We are getting hammered this morning, but my nephew and his wife in Minnesota are expecting negative twenties--cold enough to put the area under an exploding tree warning, as if Minnesota wasn't suffering enough already. May all the unwelcome visitors in that state have a truly miserable weekend-- they've earned it.
In the meantime, I have some education reading for you. Here we go.
Excerpts Are Anti-Knowledge: Not Always, But Often Enough to MatterSay Amen! Laura Pantranella has more patience than I to lay out some solid and specific reasons that training students on reading excerpts is a really bad idea.
God bless Bruce Lesley, who read through the Heritage Foundation's latest big fat slab of malignant baloney about saving America by saving the children. Only they don't really want to save children.
Florida once again tries to keep works from escaping the long hand of censorship by closing loopholes that allow for considerations like "artistic merit." Merit, shmerit. Let's get that statue of David a robe.
Italia Fittante teaches high school literature in Minneapolis, and her students are having a rough time. EdWeek has the piece, and it is worth your time.
The AI School Librarian has some concrete thoughts and suggestions about what schools and staff can do (and not do) to help their students in this extraordinarily terrible time.
AI and ICE are birds of a feather, argues Audrey Watters. Plus her usual assortment of useful links. Have you subscribed yet, because you should.
Alexandra Villarreal at Hechinger looks at how schools in New Haven, Connecticut, a district that has worked hard to build relationships with the immigrant community, are dealing with ICE.
Stephen Dyer continues to explain how Ohio's school funding system is in the weeds.
Mark Rochester of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune writes about Bridget Ziegler's dumb resolution and how it represents something bigger--the nationalization of local issues.
This may be the least surprising news ever. Tyler Kingdale reports for NBC News that Google is in your school in hopes of recruiting future customers. Also, they have known for a long time that Youtube can be unsafe and distracting.
Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth
Remember the whole myth of bad teachers being responsible for all education ills? Paul Thomas does.
Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth
Remember the whole myth of bad teachers being responsible for all education ills? Paul Thomas does.
Matt Brady points out that the power of teachers is not exactly what popular mythology says it is.
Memoir of a home school kid, by Stefan Merrill Black
You may want to sign up for a free trial of The Economist to read this, but the headline stands pretty well on its own.
It's about math. It's also about selling some wares. Thomas Ultican breaks it down.
This very long and wonkily detail-filled post by Denny Taylor takes on some of the sacred texts of supposedly settled reading science.
Nancy Bailey looks at Linda McMahon's Big Patriotism Tour as it asserts that all children need from their government is exhortations to cheer the flag.
Speaking of patriotism-flavored education, the Trump regime is backing some other attempts to rewrite history for students in K-12.
The Timing Tells You Everything
The Power of Life
TC Weber continues to provide an invaluable ground-level view of education shenanigans on the state and local level. This time: NFL player/vendors, and a school shooting anniversary.
Ben Riley talks to science historian Jessica Riskin about life, intelligence, AI and a bunch of other stuff. Some beautiful and intelligent conversation here.
At Forbes.com, I looked at the year-long saga of the Trump regime's attempt to ban DEI from classrooms and how they just backed away from one of their first big tools.
Here's the National Children's Symphony of Venezuela, having a ball with Leonard Bernstein's Mambo from West Side Story.
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