Here at the Institute we are hunkering down and preparing for a blast of arctic air over the next two days. The Board of Directors gets tomorrow off in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., which is the only thing happening tomorrow that I expect to pay attention to.
A reminder that you can always help amplify stuff by posting it throughout your various social media channels. As someone who's able to track activity through at least one of my outlets, I can tell you that one just never knows where a particular post or article will catch fire. Your share could make a big difference in how widely something is read. Help folks out and share their stuff.
I am also happy to get recommendations. I read a lot, but I don't read everything, and I don't always get everything I've read into this weekly digest. So suggestions are always welcome. I had originally dreamt that maybe the comments section of these posts would fill up with "You should also read--" comments, and that hasn't happened, but the dream still lives.
In the meantime, here's this week's list.
‘Their Kind of Indoctrination’In the New York Review of Books, Diane Ravitch on the kinds of attacks public schools can expect under the new Trump regime.
You can also subscribe to my free newsletter and get all of my stuff in your email inbox. 3 myths about rural education that are holding students back
‘Bless his heart,’ says Pulaski superintendent after ‘school choice evangelist’ sues KY district
On a Mission From God: Inside the Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools
Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education
The Uber Rich Are Funding “National School Choice Week” to Attack Public Schools
Volusia School Board member vows to stay despite Moms for Liberty chapter chair's threat
Defunding Public Schools is Really Unpopular
A new governor sets her agenda.
The Far Right’s Plan to Force Teachers to Lie About Race
I'm Not Sure Schools Can Teach Creativity
Measuring Artificial IQ
Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’
Are Today’s Students Really Less Independent Than Previous Generations?
The MAGA Think Tank Behind Linda McMahon’s Education Agenda
Heroes, Hypocrisy, and Hubris
Why Senate Cabinet Hearings are a Lesson for Schools
Banned Book: Normal People
AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It
Know how to read cursive? The National Archives wants you
Awkward structure aside (the three items are truths that debunk the myths), this is a welcome look at a more accurate picture of rural education.
Corey DeAngelis is butthurt that a Kentucky superintendent blocked him from attacking the district for supporting the anti-voucher measure that Kentucky passed. The superintendent is not impressed.
On a Mission From God: Inside the Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools
Alec MacGillis looks at the story of how Ohio set out to get public money into Catholic private schools. Choice was just a tool. This is well-researched and detailed and a bit alarming.
Jan Resseger, a retired Ohio educator, reacts to MacGillis's article.
Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education
Dominik Dresel at EdSurge and a convincingly scary look at Bezos and his long term plans for privatizing education.
We'll all be hearing about School Choice Week soon, At Truthout, Alyssa Bowen, Ansev Demirhan, and Lisa Graves explain who's really behind it, and what they're after.
In Volusia County, Florida, the Moms for Liberty chair is opposing a former ally for being way too racist and insulting and mean.
Defunding Public Schools is Really Unpopular
Jennifer Berkshire, blogging at The Education Wars, takes a trip to New Hampshire to watch democracy once again put the smackdown on an attempt to undermine public schools.
Also in New Hampshire, Andru Volinsky looks at the agenda of the state's new governor.
Jesse Hagopian in The Nation outlining the threat of the Trump administration toward teaching a more authentic United States history.
Can schools teach creativity as a sort of disembodied transferable skill? I don't think so, and neither does Chad Aldeman.
ChatGPT did a Thing, even a cool thing. But what does that mean, exactly? Benjamin Riley considers the question.
Is there any more reliable pendulum in education than the swing back and forth between putting students with special needs in regular classrooms vs. giving them a specialized separate room of their own? Jill Barshay at Hechinger reports on new research that will keep the debate going.
At EdWeek, Arianna Prothero is really reporting about SEL program effectiveness in schools, which is also a topic worth discussing.
Linda McMahon has been running a think tank that has served as a holding tank for Trump administration members waiting for their second chance. What that think tank has been saying may tell us what to expect from McMahon as Ed Secretary. Christopher Lewis and Jacob Plaza report for The Nation.
Thomas Ultican digs into the latest in internation standardized math test scores. How bad are they, and do we really need to care?
There's more on the ground detail here from TC Weber about Tennessee's new voucher push, but mainly there's a story about a teacher who has been put through hell and deserves to have his "not guilty" verdict published high and low.
Nancy Flanagan and the problem of character and power.
Steve Nuzum has been closely following the South Carolina committee charged with book banning for the entire state. Here he takes a close look at one particular book they chose to ban, searching for some hint of what their actual criteria might be.
At Futurism, Jathan Sadowski suggests we think "of AI futurism as a sophisticated form of check kiting — cashing a check today and hoping the money will be in the account later." Predictions as marketing.
Really. If you are a master of this arcane art, the National Archives have tons of manuscripts they need to have translated into legible English. And you do it from home.
At Forbes.com this week, I looked at a new survey that shows, once again, people would rather fund public schools than vouchers.
And an unusual week at the Bucks County Beacon, with two pieces-- a look at NPE's report on the massive failures of charter schools, and a piece about the attempt to launch an all-AI, no teacher cyber charter in Pennsylvania.
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