organization:department of education

Electronic exams fail again across Egypt on Sunday - Egypt Independent
▻https://www.egyptindependent.com/electronic-exams-fail-again-across-egypt-on-sunday

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On Sunday morning first secondary grade exams began electronically for about 600,000 students, and was plagued by a host of technical issues.

About 10,772 students in Damietta had problems with the exam on their tablets just minutes after the exam started.

The examinees resorted to a hardcopy starting 9:30 am, after the electronic exam system failed.

At 11 am the electronic systems were operational, however the Education Ministry decided to continue the examination on paper to avoid confusion.

The situation was the same in Alexandria, as students used a hardcopy for the exam after a failure in the electronic system that continued until 9:15 am.

In North Sinai schools, exams were conducted for 2,617 students in 29 schools affiliated to six educational departments.

The exam was carried out using paper in 26 schools, while students at three Arish schools underwent the exam electronically.

At south Marsa Alam, students conducted the examinations using paper following a power outage.

Nora Fadel, Director General of the Education Department in the Red Sea, said that all first secondary grade students at the Red Sea schools performed exams electronically, except for Abou Ghosoon School in Marsa Alam, which had only eight students.

The failure of electronic system in Beheira caused the Beheira Directorate of Education to revert to paper for the Arabic language exam, delaying exams and forcing students to leave schools to buy pens and other tools.

#Egypte terrain d’essai pour les big brothers de l’éducation en ligne ?

Facebook news chief to media: ‘Work with Facebook or die’ / Boing Boing
▻https://boingboing.net/2018/08/13/facebook-news-chief-to-media.html

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The Australian reports that Facebook media relations chief Campbell Brown privately disclosed that Mark Zuckerberg is indifferent to publishers and offers the news media a simple choice: “Work with Facebook or die.”

A senior Facebook executive has privately admitted Mark Zuckerberg “doesn’t care” about publishers and warned that if they did not work with the social media giant, “I’ll be holding your hands with your dying business like in a ­hospice”.

That’s a strange thought, isn’t it? Right down to how an attempt at intimidation is undermined its own awkward spitefulness.

Still, she (invoking he), is effectively threatening to destroy news publishers unless they comply with Facebook’s vision for their future. So everyone has work to do.

Brown was hired last year after to help Facebook “smooth over its strained ties to the news media.”

But Facebook executives said they were hiring Ms. Brown for her understanding of the news industry as a onetime White House correspondent, co-anchor of “Weekend Today” and primary substitute anchor of “Nightly News” at NBC News, and prime-time anchor on CNN, which she left in 2010.

Some commentators noted Ms. Brown’s ties to the Republican donor Betsy DeVos, Mr. Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Education. Ms. DeVos’s family foundation funds The 74, an education-focused journalism site co-founded and led by Ms. Brown.

Hiring a DeVos crony to deal with fake news and media relations quickly became the Facebook Executives Puzzled By Human Emotion trainwreck it promised to be: Brown was last in the news threatening to sue The Guardian for breaking the Cambridge Analytica story.

#médias #disruption

Préteriez-vous 1 000 Mds$ à des étudiants ? (3/3) | La Chronique Agora
▻http://la-chronique-agora.com/prets-etudiants-subprime

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prêteriez-vous 1 000 Mds$ à une poignée d’étudiants de 18 ans ?

Le Department of Education (DoE) rend quasiment impossible le calcul d’un taux de défaut précis mais Bloomberg a passé au crible les données pour obtenir une image fiable – et elle est horrible…

Près de 41,5 millions d’Américains doivent environ 1 300 Mds$ sur leur prêt étudiant fédéral… Environ un emprunteur sur quatre est soit en difficulté soit en défaut. L’#endettement total a doublé depuis 2009.

Navient (NAVI) est la principale agence de service des prêts étudiants pour le compte du DoE. Elle a investi plusieurs centaines de millions de dollars dans des packages de prêts étudiants. Elle est poursuivie en justice par le gouvernement pour avoir tenté de recouvrer les prêts étudiants en défaut. Allez comprendre…

American Jewish establishment stifles free speech to silence Zionism’s critics
According to the Senate’s new Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, Henrietta Szold, Hannah Arendt and Martin Buber could also be defined as Jew-haters.

Peter Beinart Dec 07, 2016
read more: ▻http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.757284

With every passing year, the American Jewish establishment poses a greater threat to free speech in the United States.
The reason is simple. With every passing year, Israeli control of the West Bank grows more permanent. And so, with every passing year, more American progressives question Zionism.
After all, if Jewish statehood permanently condemns millions of West Bank Palestinians to live as non-citizens, under military law, without free movement or the right to vote for the government that controls their lives, it’s hardly surprising that Americans who loathe discrimination and cherish equality would grow uncomfortable with the concept.
And the more those Americans voice this discomfort, the more establishment American Jewish organizations work to classify anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, punishable by law.
The latest example is The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which the Senate passed unanimously on December 2. The Act – pushed by AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federations of America – instructs the Department of Education’s Civil Rights office to follow “the definition of anti-Semitism set forth by the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism of the Department of State in the Fact Sheet issued on June 8, 2010.”

Egypte : 3 élèves morts dans des écoles délabrées, des centaines d’enfants menacés | Egypt Independent

▻http://www.egyptindependent.com//news/death-three-students-highlights-growing-negligence-schools

The death of three school children in Cairo’s Matariya, Giza’s Atfih and the province of Matrouh has shed more light on the growing negligence at schools in terms of lack of periodic maintenance.
 
