It has been a week. Maybe we'll talk about it some other time. But I still have a reading list for you.
I Asked My Students About AI AgainMarcus Luther talked to his students about AI. Maybe that tidal wave isn't coming.
What Schools Can’t Do
David Larabee reprints a speech from 2009, and it is taking perhaps a broader view than classroom practice, but boy dose some of this really hit. Like:
we pass off on schools social problems that we are unwilling to accomplish through the political process, where the capability for success actually resides. Instead of addressing these problems directly through political action, we foist them off on schools and then blame them for continually falling short of the desired goal.
And also:
Reformers are loath to give up their aims in the service of making the reform acceptable to teachers, so they tend to plow ahead in search of ways to get around the obstacles. If they can’t make change in cooperation with teachers, then they will have to so in spite of them. They see a crying need to fix a problem through school reform, and they have developed a theory for how to do this, which looks just great on paper. Standing in the state capital or the university, they are far from the practical realities of the classroom, and they tend to be impatient with demands that they should respect the complexity of the settings in which they are trying to intervene.
There's plenty more where that came from.
Matt Brady examines the effects of AI use on the trust necessary for schools to work.
Where's the Science?: Not in Think Tank Reports or Reading LegislationNobody has critiqued the Science of Reading movement more relentlessly that Paul Thomas. Here's his reaction to a new "report" from the National Council pn Teacher Quality.
Utah's new Arizona-style voucher program seems riddled with Arizona-style abuse and fraud. Reported by Carmen Nesbitt for the Salt Lake Tribune.
Ohio set up university centers to combat liberal bias, but students weren't interested, so now the GOP, champions of the free market, will just force everyone to attend. Morgan Trau reports for News 5 Cleveland.
If you like your anti-AI arguments brutal and uncompromising, Ed Zitron is your guy.
Nancy Flanagan on the recycling of old education ideas.
Arizona students with disabilities fuel rapid growth in billion-dollar ESA voucher program
Families hoard ESA funds as Arizona public schools face low funding, records show
What do you suppose would happen if you set up your taxpayer-funded vouchers system to incentivize a diagnosis of special needs? Craig Harris reports for 12 News.
Arizona's taxpayer-funded vouchers are also piling up big money stockpiles for some parents. Craig Harris again.
Teachers in Michigan school district can pick from 32 phrases or face legal review over classroom posters
Big Changes to Federal Grants Are Coming: What They Could Mean for Schools
“One Big Beautiful Bill” Has Already Begun Damaging Children’s Well-Being: It Will Only Get Worse
How stupid can the attempts to police teacher posters get? Pretty stupid. Lily Altavena at Chalkbeat.
Much of the boring routine funding from the feds is about to be disrupted. Marl Lieberman at EdWeek reports.
Jan Resseger looks at the worst side-effects of that thing.
The indispensable Mercedes Schneider looks at the threats coming from data centers.
Teens Arrested for Breaking Into High School With a Homemade Plasma Cannon
Are you worried that Kids These Days just aren't as ambitious or creative as they used to be? This is a story for you. Luis Prida at Vice covers a North Carolina story.
This week at Forbes.com, I took a look at how Arizona is one step closer to imposing actual accountability on its taxpayer-funded voucher program.
A video artifact-- a medley from the cast of the then-current musical Hair, on Ed Sullivan. Asks your parents (or grandparents) what's going on here.
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