Emily Williams

@emilyw00

Book lover. Rights & publishing geek. Director, IP & content services at EL Education. All views expressed are my own. Vivo en inglés y español. pronoun.is/she

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Emily Williams@emilyw00· 13h

quote: What frightens him most is not simply what he and his sisters have lost. It is what the country will become after another generation grows up without qualified teachers, meaningful academic instruction or the freedom to question what it is being taught.

Emily Williams@emilyw00· 13h

quote: Zainab, a grade 9 student, said she considers herself fortunate to be able to attend online classes. She asked to be identified only by her first name Many girls her age have no access to secondary education at all. She asked to be identified only by her first name for fear that her comments would cause the Taliban to target her family.

But her family can barely afford the cost of the internet she needs for school. The connection is also slow and unreliable much of the time, making it difficult for her to hear her teachers or follow an entire lesson.

quote: "Classes sometimes freeze or disconnect before the teacher has finished explaining the material," she said. "When the connection fails, I miss part of the lesson and must try to catch up on my own."

Her education now depends on whether her family can continue paying for internet data and whether the connection is strong enough when class begins. She has no classroom, laboratory or library, and no guarantee that she will be able to connect the next day.

Emily Williams@emilyw00· 13h

quote: But what troubles him most is not only what has disappeared from textbooks. It is the growing belief among young Afghans that education may no longer lead anywhere.

He sees graduates of engineering programs selling vegetables or working as day laborers. He remembered one poor young man who had spent much of his life studying but ended up selling potatoes because he lacked money and powerful connections.

quote: "I don't understand what has happened to Afghanistan," he said. "You see people sitting in important positions who cannot even write their own names."

He also believes that students from wealthy or influential families can gain access to opportunities that remain closed to better-qualified students from poor families. For young people watching this happen, studying can begin to feel pointless.

Emily Williams@emilyw00· 13h

quote: Mubariz and other students interviewed by NPR described a deeper loss inside schools: students losing interest in learning, while some teachers seemed discouraged, absent or unable to teach their subjects as they had before. During the first months after the Taliban takeover, many teachers were not paid, Mubariz said. Some stopped coming to school regularly. Experienced teachers left and were replaced, in some cases, by people who lacked the knowledge or training to teach their subjects properly.

Emily Williams@emilyw00· 13h

quote: Even before 2021, Mubariz said, students sometimes hesitated to raise sensitive questions about politics, war, religion or powerful figures. Afghanistan was still a conservative society shaped by years of conflict, and students knew that certain questions could be misunderstood, draw unwanted attention or upset teachers and classmates. But after the Taliban returned, he said, that caution turned into fear. Students avoided asking questions that could be considered controversial, and teachers no longer encouraged open discussion.

"I could not express even one percent of my real opinions or ideas," he said. "I always felt that I had to stay silent because speaking openly could have serious consequences."

Emily Williams@emilyw00· 13h

quote: The restrictions imposed on women are also affecting whether boys remain in school, Basij-Rasikh said. With women increasingly prevented from working, more of the responsibility for supporting families falls on men and boys. "Today we have an authority in Afghanistan that has made it a matter of national policy to restrict space for women and then place a lot of that burden on men and boys," she said. "Naturally you see boys dropping out of school to shoulder that responsibility of providing for their families."

Emily Williams@emilyw00· 13h

there are so many eerie echoes and warnings in this piece

quote: English, science and biology received less attention, Mubariz said, while the Quran and other religious subjects became more prominent. Religious instruction was no longer confined to Islamic studies. Teachers of science, mathematics and English were expected to include Quranic verses, sayings and traditions attributed to the Prophet Muhammad or other religious messages in their lessons.

"Religion became part of almost every class," he said.

Emily Williams@emilyw00· 8d

well played, Degree

Emily Williams@emilyw00· 14d

quote: "Not so long ago, these hills burned gently and often."

