Striking that education doesn’t make it into the list - arguably the only major policy area where the Conservative government improved the country (hence Labour explicitly saying they want to build on their policies, rather than radically change them).

Striking that education doesn’t make it into the list - arguably the only major policy area where the Conservative government improved the country (hence Labour explicitly saying they want to build on their policies, rather than radically change them).

AI is affecting the highly educated first; so higher education really needs to incorporate AI into its curriculum if it wishes to prepare students for the 2030s onwards. More focus is needed on AI-assisted learning & AI-assisted assessment, rather than simply on anti-AI policing.

It is disappointing how unimaginative they are in ripping off Trump’s unfalsifiable conspiracy theories, in this case the one about the “deep state”/“swamp”.

“Angry and wrong”. About sums up the main trend of political discourse & feeling in both the US & UK, 2010s onwards.

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In “Angry and Wrong: The Emotional Dynamics of Partisan Media and Political Misperceptions”, Weeks examines how partisan media affect false political beliefs, in part by generating anger. doi.org/10.1017/9781... (3/4)

👍🏼Teachers in schools w/ high SES pupils also strive hard to add value which simply cannot be substituted with some catch-up self-study time, no matter how many iPads at home etc. Term plan as a whole has coherence & is more than sum of its parts: take out one part, the value lost is substantial.

Not trying to misquote you, not trying to “accomplish” anything. What can I say - I follow you on X and Bluesky, I’m a fan. It’s Friday night here where I am, & I’m skimming in-between chatting with the four year-old, so there may have been a miscommunication. 🚂

“I really wasn’t expecting there to be a negative effect [from absence] on longterm learning”. Not a claim I’m familiar with teachers making, in any kind of school. 😬 TBH I’m not surprised that non-teachers would be surprised (hence parents’ holidays). But I don’t think teachers by and large will be

Basically you’re saying to teachers (in both poorer & richer contexts): your work doesn’t really matter much, & doesn’t meet its stated objectives.

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Dysfunctional things about UK political discourse #163: Journalists grilling politicians about “optics” (rather than about governance, their actual job). They’re essentially saying: “For the past three days we’ve been saying bad things about you - why did you let this happen?”