Whether you are being hit with a blizzard or a fire, I hope you are staying safe this weekend, and that you are coming through with minimal damage, and that you get the help and support that you need. For the rest of us, here's one researched list of places to which you can contribute to help folks in LA.
Here's some reading from the week.
From The Baffler, Jennifer Berkshire's very excellent review of Adam Laats's very excellent book about one of the first great education con artists.
Burning Down the SchoolsAnne Lutz Fernandez and the impact of climate change on schools.
Paul Thomas shares practices and ideas surrounding the teaching of writing. He's an expert.
Ryan Walters, the education dudebro-in-chief of Oklahoma, continues to make it hard to believe that he was once a respected history teacher. But I guess if you have a Trumpian desire for press attention, you just have to keep saying stupid things loudly.
Jess Piper connects Dylann Roof, January 6, and the problems that come with the rewriting of history.
Undoing EdTech's Death Grip on Education
At Restore Childhood, Denise Champney does some outstanding work breaking down just how deep and bad the edtech hold on education has become.
"Use this app! It will save you time!" Here's some actual research to back up why every new piece of tech fills teachers with existential dread.
Audrey Watters connects some techno-dots, starting the Power School data breach, in which somebody got their hands on a bunch of student data that the company was probably sell anyway.
Fact-checking Elon Musk's claims that NJ teachers 'don't need to know how to read'
Paul Bowers at the ACLU explains why South Carolina's love for vouchers is just a bad, bad idea.
You may have heard President Musk's complaint that Jersey teachers will no longer need to be able to read. This piece from Lori Comstock explains why he's full of it, with all the details so you can explain it to your MAGA uncle.
Shawgi Tell looks at the research and lets us know what we can expect from charter schools this year.
The indispensable Mercedes Schneider tried taking an AI writer out for a spin, and while some results are predictable, take a look at the caveats that the AI company puts on its own product!
Back when he was a baby lawyer, Benjamin Riley worked for Enron. Yes, that Enron. He was on the inside for the early stages that led to that famous collapse (in a department trying to keep it from happening) and for him, much of the AI industry has a familiar smell.
Committee Moves to Ban More Books
Newton Falls implementing Armed Staff Program
Honor President Carter: Save and Improve the U.S. Department of Education!
Mississippi Association of Educators Opposes Private ‘School Choice’ Efforts
Trump’s Immigration Proposals Would Traumatize Children and Schools and Jeopardize Children’s Civil Rights
Is 2025 the Year to Eliminate Florida’s High School Exit Exams?
In South Carolina, one committee can ban books from every school in the state. How efficient! Steve Nuzum reports on their most recent targets.
This is in Ohio, where a district is starting to arm its staff "to act as a deterrent and a force multiplier." Yeah, I'm sure that will work out.
Nancy Bailey says if you want to honor Carter, help protect and improve part of his legacy.
Erica Jones, head of the MAE, will say it again-- don't strip funding from public schools to give it to private schools.
Jan Resseger dives into the question of what Trump's professed intent to throw out all the immigrants (that don't work for his friends) might do to their children.
Florida is usually in the forefront of bad trends. Could they actually join the crowd on a good one? Sue Kingery Woltanski looks into it.
Scandalling Up in Ohio
David Pepper profiles J. D. Vance's likely replacement, whose previous achievements include enabling one of Ohio's biggest privatized education scandals.
At Forbes this week, I explained why this is the heart of the school year, and looked at a scary bad new bill in Indiana for dissolving public school districts.
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