So much for the holidays. Now we all get back to it, whatever your personal "it" might be. Personally, I'm trying to pick up the banjo more often. Not my primary or even tertiary instrument, and as a banjo player, I'm a pretty good trombonist, but there's great value in stretching.
My other "it" of course is reading and writing, and this week we're back to a big list of stuff (including some catch-up reading). Here we go--
"Back in my day, teachers used to grade the essays..."Marcus Luther looks at the human dynamics of grading essays. As a bonus, he also breaks down the standard outline for AI-in-education articles.
That would be the part that threatens to throw librarians in jail for dealing in Naughty Books.
Brad Johnson on LinkedIn with a good and brief explanation of why the Big Standardized Test is not such a great thing.
Comrade Chris (yes, really) on the uneven application of the "college isn't for everyone" advice.
Blaming Low Wages on Bad Schooling Is a Neoliberal Myth
Are Charter Schools Singing "Kumbaya" With A Knife In Their Hands?
A North Texas high school locked up cellphones. Here’s what happened
If We Can't Blame Teachers Unions For Terrorism (Yes, Really!), Then The Terrorists Will Win
I asked dozens of teachers why they're quitting. Their answers are heartbreaking.
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School Choice Is Not What It Sounds Like
Right-wing Oligarchs and Education
Mark All as Read
Newspaper Opinion Page Prints Online Charter School Propaganda
Blatherskites
The role of knowledge in the age of AI
A Scarcity Perspective
Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
Wall Street declares war on the Associated Press
It’s Christmas for the elephants as unsold trees are fed to the animals at Berlin Zoo
Nora De La Cour reminds us how that classic neo-liberal baloney works, and why it is, in fact, baloney. At Jacobin.
Carl Petersen has his doubts about the new warm, friendly charter advocates in the Los Angeles school district. For one thing, they seem to lie a bunch...
Talla Richman does some deep diving for the Dallas News looking at how one district has made out with its cell phone ban.
Robyn Pennacchia at Wonkette adds some context and biting analysis to education dudebro and all-around tool Ryan Walters' latest insult of the public schools he's supposed to be leading.
Annie Reneau does some interviewing for Upworthy, and what these departing teachers have to say will not surprise you, but it's still a bummer.
Nancy Flanagan recaps some of her favorites from last year (she also says some nice things about me) and every one of them is worth a reread.
Carol Burris explains for The Progressive audience what privatization is really about-- privatizing the responsibility for education.
Right-wing Oligarchs and Education
David Pepper looks at the complaints by our billionaire overlords about the quality of US workers and asks just what they've done to education that might explain their troubles.
Audrey Watters questions the AI support that comes from the cult of efficiency-- why read a book when AI can summarize it so much faster.
Jose Luis Vilson has always been a stellar example of what someone can accomplish if they stop thinking of themselves as "just a teacher" and instead drives forward with all the talent and commitment at their command. Here's his reflection on the most recent parts of his journey.
Paul Thomas delivers a refresher course on how fostering a constant sense of crisis helps fuel some of the worst folks in ed reform, and how journalists have been complicit.
Jan Resseger catches the Cleveland Plain Dealer publishing cyber charter advertising as an op-ed.
Greg Sampson has some thoughts about the folks who insist that teachers have seized education and taken it away from parents.
Benjamin Riley has a conversation with Bror Saxberg, and it's worth it just for this paragraph.
As you’ve often argued, the point is that if knowledge is not in your head, then it is not usable to you. What’s more, with complex interconnected content that is new to your brain, it's going to take real work to "move it in" to working memory for creative thought. We do not have Matrix-like download capacities (yet)!Educators worry as Tennessee's new voucher plan could divert funds from public schools
The privatization push is on in Tennessee.
Large Language Models (misnamed AI) are Not IntelligentAkil Bello has been playing with LLMs, and he's not yet impressed with their Taco Bell-like effects.
Andru Volinsky asks whether your state is budgeting from a frame of scarcity or enough.
If you missed the story-- Meta unleashed some LLM faux humans on Instagram, chaos and hilarity ensued, and they sort of backed off a little. There's a lot out there about the flap, but this CNN piece gives a pretty good summary,
Matt Pearce explains how Gannett and Reuters are coming after the last great journalistic source that isn't organized around profit.
Well, it was a good week for the Berlin elephants.
At Forbes.com, I looked at a new paper that looks at how states could defend their charter sector from discriminatory factors (and privatizers can protect their operation from the Constitution).
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