Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem
If as many argue the UK's education system has been too focussed on academic subjects & needs (like Germany for instance) to raise the status of vocational qualifications, the rise in the relatively new T-Levels (vocational alternative to A-levels) looks like good news.
Its also worth noting that the non-completion rate looks worse than it is as student can elect to take courses over longer than the 'normal' two year period... something many young carers & workers may do.
The regional divide in educational provision is starkly revealed by a comparison of regions' schools A-level results & continues to be subject of both local & governmental concern.
It as well to stress (especially with growing level of mental health issue among school children) that this has likely come at a cost to well-being which itself my have long term impact.
The media as usual is torn between accusations of grade inflation & celebration.
#education #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/aug/14/ministers-vow-to-tackle-entrenched-divides-in-a-level-results
There are 4,115 teaching positions unfilled Québec’s 
schools. On top of that, 10% of people teaching are not qualified teachers.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-education-staffing-issues-back-to-school-1.7608863
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Il y a 4115 positions d’enseignement non comblées dans les écoles au Québec . De plus, 10% des personnes qui enseignent ne sont pas des enseignants•tes qualifiés•es.
Anthropic takes on OpenAI and Google with new Claude AI features designed for students and developers https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-takes-on-openai-and-google-with-new-claude-ai-features-designed-for-students-and-developers/ #AI #Claude #education
Anthropic takes on OpenAI and Google with new Claude AI features designed for students and developers https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-takes-on-openai-and-google-with-new-claude-ai-features-designed-for-students-and-developers/ #AI #Claude #education
The judge’s ruling followed a motion for summary judgment from the American Federation of Teachers & the American Sociological Assoc, which challenged the govt’s actions in a Feb lawsuit.
The case centers on 2 #Education Dept memos ordering #schools & #universities to end all “race-based decision-making” or face penalties up to a total loss of federal #funding. It’s part of a campaign to end practices the #Trump admin frames as *discrimination* against white & Asian American students.
"More than 120 education scholars have condemned the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal dedicated to Palestine by a Harvard University publisher as 'censorship'".
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/aug/14/harvard-journal-israel-gaza-cancellation
@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #academia #education #Harvard
A federal judge on Thursday struck down 2 #Trump admin actions aimed at eliminating #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs at the nation’s #schools & #universities.
In her ruling, US District Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Maryland stated that the #Education Dept violated the #law when it threatened to cut federal #funding from educational institutions that continued with #DEI initiatives.
I have a bunch of technical programs available to me that I could start at any time, and I have two main ones floating in my head that are always in demand, and then I never have to be a waiter, cashier or host again!
Veterinary tech, cuz #animals are adorable and scare me far less than people. Not to mention every time I go look for jobs, there are about a billion openings.
X-ray tech cuz radiation is cool, and so is messing with dangerous machines too expensive to buy.
Mastering Modern Time Series Forecasting + Advanced Conformal Prediction + Probabilistic Forecasting with Conformal Prediction in Python https://leanpub.com/b/forecasting_conformalprediction_probabilistic_forecasting by Valery Manokhin is the featured bundle of ebooks 
on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #ComputerScience #MachineLearning #Mathematics #Python #DataScience #DeepLearning #Education #books #ebooks
All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/all-souls-exam-questions-and-the
Speaking of #Truth vs #TrumpVirus – It’s in-your-face #authoritarianism #playbook - and terrific #psychopathology
>> Trump Has Resorted To Making Numbers Up — And Experts Say It Should Worry All Of Us
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-bls-antoni_n_689cd337e4b03bdc47506381
"The president is eliminating top government statisticians and data collection efforts he doesn’t like, raising alarms about the harm he could do to the U.S. economy."
Hello#propaganda / #disinformation / #doublespeak
Goodbye NWS, #education, #science, #history ...
Dear Lord - save me from the Frankenbunnies. Bunnicila did not prepare me for this.
We learn *can* learn from failure- trying and failing can hold some of the most valuable lessons. But do we have (or take) enough time to reflect on failures with students, so that they take away meaningful lessons?
Here my blog on the Ferris wheel of highs and lows, and preparing to fail in education:
https://rebeccanordquist.edublogs.org/2025/08/14/learning-to-fail/
@academicchatter #education #higherEd #learning #academic #teaching #failure
"The unfortunate fact remains that our schools are nearly as segregated today as they were during those past decades we don't like to talk about or be responsible for. And one reason that is true is that neighbors with resources send their kids to schools outside of their neighborhood—or choose a private or charter option in their neighborhood instead of the public school. And when they do that, knowingly or not, they're taking their resources with them." https://how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-taylor-cross-would-fix-atlanta/
#education #community #Atlanta
Hi #canada !
So its been a couple crazy months now, but the new PM came in full force in quite a storm, and part of his success has been using some of the conservatives’ good, yet poorly represented or conceived, ideas.
Question: where do you draw the line?
Ok, attempting to expand my #fediverse community to include my fellow #education folks!
I'm teaching #middleschool #art in Baltimore City. I'm interested in connecting with all #arteducator s, middle and high school teachers of whatever subjects, and #Baltimore City teachers and school-adjacent folks.
I have always made art for a living and taught part-time, ~ a 30 (art sales)/70 (teaching gigs) split with income. This is the first time doing ONE JOB that I know will be super hard!
"[A] team led by me at Columbia University’s department of electrical engineering created MOSbius, a breadboard-friendly chip that you can think of as a field-programmable transistor array for analog designs."
https://spectrum.ieee.org/mosbius-learning-analog-system-design
