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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["School of Public Pedagogies — Contexts, Collectives and Action

Public Pedagogies Institute
Interconnecting public, learning and research

Public Pedagogies Institute (PPI) aims to provide a platform for engagement and exchange between practitioners, researchers and organisations working in the areas of learning and teaching in the community or outside formal education institutions.

You can subscribe to our free newsletter below. You can also connect with us on facebook and twitter.

About the Institute

The Institute developed following the 2014 Public Pedagogies Day at Victoria University and has drawn together people from a range of disciplines and locations locally and globally.

We aim to increase the profile of work being done in the area of Public Pedagogies, as well as provide an opportunity for connections to be made between community members and researchers who are interested in collaborating on projects.

Public Pedagogies Institute  works in partnership with communities to develop and promote learning and teaching opportunities outside conventional educational contexts. Ideas for projects are generated from community,  with  academics  working  alongside community groups to foster and expand research partnerships.

A focus of the Institute is the development of an annual conference and Journal.

The Institute is open to new members and is interested in hearing from anyone who would like to become involved with our projects."

[via:

https://www.publicpedagogies.org/news/call-for-submissions/

"School of Public Pedagogies — Contexts, Collectives and Action

Wednesdays, 10.00am-12.00pm (AEST)
October 14 – November 18, 2026

The Public Pedagogies Institute is inviting submissions to present at our 2026 online seminar series: Contexts, Collectives and Action.

The theme for the series is Collectives, both in practice and through representation. What do collective formations offer the public as a way of organising? What are the elements that make up a collective? What are the challenges in actualising collectives and what are the hopes generated through imaginings?  

If you are interested in hosting a session as a part of the School of Public Pedagogies, the seminars will take place online once per week on Wednesdays – beginning Wednesday, October 14 through to Wednesday, November 18.  Each session will be two hours with two people taking carriage of an hour each. The time is 10.00am-12.00pm (AEST).

Contributors will also be invited to submit an abstract for a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Public Pedagogies. 

Please send your proposals to Karen.Charman@vu.edu.au by Monday August 24.
Notes on Collectives

We recently invited members of the Public Pedagogies Institute to submit some notes on collectives to stimulate ideas for the upcoming seminar series, which we have provided below.

The term ‘collective’ as an organising principle has a long history.  Associated with political groups and informed by ideas of egalitarianism, collectives offer another way of undertaking ‘work’ that is informed by egalitarian principles and enacted in ways that are non-hierarchical. By their nature to be egalitarian and non-hierarchical they must interrogate their own composition to address power dynamics and to establish the terms through which they will work. Democratic imperatives in education (Freire 1971, Dewey 1990) are closely aligned with collectivist modes in that there is an aim on behalf of the educator to bring students together to be active participants in both the school and ultimately in the broader society. They also provide fertile ground for questioning, advocacy and reassessing shared values in perpetuity.

Collective plurality is also a condition for political and philosophical realisations (Arendt 1952). Feminist collectives have formed at different times in history in an ongoing challenge or dismantling of patriarchy to address the needs of women. Worker’s collectives have initiated structures whereby profits are shared that challenge the quintessential concept of self-interest in capitalism. Collectives constitute ways of imagining that move us beyond what we now term as neo-liberalism. Larger ways of organising societies have been illustrated through configurations of collectives whether this be in practice or through representation in film, fiction or theatre such as French film makers of the 1930’s, Socialist Realist writers of the same era alongside the ‘New Theatre’ in Australia. More contemporary iterations are collective arts groups who work to realise projects in public settings as well as collectives that meet together to generate social change.

Some community and participant-led research also values the collective over either the individual or hierarchical structure, bringing the questioning of the political act of the distribution of power into the creative and empowering process. This is often done with the realisation that empowerment is not a gift that can be given by others but is act against oppression and is best facilitated by fostering and seeking out collectives, with shared values and experiences.

The idea of collective, collective action, and collectivity when looked from the perspective of a rebellion against the dominant hegemonic system very often tend to overlook the idea of the hegemonic as also the collectives of the individuals (who represent the same idea). The status quo or the shared, consensus values that inform our everyday lives are themselves governed by a kind of silent collective, There is a need for exploration of the meanings of what the term collective may entail. The idea of the collective and the ones which are rebelled against are not fragmented and are a result and part of the process of the same system. Each individual in a group/collective is a representative of complexities of ideas and a result of the processes exposed to different ideas and situations.

The idea of the circles is the representation of different groups of people working on different ideas as collectives they are also the representations of the different populations having different interests. As a result, each group is a set of different ideas and individuals with different interests and intentions. Hence a collective as not a homogenous group rather a mix of complexities of ideas, interests, connections, situations, geographies, demography, ideologies, and temporality. 

