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Zarek Drozda
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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.
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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:

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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.
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May 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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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.
Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars. CSV of table: Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075" Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113" Engineering,94,"$33,472,485" Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740" Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312" Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738" STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063" "Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904" "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"
April 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM