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Mike
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Husband 💍, Musician, Teacher, Teacher Educator, Researcher, Runner, Child of God, right in GOD’S HANDS. Assoc. Prof. of MusEd. Views my own.
EXCERPT FROM TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL MATERIALS FROM YOUVERSION:
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“Schools often justify tech purchases with glowing stories of success. You might hear about a class in Charlotte, North Carolina, using iPads to clean a river, or students in Topeka, Kansas, coding an app that saved a local business.

“Unfortunately, anecdotes aren’t evidence.” (3/3) Link below:
December 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“This isn’t about scrapping computers from schools; it’s about restoring rigor to the classroom. It isn’t a battle over tools; it’s a battle over values. It’s a battle over what kind of people we want our children to become.” (2/3)

www.thefp.com/p/we-gave-st...
We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains
Decades of data show a clear pattern: The more schools digitize, the worse students perform, writes Jared Cooney Horvath.
www.thefp.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
[Quoted on page 15 of “Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism,” by Eve L. Ewing (2025)]
(2/2)
November 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM