Fall arrived last week, along with plenty of other stuff. I'm here playing in the orchestra pit for Mean Girls and handling a bunch of other personal business, and not in Houston where I'm sure the Network for Public Education is putting on a bang-up gathering. But as I learned years ago, you can't be everywhere at once. Plenty on my mind at the moment, but let's just move on to the reading list for the week. Remember, sharing is important.
The Education Dept. hasn't been dismantled. It's become more inefficient, staff saySpreading the work of one federal department over several other departments with no expertise in that area doesn't improve efficiency!! What a shocker. Jonaki Mehta and Cory Turner report for All Things Considered.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reports on the departments important work in not bothering any schools that may or may not be desegregating.
Ben Riley continues his reporting on Alpha School, this time with some illuminating comments from actual students and parents.
Jose Luis Vilson considers what we mean by "good school" by considering the virtues and values that schools can--or should-- display.
Parenting is hard. Paul Thomas points out the whole "I know my child best" refrain of the parental rights crowd might not be entirely based in complicated reality. Did your parents know you-- all of you-- when you were 16?
Peter Shull enters the age old debate with a fairly nuanced "both and" argument.
TC Weber reports that those folks who "coach" teachers via live earpiece are still in business, and going to work on Memphis teachers.
The Heritage Foundation declared Florida the tops in educational freedom. Sue Kingery Woltanski is here to break down what exactly that means.
Jan Resseger collects some smart people thoughts about the purpose of public education.
Audrey Watters tracks the attempts to dismantle public education back through many decades with her trademark blend of scholarship and anger.
Mrs. Dear Leader brings some corporate-sponsored AI-flavored tools to some really young children in North Carolina, ignoring a bunch of research explaining why this is a bad idea.
As before, this is not so much a cut as an illegal attempt to simply refuse to fork over the money that Congress appropriated for stuff.
Mark Follman at Mother Jones reports on one more ChatGPT horror story.
This week at Forbes.com, I wrote about evidence that school voucher accountability is past due and publicly supported.
Saying goodbye to summer.
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