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On one of the social media platforms I visit, there was a set of threads recently on the science of reading and three-cuing, a now-disdained prompt for early readers having difficulty with a word. As I understand it, three-cuing is a set of three prompts to guess the word. I’m not a fan of encouraging […]
The AFT’s initiative on LLMs, and teachers’
In my social media feeds recently, I’ve seen debate over the decision by the American Federation of Teachers to partner with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to open a National Academy for AI Instruction. The July 8 press release describes the goal as “a national model for AI-integrated curriculum and teaching that puts educators in the driver’s seat.” […]
Educational broadcasting history project update
A little more than five years ago, I traveled with my then-student Wooyeong Kim to the University of Maryland’s Hornbake Library. The archive there has thousands of feet of shelved material on the American history of broadcasting, much of it on public broadcasting, and we spent the entire week in the papers of the Children’s […]
American education is a tilted ecology
In his presidential address to the (U.S.) History of Education Society, Ben Justice pitched his argument that schooling has historically been a white good. Further, he wrote, the extent to which schooling has served the public interest has been the result of explicit efforts to counter white supremacy, led by non-white activism. ((Justice’s address is […]
What we can learn from a half-century of federal special education reform (part 3)
In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I described the five factors that shaped the past half-century of education reform focused on the rights and needs of individuals with disabilities: politics, deliberately designed policies and practices, history, emergent patterns of practices, and policy feedback. These factors can help explain some puzzles about this […]