Did you know there’s a bilingual version of Aladdin with a plot twist? It premiered in Texas in 2005 and brought the community to tears. open.substack.com/pub/taragarc...

I have been fuming over the TPUSA "All-American" halftime alternative to Bad Bunny's performance for awhile now. So I wrote about it. Come for the rant, stay for the history and the kid art! ;)

Care about #bilingualeducation or #equity in #education? What about #EnglishLearners or #EmergentBilinguals? Sign up for my newsletter, The Future is Bilingual. It's free! taragarciam.substack.com/p/whats-this...

It has been 5 years since I stopped writing the Future of Learning newsletter at @hechingerreport.org. Time to dive back in, but this time writing about bilingual education! Check out my new, self-published newsletter, The Future is Bilingual, and subscribe: taragarciam.substack.com/p/whats-this...

Last year, I reported on how high schoolers were kept from much of the internet because of overactive web filters/blockers. As you might imagine, prison education contexts are even more restricted. calmatters.org/education/hi...

There are serious social capital implications of #chatbot use for #college students. Students are already inclined to avoid asking for help. When chatbots make it even easier, they lose opportunities to build connections that lead to long-term success: calmatters.org/education/hi...

Congress already approved K-12 spending for 2025 and schools budgeted around it, but the Trump Administration isn't releasing more than $6 billion it owes districts -- all aimed at programs it wants to zero out in 2026. calmatters.org/education/k-...

"But honest students are caught in the crossfire of an arms race between technology that mimics human speech and technology that claims to identify it." #AI #Turnitin #highered #ChatGPT calmatters.org/education/hi...

"Turnitin tries to make the gray area of academic dishonesty into something black-and-white, and many faculty members drive demand, searching for the promise of algorithmic accuracy."

There are so many problematic things about Turnitin use in higher education it's hard to even write a headline. Can you just read the whole story? themarkup.org/artificial-i...

There are not enough school counselors for kids to get the college and career advising they need. But my latest story for @themarkup.org and @calmatters.org examines the downsides of turning to #AI #chatbots: themarkup.org/machine-lear...

The Center for Democracy & Technology has new survey data showing the scope and scale of online censorship in schools. I spoke with a student in Northern California who said her Spanish class was recently derailed because Telemundo was unexpectedly blocked. themarkup.org/digital-book...

Gracias al Diario Sin Límites por invitarme a hablar acerca de la educación bilingüe en California en su podcast! Escucha aquí: citylimits.org/2025/01/13/p...

Escúchame hoy en Radio Bilingüe a las 12:30 PST/3:30 EST. Estaremos hablando acerca de la educación bilingüe en California, que investigué para CalMatters. En vivo: radio.radiobilingue.org.

California is the nation's most linguistically diverse state. Fully 60% of kids younger than 6 speak a language other than English at home. Yet California banned bilingual education from 1998-2016 and it is far from recovered. Read my in-depth story here: calmatters.org/education/k-...

I joined The Cyber|Show to discuss online censorship in K-12 schools and what I found in my "Digital Book Banning" investigation. Check it out: cybershow.uk/episodes.php...

An English teacher wanted her students to compare Emily Dickinson's letters and poetry. An athletic trainer wanted to create an exercise regimen for a high schooler. The sites they needed were blocked. Students aren't the only ones stymied by overzealous web filtering: themarkup.org/digital-book...

In their own words: see what students have to say about running into blocked websites at school. From my latest investigation for The Markup. themarkup.org/digital-book...

You've heard of book bans. In schools, the digital version can happen under the radar. And sometimes the online blocking is political: I found districts censoring abortion information, sex ed and LGBTQ+ resources -- including suicide prevention. My latest! themarkup.org/digital-book...