Just as we were absorbing the loss of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, the videos started to roll in from Nepal. I confess to watching them over and over as my brain tries to wrap around the sheer scale and horror that swept down upon those people so quickly. If it were rendered as a disaster movie, it would be dismissed as too unbelievable. The people who lost their lives, and the thousands upon thousands who escaped with their lives but lost everything else. The whole thing is horrific.
Meanwhile, school starts in my region this coming week, and there's plenty to read about in the education world. Here's the list.
28 Bills, Ten Commandments and 1 Source: A Christian Right ‘Bill Mill’This is actually an old article from last year, by Mark Keierleber at The 74 (where their policies are bad but sometimes the journalism is good). At a moment when Ten Commandments laws are facing legal challenge, it's good to remember where they came from in the first place.
Great back to school piece for teachers from Andrew Ordover, reminding us how much teaching is performance-- particularly stand up comedy.
I respect Chad Aldeman's ability to crunch numbers, even as I usually disagree what he concludes from them. This article collects a bunch of statistics to create a picture of student population trends compared to teaching staff trends. But the real reason to check this out is an interactive map that shows the trends for every single school district in the country.
Andy Spears asks the question after looking at teacher pay trends for the last thirty years.
Jed Bookout at the Frazzled About Education site provides a history lesson in abolishing the Department of Education. It has been done before; it did not end well.
Thomas Ultican looks at some of the warnings about AI in the ed tech world and he is not encouraged.
At Inside Higher Ed, John Warner explains that "The way to stop cheating is to worry less about cheating and more about learning."
That would be Alpha School. Kelsey Piper at The Argument points out that Alpha School's much-touted numbers are so thoroughly massaged as to be useless. Well, except for marketing purposes.
Jennifer Berkshire with an important political story. Corporate Dems like Arnie Duncan and DFER insist that Dems have to get behind old school ed reform, but that's not actually winning elections. What is? Support for public education.
Sue Kingery Woltanski, an oft-elected Democratic school board member in Florida, provides her own example of what Berkshire is talking about.
Band Kids. They’re the Best.
Students should only use AI for things they already know how to do well.
When ‘Parental Rights’ Means Letting a Child Die
The 50 Percent Problem
Ohio Legislators Should Commit Over ½ Billion in Unspent Revenue to Serving Ohio’s Most Vulnerable Public School Students
Can AI replace traditional language learning? A new study says not yet
A Classroom of Contradictions
Did anyone notice that more than 1/3 of Ohio Charter Schools are on the state’s lowest performing schools list????
Retired music teacher Nancy Flanagan should know. So many go on to do great stuff.
Daniel Willingham makes the argument for at least some certain guardrails on AI. If you don't know what you're doing, how will you know what its doing?
Bruce Lesley looks at the edges of parental rights law that deny children the right to life-saving health care.
Benjamin Riley looks at that Chinese study of the effects of AI use on student learning (spoiler alert: it's not pretty). Some actual evidence to support what you already suspected was true.
Jan Resseger suggests that the Ohio legislature could actually spend some of its extra money on fixing their school funding crisis. Do not hold your breath.
A look at some slightly wonky research about using AI to learn collocations.
Adrian Neibauer's classroom is built on the idea that maybe his favored pedagogical paradigm isn't right for every student.
Stephen Dyer would like to point out that Ohio charter schools are not exactly revolutionizing education.
TC Weber has some thoughts about Dolly and what she contributed to Tennessee.
Plenty of good pieces about Dolly this week, but this New York Times piece by Tressie McMillan Cottom belongs high on the list (gift link).
At Forbes.com, I covered the Economic Policy Institute report on the teacher pay penalty.
Been listening to this a lot lately. She always brings it for live performances.
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