Families Ask Supreme Court To Reject Texas Law That Requires Ten Commandments Classroom Displays
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"AI Companies Do Not Care At All About Writing."
You may not have been paying close attention to the noise surrounding the news that Anthropic has tweaked its text-extruding LLM Claude so that it will now extrude text strings with “watermarks.” But the whole business is worth a moment of your attention.
AI And The Centaur In The Classroom
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Shock Gloves Used On Students
We had barely had a chance to register outrage over the plan to spend $20 million taxpayer dollars on shock gloves for ICE (so they can be more abusive in less obvious and photographable ways) when the news dropped that Omaha public middle and high schools are already
TX: DEI and National Board Certification
Texas previously created an incentive program for National Board Certification of Teachers, complete with $$ “reimbursement” for districts, but it may scuttle that because of scary DEI.
ICYMI: Breathless Edition (8/15)
I swear-- I’ll be back up to speed soon.
Federal Voucher Money Will Not Go To Public Schools
Why that distinction matters
More Excuses for Screens in Schools
No, ISTE didn't apologize
ICYMI: Lakeside Edition (8/9)
The Institute continues its remote operation this week, so output is down a bit.
Covid-19: Once Upon a Time...
Lord knows I don’t really want to revisit those halcyon days of 2020, but we are apparently going to be subjected repeatedly to fantastic tale of What Happened iBack Then The rough outline goes something like this:
Teaching and the $1.98 Porsche
One of the most widely read pieces I ever wrote was a piece for Forbes about the need to stop talking about a “teacher shortage,” which incuded this paragraph.
ICYMI: Down East Edition (8/2)
The Board of Directors, CMO, and I are currently operating from the Maine field office, an annual adventure completre with woods, water, a little ocean, and other rebalancing team building exercises designed to increase our synergistic effciiencies with extreme fidelity and also fried clams and devil dogs.
The Bad Administrator Matrix
Teach long enough and you learn that it’s a mistake after the announcement of a change in administration, “Well, at least it can’t get any worse.” It can always get worse.