CENSOR*ED
Censor-Ed
The censorship and firing of teachers is a crushing blow to education in the United States now. Under authoritarian governance of the political right, books are banned, websites blocked, and creative non-conformists are excluded. Abuse of digital technology and specious misuse of "security" or "safety" excuses plays a major part in this chilling effect.
More about censorship and tech abuse in US schools
Tara Garcia Mathewson has been investigating the politics of the US school system for decades. She gives a worrying account of how technology is used to dumb-down and exclude groups from educational opportunity and how the education system pushes an increasingly illiberal political agenda.
- indiscriminate blocking of key/core subjects
- deliberate disparity of class, race and gender for access
- overbearing surveillance and punitive IT provisions
- intrusion of corporate big-tech into schools
- data harvesting and selling data of school-children