CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Applefest 25 Edition (10/5)
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
Why would David Frum (or anyone else) bother to interview Margaret Spellings? But he did, and a friend told me to go look at the result (thanks a lot, Jennifer), and it's a celebration of many of the worst, most failed ideas of 21st century ed reform.| CURMUDGUCATION
Well, that was a day yesterday. May we all live to enjoy less interesting times, but not less patriotic ones.. | CURMUDGUCATION
It may be an overstatement that Ryan Walters damaged the Christian Nationalist brand in Oklahoma, but his successor does seem to be putting energy into cleaning up after the previous state school superintendent. | CURMUDGUCATION
You may not have heard about 6 7, and if not, your life is not the worse for it. Also, you probably don't have contact with young humans. | CURMUDGUCATION
The Atlantic has published yet another tale of woe about The Terrible State Of Education, and in it staff writer Idrees Kahloon has played all the hits, yet somehow ignores the most obvious point to make.| CURMUDGUCATION
Let me explain.| CURMUDGUCATION
It has been eighteen months or so since my mother moved into an assisted living facility, and so this summer we started the prospect of selling the house. | CURMUDGUCATION
The Board of Directors has developed a real taste for the long distance run, and we are lucky enough to be in a district with an elementary cross country program. This is their second season, and they remain into it. They like to run and run and run and it turns out that running is best with a bunch of other kids to run with. Yesterday was the big invitational that usually marks the end of the season. There might be one more small meet next week, but that's it. They will be sad to be done. "I...| CURMUDGUCATION
There are a variety if "guides" out there to try to provide some sort of structure and sense to the question, "Should a student use AI on this assignment?" None of them are very useful.| CURMUDGUCATION
When folks go casting about for some use for AI in schools, the two items that frequently come up are brainstorming and outlining. This is a lousy idea.| CURMUDGUCATION
Despite the fact that the words "school choice" still get tossed around, most of the noisiest figures in the school choice movement have no actual interest in choice, no desire to see traditional public education existing side by side with a variety of different education options. Instead they're pushing for institutional capture, a system of taxpayer-funded private schools that push right wing christianism and christian nationalism alongside a public system that has been largely dismantled e...| CURMUDGUCATION
This is from a year ago, but comedian Trae Crowder captures the reality of taxpayer-funded vouchers. Some salty language, but it's always nice when someone outside the education world gets it.| CURMUDGUCATION
As AI-mongers continue their full court press to crack the education market, we keep hearing the same pitch over and over again--| CURMUDGUCATION
Douglas Carswell at the Mississippi Center for Public Policy is excited about all the great privatization pushing that's been going on in the state lately.| CURMUDGUCATION
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
Short answer: Yes.| CURMUDGUCATION
Adam Becker's More Everything Forever is a sobering look at our tech overlords, their crazypants dreams, and the reasons that those dreams are less likely than an actual autonomous automobile. It's a pretty depressing books because two things come through. | CURMUDGUCATION
There are just so many, many bad things being written about AI and the education world. So many unserious bits of advice being taken seriously. So many people who appear to be intelligent and well-educated who are harboring fantasy-based ideas about what AI is and what it does. | CURMUDGUCATION
You will recall that a couple of years ago, his head filled with fantasies about running for President as a smarter, more stable Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decided to take over small, liberalish New College and make it proof of concept for Unwoke Higher Ed. He put former Speaker of the House and then education chief Richard Corcoran in charge and sat back to watch the antiwokeness flourish.| CURMUDGUCATION
It's my high school graduating class's 50th reunion this weekend, and a class reunion is always something. I suppose some day, when the education "system" is a loose free market where people switch back and forth, the idea of a special event to get together with the people you spent your youth with-- I suppose that will be quaint and unusual. But for right now, it's fun. I missed out on part of the fun because I am also conducting the pit orchestra for a local production of "Singin' in the ...| CURMUDGUCATION
Yeah, the term they're searching for is "liberal arts."| CURMUDGUCATION
Ryan Walters announced Wednesday night that he was resigning as Oklahoma's Dudebro-in-chief for Education. He made the announcement, of course, on Fox. | CURMUDGUCATION
Jeremy Clifton has some ideas about how to understand human understanding of the world. Maybe they could be useful for how we teach students.| CURMUDGUCATION
"Should People Be Polite To AI?" is, unfortunately, a real question featured in the latest issue of Time For Kids. It is not an encouraging moment in juvenile journalism.| CURMUDGUCATION
After a few years of false starts, this week we finally had a contractor here to refurbish the Institute's front porch, which was about a century old and getting a little spongy. The new deck should be able to support several small moose in a hot tub (though we have no such plans). It also requires entering and exiting through the back door, but is otherwise a pretty exciting development here. Another week of work ought to finish the job.| CURMUDGUCATION
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
