Vacation time is over and we are back at the Institute's home base. The CMO goes back to work later this week, and the board of directors gets to it next week. This will be my eighth year of not going back to the classroom, and it almost doesn't feel unspeakably weird. God bless everyone who is going back to do the work.
Here's the reading for the week, selected from the small number of articles not concerned with Putin, Epstein, or fascism. Mostly.
Republicans demand gay school board member resign because he’s working for a Pride organizationOf course it's Florida, where the same board that Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler serves has found one more way to harass their single gay member.
Arizona joins the club of states compelled by the courts to fix their crappy funding system.
You may recall that back in February the regime issued an edict saying that schools that did naughty DEI stuff would be punished. A federal judge has said that directive is unlawful and nobody has to follow it. Chalkbeat has the story.
Audrey Watters reports on practices of math teacher Michael Pershan, who reminds us that learning is a social activity. Then she covers all the other stuff. Have you subscribed yet?
Nancy Bailey's title is a bit misleading, because these ideas wouldn't just get more kids to school, but would make schools all around better.
Jan Resseger looks at how the many many cuts affecte school bot directly and indirectly.
Ben Riley answers some reader qustions (and sneaks in his response to ChatGPT-5), including more news from schools making terrible mistakes.
Yes, there are such things, and they aren't cheap. Akil Bello has the necessary contacts to check around and find out if you really need a private college concierge for your kid.
Paul Thomas has a grear new name for his blog-- The Reliable Narrator-- and another good explanation of how a reading crisis has been manifactured in this country.
In Michigan, a school librarian was fed up with harassment and slander from the local Moms for Liberty lady, so she sued, and this week, a judgebthrew out the M4L attempt to get the case dismissed.
Blogger Charoltte Clymer has a short and simple point to make. You are never going to read all the great books.
This Evangelical Pastor Wants to Replace Women’s Right to Vote
David French wrote a New York Times profile of Doug Wilson, another far right pastor making Christianity look bad. As you read the profile, keep in mind one detail that French didn't include-- Wilson is one of the founding fathers of the Christian Classical Schools movement.
This week I was happy to report at Forbes.com that a judge threw out most of a Floirida book ban law. Good news there.
There are many reasons to love the Blues Brothers movie, and not the least is that it's a master class in using a platform to lift up a whole bunch of other folks, many of whom, in 1980, had drifted away from the public eye. The Seventies had not been great for Aretha Franklin, but a new label and this kick-ass performance in the movie opened up a whbole new era of success for her. The film wasn't about co-opting current top-40 artists. And just look at how Belushi and Ackroyd stay out of the way and let the queen do her thing.
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