Peter Greene
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public education fan, education ranter, retired teacher, SAHD, tailgate trombone, Venangoland PA, Curmudgucation, The Progressive, Forbes.com, Bucks County Beacon
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Peter Greene
@palan57.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Find me at original flavor curmudgucation.blogspot.com or fancy new substack curmudgucation.substack.com
ICYMI: Chorus Edition (12/7)
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ICYMI: Chorus Edition (12/7)
The CMO of the Institute (that’s Chief Marital Officer) sings in a community chorus because, among other reasons, she objectively has a voice much like that of an angel.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
ICYMI: Chorus Edition (12/7)
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AI Is the Next Frontier for Far-Right Extremists to Spread Propaganda, Incite Violence, and Recruit New Followers | Neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists have long pioneered innovative ways to exploit technological progress. Combatting online hate must become a global imperative.
AI Is the Next Frontier for Far-Right Extremists to Spread Propaganda, Incite Violence, and Recruit New Followers - Bucks County Beacon
Neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists have long pioneered innovative ways to exploit technological progress. Combatting online hate must become a global imperative.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
AI Is the Next Frontier for Far-Right Extremists to Spread Propaganda, Incite Violence, and Recruit New Followers | Neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists have long pioneered innovative ways to exploit technological progress. Combatting online hate must become a global imperative.
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The U.S. Department of Education has asked hundreds of employees it fired months ago to temporarily return to work. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Education Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to temporarily return
The federal Education Department is asking hundreds of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to temporarily return to help clear a backlog of cases.
www.usatoday.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The U.S. Department of Education has asked hundreds of employees it fired months ago to temporarily return to work. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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ICYMI: Chorus Edition (12/7) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters
ICYMI: Chorus Edition (12/7)
The CMO of the Institute (that’s Chief Marital Officer) sings in a community chorus because, among other reasons, she objectively has a voice much like that of an angel.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
ICYMI: Chorus Edition (12/7) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters
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“If you believe, as Ellison does, that Americans will be better off when they are subjected to ‘supervision at all times,’ then buying microvideo platforms, enterprise software, streaming services, cable networks, gaming developers, & internet publishers is just buying supervision capacity.”
The Ellisons Are Beta-Testing Big Brother.
If your feeds, subs, streams, games, and sports don't ensure you are on your "best behavior," your school and its EdTech partners will.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“If you believe, as Ellison does, that Americans will be better off when they are subjected to ‘supervision at all times,’ then buying microvideo platforms, enterprise software, streaming services, cable networks, gaming developers, & internet publishers is just buying supervision capacity.”
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Linda "A1" McMahon talked a lot about parents' rights.
But when she takes Turning Point ideas into public schools...she bars the parents from attending.
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But when she takes Turning Point ideas into public schools...she bars the parents from attending.
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Linda McMahon’s School Visit, Sponsored by Conservatives, Draws Protest
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December 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Linda "A1" McMahon talked a lot about parents' rights.
But when she takes Turning Point ideas into public schools...she bars the parents from attending.
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But when she takes Turning Point ideas into public schools...she bars the parents from attending.
[gift link]
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Butler County school districts ‘cautiously optimistic’ about cyber charter funding reform
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Butler County school districts ‘cautiously optimistic’ about cyber charter funding reform
Butler County school officials have long taken issue with how their districts’ tax dollars were bring directed away to cyber charter schools in large quantities.
Now, that the 2025-26 state budget, w...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Butler County school districts ‘cautiously optimistic’ about cyber charter funding reform
www.butlereagle.com/20251205/but...
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
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Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Staff at Alice Deal Middle School made the decision this year to remove all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum.
It's a mistake, current parent @aaronweso.bsky.social writes, arguing that "reading full novels has real and important benefits for middle school-age children and in life."
It's a mistake, current parent @aaronweso.bsky.social writes, arguing that "reading full novels has real and important benefits for middle school-age children and in life."
Opinion: DCPS middle-schoolers should be reading novels
Many parents like myself were shocked by a recent change to the English curriculum at Alice Deal Middle School.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Staff at Alice Deal Middle School made the decision this year to remove all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum.
It's a mistake, current parent @aaronweso.bsky.social writes, arguing that "reading full novels has real and important benefits for middle school-age children and in life."
It's a mistake, current parent @aaronweso.bsky.social writes, arguing that "reading full novels has real and important benefits for middle school-age children and in life."
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Jesus and I would like to remind you that literally no one has ever stopped anyone from saying 'Merry Christmas.’
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Jesus and I would like to remind you that literally no one has ever stopped anyone from saying 'Merry Christmas.’
