“At the beginning of April, the conservative-dominated North Carolina Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of equitable education funding in the state.” www.liberalcurrents.com/equal-on-pap...
The thing is, even in an environment of uncapped "parent choice" 90% of Iowa parents are choosing to send their kid to public schools.
After years of reflecting similar demographic changes as their public counterparts, Iowa's private schools are now *much* whiter as a direct result of taxpayer funded vouchers for private education.
21st century segregation academies.
Who could've possibly seen this coming?
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.
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"The share of students with a special education plan, known as an I.E.P., is more than four times higher in the city's public schools than it is in Xavier's schools...Cedar Rapids' public schools aren't just losing students who can leave, they're becoming a refuge for those who can't." 🤔
Huh:
"Part of the problem is that Iowa's private schools have been raising their prices, according to research out of Princeton University. A new, unpublished update, which researchers shared with NPR, found that, by the program's third year, ESAs had led to a roughly 40% increase in tuition."
"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."
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What’s the best book/article/essay people have read about teaching writing? Am working on something and I’m curious what others have read that have shaped the way they think about their work—can be practical, theoretical, even only tangentially related to pedagogy.
Oh that is awesome. Did you hear our latest podcast episode about Montessori?? First time we've done a deep dive on it.
I thought Cruelster kinda stole the show last night, too. No idea who they were but the energy and humor was incredible.
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So funny. We're working with OV and RP teams this week so we'll be around town. I'll keep an eye out.
And dude, the sound was incredible.👏👏👏
WHAT! I was wearing a long sleeve Unto Others shirt! I've always wanted to go to one of these at Rake and when the stars aligned while I was in town I had to do it. Shockingly great venue.
Poison Ruin playing "Eidolon" at Rake Brewing Project in Muskegon, Michigan. 10/10 show.
this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990
Thread! This is one of many reasons I'm resisting teaching LLMs in school. My job isn't to teach kids how to use a specific product, it's to teach them transferable research and critical thinking skills.
Imagine an apprenticeship where the tools didn't reflect anything you were expected to be able to do on the job. That's what the Fisher-Price-ification of EdTech is doing to digital tools in school.
As a result, teachers and students alike face a steep learning curve for anything that isn't small enough to run on a Chromebook, which is just about any actually useful thing that is worth having a program to do!
EdTech sucks for so many reasons, not the least of which is that it traps teachers & students in an ecosystem where tools & skills aren't compatible or transferable to non-school contexts. And it's *so hard* to put those two ecosystems in communication with one another!
That doesn't mean throw every computer out the window, it means a conscientious alignment between tools and pedagogies. That has ALWAYS been the mission, but a "tools-first" approach displaced thoughtful pedagogical considerations.
Right? I-Ready, Kahoot, etc. have ALWAYS been poor tools at odds with good teaching. We don't need grifters like Horvath to claim that computers are making our kids dumb. No, the infiltration of corporate interests has always been bad!
There's a nostalgia/romanticization (derogatory) of "real/authentic" education being entirely analog, a call for a return to "traditional" pedagogies that *also* alienated and disengaged students. The worst of edtech encompassed poor tools in serve of poor pedagogies!
Right? I-Ready, Kahoot, etc. have ALWAYS been poor tools at odds with good teaching. We don't need grifters like Horvath to claim that computers are making our kids dumb. No, the infiltration of corporate interests has always been bad!
Where was this article years ago when my students were complaining cause I was one of the few teachers who never used kahoots cause I thought they were shite.
I had my master's in Ed, but 95% of my classroom approach was based on common senses / "the smell test" and that always stunk.
There's a nostalgia/romanticization (derogatory) of "real/authentic" education being entirely analog, a call for a return to "traditional" pedagogies that *also* alienated and disengaged students. The worst of edtech encompassed poor tools in serve of poor pedagogies!
Teaching kids how to, say, use AV equipment and Adobe Premiere to record and edit a student documentary or learning functions on Google Sheets isn't less of a "real education" than copying lecture notes by hand.
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