Autumn is my favorite season, hands down, so I get excited when the tail end of summer even starts to hint at what is coming. Can I wear shorts and a sweatshirt today? Yes, please.
Here's your list for the week.
The Double Burden of School ChoiceThis paper looks at the burdens that fall on parents when they are assigned the responsibility for finding an education for their own children. Honestly, the research here involves a sample of 39 whole parental units, which doesn't strike me as compelling. But I'm saving this link here because the paper includes a host of clickable links to all sorts of research in the field, and that alone makes this valuable.
John Merrow was one of the nation's top education reporters. This post is a masterful connec tion between theater, student producers, and cell phone bans.
John Robinson, the 21st Century principal, reminds educators to think before being pushed into AI adoption.
Jose Luis Vilson explores the connections between our classrooms and the societies we wish to live in.
Florida continues to lead the nation in the dismantling of public education. Sue Kingery Woltanski observes that when public schools and the people who choose them won't get with the free market program, Florida's politicians find ways to make them.
Gary Rubinstein explains how KIPP in NYC cheats its way into a high ranking on the silly US News list of schools. It's actually pretty clever, as cheating goes.
Audrey Watters, as always, covers a ton of stuff. But the headliner this time is Michael Pershan, a math teacher who demonstrates the value of seeing learning as a social activity, not a solitary one.
Ben Riley has some thoughts about the many institutions trying to sell AI in education, especially that op-ed writing former Google CEO.
Trump-appointed judge rebukes Oklahoma’s Ryan Walters
Important New Court Ruling Protects Equity and Inclusion in Public Schools and Students’ Civil Rights
Trump’s Anti-DEI Guidance Crusade Just Got Struck Down
New Illinois Law Aims To Protect Access To Public Education For Immigrant Students
Ryan Walters, America's worst state education chief, tried to sue a religious freedom group into submission because of course he did. A Trump judge told him he was way full of it.
This week a judge ruled against the Department of Education's threat to defund any school caught doing DEI things. This is kind of a big deal, and Jan Resseger has a guide to some of the coverage of this decision.
Julian Vasquez Heilig looks at the decision and its implications.
DOJ Deems Definition of Hispanic-Serving Institutions Unconstitutional
Education Department quietly removes rules for teaching English learners
Florida will phase out certificates of completion for students with disabilities
More than 1,000 SC voucher recipients were improperly enrolled in public schools
Why America still needs public schools
Tennessee to give more average per-pupil funding to voucher participants than public school students
Once again employing their legal theory that the only discrimination that happens in this country is discrimination against melanin-deprived penis owners, the regime has decided to cut all aid aimed at colleges with large Hispanic enrollment. Ryan Quin at Inside Higher Ed explains.
Paul Thomas takes us down another rabbit hole involving a Science Of person taking a bold stand against things that nobody actually does.
The Washington Post noticed that the Ed Department is just backing away from English Language Learner as a thing, in keeping with Dear Leader's "Speak English because Murica!" policy, and Laura Meckler and Justine McDaniel report on it. This is a move so dumb that even the increasingly dim-witted WaPo editrial board criticized it.
Florida will stop giving certificates to students with special needs showing that they had diligently done their level best in school. Watch for erosion of special needs services to follow.
More than 1,000 SC voucher recipients were improperly enrolled in public schools
A whole lot of South Carolina's voucher students are apparently taking the money wbhile staying in public school.
Sidney Shapiro and Joseph Tomain at The Conversation explain, again, why public schools arew important and valuable and shouldn't just be trashed.
Yup-- the state will give more money to educate a private school student than a public school one. Melissa Brown reports for Chalkbeat.
Chalkbeat coverage of legislators getting it right in Illinois.
A teen band needed a pianist. They called Donald Fagen.
Charlie Warzel at the Atlantic, and some help in realizing you're not crazy for thinking that much of the AI stuff is crazy.
Cool story. Yes, it has a whiff of nepo baby about it, but it's also about how music gets passed down the generations.
James Taylor is delightful, and the kids are so full of joy, but I am also here for Howard Johnson, the great jazz tuba player, who just makes this sing.
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