Here's your reading list for the week. Remember-- if it speaks to you, share it.
Wrap up Teacher Appreciation Week with Nancy Bailey's list of the many ways that corporate reformsters have tried to make the lives of teachers miserable.
Moms for Liberty continue to fudge the definition of "grass roots organization." Kate LaGrone at WPTV reports that the Moms need a little help getting people to show up for meetings.
The Economic Policy Institute explains why taxpayer-funded voucher programs are especially hard on rural school districts.
Bruce Lesley outlines some reforms that the current lousy version of Congress could pass to make life better for children and families.
Mrs. Frazzled with some useful history on book banning in the USA, including Anthony Comstock.
When Tennessee's not busy making sure that voters in Memphis don't matter, they are making sure that they spend as little as possible on schools. Andy Spears explains.
One more crappy AI educational "aid" appears to have bitten the dust. So long, OpenAI Study Mode. Benjamin Riley has the details.
Thomas Ultican is bugged by all the billionaires still trying to sell vouchers.
It's been a year and we still haven't tracked all the ways the big dumb bill is sticking it to the non-wealthy. Jan Resseger explores some of them.
A research paper at The Lancet. And yikes.
From Mark Paglia at McSweeney's. “Simply wearing a small red letter A is no great burden, and it would infringe upon the free speech of the rest of the town were Hester Prynne not to wear it.”
It was a busy week at Forbes.com
- A guide for Teacher Appreciation Week gifting
- A complaint about the use of "student achievement" when what researchers mean is "test scores"
- A school district in Wisconsin wants to keep the band from playing a piece dedicated to a trans activist.
My mother always liked this song when we were all younger, so this goes out to her today.
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"Teacher appreciation" is the honeymoon/reconciliation stage of the cycle of abuse.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the same might be said about Mother's Day.