It's the weekend of another fun festival in my small town. This time it's two days outstanding blues and plenty of good food. If you're in my neighborhood, you might still be able to make it. Admission is free, but what money is raised is donated to local school music programs, so there are many reasons to love this.
In the meantime, here's your reading list for the week.
Linda McMahon says she heard parents. Parents say special education changes show she didn’t listen.The Trump administration continues to pretend it's sending education back to the states when it as actually sending it from one federal bureaucracy to another. This time it was IDEA, putting the oversight of education for students with disabilities in the hands of a guy who believes that disabilities don't exist and the weak should perish to improve the nation. It's a bold choice, given that parents of students with special needs are the parents most likely to have a lawyer on speed dial. At any rate, here's the Chalkbeat coverage of this move. Also, the PBS take.
Some New Hampshire officials have noticed that special ed students are not necessarily well-served by the taxpayer-funded voucher program. Garry Rayno reports.
Andy Spears breaks down some of the details of the federal voucher program.
Shawgi Tell reports on a charter chain that is trying to weasel its way around the state charter school cap. Can you guess which one? Yes, it's Success.
Surprise twist from Rhode Island
AP Exclusive: The school choice scholarship boom benefits kids already in private school
Growth of School Vouchers at State and Federal Levels Threatens Public Schooling
NC Legislators Want to Put an Unproven AI Bot in Your Child’s Classroom in August
Tied Up in Knots
My Room Is Infected by Jesus
Understanding isn’t just knowledge (and how we can teach it)
AI tutor access alone doesn’t equate to student gains, study says
I am not sure how this story by Bianca Vazquez Toness and Sharon Lurye qualifies as an exclusive, but here's more confirmation that the taxpayer-funded voucher program in Texas is mostly benefiting students already in private school.
As always, Jan Resseger has done her homework. Many sources pulled together here to give a full picture of this mess.
Juston Parmenter reports on the North Carolina legislature's rush to provide what nobody really wants. Here comes Khanmigo, like it or not.
Thomas Ultican takes a look at the alrms sounding in the latest Network for Public Education report.
Jennofer Berkshire breaks down the troubles of pre-privatization pseudo-Democrats. They keep trying so hard.
Matt Brady and an examination of classroom culture. Some of you will know exactly what he's talking about.
Christian Moore Anderson offers a thoughtful breakdown of the differences and values of knowledge vs. understanding. I may read this one several times.
No surprises here, but it's worth looking at the details in this article by Anna Merod for K-12 Dive
College students are voting with their feet on AI.
The smartphone era created an attention crisis — slow tech is fixing it
\Specifically, this Nick Lichetnberg article from Fortune argues that they are moving away from AI-vulnerable fields and towards those that may have more of a safe future.
"Education like Netflix"… Hunet declares the era of personalized learning designed by AI
"Education like Netflix"… Hunet declares the era of personalized learning designed by AI
"Education like Netflix"… Hunet declares the era of personalized learning designed by AI
What would make boring corporate training even worse? Maybe AI. Not from this country-- yet.
This article has nothing to do with education, except that it has everything to do with education. Amanda Siberling at TechCrunch
I've seen variations on this story several times now, including how the game put rarer Pokemon in the spots they needed more pictures of. Just a reminder that when it comes to tech, you need to pay attention to what's really going on.
Andrew Singleton at McSweeney's, right on the mark and hilarious.
This week at Forbes.com I looked at the NPE report on how well some states support public education (or don't), and a look at the NEA report on teacher salaries.
Stevie Wonder and Jeff Beck at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame celebration in 2009. Turn it up!
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