To help schools deal with gag laws and book bans, the governor has appointed a panel of people in favor of book bans. This should work just great.
You may remember that M4L quietly mothballed one of their three founding members, perhaps because of her close marital ties to the GOP establishment media machine. But as financial detail emerge, we learn that ties to that media machine were maintained with $$$. From The 74, which remains, despite the rightward tilt of its opinion side, a decent source for actual news.
Education is on the line in Oklahoma, as Ryan Walters, an unqualified privatizer runs to be head of the state's education department. Here's what PBS had to say.
Sec. Ryan Walters plans to 'eliminate' an educational accountability commission he leads
Walters, as the current secretary of ed (which in OK is different from the head of the ed department) chairs a committee that is concerned with many of the things he says he's concerned about. But he's never been to a meeting, and his goal appears to be to eliminate the committee. From Payton May at OKCFox.
At OKC Free Press, George Lang lays out the stakes. Walters is a bad news dudebro.
You may have heard about a dustup at Penn State over a Proud Boys co-founders "speech." Don Moynihan has a much clearer picture of what was happening--and what it tells us about far right tactics.
A reminder once again that the capabilities and future of AI have been hugely overhyped, as the soon-to-be-awesome world of self-driving cars continues to evaporate. Kris Mamula at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Nancy Bailey looks at back at the moment that computerized ed fans thought they were about to have their Katrina moment. What happened, and what do we watch for next?
Nancy Flanagan writes about the separation of church and state and why it's a good thing.
There Are Just 90 LGBTQ School Board Members. Half Were Threatened, Harassed
The 74 again, passing on a report about how things have been going for the mere 90 LGBTQ school board members in the country.
Jay Wamsted at EdWeek with one of the best takes on the NAEP flap from this week.
Jill Barshay at Hechinger with a dig into some of the details of the NAEP data.
Despite what you hear, parents aren't in charge of schools. That's a good thing.
Brian Dickerson at USA Today with a somewhat contentious take on the whole parental rights thing.
From Ericka Andersen, writing for Christianity Today, another angle on the culture wars. Maybe all Christians don't actually hate public education.
Meanwhile, over at Forbes I wrote about how to claw back some time for schools to make up any lost ground.
Also, I'm now on substack. You can go to my page there to sign up. It's free and just one more way of staying up to date with whatever I'm yammering about.
In regard to spooky, spooky week and Oklahoma's Sec. Ryan Walters . . . he has only met challenger, Jena Nelson, in one debate. With approximately 20-25 minutest to highlight his most pressing concerns for Oklahoma students/educators/schools, he chose to use about 7 of those minutes like this. (The frequency and sequence have not been altered.)
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I'm having trouble with your links on the Forbes article, second paragraph. Looking forward to sharing this with colleagues and wonder if there's a way to fix the links. They send me to Blogger.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing you mean second to last paragraph, the only place there's a Forbes link. It looks and works okay for me, so I'm not sure where the problem is located.
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