A reminder that amplifying voices, particularly in these days of AI slop choking the interwebs, is a helpful thing. There are many voices in the world these days, and some of them are full of it, and some of them aren't even actual voices, so when you find something that speaks to you, amplify it. Share it. Like it. Give it a little push out into the world.
Here's the list for the week.
Thomas Ultican provides a look at Ashana Bigard's excellent account of the charterizing of New Orleans, and how it turned out for the families and students.
Nancy Bailey takes a look at the folks who want to shove christianiam into schools, and the particular brand of religion they favor, and the parts of Christianity they tend to forget.
Jan Resseger looks at how the latest rounds of staffing cuts are likely to hurt education for some folks.
Nancy Flanagan on the lawmaker obsession with bathroom stuff.
‘Over my dead body.’ Manatee schools prepare to battle charter takeover plans
Nearly all state funding for Missouri school vouchers used for religious schools
Lying In Lansing: Republicans Manufactured a Sex Ed Crisis
Data-driven Schools Are Not Child-Centered Schools
In Florida, a bunch of charter schools would like to just go ahead and take possession of taxpayer-owned school buildings. Some school districts are not happy.
Paul Thomas debunks the latest bunch of bunk from the Washington Post bunkhouse.
Completely unsurprising news from Missouri, where the voucher program turns out to be a make-taxpayers-fund-religious-schools program. Annelise Hanshaw reports for Missouri Independent.
In Michigan, some folks needed a reason for citizens to mobilize against new sex ed standards. So they made one up. Reported at Distill Social.
Lisa Haver, looking at Philly schools, wonders about the actual focus of schools that are data-driven.
Why Not Give Students What They Really Need?
Georgia House approves budget with cuts to school voucher program lawmakers say reflect its need
Indiana University fires student media director after he refused directive to censor newspaper
Appeals court backs Michigan school in banning 'Let's Go Brandon' shirts
Don't Stop Believin' in OpenAI
John Warner is playing my song again. Why not aim for humanistic education? From Inside Higher Ed.
This is a Facebook reel from an Oxford Union debate about meritocracy, and it explains how wealth brings privilege as well as anything I've ever seen, and it does it in just three minutes.
The predictable next stage of vouchers-- declare "Damn, this is expensive" and start choking them off. Want to go back to your public school? Sure hope it's still there.
How not to operate your college newspaper program. And this wasn't even over a particular scandalous story.
Eli Cahan at Rolling Stone looks at long covid and kids.
The court agrees that it's not okay to parade obscenities even if you find cute ways to hide them. Honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about this one, but the AP reports what happened.
Ben Riley on the continued insistence that we must think that AI is an inevitable wave and not a huge bubble.
Eryk Salvaggio with a little explainer of LLMs as well as some clarity about what they cannot do, including this line:
For the same reason that a dog can go to church but a dog cannot be Catholic, an LLM can have a conversation but cannot participate in the conversation.
Caro Emerald is part of the little niche genre of electro-swing. Years ago I was out shopping with my wife in a mall and this was playing and got my immediate attention.
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