🚨New working paper alert! 🚨
The US spends huge $ on special education services for students with disabilities. Is that spending effective?
Today we released a working paper suggesting it is.
"Special Education Substantially Improves Learning: Evidence from Three States"
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The Archives of Michigan introduced me to DocScan Pro which lets you size photos on your phone, save as pdf, name according to your system, and export to cloud storage
I'm gearing up to teach Ed Law, which I last taught 2 yrs ago. I can't believe how much there is to update. I knew this of course, but it's still smacking me in the face just how radical the current SCOTUS is. Is precedent even a thing anymore?
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
Zohran’s key communications staffer has multiple history degrees…pretty good alt-ac career path
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scroll down to the reviews…he’s a libertarian
Today is the official publication day for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS!! 🏠🥳🎉
For the next month, Penn is offering a discount of 40% off using the code UHA25. Which brings the price down to $20.97. A screaming deal!
www.pennpress.org/978151282822...
Defense contractors used canned curriculum and pay-for-performance contracts in Indiana and Texas K-12 schools a decade earlier—Amy Offner has written about this. The technology came from liberals in the Johnson administration as well as conservatives in the Tennessee legislature
Redistricting was the labor movement’s preferred remedy for unequal school tax bases in the 1960s. What’s old is new! 🙃
About 70 moms and dads gathered Tuesday at Alpha School in the Marina District to hear a sales pitch for why they should drop $75,000 a year per kid on an education that sounds like the plot line of a “Black Mirror” episode. Alpha School’s promise is bold and not backed by evidence: Just two hours of academic work per day, with the rest of the day spent developing “life skills,” from building a sailboat to managing an AirBnB to traveling internationally. The school’s founders, podcaster MacKenzie Price and her tech executive husband, Andrew, make incredible claims, such as that Alpha students learn 10 times faster than those in traditional education — with the use of AI only. One mother asked the K-8 school’s principal, the Trilogy Software founder, investor, and multibillionaire Joe Liemandt, how children can learn virtues and values from a computer.
Now *this* is how to do reporting on the latest for-profit edtech-AI snake oil outfit to promise hyperaccelerated learning through fully surveillant clasrooms and teacherless schooling all the way to big investor injections of capital and raids on families' incomes sfstandard.com/2025/09/19/a...
Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...
What is the Philly source?
This is bad. Tenure has never provided as much security as faculty assume and administrators have often violated the norms of shared governance on program closures. Worse, admins have often weaponized closures for political/personal purposes. Even considering that, this seems brazen.
It has always been terribly wrong.
The central question of school reformers in the US has rarely been, "How can we make this better for everyone?"
It has often been, "How can we make this cheaper?"
...from child-teachers to "edTV" to Summit, reformers have always avoided paying teachers.
And the 20 year olds take out loans to pay tuition and living costs because they’re too busy to work for money the semester they student teach. My PA students often have so many courses to take for certification they student teach in their fifth year
www.juliakuo.com/portfolio/i-... This great children’s book teaches Wong Kim Ark’s story to elementary school students
School shootings aren’t a gun issue; they’re a mental health issue. Here’s why we’re cutting $1 billion in funding for student mental health.
by Donald Trump and Elon Musk
Sticker for May Day parade starting at Ferry and Russell in Detroit, with a drawing of a big tank labeled "Ford" firing multiple cannons at picketing workers. Printed by the United Front May Day Committee.
Sticker for 1932 Detroit #MayDay parade. Printed 5 years before the @uaw.org formed and in the aftermath of the Ford Hunger March massacre, it speaks to the violence autoworkers endured to unionize their industry. From the Joe Brown Papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
I teach at a teacher prep program nearby and shockingly preservice teachers assigned to the school for field courses went back a week after charges were announced
Schools don’t need AI to make teachers machine tenders. I keep trying to sub social studies in Philly and the middle school students are just doing iReady
Students are asking for a short piece on the history of feminization in teaching. Are there any you like?
Why would MS and LA and OH be models for MA etc.?
Beginning teachers take a few years to memorize the curriculum and experiment with the lessons that work best for their students. If a school retains teachers then no individual student learns from *only* beginning teachers.
Different lessons, same point about technology changing work. Pedagogy is the *art* and science of teaching.
There’s a difference between script and curriculum. Teachers might teach industrial growth by having students wrap math cubes like a Hershey’s kiss then play a video about the history of automation OR they might have students sort coal from slate then share pictures of the mechanical coal picker.
19th c. administrators dreamed of knowing what each teacher taught every minute of the day according to historian David Tyack
William J. Reese’s America’s Public Schools surveys the 19th century common school movement. Workingmen’s parties of the 1830s wanted high quality public schools. Bruce Dorsey wrote about the Philadelphia bible riots of 1844.
How are you going to approach the 19th c. ethno-religious school conflicts that often mapped into political parties—Whigs, Know Nothings etc.
I brought up these scripts today with my preservice teacher students and they were all horrified. They don’t want to be robots. They’re also offended when people imply they’re too dumb to teach
