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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 37m

Schooling the WSJ and the “Mississippi Miracle” backseatlinguist.com/blog/schooli...

Schooling the WSJ and the “Mississippi Miracle”

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 15h

Schools are among the most conventional & cautious institutions on the planet, subject to pressures & opinions frm a wide range of (often clueless) critics. And likely headed by someone who adamantly does not want to get phone calls from honked-off parents. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/10/13/p...

“Progressive” Schools

I’m old enough to remember Ronald Reagan hosting General Electric Theater, on Sunday nights, when he would look sincerely into the camera and say “General Electric, where progress is our most impor…

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h

"Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it..."

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Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 16h

Nearly all state funding for Missouri school vouchers used for religious schools missouriindependent.com/2025/10/13/n...

Nearly all state funding for Missouri school vouchers used for religious schools • Missouri Independent

As state funding begins directly fueling Missouri's voucher program, a majority of students use the money for religious education.

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 16h

"For the same reason that a dog can go to church but a dog cannot be Catholic, an LLM can have a conversation but cannot participate in the conversation."

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 18h

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What Machines Don't Know

Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 18h

Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/12/t...

Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth

[Header Photo by CDC on Unsplash] Note I entered the classroom as a high school English teacher somewhat ominously in 1984, an academic year when Orwell’s classic was increasingly assigned bu…

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

"AI as an assessment tool represents an existential threat to education because no matter how you try and establish guardrails or best practices around how it is employed, using the technology in place of an educator ultimately cedes human judgment to a machine-based process."

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 23h

"...the evidence indicates that the Department of Homeland Security is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating detention conditions...'There are cases of people who clearly meet the criteria not to be detained, and that ICE has gone ahead and detained anyway...'"

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

"Militarized occupations of entire cities communicate a message...that your existence is suspect, likely criminal. Tanks and armed soldiers in the streets broadcast to those children and their younger siblings: Your country is at war with you."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 23h

The number of local news deserts expanded in the U.S. this year with 127 newspapers shuttering, leaving nearly 55 million Americans with limited to no access to local news.

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Medill report shows local news deserts expanding - Medill - Northwestern University

The number of local news deserts expanded in the U.S. this year with 127 newspapers shuttering, leaving nearly 55 million Americans with limited to no access to local news, according to the Medill Sta...

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: Cross Country Edition (10/12)
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ICYMI: Cross Country Edition (10/12)

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.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 1d

What absolute horseshit

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

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Larry Feinberg @lfeinberg.bsky.social · 2d

‘We cannot move forward’: State budget delay impacting area school districts www.timesleader.com/news/1720739... via @tlnews

‘We cannot move forward’: State budget delay impacting area school districts

<p>WILKES-BARRE — It’s been more than 100 days past the deadline to approve the state budget, and that delay is affecting area school districts.</p>

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly who was President on January 6, 2021?

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 2d

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The Rise of Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT — Information is Beautiful

ChatGPT, BingChat, LaMDA, LLaMa, PaLM - the rise and rise of AI-based Large Language Models & their free alternatives visualized in one chart.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI. The attack on US public schools -- on US schools -- has reached new levels.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 2d

"It's interesting that if you say the Constitution creates a separation of powers systems in which there are no kings, they think you hate America.” (David Noll)

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 2d

1) Incorporate LLM in your public school\
2) LLM is tweaked to avoid "liberal" bias of being pro-public school
3) LLM instructs students to withdraw from public school

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 2d

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?