One of the students died when a glass panel fell from the classroom’s window on his neck; the second died under a collapsing school gate; and the third was hit by the vehicle carrying students’ rations.
 
But life dangers are found at other schools across the republic .
 
In the Red Sea province, 250 students at Hurghada elementary school are in danger every day at a shabby building annexed to the school for which a demolition order has been issued. The school’s board had approached authorities to carry out the decision, which stated that the building was near collapse.
 
Ahmed Mohamed Hussein, a member of the school’s board, says an inspection report submitted 20 years ago by the General Authority for Educational Buildings confirmed that cracks were found inside the concrete beams on the ground floor. 
 
Taha Bekheit, who heads the Red Sea’s education department, says the implementation of the demolition order is the responsibility of the Education Buildings Authority, stressing that if the building was posing any danger to students’ lives it would be evacuated.
 
In Qena, observers of the educational process in the province have lambasted what they describe as “deliberate” negligence by the municipality at the city of Farshout, where officials failed to carry out another demolition order for Sheikh Khallaf Elementary School. 
 
Some parents called for an urgent solution for the situation which endangers the lives of more than 400 students. Mohamed Al-Sayyed, one student’s parent, says citizens had submitted several memos to official authorities, noting that the absence of a wall surrounding the school had encouraged some farmers to herd their animals inside.
 
Abu Khalil Primary School in Shariqya’s Faqous has also been suffering disregard by officials, according to citizens. Ahmed Suleiman, one of the parents, says the school’s roof was made of wood, which is penetrated by high-tension power cables, something which he describes as “a genuine threat to the kids.”
 
The school’s headmaster, Ahmed Mansour, said that it was established in 1998 by citizens’ independent efforts, but was later joined by the educational buildings authority in 2000. Since then, he had sent several memos to officials at the authority to remove away the cables.
 
In Matrouh, 50 students in the one-class Saloufa school are in danger of falling in an open water well that locals use to store rainwater.
 
Sources at the province’s education department explained that the school is 45 kilometers away from the capital, Marsa Matrouh, adding it was established independently by citizens and lacks genuine educational services.

A lire dans Manière de voir : En Egypte, des classes en quête de révolution, mon enquête sur le sujet ►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/mav/131

School to Prison Pipeline Wilson Reyes: ‘School-To-Prison Pipeline’ Debate Reignites With NYPD Cuffing Of 7-Year-Old | News One

▻http://newsone.com/2102611/school-to-prison-pipeline-wilson-reyes

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From the beginning of this year, the U.S. Department of Education acknowledged that Black and Hispanic youth faced harsher discipline than that of their White counterparts: The Education Department reported that one in five Black boys and one in 10 Black girls received out-of-school suspension. Combined, Black students were three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than Whites. Because of this bleak reality, many students who incurred minor offenses were met with harsh consequences that eventually led to police detention.

Although numbers and data tell the story, nothing compares to an actual depiction of overzealous discipline at work. On Thursday, NewsOne reported on the case of third-grader Wilson Reyes, 7 (pictured), who was allegedly involved in a scuffle at his school in the Bronx with another student over a $5 bill back in early December.

#états-unis #new_york #enfance #enfants #école #éducation #punitions #discipline

We should be allies, not enemies, Gwede Mantashe | Mark Heywood
▻http://mg.co.za/article/2014-07-04-an-open-letter-to-anc-secretary-general

When we have our meeting, I will show you the volumes of failed correspondence, protests, meetings and submissions that usually precede a court case. We have whole files of letters to the Limpopo department of education. Last year, for example, we tried in vain for three months to have school meals restored to thousands of children in one education circuit of Limpopo. Eventually this only happened after we filed legal papers to get the children their rights to ­sufficient food.

#Afrique_du_Sud #ANC #TAC #tribunaux#militer #santé #éducation #toilettes

Harvard and Princeton among 55 schools facing Title IX investigation | Education | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/01/harvard-princeton-title-ix-investigation

The Education Department on Thursday took the unprecedented step of releasing the names of the 55 colleges and universities currently facing a Title IX investigation over their handling of sexual abuse complaints.

The release came two days after a White House task force promised greater government transparency on sexual assault in higher education. The department said it will keep an updated list of schools facing such an investigation and make it available upon request.

Title IX prohibits gender discrimination at schools that receive federal funds. It is the same law that guarantees girls equal access to sports, but it also regulates institutions’ handling of sexual violence and increasingly is being used by victims who say their schools failed to protect them.

Citing research, the White House has said that 1 in 5 female students is assaulted. President Barack Obama appointed a task force comprised of his cabinet members to review the issue after hearing complaints about the poor treatment of campus rape victims and the hidden nature of such crimes.

The task force announced the creation of a website, notalone.gov, offering resources for victims and information about past enforcement actions on campuses. The task force also made a wide range of recommendations to schools, such as identifying confidential victims’ advocates and conducting surveys to better gauge the frequency of sexual assault on their campuses.

#campus #agressions_sexuelles

Sweden’s Riots Put Its Identity in Question - NYTimes.com

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/world/europe/swedens-riots-put-its-identity-in-question.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit

STOCKHOLM — Eva Bromster, an elementary school principal, was jolted awake by a telephone call late Thursday night. “Your school is burning,” her boss, the director of the local education department, told her.

#suède #émeutes