In the meantime, here's your reading list for the week.
Proposed legislation favors teaching that "McCarthyism" is a mean word that unfairly stigmatizes swell patriotic Americans. There's more. Yikes. Jeffrey Solochek reports.
Bruce Lesley looks at a Texas proposal that will enshrine parental rights at the expense of children.
Emma Whitford at Inside Higher Ed looks at the chaos created by vague rules banning mention of trans persons.
Jennifer Berkshire looks at how vouchers are still creating all sorts of conflict among conservative ranks. Among other things, they've finally noticed that vouchers can be used to make taxpayers support Islamic schools.
Evie Blad at EdWeek reports that some special ed teachers are using IEP writing AI to "reduce cognitive load" aka "save them having to think a lot." Somebody is going to get sued and they're going to deserve it. And nobody is better prepped to call in their lawyers than parents of special needs students.
Robert Pondiscio with a solid argument about the trouble with AI in education. Yes, I know some readers get cranky when I bring Pondiscio up, but this time you will find virtually no air between his ideas and mine when it comes to this subject.
Julian Vasquez Heilig watches a quick silent by film genius Georges Melies, and has some thoughts about AI and learning without learning.
If you want to be additionally alarmed about the state of education under the regime, here's Josh Weishart to draw some more uncomfortable parallels.
Thomas Ultican takes a look at how some Texas school districts are getting a bunch o'Bible into their classrooms.
Nancy Flanagan is still wondering where the True Believers in this regime are coming from and what, if anything, schools can do about it.
Steve Nuzum watches a film about book banning shenanigans that he has lived through.
Jan Resseger questions the war on honest history (warning: Chris Rufo ahead)
Eleanor Bader interviews Diane Ravitch for The Progressive on the occasion of her new book. Sharp and to the point as always.
Here we are in numerous conversations about artificial intelligence, but what does "intelligence" even mean? Ben Riley can help us get started.
Cory Doctorow explains the problems that are coming when it turns out that AI can't do all the jobs that firing-happy bosses are planning on.
Speaking of which, the Washington Post reports on federal judges who let AI file a bunch of sloppy baloney in place of their own actual human work.
This week at Forbes.com I provided a look at Diane Ravitch's new book. At the Bucks County Beacon, a group issues a report on right-wing bias on school boards.
There's a fun video series called Jam in the Van-- kind of a twist on Tiny Desk concerts-- and they have some great stuff. Here are the Boogaloo Assassins from 2017.
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