Does Steve Kornacki get a pausa de hidratacion?
Sharon Lurye
@sharonlurye.bsky.social
Education data reporter for the Associated Press, occasional gardener, former math teacher, proud member of the AP News Guild. Send tips/comments/dog pics to slurye@ap.org.
[shows a map of earliest sunsets under permanent standard time] everyone boos [shows a map of latest sunrises under permanent daylight time] everyone boos [suggests we keep changing the clock twice a year] everyone boos
Jeff Asher@jeffasher.bsky.social · 3w agoGross
This is such a good example of transparency when using AI in journalism!
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈@jaspar.bsky.social · 3w agoThis project also marked the first time I had to apply STAT's AI use policy to publishing data analysis. I'm pleased with the standard for disclosure and transparency we're trying to set here. I also wanted to make sure I signed my name to this statement instead of using the institutional voice.
Our society has associated surveillance with security (CCTV) and with love (bluetooth tags) for so long that tech companies are betting (perhaps correctly?) that people prefer being surveilled to being ignored...
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3w agoThis seems like a bad deal! And the companies can’t even list what it is you are getting, except for a machine that knows all your business and sends it to OpenAI (or meta, or Amazon, or Google….)
3. Very few film scripts are composed entirely in Homeric Greek. In fact, I can't think of any. That's a shame, but also understandable. It would be quite unlikely to do well at the box office.
A surprising age gap has emerged: 9-year-olds' test scores are growing in math and reading, while 13-year-olds are stagnating. Their reading scores are basically at the same level now that they were in 1971 when the NAEP Long-Term Test started.
Teens' reading and math scores have stagnated, US test results show
Younger students have regained academic ground lost during the pandemic, but older students' test scores remain stagnant.
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AP added the name of journalist Mariam Dagga to its wall of honor last month. My son had just been born when she was killed in an Israeli airstrike of a Gaza hospital. It was so painful for me to think about the son that Mariam left behind. Keep her memory alive.
An ironic correction to an article about the winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Burger King is "piloting an AI assistant, called “Patty,” that lives inside employees’ headsets" and "listens to employees to evaluate them for friendliness. That means tracking whether they say “welcome to Burger King,” “please,” and “thank you.”"
The Verge@theverge.com · 3mo agoTaco Bell is experimenting with an AI-driven menu board, which will use the technology to “dynamically change the layout, content, and visuals on a car-by-car basis.” Read more from @emroth08.bsky.social:
fuckin crazy story. some Ukrainian kid probably saved his whole family from being killed by a Russian drone murder squad by spotting and cutting the fiber optic connection www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
In northern Ukraine, it was boy vs. Russian drone. The boy won.
A soldier taught a 12-year-old how to disable the fiber-optic drones that Russia has been using to hunt Ukrainian civilians in a campaign the U.N. has labeled a war crime.
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600+ people in a PA school district have signed a petition supporting parents' rights to opt their children out of school devices. They're not anti-tech -- they just don't want tech to dominate. “Teaching how to use technology is not the same thing as using technology to teach everything else."
Some parents don't want their kids to use tech at school. But districts are pushing back
Parents across the country who are worried about excessive screen time in schools are lobbying educators to go back to pencils and paper.
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NEW: America's literacy crisis is growing. Only five states, plus D.C., have made any meaningful improvement in reading scores since 2022. What those states all had in common: science of reading reforms. But it's not a silver bullet.
Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to decline
Researchers are warning that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession, a slide that predates the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Really like how they built "Size of Canada / Size of Alaska" into the y-axis!
Lisa Charlotte Muth@lisacmuth.bsky.social · 3mo agoIn 2015, Derek Watkins built a chart for The New York Times that I liked so much that two years later, I wrote a whole article about it: www.datawrapper.de/blog/readers... Today, I rebuilt it in Datawrapper with updated data: www.datawrapper.de/_/vnJXh/ That was fun. I should rebuild more charts.
Disappointing to see people on this website unaware of the greatest piece of investigative journalism of our generation.
