Zarek Drozda
zarek-drozda.bsky.social
Zarek Drozda
@zarek-drozda.bsky.social
Exec. Director of DS4E, a national nonprofit advancing data literacy skills for students in K-12 education. Fmr. IES (Data Science Fellow). Fmr. UChicago RISC, directed by Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.
Thoughts on the new AI EO. I previously wrote a hypothetical EO on AI as a white paper back in Nov 2024 that was highly similar to the version released last week, and have spent a lot of time wrestling with this topic at IES. Here's what we need to do next:

zarekdrozda.substack.com/p/ai-literac...
AI Literacy for No One.
The Administration’s Executive Order is an important signal that amounts to theory without resources or mechanisms to get it done. Now it's Congress's turn; here's what they can do to save the day.
zarekdrozda.substack.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Reposted by Zarek Drozda
UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.

We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
April 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM