ICYMI: Wedding Edition (7/27)

We are just a little scattered here at the Institute these days. Family health issues, the apparent unfixable dysfunction of the desktop computer, and yesterday's wedding of my nephew (aka the sportswriter who is the only person in the family to make a living writing) have taken up a lot of attention. And I have to work on the mobile office, aka the laptop computer (you can tell when I'm on the mobile office because typographical error output dramatically increases over my usual not-inconsiderable production level).

There was actual good news this week as the feds decided that they would go ahead and hand over the billions in education dollars that they were legally obligated to distribute. Howeve, let that whole frozen funding flap serve notice that those are dollars they intend to cut in next year's budget.

What else have we got this week? Let's see.

College Cheating Regrets

The indispensable Mercedes Schneider delves into the problems that ensue when you CheatGPT through school and emerge knowing not much of anything.

About 1 in 6 U.S. teachers work second jobs

Pew Research offers this fun new factoid. It doesn't count coahing or advising clubs as extra jobs, nor does it look at families where the spouse is the breadwinner and teaching IS the extra job, but it's still an interesting data point.

Pennsylvanians want state investing in schools

Speaking of polls, turns out that plenty of Pennsylvanians would like the state to observe the court ruling that requires the legislature to fix our grossly unfair funding system. (Meanwhile, we still can't get the state budget done on time...)

Board members: TV in Ryan Walters’ office displayed nude women during executive session

Education dudebro Ryan Walters continues to not make friends with the new education board in Oklahoma. Coverage includes the usual hostile response from the press office. Remember, immoral sexual materials are evil and bad, except sometimes.

Charter school run by group Walters partnered OSDE with faces shutdown in Arizona over failing grades

Walters has also teamed up with cyber charter American Virtual Academy, which would be fine except AV has a massive failure problem.

Texas Is Letting Parents Dictate What All Students Read

Marium Zarah at The Progressive looks at the newest Texas inituiative for increasing censorship for school libraries.

Vouchers Deliver Blow to Rural Schools: ‘They’re Taking Money From Our Students.’

NEA Today looks at how voucher programs are particularly hard on rural schools.

Kicking Away the Ladder

Jennifer Berkshire looks at education policy in the context of unprecendented wealth transfer from the poor to the wealthy.

AI Cheating: The SAT-ACT Em dash Controversy

You may have heard the folk wisdom that em dashes are a sign of ChatGPT at work, but Akil Bello would like to fremind you that theb ACT and SAT test students on a small set of mpunctuation marks-- and the em dash is one of them

Stop the Grift: Florida’s School Vouchers Are Scamming Taxpayers and Sabotaging Democracy

Colleen Conklin is back at Flagler Live with this takedown on Florida's terrible voucher scam systems.

EdChoice Fight Pure Politics

Stephen Dyer's meticulous and thorough coverage of Ohio's battle over choice has been informative and illuminating. It continues here. Are politicians worried about educating children?  Ha.

AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors

Add to the list of things teachers and parents need to tell young humans because the rsponsible parties aren't going to.

This week at Forbes.com I wrote about an international push-back on AI in education by actual educators including an open letter that you can still sign.

Here's something a little romantic for a wedding weekend.

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