Marta Maria Maldonado

Students Read and Critique Executive Orders Executive Orders on language, education, and climate have a profound impact on students’ lives. Therefore, young people should be invited to read and critique them. The Hillsdale College 1776 Curricul...

EOs on language, education, and climate have a profound impact on students’ lives.

Therefore, young people should be invited to read & critique them. The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum also merits critical attention.

Read two teaching stories ⬇️ & send us yours.
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US Department of State halts International Writing Program funding The U.S. Department of State notified the University of Iowa International Writing program on Feb. 26 that its grants through the department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs were being ter...

The State Department terminated its longstanding support for the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, which has existed since 1967 (involving 3 Nobel Prize winners).
U Iowa's canceling several programs and searching for new funding sources.
now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/03...

Judge Reinstates NLRB Member Fired by Trump The ruling, which the Trump administration immediately moved to appeal, was a rebuke of Mr. Trump’s expansive view of executive power.

A federal judge reinstated Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board, declaring that President Trump’s attempt to fire her was unlawful.

Our newest report, “Beyond the NLRB: Contemporary Strategies and Practices for Labor Movement Renewal,” is officially here! drive.google.com/file/d/1qT1j...

The Corporate Coup in Global Context

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall

Monday, February 17th at 5:00 pm ET

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#TeachTruth Syllabus We offer this #TeachTruthSyllabus as a gesture of defiance and education. The Right would be happy to keep the conversation at the level of obfuscation, divorced from reality and history. We, on the o...

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Brand new review of "Immigration Realities" by the great immigration researcher Jennifer van Hook. Thanks ERS!

The US Is Seeing Quickly Widening Gaps in Life Expectancy Between Groups A new study shows the disparities — largely along lines of race, class and geography — have nearly doubled since 2000.

A new study shows the disparities — largely along lines of race, class and geography — have nearly doubled since 2000.

Sonoma State Is Reeling After Huge Cuts. Where Does the School Go From Here? | KQED As the university slashes entire departments and degree programs, officials advise students who are more than 60 units away from graduating to switch majors.

“You’re losing your job, and then your department that you’ve poured your heart and soul into for more than 20 years is also going to be eliminated,” Tung said. “But I feel like some of the deeper pain is that future students are not going to get what we have to offer and what we’ve been offering.”

Rest in power.

LA Fires | IN PERSON Volunteer Opps

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN LOS ANGELES:

If you’re looking to get involved with volunteer efforts in LA, please check out this list provided by Mutual Aid LA:

COMMENTARY by Ulises A. Mejias: The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity - Future U By encouraging GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students. Many years ago, I had a student whose written assignments were very hard to decipher. T...

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Great. One more thing to look forward to. 😵‍💫

Vital City | Who Trump’s Mass Deportations Would Hurt, and How Removing undocumented immigrants by the millions would harm the economy and cause major collateral damage.

New piece on how deportations are bad for those deported, their families & communities, but also for the US and you.
@vitalcitynyc.bsky.social

Opinion | Who will rebuild Los Angeles? Immigrants. And many of them will be doing it under threat of family separation.

"Immigrants will be the ones bringing Los Angeles back from the ashes. Without them, the city will struggle to recover."

wapo.st/4gG1Xgd

An A.I. Boom Makes Electricians Flock to Central Washington The rural region is changing fast as electricians from around the country plug the tech industry’s new, giant data centers into its ample power supply.

Union electricians are flocking to areas like rural Washington where A.I. companies are building massive data centers.

Our best wishes are with every fox out there today trying to escape the hunts.

And a big fuck you to the cowards that are hunting these animals for kicks

😬😂

Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn Black history lessons their schools don't teach Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.

apnews.com/article/flor...

Scapegoats and Solidarity Scapegoat politics is a tempting—but harmful—distraction from the real work of solidarity-building.

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AI is the future, they said.

AI is a multi-billion dollar industry. It’s underpinned by an invisible and exploited workforce Data labellers are the lifeblood of the AI industry. Yet they are often paid very low wages, work in unsafe environments and lack basic workplace protections.

Still think AI is beniegn? “… data labellers and AI workers from Kenya who do work for companies like Facebook, Scale AI and OpenAI published an open letter to U.S. in which they said: Our working conditions amount to modern day slavery.” theconversation.com/ai-is-a-mult...

My latest piece of the puzzle…

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...

Right here.