CURMUDGUCATION: An Excellent AI Explanation
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
"Inspired by" Oklahoma's "America First Teacher Test, PragerU, the conservative propaganda mill, has a "Teacher Qualification Test," which, in their attempt to establish themselves as a player in the teacher cert game, is suddenly everywhere. Watch some of their videos, they invite, and then take the test-- "Pass, and you’ll earn your certificate—proving your commitment to truth and integrity."| CURMUDGUCATION
So this week, I had some arthroscopic surgery and took delivery of a new desktop computer to replace the eight-year-old dysfunctional one. This will be good news for those of you who are really bothered by my typos, which are exponentially worse on the mobile office laptop. | CURMUDGUCATION
This is worth digging into the legal weeds because A) it's going to keep coming up and B) a Florida case successfully beat it.| CURMUDGUCATION
Nobody likes the Big Standardized Test (well, except test manufacturers making a living from it), and periodically, someone comes up with a clever idea for addressing that dissatisfaction. Texas has come up with a particularly bad one.| CURMUDGUCATION
MAGA wingnut Nancy Mace was supposed to deliver a speech hosted by the Horry County, South Carolina chapter of Moms for Liberty. She's part of a five-person field of folks who are already jockeying for the GOP nod to replace the current term-limited governor. That election is coming up in--oh, lordy-- 2026. | CURMUDGUCATION
Autumn is my favorite season, hands down, so I get excited when the tail end of summer even starts to hint at what is coming. Can I wear shorts and a sweatshirt today? Yes, please.| CURMUDGUCATION
This is my new beginning of the year tradition, and I recommend it to you.| CURMUDGUCATION
It's bigger than education, though education is where it reared its head most recently. | CURMUDGUCATION
Stephen Caruso and the crew at Spotlight PA did some trememndous work on Pensylvania campaign contributions back in March and it deserved more attention than it got at the time. But it has a lot to tell us about who some Pennsylvania politicians are deeply indebted to when it comes to education.| CURMUDGUCATION
Pennsylvania States Senator Doug Mastriano, Trump-annointed failed gubernatorial candidate, has floated yet another in the state's long line of bad voucher legislation.| CURMUDGUCATION
I read about this many years ago, but for some reason it has floated up in my consciousness lately. It's a chapter in Chinese history, and if you look hard enough, you might just see some important lessons there.| CURMUDGUCATION
Sarah Inama has put her poster up in a new classroom.| CURMUDGUCATION
Vacation time is over and we are back at the Institute's home base. The CMO goes back to work later this week, and the board of directors gets to it next week. This will be my eighth year of not going back to the classroom, and it almost doesn't feel unspeakably weird. God bless everyone who is going back to do the work. | CURMUDGUCATION
There is a lot of noise these days around the issue of funding cyber charters in Pennsylvania. But cyber. charter operators are still betting that simply refusing to talk about the topic will save them.| 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
“Where’s my kid going to go to school?”| CURMUDGUCATION
This week we have been on the shores of Great East Lake in a cabin that was first set up by my grandfather, a New Hampshire general contractor, and which has now been enjoyed by generations of the family. So my output, already diminished as I try to wrap up a book about writing (which has no actual publisher, but I have this thing where I have to write things out of my head or they just won't leave me alone, so if you are a publisher interested in a book about writing, you know how to find me...| CURMUDGUCATION
Education Dudebro-in-chief Ryan Walters has anounced that teachers who want to come work in Oklahoma (assuming there are such people) and who come from states overrun with wokitude will have to take a test to prove that they it will be politiucally aceptable for them to come to teach in America’s almost-very-worst education state. Here at the Institute, we havemanaged to get a copy of Walters’ proposed test.| CURMUDGUCATION
Back in February, Wyoming joined an elite group of states when the courts ordered them to fix their inadequate funding system for public schools. "Unconstitutionally underfunded" was the phrase. | 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
Arizona continues to be demonstrate how taxpayer-funded school vouchers actually work. Spoiler alert: it is not to rescue poor students from failing schools.| CURMUDGUCATION
We are just a little scattered here at the Institute these days. Family health issues, the apparent unfixable dysfunction of the desktop computer, and yesterday's wedding of my nephew (aka the sportswriter who is the only person in the family to make a living writing) have taken up a lot of attention. And I have to work on the mobile office, aka the laptop computer (you can tell when I'm on the mobile office because typographical error output dramatically increases over my usual not-inconside...| CURMUDGUCATION
Emily Bender and Alex Hanna have performed a huge public service by writing The AI Con, The book is insightful, incisive, and totally accessible. You need to read it, and then you need to give a copy to your uncle or boss or favorite think tank honcho who thinks that AI is magical and can Do Things.| CURMUDGUCATION
The IDEA charter school chain has a checkered history, but it continues to demonstrate the many ways that charter schools can go wrong and game the system while they're at it.| CURMUDGUCATION
One of Project 2025's stated goals was to strip the National Education Association of its federal charter. Once again, MAGA Republicans in Congress are attempting to do just that.| 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
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
