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tech companies celebrate progressive educational ideals and offer products to realize them on the cheap, which is, of course, antithetical to the whole project

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 12h

it’s such a privilege to be able to teach from the heart

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20h

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 21h

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 18h

students are ends in themselves

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 19h

there are a lot of plans and schemes and frameworks out there for what high school ought to be that have little to do with what’s good for kids

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 19h

student journalism!

thesciencesurvey.com/spotlight/20...

A Thursday With Thoreau

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I h...

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 21h

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 19h

The goal, as far as I’m concerned, isn’t to turn a set of books into a new list of boxes to check, or to fit them into the old boxes.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 19h

It’d be relatively easy to package and sell some sort of boxed curricula, it’s more difficult to do it right.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 19h

there are a lot of plans and schemes and frameworks out there for what high school ought to be that have little to do with what’s good for kids

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 20h

And a movement, I don’t know. Interest and urgency? Yes. Time and funding? Less.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 20h

I’m writing something now…

And have you seen press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Rescuing Socrates

A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 2d

let’s have a conference

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2d

Sign me up for whatever group wants to talk through these problems, particularly if we can use articles like this to help our thinking.

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

#pumpkinhistory

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Sue Hemberger @smhemberger.bsky.social · 1d

As a former prof who also taught secondary school teachers (subject matter — not pedagogy) and who, on a dare, ended up volunteering in 8th grade classrooms, my experience has been that conversations between HS teachers & college profs can be very productive. For all concerned (including students).

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