Michael Sciffer

@msciffer.bsky.social

President, Armidale Teachers Association. PhD candidate Murdoch University. Researching school segregation and compositional effects. Living/working on Anaiwan lands. Photo: Hay plains https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Sciffer

📢 Welcome to the new account of GEPS! We are a research group based at UAB, with members from the Department of Sociology and the Department of Theories of Education. Here, we will share our research activities and key insights on research and education policy. Follow us to stay updated! 📚🔍

Labor is fixing the funding of public schools in the biggest state in Australia. This is the biggest new investment in NSW public schools by the Australian Government ever. This funding is tied to real practical reforms to lift standards and make sure more children get a great start in life.

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PhD by publication - five papers published, one paper under review for minor revisions, another paper under first review. Thesis - introduction, lit review, linking chapters done. Concluding discussion to go then first draft DONE!

Australia finds itself one of few countries whose governments have not only created, but also funded, an education system in which the wealthy have the most resources and the disadvantaged have the least. www.smh.com.au/national/how...

How the bank of nan and pop is making our polarised school system even worse

Cashed-up grandparents are driving private education fees ever higher. It’s just another degree of stratification for our dysfunctional school system.

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Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% | Common Dreams

CEOs at top US companies saw their pay skyrocket by 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay only increased by 24%

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Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD party has a secret Facebook group for its leaders. They shared and laughed at a post one of them made with Anne Frank’s picture on a pizza box, saying Oven Fresh. Elon Musk just endorsed the AfD.

Early this year we released a report warning of the risks of AI in schools. Now we have semi-automated teaching, AI lesson planners, AI in every edtech platform etc making schools into live experimental sites of unregulated, untested, unproven AI, so I guess we go at it again in 2025...

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3y ago

AI won't affect schools on its own - it will mix with existing educational contexts, and those contexts are characterized often by political control, austerity, bureaucracy, standardization and datafication. AI's likely to be used to reinforce these aspects of schooling...