The boys don't have screens of their own, and they are not allowed to piggy back on their grownups' screens. The use chromebooks at school, which I'm not delighted about, but at least it's a closed system where they can't just roam. Their mother and I can live with that.
Among the lessons from the murders this week is a simple one-- pay attention to what your sons are doing on line. Both killers this week were apparently radicalized by hard-right nihilistic groyper crap on line. I taught teenagers for decades, and I'm plenty familiar with the teenaged male impulse to be transgressively shocking, but folks on the interwebs have taken this impulse and fed it into something more monstrous. If you're a parent, pay attention.
Okay, here's the reading list for the week.
Dana Goldstein at the New York Times looks at a newly released study that shows that vouchers are raising tuition, spurring growth in religious schools, and mostly benefitting families that were already private schooling. If I did it right, this should be a gift link.
ProPublica and the Texas Tribune take a look at Texas charters, where the students aren't doing so well, but the administrators are making money hand over fist.
Lord knows that Ohio gets so much wrong, but I have to give them credit for getting this one thing right.
Meg Anderson at NPR looks at how much the industry is making on the business of keeping children and parents scared out of their wits.
Stephen Dyer examines that age-old claim that private sector (as in charter schools) is just so much more efficient than the public sector.
A Portland, OR, Catholic school threw a student out when they learned the parents were a same-gender couple. Now they are losing a bunch of other students as well.
Rick Hess points out that many voices in the education debates abandon principles for any advantage for their team. He's got a point.
I don't really want to write more about Oklahoma's dudebro-in-chief of education, but I don't want this piece from Nuria Martinez-Keel at Oklahoma Voice go by, either, because as awful as Walters is when it comes to ideological baloney, it's worth noting that he's also awful at the basics of doing his job.
Thomas Ultican takes a look at The AI Con, a book you really ought to read.
How Emily Hanford’s "Sold a Story" Became a Conduit for the Public Dissemination of the Right-Wing "Project 2025" Agenda to Affect State Laws and Reshape Reading Instruction in Public SchoolsPublisher Denny Taylor is writing an education newsletter these days; this is part 3 of a four-part series that looks at what some rightward folks are doing to influence reading instruction.
Larry Cuban looks into the American obsession with making numbers get bigger all the time.
Jan Resseger breaks down some of the financial challenges and potential problems in the state and federal funding world of education.
Meg White looks at some of the education funding that has been cut in the House version of a federal budget.
Paul Bowers on listening to William Basinski's The Disintegration Loop on September 11. I'd never heard about the work before, so I learned something from this thoughtful meditation.
Thom Hartmann on gun laws, court rulings, and how they helped bring us here.
An old favorite here, and the theme for yearbook my senior year of high school.
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