A California judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit that accuses Twitter of violating the free speech rights of a leading white nationalist figure by banning his social media account. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn ruled in Jared Taylor’s favor during a hearing Thursday on Twitter’s request to dismiss the suit, court records show. Taylor claims Twitter permanently suspended accounts belonging to him and hundreds of other far-right users in December based solely on their political views and affiliations. The judge described Taylor’s case as a “classic public interest lawsuit” and said it “goes to the heart of free…
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The controversial proposal to merge K-12, higher education and workforce development into one big cabinet level state agency won’t go forward any time soon. The plan was backed by some Republican lawmakers and Gov. John Kasich, but had lots of opposition. The bill would bring the departments of Education, Higher Education and the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation into one agency essentially controlled by the governor. Rep. Lou Blessing III (R-Cincinnati) chairs the committee looking at the bill, and said he’s planning no more hearings on it in its current form. “After we have had four or five hearings, and…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that from the 2018/19 academic year, which begins in September 2018, all Colleges of Education in the country will be upgraded to University Colleges. Additionally, from September, President Akufo-Addo indicated that a 4-year Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree will be introduced in the University Colleges. “These Colleges will, initially, be affiliated with the University of Cape Coast, and, subsequently, to other public universities. This means that, eventually, a first degree will be the minimum requirement for teaching at any level of our education system”, he said. Currently, many teachers who complete the three-year…
Virginia Commonwealth University has a new head of faculty affairs. Gypsy Denzine has been named the senior vice provost for faculty affairs at VCU, effective Aug. 6. Denzine comes to the Richmond school from West Virginia University, where she served as dean of the College of Education and Human Services. Denzine is an alumna of St. Cloud State University, the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Northern Colorado. 3 professors get funds for James River work RICHMOND — Three professors have received funding for their research on the James River. University of Richmond biology professor Kristine…
Working in a Brockton elementary school, Kathleen Smith tried to hold the attention of large classes — as many as 35 grade-schoolers in one big room. And conditions were deteriorating. At Brockton High School, she remembered, “you truly had kids that would come in and sit on the radiators,” she said. “You had books falling apart. You didn’t have materials. You didn’t have supplies.” That was 25 years ago. Conditions like those led students in Brockton and 15 other cities and towns to sue Massachusetts. They argued that the state, by failing to provide thousands of students the opportunity to receive an “adequate education,”…
Education these days isn’t just about reading, writing and arithmetic — it’s also about learning how to learn. And Microsoft wants to be the go-to option for teaching these abilities. It’s buying Flipgrid, the creator of an educational platform that fosters social-emotional skills like communication and bouncing back from failure. The tech giant hasn’t said how it will integrate Flipgrid with the rest of its lineup, but it’s starting by making the platform free to schools (they can get prorated refunds if they’ve subscribed). Microsoft has promised that Flipgrid’s offerings will still work with other “partner ecosystems,” so Google-centric classrooms won’t suddenly lose a…
More than 100 international delegates will visit Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) on June 21 and 22, 2018 for the European Conference on Social Media. For the first time in its five year history, the conference will be held in Ireland attracting speakers from South Africa, Mexico, USA, Russia, New Zealand, Canada, India, China, Australia, the Middle East, and from all across Europe. The prestigious event allows for experts in social media come together to discuss research and share and develop ideas on this relatively new, but extremely significant form of communication. Having previously been held in England, Portugal, France…
Your friends aren’t the only ones checking out your beach photos on Instagram — so are the thieves who are plotting a break-in while you’re away. A recent survey by Assurant, a provider of property-casualty insurance coverage, found that close to 40 percent of renters posted about their escapades while they were still out of town. The insurer polled 1,000 renters. “It’s not their intention to announce that the apartment is vacant, but wait until you get home and reduce the risk of the wrong person finding out that you’re away,” said Steve Hein, senior vice president of multifamily housing…
Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal in March was just the tip of the social-media iceberg, as malware, hacks and basic privacy concerns continue to increase on social-media platforms. Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell talks with Zack Allen, ZeroFOX’s manager of threat operations, about the threats presented by the broader social-media landscape and the growing issue of malicious content being spread across networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. source:-threatpost
Are you anxious about expressing your political views online? If so, you are not alone. Australians are more worried about this than citizens in many other countries. According to new research, almost half of Australians are worried about what their friends, family and colleagues will think of them if they express their political views on social media. This is an important contribution to understanding the changing nature of the Australian public sphere and the way citizens moderate their behaviour in different media settings. The finding is contained in the latest Digital News Report: Australia 2018, released by the University of Canberra today. The…