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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 8h

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 · 6h

students are ends in themselves

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 6h

student journalism!

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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 · 8h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 7h

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.

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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 · 21h

#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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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, I get it, seems like lots of people are pressed for book reading time these days

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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 1d

Let's. Where??? @harvardeducation.bsky.social

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...

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

high school isn't just easier college, a lot else goes out the window if you cede the idea that the institutions serve distinct purposes

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

16-year-olds are minors, their time is (for now, mostly) protected, it's not that they need pre-professional academic training, it's something else

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

there's lots of different stuff to do, lockstep is not the goal, but there's not even really a current conversation

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

"just like those who govern secondary schools, university educators have ceded education’s purpose and meaning to others"

the heart of the issue is that teachers and professors have too little say in how, what, and why students read, and if we can't sort it out, for some, that justifies outsourcing

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

we should have infrastructure for book reading

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

oh no

Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 2d

TBH, I went into this profession believing there would be a lot more overlap between "reading books" and "being an English professor" than there actually is. Sending emails, managing spreadsheets, handing tissues to weeping people: yes. Reading books, or substantial portions thereof, not so much.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

there should be a group

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 1d

LFG

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...

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

"We are persuaded that the greatest single failure which appears from the evidence of our study is a failure to communicate to students the full meaning and purpose of a liberal education...It is nothing short of wicked to let our better students go to sleep." Gen Ed in School and College, 1953

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