The Very Real, Totally Bizarre Bucatini Shortage of 2020
What the hole is going on?
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lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3mo agoi wonder what other dumbass nostalgia bait we could all fall insanely hard for. most millennial pasta noodle? no, bad prompt, no debate there. it's unquestionably cavatappi. no need to even entertain other options
If anyone happens to know someone who won 4th place in an Olympic event and/or has been divorced more than three times -- hit me up.
The federal government has always been incredibly slow to update education data but now we'll likely be waiting even longer. All this data is still out there but siloed across states and districts, making it a laborious task to collect and harmonize.
Matt Barnum@mattbarnum.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew: Since DOGE cut the statistical arm of the Education Department, basic facts about American schools are no longer readily available. Some of these data points can be found elsewhere but are now harder to track down. Others simply don't exist anymore. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/05/07/e...
Fellow data journos! Does anyone know an example of a newsroom AI guidance/ethics document specifically made for data journalism teams? I have found plenty of examples for newsrooms as a whole, but not data journalism-specific.
Black students were told they have a "powerful" "personal story," Hispanic students were told to use "proper" English and girls were told "I love your confidence!" -- fascinating writeup by @jillbarshay.bsky.social about how AI grades student essays hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
AI gives more praise, less criticism to Black students
A Stanford experiment found that AI feedback shifts on identical essays depending upon the identity and characteristics of the student.
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1/3 “News doesn’t reveal itself from a distance. It has to be witnessed.” AP Executive Editor Julie Pace affirmed the importance of “eyewitness journalism,” while AP is offering buyouts to more than 120 U.S. guild covered employees across multiple formats. How can AP be on the ground without us?
School districts across the Twin Cities area saw absenteeism spike during the ICE crackdown. In St. Paul, over 9,000 students were absent in mid-January; Minneapolis had over 8,000 students stay home in one day; Fridley saw attendance drop by nearly a third.
Minnesota districts ask judge to restore limits on immigration enforcement near schools
Two Minnesota school districts and the state’s main teachers union have asked a federal judge to block a Trump administration change in policy that gave immigration authorities a freer hand to conduct...
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When you see Drs. Abbot, Shen or Ellis show up on the Pitt
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4mo agoThank you to the night shift for your incredible work, tonight and every night.
Do yourself a favor today and check out the STUNNING photos and videos in this AP story on Indonesia's coral reefs: apnews.com/article/clim...
Ocean protections clash with mining pressure in Indonesia's most diverse marine ecosystem
There is an explosion of color beneath the surface in Raja Ampat. The remote archipelago is in eastern Indonesia where sharks, reef mantas and sea turtles glide alongside vast schools of fish through ...
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"The failures are the curriculum. The error messages are the syllabus. Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn't leave you diminished..."
Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 4mo agoHey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
Genuinely one of the best parts of my job is that I get to wander around the Terminal. For instance I was testing out the mapping function and in the process learned that the Waffle House location with the highest revenue in the country is the one near Arizona State's campus
George Pearkes@peark.es · 4mo agoit's absolutely silly how much random knowledge you can accrue with a Bloomberg terminal and a dash of intellectual curiosity.
I went looking for one Japanese chart book and ended up with 19 prewar volumes, a new collecting method, and a stronger conviction that graphic history is far from fully known. www.chartography.net/p/ascending-...
Ascending into the Realm of Japanese Charts
A prewar collection crosses the Pacific.
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New— The backlash to ed-tech is growing, with some prominent voices making the case that it's at the root of recent learning declines. I took a look at the evidence. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/03/17/j...
A viral anti-screen argument is shaking schools. The evidence is more complicated.
A neuroscientist’s warning about ed-tech is spreading fast with parents and lawmakers. But the research is more nuanced and up for debate.
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🚨New working paper alert! 🚨 The US spends huge $ on special education services for students with disabilities. Is that spending effective? Today we released a working paper suggesting it is. "Special Education Substantially Improves Learning: Evidence from Three States" Let me explain...
