LAUSD to vote on restricting student screen time, after years of encouraging classroom use Years of investment and struggle resulted in school computers for every student. A new push in LAUSD would limit screen time, citing harms to students.

LAUSD to vote on restricting student screen time, after years of encouraging classroom use // www.latimes.com/california/s...

Great piece! Seeing it going around a lot.

One thing education leaders should know is that AI products are designed for business but are being used by students for learning. This causes problems.

Haha I don’t think it will either, really, but “everything is fucked, period” is unfortunately a tough commentary to place.

@edsource.org

COMMENTARY: AI in schools could be a disaster, but it doesn’t have to be We need leaders at all levels — but especially at the state level where policy is usually made — to offer districts clearer support and guidelines about appropriate and inappropriate uses.

My newest, at @edsource.org--I really worry about the impact of AI on k-12 schools. Here, I talk about my concern, drawing on our recent survey data, and offer a couple ideas for what leaders can do to support educators and reduce the risks of disaster edsource.org/2026/ai-revo...

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

A picture of the snowman at the Zurich parade

The snowman. Little does he know his head will explode tomorrow.

Tomorrow the snowman will burn in effigy and the time it takes for the head to explode (it’s packed with dynamite) is an indication of how the summer will be.

If there is anything better than being in a European city when some random parade happens, I don’t know what it is. Today’s Zurich parade is thousands of children in adorable historical costumes escorting a giant snowman across town.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

I think the real problem this post highlights is the perverse incentives that exist for scholars who create their own educational materials or consulting firms to put their thumb on the scale of the evidence behind their products / viewpoints. I see this all the time in the private ed sector as well

How Teachers Can Judge the Credibility of Research (Opinion) As a teacher, your time is limited. Don't waste it on programs that only serve the interest of the companies selling them.

Look, causal inference studies can be good or bad regardless of where the person who produced it works, what field their degree is in, and whether they have a PhD. You have to actually look at what they did. There are no shortcuts.

www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Totally agree on that!

Indeed, and the folks amplifying this particular piece are not exactly humble in the face of the unknown lol.

'We've lost our way': Clifton's operator gives up on downtown Los Angeles The proprietor of Los Angeles' legendary Clifton's has given up on reopening the shuttered venue.

'We've lost our way': Clifton's operator gives up on downtown Los Angeles

Someone wanna email me this article so I can work on a debunk? I’m writing a whole-ass book about how we can use the good evidence we already have to improve education through policy, so the idea that there is no good education research is laughable (just gotta know where to look).

I can’t read the paywalled article but using critiques of Jo Boaler to attack all of quantitative education research is nonsense. There is tons of excellent education research, experimental and quasi experimental. And our knowledge of what works has grown dramatically in recent years as a result.

bugs bunny and daffy duck are standing next to a sign that says duck rabbit on it ALT: bugs bunny and daffy duck are standing next to a sign that says duck rabbit on it

strait of hormuz update

The President vs. the Pope vs. the Slop Messiah Sixteen burning questions about Trump, AI Jesus, and JD Vance attempting to correct the pope on matters of Catholic theology

“Irony, in contemporary politics, is sincerity’s Trojan horse” is, regrettably, a fantastic line in @brianphillips.lol’s recent Ringer article about Trump v Pope: the Sloppening

(Regrettably because of the times that make the line true)

www.theringer.com/2026/04/17/p...

I have always wondered about this precise question! Will definitely cite this.

The argument for destroying the two-party system of the United States and our form of legally permissible bribery, in two succinct paragraphs.

PACE - Unpacking California's Chronic Absence Crisis through 2024–25 Nearly 5 years after the COVID-19 pandemic, chronic absence remains far too high, both nationally and in California. Left unaddressed, chronic absence—defined as missing 10 percent or more of school f...

The rate of progress in solving California's absenteeism crisis is slowing, and levels remain far above pre-COVID levels. Absenteeism is especially prevalent and harmful in schools serving the most underserved kids. New @edpolicyinca.org research.

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Played an absolutely crazy complicated mafia-style game for the first time with a bunch of German PhD students and postdocs and of course got assigned the main murderer role. I came THIS close to pulling it off but they finally got me on the last turn. Should be on the traitors.

cool. cool cool cool cool

www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/soci...

Teachers aren’t worse—the job is harder than ever “If teachers can’t manage student behavior today, they must be worse than they used to be.” It’s a claim I’ve heard often, particularly from people who have never worked in a school. As a former teach...

One of my hobby horses remains that we have stop making teachers' jobs harder, so this resonates (even if the practicalities of improving school discipline are a wee bit harder than is indicated here) fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

It's been so long since Twitter I forgot you can mute words on here, too.

Has there ever been a more mutable word than Clavicular?

Don't follow Arizona's example. End universal vouchers now | Opinion Arizona has shown the nation what universal vouchers do to public schools. It's time to put our money toward all students and that's in public school.

Want to see how messy the politics of school vouchers are for Dems? Here's likely 2028 candidate Mark Kelly on what a disaster vouchers have been for Arizona. Meanwhile, pro-voucher Dems are in Mass. today to push Gov. Maura Healey to sign onto Trump's voucher plan www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

Pile of pretzels

It’s a good thing when education policy ideas can garner big, bipartisan constituencies. Such reforms are more durable, widespread, and amenable to reflective, iterative updating. We should pursue and celebrate them.

But…

1/5

This has got to be some weird insider trading scam