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Sunday, December 28, 2025

ICYMI: Top Tenless Edition (12/28)

No top ten list this year, either for the blog or the ICYMI stuff, because A) there are too many posts to sort through and B) the analytics that decide which posts have been seen the most are wildly unreliable and C) sometimes you think a top ten list will be an easy less time-intensive way to get a post done during a busy season, but it turns out that's a snare and a delusion. My hat is off to everyone who did the work to get a top ten list assembled, but it has been a busy week here at the institute, with visits from all the branch offices, and today you just get the usual-- the reading from the week.

AI Conversations Behind Closed Doors

This may be hard to read, but Stephen Fitzpatrick's actual conversations with actual human students tells us about how AI is landing out in the field.

Unhelpful Disruption Rocks Indianapolis Schools

Andy Spears reports on the latest anti-public education shenanigans in Indiana and it's not very pretty.

On Vacations and “Learning Loss"

Steve Nuzum reminds us that the folks really leaning on the learning loss alarm have some whacky ideas about how to address it. 

The ABCs of College Board

Akil Bello connects the dots between the College Board and Glengarry Glen Ross. Plus what happens when marketing masquerades as useful data.

How Florida’s Grinch Privatized Classrooms

Sue Kingery Woltanski borrows from Dr. Seuss. 

Much Ado About Something

More from Sue Kingery Woltanski. This is an important read, because the Florida co-location scheme for getting charter schools free real estate is so awful that your first response is to assume that somebody is making stuff up. They aren't. It's that bad, and even if you aren't in Florida, you need to understand it just in case your state is next.

Choosing Harm Over Help: How U.S. Policymakers Are Turning Against Children

Bruce Lesley  on the many ways in which this country's leaders are turning against children.

Ohio bill requires free tutoring, extra help for students with lowest test scores

It's unfunded mandate time in Ohio, where the legislature wants schools to provide free after school tutoring for low-testing students, but offers no money to pay for it.

Most Depressing Blogs of 2025

I didn't take the time to do a Top Ten list, but Nancy Flanagan did, and while it's kind of a bummer, every one is worth the reading.

'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being': DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic

Did you have "Ron DeSantis comes out wildly anti-AI" on your bingo card? Well, here we are. “Let’s not try to act like some type of fake videos or fake songs are going to deliver us to some kind of utopia,” he said, and more. 

Over at Forbes.com, a MAGA legislator wants to cut property taxes for anyone who doesn't have a kid in schools. Because who wants to live in an educated country?

A hair late, but I can't wait a whole year to share this new track from Scott Bradlee and Casey Abrams. 


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