Kiara Nerenberg
@kiaramnerenberg.bsky.social
went to school to study schools, now analyze schools for the department of schools. views are mine only.
STOP TRAVELING WHILE SICK. I have heard way too much coughing on public transportation lately. I overheard a man on a telehealth appointment - *while ON a train* - telling his doctor he was experiencing deep chest pain, coughing, and sore throat.
HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING.
HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING.
March 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
STOP TRAVELING WHILE SICK. I have heard way too much coughing on public transportation lately. I overheard a man on a telehealth appointment - *while ON a train* - telling his doctor he was experiencing deep chest pain, coughing, and sore throat.
HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING.
HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING.
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Let this sink in.
The lawyers of US greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil have not been able to have A SINGLE PHONE CALL with their client since he was arrested on Saturday night. Today, the court had to order that Khalil be allowed calls.
This is not normal. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/u...
The lawyers of US greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil have not been able to have A SINGLE PHONE CALL with their client since he was arrested on Saturday night. Today, the court had to order that Khalil be allowed calls.
This is not normal. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/u...
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in ICE detention in Louisiana after first court hearing | CNN
Prominent Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana for now following a procedural hearing in New York, days after he was arrested by federal officials ...
www.cnn.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let this sink in.
The lawyers of US greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil have not been able to have A SINGLE PHONE CALL with their client since he was arrested on Saturday night. Today, the court had to order that Khalil be allowed calls.
This is not normal. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/u...
The lawyers of US greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil have not been able to have A SINGLE PHONE CALL with their client since he was arrested on Saturday night. Today, the court had to order that Khalil be allowed calls.
This is not normal. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/u...
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What's happening in America is fascism. It's surreal to type that, but there's no question we meet any reasonable definition of what it entails. Read this list and judge for yourself.
Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵
February 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
What's happening in America is fascism. It's surreal to type that, but there's no question we meet any reasonable definition of what it entails. Read this list and judge for yourself.
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Time to tap the sign: At present, there's no known way to stop generative AI from producing output that is false, wrong, mistaken, untrue, erroneous, incorrect, "hallucinatory," etc etc. You can't fix this by pointing to any particular source material. Bummer, I know. But that's the truth.
Over half the answers AI gave couldn’t be trusted.
Not even after the AI was given access to the BBC’s website and prompted to use BBC News articles and sources.
The BBC tested:
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT
- Microsoft’s Copilot
- Google’s Gemini
- Perplexity
Not even after the AI was given access to the BBC’s website and prompted to use BBC News articles and sources.
The BBC tested:
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT
- Microsoft’s Copilot
- Google’s Gemini
- Perplexity
New BBC research:
51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form
19% of AI answers which cited BBC content introduced factual errors – incorrect factual statements, numbers and dates
And more…
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form
19% of AI answers which cited BBC content introduced factual errors – incorrect factual statements, numbers and dates
And more…
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
February 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Time to tap the sign: At present, there's no known way to stop generative AI from producing output that is false, wrong, mistaken, untrue, erroneous, incorrect, "hallucinatory," etc etc. You can't fix this by pointing to any particular source material. Bummer, I know. But that's the truth.
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Everyone needs to share this story today. Not just on here. Share this every way you can. This is the horror made visible. This is indefensible, a shock to the conscience. Innocent people, including children, are at risk of dying because of the fascist regime in Washington D.C.
The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
February 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Everyone needs to share this story today. Not just on here. Share this every way you can. This is the horror made visible. This is indefensible, a shock to the conscience. Innocent people, including children, are at risk of dying because of the fascist regime in Washington D.C.
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To put a finer point on it, the Trump administration is mass firing federal employees and telling them if they dispute their termination that they can take it up with a board that will (I just learned) lack a quorum to function as of March 1 when another of the current board member’s term expires.
It can’t be a coincidence that the CFPB email firing probationary employees included the language below.
As I reported earlier, 1 of 3 members of this board was fired last night. If they fire one more, they lack a quorum to actually hear any cases.
As I reported earlier, 1 of 3 members of this board was fired last night. If they fire one more, they lack a quorum to actually hear any cases.
