This week I brought home a new keyboard, this time with keys that are lit up. It's delightful. The office desk lighting situation here at the Curmudgucation Institute has never been particularly awesome, and sometimes I have felt as if I were typing in the dark on faceless keys; this just makes life so much easier. I bet I'm even slightly more accurate now. So we all win.
Cross country season has started, and the board of directors had their first meet yesterday. They would happily join the Olympic tag team or anything else that allowed them to run full out for long periods of time. They had a respectable time for their first outing and had fun, too. It was almost worth waking up at 5:30 AM.
I will also take this moment to exhort you to contact your elected representative, because lord knows there's a wide assortment of things that Congress could be doing to make itself more useful during the current regime. They need to hear about it, from the crazy-pants death cult running Health and Human Services to the attempt to slash the ed department into oblivion to the use of armed forces against our own citizens to--well, you know, it's a lot, and they need to be hearing about it all day every day.
You might not even know what TRIO is, but for a very long time it has been helping many folks get a degree who might otherwise not have made it. But it helps a lot of people who aren't white, so Dear Leader says it has to go. Michael Vasquez reports at Hechinger.
In the face of encouragement to work AI into his practice, Marcus Luther of The Broken Copier doubles down on doing what works for humans in a human classroom.
This piece at Vauhini Vara is not so encouraging, though it does contain further details about the Alpha school grift that is drawing so much glowing press elsewhere.
Jennifer Berkshire looks at a great antidote to the balonified happy talk about New Orleans post-Katrina-- a new book from New Orleans parent and activist Ashana Bigard.
Well, I'm not sure everyone considers it "abuse" as much as "a fair chance for the right people to line their pockets with taxpayer dollars." But Sue Kingery Woltanski goes into some detail on how Florida's vouchers are designed for abuse of taxpayer dollars.
Jennifer Berkshire again, this time in The Baffler. She's always an excellent tracker of political currents, like the mysterious right wing turn against corporate influence in education.
Holy crap. I guess I've been following longer than I thought. I remember the Board being a pair of twinkles in their parents' eyes, how are they running XC already???? They are still toddlers in my brain. Welp, thanks for all those years of being one of my favorite bloggers! And thanks for all the great links.
As someone who works in high touch customer service, if I completed my tasks 30% of the time with a 40% accuracy rate, I would be fired on the spot, not give a raise. But ai is special.
Holy crap. I guess I've been following longer than I thought. I remember the Board being a pair of twinkles in their parents' eyes, how are they running XC already???? They are still toddlers in my brain. Welp, thanks for all those years of being one of my favorite bloggers! And thanks for all the great links.
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