By the end of the coming week, school will have wound down for the year for the Board of Directors and the CMO here at the Institute, and summer will officially begin. Oh, the adventures! I spent Friday as a volunteer for the annual carnival day, which in my case involved standing outside helping small humans deal with various yard games, point being I have already achieved my first sunburn of the summer, so we are hitting the ground running here. May your summer unfold happily, too.
Here's some reading from the week.
The Conservative ‘plan’ to Dismantle Public Schools is Entering the Home StretchThe latest from independent journalist Jeff Bryant. It's not pretty.
Bekah McNeel at The 74 reports on one Texas student whose senior year was hit by the new anti-LGBTQ law, and what that student did about it.
Honesty for Ohio Education Will Launch Statewide “Voucher Accountability Project”
Why learning a musical instrument could stave off ‘brain rot’ and help concentration
Tennessee school district reverses ban on Alex Haley ‘Roots’ novel
The Math Was Within Us All Along
Explainer: What is "Teacher Tired?"
Everyone in Edtech Should Show Their Cards
Maybe There Really Is a Learning Recession. But It’s Not What You’re Thinking.
La. Gov.’s May 2026 Presser on a Teacher/Staff Pay Raise via MFP Dollars
This Beatles song translates perfectly into bluegrass, starting all the way back with Arlo Guthrie. I don't have a good video clip, but this is so tasty, I'm including it anyway.
Speaking of which, Florida is now entering the "end property taxes" stage of dismantling public education. As the Miami Herald editorial board points out, there are many problems with that idea.
Jan Resseger reports on an attempt in Ohio to inject a little accountability into the school voucher program.
Cool article. It's a small study with a small effect, but still cool to read about, Rebecca Whittaker reports for the Independent.
A reminder that making a bunch of noise over stupid decisions really can help. Knox County Schools in Tennessee became famous for banning Roots. They've decided maybe that wasn't a great choice. The superintendent believes they were trying to make a good faith attempt to follow the state law, which is a reminder of how much trouble is stirred up by bad censorship laws.
Jose Luis Vilson celebrates a moment in which it turns out the people do too have math within them.
Matt Brady tries to explain that special end-of-the-year teacher exhaustion.
Dan Meyer has more love for ed tech than I, but it is a clear-eyed sort of realistic love. Here he talks about the need for transparency in the ed tech world.
Nancy Flanagan looks into the "learning recession" -- the timing, the framing and the conclusions we might draw.
All sorts of reformy types are sure that if we had just stayed the course with NCLB, we wouldn't be in this mess. They are full of it. Nancy Bailey explains just some of the ways this thinking is mistaken.
The Return Of The Reformers
Gary Rubinstein has also noticed the return of these yahoos, and reminds us of some of their many flaws
The Return Of The Reformers
Gary Rubinstein has also noticed the return of these yahoos, and reminds us of some of their many flaws
The New York Times visits Texas, where every misgiving you ever had about putting police in schools has come true. This is a pretty depressing piece, but a cautionary tale for other states. (Well, it's cautionary for Texas, too, bless their authoritarian hearts, but they aren't going to pay attention).
Louisiana teachers haven't had a raise from the state in 18 years. The governor has made noise about fixing that, and the indispensable Mercedes Schneider is transcribing it all for the record. Not that politicians take stuff back or anything. Worth a look at what kinds of noises are being made.
Benjamin Riley considers economics, education, and AI. An interesting thought experiment.
Turns out when companies try to make their AI profitable, customers get cranky.
Excellent piece by Eve Fairbanks for The Atlantic. Come for this paragraph:
The problem is that the efficiency and frictionlessness that make AI appealing to writers are the same qualities that make it feel untrustworthy to readers. And readers are right not to trust it. No matter how much we may tell ourselves that AI is just a tool like spell-check, it isn’t. When we use AI to flesh out ideas, we lose the most important part of the writing process: thinking.Even Ansel Adams Isn't Sacred Anymore
A gallery used AI to color Ansel Adams prints, then tried to sell them, all without talking to the Dams estate. This is part of the trouble with AI-- it empowers the kind of idiot who would look at an Ansel Adams print and think, "What this needs is some color."
How I spend part of every summer.
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