February 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
To put a finer point on it, the Trump administration is mass firing federal employees and telling them if they dispute their termination that they can take it up with a board that will (I just learned) lack a quorum to function as of March 1 when another of the current board member’s term expires.
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Someone managed to get a list of all the contracts terminated. Wow
February 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Someone managed to get a list of all the contracts terminated. Wow
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On first reference, DOGE must be referred to as "so-called Department"
February 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
On first reference, DOGE must be referred to as "so-called Department"
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Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States.
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
February 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States.
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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Look, we gotta keep beating this drum: THESE AREN'T CUTS, THEY'RE ILLEGAL IMPOUNDMENT
Not only do "cuts" sound normal & suggest a proper legal process brought them about—which is a lie—but they also sound like something that fell out of the sky, a natural happening, rather than a unilateral decree
Not only do "cuts" sound normal & suggest a proper legal process brought them about—which is a lie—but they also sound like something that fell out of the sky, a natural happening, rather than a unilateral decree
February 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Look, we gotta keep beating this drum: THESE AREN'T CUTS, THEY'RE ILLEGAL IMPOUNDMENT
Not only do "cuts" sound normal & suggest a proper legal process brought them about—which is a lie—but they also sound like something that fell out of the sky, a natural happening, rather than a unilateral decree
Not only do "cuts" sound normal & suggest a proper legal process brought them about—which is a lie—but they also sound like something that fell out of the sky, a natural happening, rather than a unilateral decree
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AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts
AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts
www.aera.net
February 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
A propos of absolutely nothing, a fascinating article was published last January which estimated that NCES has been so understaffed for so long that over-reliance on contractors has resulted in NCES comprising approximately 100 staff and 900 contractors.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bolstering Education Statistics to Serve the Nation
Despite providing objective, benchmark statistics on the condition and progress of U.S. education since 1867, the National Center for Education Statistics has been the center of scrutiny over the l...
www.tandfonline.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
A propos of absolutely nothing, a fascinating article was published last January which estimated that NCES has been so understaffed for so long that over-reliance on contractors has resulted in NCES comprising approximately 100 staff and 900 contractors.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Every Child Left Behind
February 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Every Child Left Behind
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Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
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Contractor expects all WWC contracts to be cancelled, and the website to come down.
After all, why would policymakers want to know what kind of educational interventions actually work?
After all, why would policymakers want to know what kind of educational interventions actually work?
February 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Contractor expects all WWC contracts to be cancelled, and the website to come down.
After all, why would policymakers want to know what kind of educational interventions actually work?
After all, why would policymakers want to know what kind of educational interventions actually work?
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Wow
What happened when public universities in 🇨🇦 started publicizing faculty salaries?
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The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
December 5, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Wow
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In a shock to no one at all (but great to have clear evidence!), when you eliminate one school day a week, kids end up less numerate and literate.
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
May 29, 2024 at 1:32 PM
In a shock to no one at all (but great to have clear evidence!), when you eliminate one school day a week, kids end up less numerate and literate.
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
No one grasps the concept of "anomie" faster than students who did most of middle school on zoom.
March 4, 2024 at 10:32 PM
No one grasps the concept of "anomie" faster than students who did most of middle school on zoom.
Posting this on all of the social medias as a reminder to all my grad student friends especially
Today I started teaching an evening class, Sociology 101 for dual-enrollment high schoolers at a local cc. I also have a full-time job I love where I get to engage in policy and research. For anyone not sure, I promise there is life after academia, and it can be wonderful.
February 26, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Posting this on all of the social medias as a reminder to all my grad student friends especially
Today I started teaching an evening class, Sociology 101 for dual-enrollment high schoolers at a local cc. I also have a full-time job I love where I get to engage in policy and research. For anyone not sure, I promise there is life after academia, and it can be wonderful.
February 26, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Today I started teaching an evening class, Sociology 101 for dual-enrollment high schoolers at a local cc. I also have a full-time job I love where I get to engage in policy and research. For anyone not sure, I promise there is life after academia, and it can be wonderful.