My area made some national news this week when the ice started piling up on the Allegheny River and threatening communities. We can watch the river out our back window, but if it ever rises high enough to touch the house it would be signs of a waterpocalypse. We used to have bad winter floods in the region-- a epic ice jam and flood 100 years ago went on for three months-- but a large dam and some smaller bits of technology have made the area safer. It's one of those things where you don't think about what is keeping you safe because the result is a bunch of Not Happening.
Plenty to read this week. Here we go.
Defending the Promise: Public Education and the Fight for DemocracyGreg Wyman has been writing a series celebrating traditional public education. This new entry looks at education and its struggles with recent policy decisions.
Jan Resseger looks at one of those bad ideas that just won't die.
Really hoping this is a trend. The Independence law Center has been peddling anti-LGBTQ policies to school boards across PA. It is great to see someone firing them.
Nancy Flanagan looks at new sex ed revisions in Michigan, and why the feds have decided to go after them.
Ten Commandments could go up in Tennessee public school
More performative anti-religion religious law, this time in Tennessee. Sam Stockard reports for Tennessee Lookout.
Parents are opting kids out of school laptops, returning them to pen and paper
The Impacts of Immigration Actions on Students and Schools
No Public Funds for Secular or Religious Charter Schools
Top teachers’ performance drops in high-poverty schools, showing school context is key
How One Rural District Used College Students to Keep English Learners in School
“The Time Had Come to Find My Work”: Diane Ravitch’s Authentic Autobiography
Immigration trigger bill would require Tennessee schools to track, report student status
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Earn the Seat: What a School Board Is — and Why Mine Failed
A New National Reading Panel? It Depends
120 Champions and Defenders of Children: The Lawmakers Who Show Up for Kids
Vouchers' growth will be their demise
Can We Please Stop it with the AI Woo-Woo?
Ten Commandments could go up in Tennessee public school
More performative anti-religion religious law, this time in Tennessee. Sam Stockard reports for Tennessee Lookout.
Tyler Kingkade reports on a trend that is, I suspect, maybe not that much of a trend, but still worth reading about.
Steve Nuzum has some info on how the immigrant crackdown is affecting schools in South Carolina.
Shawgi Tell reminds us that some folks really want to start religious charter schools, and it's a really bad idea.
One persistent neo-liberal idea is that we can pluck good teachers out of one school, plug them into another bad school, and magical test improvements would ensue. This was always a dumb idea, but as Matt Barnum reports for Chalkbeat, we now have research to prove that it's a dumb idea.
Lauraine Langero at EdWeek reports on a school where college students come mentor English Learners-- and it seems to be helping the dropout rate in this Virginia school.
The indispensable Mercedes Schneider reviews Diane Ravitch's memoir. If you need one more opinion to convince you to get a copy, here you go.
Melissa Brown at Chalkbeat reports on an ugly law being considered in Tennessee. Should schools be forced to help the government target immigrants?
ProPublica put a whole team of reporters on this story, and it's a tough read. (It's also apparently the reason ICE goons have been confiscating children's letters)
Have school board elections in your district lost the plot? Matt Brady looks at the problems in his own district caused by people who don't understand the assignment.
Should we try having a national reading panel again? Maybe, says Nancy Bailey, but only if we avoid some of these major problems.
The First Focus Campaign for Children has issued its annual report on which legislators are doing right by young humans. Learn more (and see if your Congressperson made the list).
Stephen Dyer explains the quirk in Ohio's legal debates over vouchers. They have to stop looking like they are funding a second, unconstitutional school system.
UT Board Policy Asks Faculty to Avoid ‘Controversial’ Topics in Class
Teacher-centered vs. student-centered instruction: mitigating the socioeconomic achievement gap through differential access and returns
In defense of stochastic parrots
The Hidden Cost of Ceding Government Procurement to a Monopoly Gatekeeper
University of Texas joins the list of colleges offering vaguely worded bans on Bad Language. Inside Higher Ed has details on this baloney.
It's an academic paper with some dense language, but it concludes that teacher-centered instruction may be superior to child-centered. Wade through at your own risk.
"Large language models are useful," says Benjamin Riley, "and that's the problem." Lots to unpack here.
If your school district has made a deal with Amazon, or is planning to, you might want to look at this research that shows just how much Amazon is shafting government bodies and school districts who have made this deal.
John Warner asks for an end to baloney-pants over-hype on AI.
Two pieces are out at Forbes.com. One deals with Arizona's latest voucher reform battle, and the other with how Kentucky's supreme court shut down yet another charter funding scheme.
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