Several decades ago, my brother and I played in a strolling dixieland band at Conneaut Lake Park, a delightful small amusement park that has since fallen on difficult times, and one of the things we noticed at the time was that small children would "dance" to our music by running in little counterclockwise circles. Lo and behold, researchers have discovered that turning counterclockwise is an unexplained but real human thing. We humans truly are a mysterious species.
Here's your reading list for the week. Read it in whatever direction you like.
Why Schools Keep Relearning the Same LessonsMatt Brady on how schools have an unfortunate tendency to simply lose expertise and institutional history.
Julie Letchner provides a specific, local example of how one district confuses compliance with quality, and how full length books are kept out of the classroom.
Part 4 in series of posts at Epostasy looking at how i-Ready is a mess, and how they are trying to spin their way out of trouble.
Greg Wyman takes a look at reform history all the way back to A Nation At Risk, and the search for an education silver bullet.
What About All Those ONLINE Science of Reading Programs?
What About All Those ONLINE Science of Reading Programs?
Nancy Bailey questions the use of more screen time to improve reading.
Lifewise has come for Florida's students, and the state is only too happy to hand them over.
Craig Harris continues to be an absolute beast in covering Arizona's voucher grift. Here's yet another variation on this theft from taxpayers.
Thomas Ultican looks at the resurgence of standardized testing support in California.
Nancy Flanagan responds to the complaint from college professors that their students can't read.
Jan Resseger keeps track of Ohio education shenanigans, including the legislature's fondness for leaning into failed policies while refusing to support the public school system.
TC Weber is a busy guy this week, with observations about everything from discipline to nostalgia
Adrian Neibauer spins off from Donald Hall's book Life Work, into a layered and layered look at life, work, and teaching. Quite a nice read.
Not sure I've seen this take from anyone on any side. Frederick Hess asks why bother with education cuts if we're just going to blow a mountain of money and saddle the next generation with mega-debt?
AI Ain’t So Smart
Russell Frank, columnist for StateCollege.com, thinks maybe his AI devices are not doing great work. Best line:
The Machine can do a lot of things that we mere mortals cannot. But it doesn’t know what it doesn’t know, which means it may be artificially intelligent, but it isn’t artificially wise.The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
Nothing like a good rant. This rant by Brian Phillips is pretty delightful. Thanks to Benjamin Riley for highlighting this in his fine Punk is anti-AI post.
The Organization of American Historians has released a report that attempts to summarize all of the current administration's attempts to rewrite or erase history.
This week at Forbes.com I took yet another pass at explaining why federal school vouchers are bad news. It's not just the money-- it's the fundamental change to the public education mission. I'd be delighted if you shared this one with your favorite elected state official.
If you were a band kid in the early seventies, you listened to Maynard. We were lucky enough to see him live at Edinboro University every summer for a buck. When he scored a semi-hit with "Gonna Fly Now" that marked the end of MF Horn Maynard (concert closer: "Hey Jude") and the beginning of disco Maynard (concert closer: "Maria") but we didn't begrudge him his success, and later he moved back around to cool stuff like this:
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