NEW DATA: Schools censor much of the web—and the practice is inhibiting students’ learning and even safety.

The Trevor Project? Blocked.
Planned Parenthood? Blocked.
NASA? Blocked.

With USA TODAY: mrkup.org/SoZUl

A Cautionary #AI Tale: Why IBM’s Dazzling Watson Supercomputer Made a Lousy Tutor - my latest for The 74 the74million.org/article/a-caut…

TikTok owner ByteDance also quietly operates one of the most popular education-related apps on the market: generative AI-powered Gauth, a homework aid with millions of downloads. trib.al/cFpZXDB

NEWS from me & Andrew Desiderio

CathyMcMorrisRodgers & Maria Cantwell have a deal on a bipartisan data privacy bill they plan to unveil next week.

The proposal would set a national data privacy standard, replacing assorted state standards. Companies would face limits on what data…

Thank you Education Writers Association for recognizing Mark Keierleber's investigative reporting and for all the fine work by my @the74 colleagues — Beth Hawkins Linda Jacobson @jimmy2cans Emmeline Zhao & Eamonn Fitzmaurice — named as finalists. We are honored. See you in Vegas! ewa.org/members-news/a…

A new bill in Louisiana would make it a criminal act for a librarian to use any taxpayer money to go to a conference that the American Library Association is involved in bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-7…

The power of print, even in the absence of print. No digital equivalent.

In other weapons to detection news, NYC is spending $4m to replace metal detectors at schools w/ new scanners whose main selling point is kids can pass thru w/o removing backpacks…except kids will still have to remove backpacks: chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/0…

Seems relevant that the FTC is investigating Evolv’s big marketing claims the74million.org/article/feds-p…

Our analysis of 10 years of Gun Violence Archive data, available for the first time, found that deaths are up 50% and injuries are up 66% since 2014.

Half of all shootings occurred outside large cities.

Someone in the rural South is more likely to be shot than someone in L.A.

WTF? You cannot convince me this wasn't sexual.

I wrote about how the US has long had a clear stance on condemning authoritarian governments when they ban apps and internet access, and how a TikTok ban could undercut that moral authority.
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Hochul’s subway safety plan is a full-throated embrace of the cynical politics of governing by tough-on-crime *optics.* She cares most about *being seen* as “taking crime seriously,” even though her proposals are deeply unserious and unlikely to be effective.

MN Senate Leader Erin Murphy says she expects SRO bill to come up for a floor vote Monday.

On whether her whole caucus will support: 'I've always said that this bill is going to require bipartisan support to pass.' (8 DFL voted no in House)

Background: axios.com/local/twin-cit…

Hey #SXSWEDU , come learn about the rise of surveillance tech in schools — and it’s civil rights implications — at 11:30 am CT. Deets here: schedule.sxswedu.com/2024/events/PP… The 74 Education Writers Association SXSW EDU

Minnesota dems push to repeal school ban on restraint that killed George Floyd buff.ly/3UXpv8c

Today my Houston Landing colleagues and I are forming a union.

This step will help the organization become the best possible version of itself as we strive to carry out our founding mission:

To strengthen democracy and improve the lives of all Houstonians, one story at a time

So many gems in the latest Mark Keierleber expose, but none more chilling than this defense of paddling from a local sheriff: “It’s a lot of what our country is missing now: Too many people get away with too many things and there’s no punishment.' The 74 the74million.org/article/florid…

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An 18-year-old honors student says a spanking at her Florida high school went disturbingly beyond discipline. Now, she’s joined a student effort to fight back: the74million.org/article/florid… The 74