WTF, just learned my students got a "conditional" on EDTPA for speaking Spanish with students & not providing translation... make bilingual teachers doing responsive work do extra labor because Pearson can't hire Spanish speaking raters #literacies
So I see it more as an issue of education and not just regulation of tech...that and waiting for old white people to die. Black and Brown people have more babies. TX and FL will be solid blue in a cycle or two. Maybe next one
Talk Radio/Cable News in the US. (Hillary Clinton the OG feminazi), and redistricting done after 2000 elections think vastly shaped world view. Districts became so safe and so conservative you had to embrace the fringe or lose your job.
@JmacDotOrg Here is my /now page https://jgregorymcverry.com/todolist it is a to do list for me because I am never doing now exactly what I should be doing right now.
Kind of racism keeps teachers of color out of classroom Should not be up to bilingual teachers to do labor of translating for testing companies like Pearson's EDTPA who provide lip service for diversity and ding you for speaking Spanish #literacies
@BriannaWu More than just disinformation campaigns, I don't know answers, but the folks I know in my little town of East Haddam, CT who support Trump (~50%) aren't really on tech at all....They truly feel threatened by something....its deeper
also straight racism & xenophobia in USA and UK. People look at shuttered factories in old industrial towns that used to pay wages, need someone to blame...China. Towns across rural USA dying...blame immigrants (even though you have never seen one)