I think there are still some MOOC bits left at the bottom of those gutters in case anyone is looking for a cutting-edge hi-tech college investment....😆

Kang quotes Sam Altman, Tyler Cowen, Bryan Caplan, and Scott Galloway as legitimate "thinkers" about higher education. 🤦‍♂️

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

If Dem leaders are still so far behind the curve— or so deep in big tech's pockets— they think their youngest current & future voters are interested in/can be grifted on "harness[ing] the power of AI," I genuinely despair. Try "understanding the functioning & limitations or, & alternatives to," bro

I think my most capital C Conservative position is that 'edtech' is almost always an expensive con that distracts us from what we know works best in education and that there really is absolutely no harm in a classroom looking broadly the same as it did 20 years ago most of the time.

Deliberate deliteracy.

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

I talked to NPR for this story about the recent screen-time bans/limits in schools, and the policy brief I co-authored last fall that’s been cited in several of the legal filings. The full brief is here: nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...

"But the question itself is a fair one. Where are the protests? The real answer isn’t that students decided to shut up. It’s that universities, and a hostile federal government, have expended massive resources trying to ensure they do." @hurwitz.bsky.social

I've joked about the possibility of human experts ending up being the better *and* the cheaper option to LLMs, but I also kind of meant it.

Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Households receiving school vouchers have no income test. That means a household with an income of $1 million / year receives a school voucher, no questions asked. That's one of the biggest problems of the program (among many others).

I don't know why we accept the opinions of people who exclusively work developing software as having insights into the broader world of "work." In the fields I know best (teaching/writing) when they say AI can do this, I know they're wrong. A simulation of the thing is not the thing.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

My university administrators censored a student who put “environmental justice” and “communities disproportionately affected by climate change” on an Earth Day flyer. I really have no words to express my anger and disappointment anymore

Y'all would not believe some of the ways business schools have uncritically adopted chatbots

This is the result of decades of organizing in the conservative legal community that’s been allowed to flourish in plain sight as anything but a committed ideological movement.

Here’s to caregiver-educator coalitions against Big Tech! And as @alliethrall.bsky.social and I begin analyzing survey responses for our caregiver edtech resistance study, we’re seeing some caregivers attuned to building relationships *with* teachers rather than seeing them as adversaries.

Just a reminder that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was called, "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

In the Civil Rights Movement, support structures for activists "ranged from employing those observers at marches to compiling lists of potential marchers who needed babysitters. There was little spontaneous about the civil rights movement, and that was a good thing."

happy publication day @lollardfish.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social 🎂

Do we need another essay from an Ivy League professor blaming the problems in Higher Ed on the faculty? Yes, the Chronicle editors said. Here’s two! Not only are we enabling Trump by neglecting our duty to educate citizens, they say, but we are too old. They know little about what we really do.

“Not only did ASU allegedly not communicate to its academic community that their lectures would be spliced up and cannibalized by an AI platform, but the resulting modules are just bad.”

Today's Teaching in Higher Ed is all about rubrics, grading, and student writing. They're learning about ungrading, and rubric design and evaluating students' writing in the age of "AI" so they're listening to this: teachinginhighered.com/podcast/564-...

Academic Freedom* *Warranty void if product is used to challenge systems of privilege and power.

It’s almost as if the existing evidence suggests teachers should refuse GenAI. See this paper from Melissa Warr and Marie K. Heath: "Findings reveal that LLMs exhibit implicit biases, such as assigning lower scores when students are said to attend an 'inner-city school' or prefer rap music."

so many people who don't read for pleasure have control over what and how children learn to read

If I were a Democrat trying to make some headway in Utah, I might point out that Trump put someone in a key decision-making role who blithely dismissed the safety of 3.5 million Utah residents, and joked about how no one lives there.

Check out my Author's Corner Interview for Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School thewayofimprovement.blog/2026/04/23/t... #history #education #histed #Charlottesville #highschool @ugapress.bsky.social @aeradivf-history.bsky.social

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

“There was never clarity on how those dollars were spent or allocated...There has been more of a conscious effort over the last 12 to 24 months not to be transparent on the financials.” www.cityweekly.net/news/parents... #utpol #uted #vouchers #utah #privateschools

“There was never clarity on how those dollars were spent or allocated...There has been more of a conscious effort over the last 12 to 24 months not to be transparent on the financials.” www.cityweekly.net/news/parents... #utpol #uted #vouchers #utah #privateschools

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

Hey, Charlottesville friends!!!

Check out my Author's Corner Interview for Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School thewayofimprovement.blog/2026/04/23/t... #history #education #histed #Charlottesville #highschool @ugapress.bsky.social @aeradivf-history.bsky.social

Salt Lake City has almost twice as many registered Dems as Republicans. But for decades, the districts have been drawn to each take a slice of the city and suburbs. Utah democrats have suffered for years without any representation in Congress despite controlling the state’s population center.

First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you. Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.

I'm glad to see that my book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School (@ugapress.bsky.social), made it to @oah.org, even if I'm not able to be there. If you haven't gotten your copy, then go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037532...

So you're telling me the vouchers didn't actually expand access to private schools, but instead helped line the pockets of these schools? I'm shocked.

They also served as a nice little tax payer hand out to the Republican donor class.

That's wonderful to hear. Thanks for the support!

So you're telling me the vouchers didn't actually expand access to private schools, but instead helped line the pockets of these schools? I'm shocked.

#edhist #history #education #protest #pedagogy

I'm glad to see that my book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School (@ugapress.bsky.social), made it to @oah.org, even if I'm not able to be there. If you haven't gotten your copy, then go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037532...

Since when have they not??? Clinton and Obama were big fans. Democrats, It’s Time to Embrace School Choice www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

I've seen this way too often lately.