comp Sci, for 3rd and 4th-years mostly. I generally do flipped classroom and alternative grading - some combo of ungrading, mastery-based, standards-based, but I'm open to ideas. The class has about 55 students, so whatever it is can take some time but not be *too* time-intensive on me & the one TA.)

As promised, videos from the G7 Summit protests in Calgary in my latest Substack post.

Isa Carlin, Migrante Alberta: "There are undocumented children in this province who haven’t been to elementary school in months or years because of their immigration status."

"Temporary foreign workers on farms here in Canada face some of the most intense forms of exploitation and degradation. Many workers and their families face limited access to clean water because of their living and working conditions - eight family members sharing one bathroom, migrant workers living in trucks, agricultural workers denied the right to breaks and adequate hydration during hot summer months."

#G7Summit #migrantrights #water #education #educationforall #Alberta #yyc #Canada #immigration #temporaryforeignworkers

open.substack.com/pub/jodymacp

The Missive · VIDEOS: Protesters reminded G7 "water is life, a human right, and can be a weapon of war"By Jody MacPherson