Pour one out for my mother, who turned 93 last week. She was blissfully uninterested in either sending an email or trying to fly anywhere, and she could not care less about AI. So all in all, she had a much easier week than many others.
Plenty to read this week. Remember, your amplification helps the writers cut through the internet noise and slop. Lend a hand!
In Conversation: Sold A Story Season 2 (Ep. 6)With the latest episode, Hanford took a real turn, using our old buddy Baker Mitchell as an exemplar. Mitchell is one of the early masters of charter school scammage, and the 19th century mind behind the girls in pants lawsuit. It's a real choice, and Trevor Aleo and Nick Covington break it down.
Speaking of charter school profiteering, Stephen Dyer crunches some Ohio numbers and fins where the money is going (spoiler alert: not into classrooms).
Dan Meyer gives five genAI chatbots a shot at making a math worksheet. The results are nothing to write home about.
Thomas Ultican looked into some data from the pandemic years and lo and behold, it turns out California's public schools did pretty well (and charters did not).
Lots of people are seeing lots of things in the latest season of Sold a Story, but Nancy Flanagan mostly sees one more amateur who couldn't hack it in the classroom trying to tell teachers how to do the work.
Paul Thomas recaps US education "reform" and its inevitable failure. Good for brushing up on how we got here.
From the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, one more story of students rebelling against AI.
Democrats could get education policy right for a change. Anne Lutz Fernandez explains how.
Jan Resseger takes a look at Jen Jennings' great new book about choice and the rationing of education. If I didn't convince you to get a copy when I wrote about it, maybe this will move the needle for you.
In this episode of the continuing series, Ben Riley tries to work out the organizational chart for Alpha School.
John Warner keeps saying the right things about writing.
Julian Vasquez Heilig notes that a few states will be picking new ed chiefs soon. Should they play it safe, or knock over the table?
More political analysis, this time from Anna North at The Guardian. Texans can only take so much.
Like many teachers, Adrian Neibauer has just been through parent conferences, leading to some thoughtful reflections on caring and toughness.
This week I was at The Progressive making some predictions about what the noisy issues of the school year will be.
If you are my age, chances are you have a copy of a certain CSN&Y album. This song was actually the theme of my high school senior yearbook, and it has stayed with me all these years. This is a lovely version.
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