Emily Williams@emilyw00· 23d

quote: In the meantime, it’s kids who are confronting the lived impact of artificial porn and deepfakes in their personal and social lives.

“We grew as AI grew. We grew up together. Adults don’t have the same life experience that we do,” one 17-year-old girl told researchers. “They don’t understand how advanced and how intense AI is.”

Emily Williams@emilyw00· 25d

quote: "Authorities in New Delhi cut off mobile internet, put up barricades and shut off metro train stations near the protest site. Then, the riot police charged into protesters with batons and shields."

quote: "Protesters say police hit dozens of them with batons in their heads. While Delhi police denied using violence, NPR witnessed police fire tear gas to disperse the protests and hit the demonstrators with wooden sticks at several points in central Delhi."

Emily Williams@emilyw00· Jun 5

quote: The profit margins of facilities like Delaney Hall depend on coercing people into working for otherwise illegal rates, Andrew Free, an immigration lawyer and journalist who researches conditions in ICE detention, said. “The way you keep the place clean is you use the people who are inside to clean it.”

Emily Williams@emilyw00· Jun 3

new goalz, to earn an obit that begins: "A prodigious fellow has left the Earth." www.smithsonianmag.com/history/born...

A prodigious fellow has left the earth. In the City of Mexico the other day died William Henry Ellis. For thirty years he had stood a glamorous and enigmatic figure, giving himself with a flame of audacity and genius to a gaudy procession of glories, enterprises and romances. The catalog of his titles reads like the composition of a sick fancy - cowboy, colonizer of Negroes, stalwart of old-time politics in Texas, aspirant opera singer, wealthy speculator in Wall Street, diplomatic emissary of the United States Government, friend and adviser to King Menelik of Abyssinia, Duke of Harrar and Hawash, "the man who would be king," magnate of Latin-American rubber concessions, and, finally, bold and powerful manipulator of troubled Mexican politics. He figured strangely, perplexingly in a dozen famous and sometimes dark affairs in the high world of gold and diplomacy, and seemed to have the magic of touching with a dreamy, fabulous glow every object of money or state that his fiery ambition encompassed.

Emily Williams@emilyw00· May 15

doesn't feel like the average person is keeping up with what happens after legalization, when s*** starts to get complicated

quote: But hemp manufacturers quickly figured out how to convert CBD in hemp into THC through a process that involves toxic solvents, creating products that sometimes contain harmful chemicals and that can be more potent than products made from marijuana.

Colorado became one of the first states to ban that chemical conversion process and prohibit the sale of intoxicating hemp products to its residents.

But manufacturers were allowed to produce hemp products for export to other states, and some companies continue to rely on hemp within Colorado because it is cheaper than using marijuana to make the honey-colored THC distillate that goes into vapes and edibles, industry insiders say.

Emily Williams@emilyw00· May 14

other recent examples: Choi Sung Eun as FL in Last Summer (had a total crush on her style) and Lee Joo Young in Genie Make a Wish (whose character was set up as queer)

Emily Williams@emilyw00· Apr 30

holy hell this chart

Chart showing Black representation in Congress from the 41st Congress to the 116th. There is a drop from about 7 to 0 after Reconstruction ends. After the Voting Rights Act, the line climbs sharply up to the current high of 63 seats, followed by a projected sharp drop of 15 seats as a potential result of the Supreme Court decision in Louisiana vs. Callais.

Emily Williams@emilyw00· Apr 27

quote: “We need to think really hard about what students need to learn to be successful in the job market in 10, 20, 30 years,” said Brown University President Christina Paxson.

“And none of us know. We don’t know the answer to that,” Paxson said. “I think it’s communication, it’s critical thought. The fundamentals of a liberal education are probably more important than learning how to code in Java right now.”

Emily Williams@emilyw00· Apr 3

breathe

Emily Williams@emilyw00· Apr 1

If you see this drop a hero with a sword!

Emily Williams@emilyw00· Mar 31

vice signaling with the US military is the destruction of any moral code that values human life, done in our name www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...