This week the Board of Directors here at the Institute celebrated their birthday. This involved some extended book store time and a day at Waldameer Park in Erie, an old amusement park that the Chief Marital Officer and I had not visited in many years. The board was both delighted and exhausted, and I got enough steps in that I believe I can just sit for the upcoming week. That's how that works, right?
Have some reading.
Diabolus Ex MachinaAmanda Guinzburg tries some new games with AI and ends up providing yet another demonstration of how terrible chatbots are at doing the most simple reading assignments.
Just how bad for public education was this last session of the Texas legislature? Brant Bingamon breaks it down for the Austin Chronicle.
Peter DeWitt and Michale Nelson at Ed Week address one of the oldest problems in education--the expectation that a good, productive teacher will just beat the living crap out of herself to do the job.
Why do I often include highly specific and local pieces, like this one from Thomas Ultican? Because what is happening elsewhere often illuminates what is about to happen in your neck of the woods. Including twisty board vs. superintendent politics.
ICE grabbed a high school kid on his way to volleyball practice, and a whole community rose up to protest. Jennifer Berkshire with an encouraging story from her neck of the woods.
It is disheartening when a community you love has important institutions commandeered by the anti-book crowd. Nancy Flanagan tells her own story of a small Michigan community.
Audrey Watters finds a connection between Charles Dickens and the modern day "just teach facts" crowd and bad tech, plus a load of excellent links.
Okay, not a hard question to answer. But Steve Nuzum digs deep into the natalism crowd's issues, and it's not pretty.
Larry Cuban is not excited about the idea of robots providing human care.
Just how bad has it gotten in Missouri? Jess Piper, noted activist, paints the broad picture.
Jan Resseger breaks down the details in Ohio's newest attempt to become the Florida of the Midwest.
Yeah, Stephen Dyer has some thoughts about that budget as well.
Nary a Deviation From The Playbook
Exposed: University of Michigan Hired Undercover Spies to Target Students
From Policy to Prosecution: Florida Raises The Stakes for School Boards
TC Weber continues to chronicle Penny Schwinn's rise from Tennessee embarrassment to national embarrassment. He actually followed her confirmation hearing, and has some notes.
Exposed: University of Michigan Hired Undercover Spies to Target Students
Jullian Vasquez Heilig reacts to reporting that his alma mater has hired goons to spy on students.
In Florida, right wingers continue to use manufactured outrage over naughty books to attack public schools, and they've decided to throw in threats of criminal prosecution. Sue Kingery Woltanski reports.
A little Gilbert and Sullivan today, with Kevin Kline working really hard!
I'm disappointed in Peter DeWitt's article. Teachers are not overworked because they don't know how to prioritize. They're overworked because they have too much work.
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