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Jeffrey Yass, Pennsylvania’s richest man, details how school vouchers drive his massive political spending operation in rare interview with Washington Post share.inquirer.com/DDpFCY?utm_s... via @phillyinquirer
Jeffrey Yass, Pennsylvania’s richest man, details how school vouchers drive his massive political spending operation in rare interview with Washington Post
Jeffrey Yass shared details on the key motivation behind his political spending: school vouchers.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Jeffrey Yass, Pennsylvania’s richest man, details how school vouchers drive his massive political spending operation in rare interview with Washington Post share.inquirer.com/DDpFCY?utm_s... via @phillyinquirer
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I don't know whether "This will matter again someday" is meant to be seen as faintly hopeful or profoundly depressing
ICE agents beat up 16 year old American citizen on his way to school. Keep recording, folks!
This will matter again someday.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #FuckICE
This will matter again someday.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #FuckICE
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I don't know whether "This will matter again someday" is meant to be seen as faintly hopeful or profoundly depressing
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Y E S !
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In Defense of Snow Days
Inconvenient? Yep. Unpredictable? Sure. Disruptive? Yes. But a snow day is also a minor civic miracle, and we ought to treat it as such.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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Trickle down: Instead of a more general prosperity, we’ve now ended up w/ the greatest wealth & income inequality in the developed world; over $50 trillion was transferred over 44 years from the bottom 90% to the top 1%, where it remains to this day. hartmannreport.com/p/young-amer...
Young Americans Want a Reboot: Can They Build a Majority Big Enough to Overrule Big Money?
Expect a fight for healthcare access, debt relief, affordable housing, and a living wage that doesn’t require two full-time jobs…
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December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Trickle down: Instead of a more general prosperity, we’ve now ended up w/ the greatest wealth & income inequality in the developed world; over $50 trillion was transferred over 44 years from the bottom 90% to the top 1%, where it remains to this day. hartmannreport.com/p/young-amer...
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As usual, excellent perspective here from Peter Greene, check it out!
And pleased that we are on very same wavelength, he says the "dismantling" is "both a con and lie," I say it's "both the ruse and the caper": edlawprof.substack.com/p/ancient-di...
And pleased that we are on very same wavelength, he says the "dismantling" is "both a con and lie," I say it's "both the ruse and the caper": edlawprof.substack.com/p/ancient-di...
Trump Is Not Sending Education Back To The States
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Trump Is Not Sending Education Back To The States
The continued dismantling of the federal Department of Education is both a con and a lie, one more piece of a quilt of patchwork policies all built around a simple idea-- some people are better than o...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
As usual, excellent perspective here from Peter Greene, check it out!
And pleased that we are on very same wavelength, he says the "dismantling" is "both a con and lie," I say it's "both the ruse and the caper": edlawprof.substack.com/p/ancient-di...
And pleased that we are on very same wavelength, he says the "dismantling" is "both a con and lie," I say it's "both the ruse and the caper": edlawprof.substack.com/p/ancient-di...
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Thanks to @pbump.com for pointing it out.
Are they Nazis? Maybe, but there is a much closer parallel that carries just as much weight and is much closer to home:
Are they Nazis? Maybe, but there is a much closer parallel that carries just as much weight and is much closer to home:
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Thanks to @pbump.com for pointing it out.
Are they Nazis? Maybe, but there is a much closer parallel that carries just as much weight and is much closer to home:
Are they Nazis? Maybe, but there is a much closer parallel that carries just as much weight and is much closer to home:
The Oklahoma State Uni paper assignment looks, to this English teaching vet, like a classic "Write something that proves to me that you actually read the assigned reading," and on that mark, the student totally failed. 1/
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Oklahoma State Uni paper assignment looks, to this English teaching vet, like a classic "Write something that proves to me that you actually read the assigned reading," and on that mark, the student totally failed. 1/
FL: Schools of Hope and Charter Property Grab
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FL: Schools of Hope and Charter Property Grab
Florida is implementing a whole new way for charter schools to hoover up taxpayer dollars.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
FL: Schools of Hope and Charter Property Grab
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Glenn Beck's Patriotic AI Zombie
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Glenn Beck's Patriotic AI Zombie
Well, something like this was inevitable.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Glenn Beck's Patriotic AI Zombie
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As we approach the 10th anniversary of this report:
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
As we approach the 10th anniversary of this report:
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"What to Do with PragerU? Challenging a Biased Curriculum"
How, with a little bit of collaborative resistance and creative insubordination, teachers can use disciplinary tools to critically examine the deficiencies and biases of bad curriculum:
publicationsncte.org/content/jour... #K12 #NCTE
How, with a little bit of collaborative resistance and creative insubordination, teachers can use disciplinary tools to critically examine the deficiencies and biases of bad curriculum:
publicationsncte.org/content/jour... #K12 #NCTE
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"What to Do with PragerU? Challenging a Biased Curriculum"
How, with a little bit of collaborative resistance and creative insubordination, teachers can use disciplinary tools to critically examine the deficiencies and biases of bad curriculum:
publicationsncte.org/content/jour... #K12 #NCTE
How, with a little bit of collaborative resistance and creative insubordination, teachers can use disciplinary tools to critically examine the deficiencies and biases of bad curriculum:
publicationsncte.org/content/jour... #K12 #NCTE