Well, here's your reading list, anyway.
Homeschooling, ‘indoctrination,’ Jan. 6: A look at NC’s new GOP superintendent candidate
Lots of election results this week, including news from North Carolina, where Republicans decided they wanted to go full wingnut, including this candidate for state superintendent.
Thomas Ultican takes a look at the Network for Public Education report on how well states support public education.
The surprising promise and profound perils of AIs that fake empathy
PragerU is a conservative video giant. Here's why it's trying to get into schools
Shocking Online Manifesto Reveals Project 2025’S Link To A Coordinated ‘Christian Nationalism Project’
After Nex Benedict’s death, LGBTQ youth group saw 200% rise in crisis contacts from Oklahoma
Texas places state’s largest charter school network under conservatorship
Secret recording shows school voucher proponent talking of 'public hangings' of lawmakers
Pennsylvania state senator says cyber charter schools underperform at the cost of the taxpayer
Appeals court blocks Fla. ‘Stop Woke Act,’ says it’s a ‘First Amendment sin’
In Defense of School Sports
The surprising promise and profound perils of AIs that fake empathy
From Amanda Ruggeri in New Scientist, a piece that isn't about education exactly, except that this has rather huge implications for the whole idea of teacherbots and what they can't provide students.
Lisa Hagen on All Things Considered takes a look at the conservative propaganda outfit trying to pretend it's an education outfit.
New report from the National Education Policy Center. Thorough and detailed and well worth the time.
Jennifer Cohn at the Bucks County Beacon has uncovered yet another planning document from Christian Nationalists who would like to be in charge of, well, everything.
Nex Benedict’s death shows policy failures, harms from inaction
Oklahoma Policy Institute calls out the atmosphere of hate that led to Benedict's death.
How are things going in Oklahoma? Not so great, reports Jo Yurcaba for NBC News.
IDEA catalog of financial misbehavior has ended up with a state takeover. Ikram Mohamed has the story for the Texas Tribune
Phil Williams of News Channel 5 in Tennessee has some tapes revealing the kind of threats and arm twisting behind the push for vouchers in the state.
The continuing mystery in PA. Everyone knows cybers are expensive and perform poorly, and yet... Meghan Schiller reports at KDKA News.
Appeals court blocks Fla. ‘Stop Woke Act,’ says it’s a ‘First Amendment sin’
In other unsurprising news, DeSantis gets a setback and the First Amendment gets a win. By Anumita Kaur for the Washington Post
Have you noticed lots of young athletes spending the year in private pay to play programs for their sport? So has Nancy Flanagan.
Justin Parmenter continues to track some of the religious discrimination and indoctrination being paid for by North Carolina taxpayers.
Jan Resseger looks at some unfortunate implications of recent research. Does privatizing education change a community's very nature?
Elizabeth Will-Greenberg reports for The Appeal on this story that is just as bad as it sounds. Bet you didn't know that Jim Crow laws were totally race neutral.
Over at the Bucks County Beacon this week, I wrote about the Independence Law Center doing the work of pushing bad policy in PA school boards. Also, at Forbes, I wrote about yet another attempt to push AI essay graders on the classroom.
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