So this week, I had some arthroscopic surgery and took delivery of a new desktop computer to replace the eight-year-old dysfunctional one. This will be good news for those of you who are really bothered by my typos, which are exponentially worse on the mobile office laptop.
I've had this kind of surgery twice before. The first time was back in 1980 and back then the protocol was to put the leg in a cast and spend six weeks letting the muscles turn into limp spaghetti. Nowadays the protocol is use crutches for the first day and then get yourself in gear. So I am hobbling mightily and will be back to normal sooner or later.
Meanwhile, as much as I bitch and moan about the annoyances of modern tech, I have to acknowledge that moving toa new machine has gotten way easier since last time. Here I was painstakingly offloading everything onto an external drive and then the new computer and the old computer just copied all of my stuff on their own. It was both creepy and massively labor- and time-saving.
We've got plenty for you to read this week. Here we go.
If you read just one thing on the list, read this. Jennifer Berkshire puts standardized testing and Democrats who run against public schools in their proper context.
The indispensable Mercedes Schneider brings us the story of an inevitable and necessary lawsuit. The court documents detail the chilling ways ChatGPT facilitated and encouraged a teen's suicide through multiple attempts.
Also from Solochek at the Tampa Bay Times, a look at DeSantis's favor election-denying trick-- when the voters don't pick his favored school board candidates, he just puts the failed candidate on the board anyway. Because Democracy is stupid.
Thomas Ultican pries apart some of the sources of funding one busy group in Oakland. You may not be in Oakland, but it's a good model for how these sorts of groups work.
Okay, this is one I hadn't thought of. A guest post at Larry Cuban on a project that challenged students by showing them that what they came up with wasn't any better than what ChatGPT extruded. So, ChatGPT as a way to charge students with lack of creativity.
Claremont, NH is in trouble, with a massive financial challenge caused by, apparently, some serious mismanagement. It's a lesson in how a district can go off the rails and a state can say, "Tough noogies." I'll confess I'm especially interested because these were my schools back in my K-3 years. Andru Volinsky has the story.
MacKenzie Price, Alpha schools, and the 2 Hour Learning idea have all been back in the news lately, so I'm re-upping this piece I wrote in January about this well-connected pile of baloney.
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