Therefore, there is a need to explore the idea of collective from different perspective of being; 

1) Positive vs negative: how one defines positive and negative is also as situated in the positionality of the individual, the temporal situation and the larger idea of society in relation of what is excepted, not excepted, ideas of equality, justice, equity and access);  

2) Existence of hierarchies: the collective actions as lead by people, individuals, or groups. The constitution of groups as also hegemonic powers and people, and may have hierarchies within a group; 

3) Intentional and organic: how different groups are formed: just as a result of being situated in a space or as a result of intentionally working for a cause and taking actions (irrespective of whether people like or dislike, agree with each other on some idea and situation), the idea of people working together as a result of the intentionality of the state or institutions; 

4) Ephemeral: the groups may come together and dissolve over time with different reasons; 

5) Process (constant change, evolution and connected progression, and circling back to the same idea and not necessarily always in a linear form at times in an entangled and nonlinear form): the ideas of the different groups may evolve, dissolve, and change with time and as result the formation of collectives also lead to further bifurcations, change in groups, and formation of different groups. 

There is also the shadow side of “collectivity”. We should bear in mind that as other concepts/terms in social organisation have been abused (such as republic), Collective has been hi-jacked at different times throughout history for different political purposes. This shadow side of collectives also occurs in  contemporary times where social movements can be orchestrated or used for destructive purposes. So, values are fundamental to understanding collectivity and collective work in community development. The work cannot be separated from the values. That’s why process is important and why reflection is important. The phenomenon of group think, group bullying, group shaming, group scapegoating are interesting experiences of the dark side of collectivity. 

The common environmentalist cliche “Think globally, act locally” also evokes collectives and signals the importance of collective action at local levels. So, there is the possibility of the relevance of collectives to social and other circumstances on the ground. 

Lastly collective memory—instances of history that have been memorialised or in more recent times contested.  The dismantling of monuments; social history museums and the work of Monument Lab https://monumentlab.com all attest to a reconsideration of collective memorialisation.  The most recent special issue of the Journal of Public Pedagogies (no 8 2026) is focussed on the public pedagogical formations of history. One of the prompts for this issue was what pedagogical responsibilities do we as communities have to bring a public into a relationship with the past and what might the public contours of this relationship look like?"]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Atlantic has pronounced that “The End of Reading is Here,” the latest in a long series of stories, there and elsewhere, that lament that no one -- but specifically no student -- reads anymore. They don’t read; they can’t read.

When I say “long series,” I really do mean long. In 2024, The Atlantic published a piece on “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.” More than a century earlier -- quite early in the history of public education in this country, to be clear, as well as in The Atlantic’s own existence – the magazine’s writers were wringing their hands with similar concerns: “Does the system of education in our common schools give the pupils a taste for good literature or much power of discrimination?” Charles Dudley Warner asked in 1890. “Do they come out of school with the habit of continuous reading, of reading books, or only of picking up scraps in the newspapers, as they might snatch a hasty meal at a lunch counter? What, in short, do the schools contribute to the creation of a taste for good literature?”

It sure seems that as long as we’ve believed everyone should read, we’ve fretted that everyone doesn’t (or at least The Atlantic sure has worried) -- they don’t read enough, and even if they do, they don’t read the right kinds of material.

We’re probably always right to worry a little – and maybe even worry a lot. Reading has been foundational for how we learn things, and not just how we learn “facts” and how we acquire “knowledge,” but how we learn about one another. The novel, in particular, grants the reader profound access to someone else’s interiority. “While reading, we can leave our own consciousness, and pass over into the consciousness of another person, another age, another culture,” Maryanne Wolf writes in Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. Reading builds understanding and empathy – to others’ lives, others’ identities, others’ arguments and expression. And no doubt, it’s what often feels like an utter dissolution of any shared social contract today, even more than any loss of a shared reading list, that makes our particular “end of literacy” feel so utterly threatening.

But again, it seems as though “the end” has always been here, or at least near (particularly in The Atlantic’s headlines). Media theorist Marshall McLuhan declared we were on the cusp of a post-literate world back in 1962. His student Neil Postman said much the same again in the 1980s.

For Postman, the problem was television. And I think you could argue that that still is the problem. Indeed, former Atlantic writer Derek Thompson suggested last year that “everything is television” -- that much of what people are doing online is simply watching TV, which now streams on devices that are smaller and more portable; its content -- RIP Neil Postman -- shorter and even shallower.

It’s almost always been technology of some sort or another that’s posited as endangering, eroding, and now in the case of The Atlantic, actually ending literacy. It’s “AI” and social media and the much vaguer, generalized threat of “screens.” It’s the design of these products that have simultaneously demanded and shortened our attention span, making the kind of slow contemplation that reading requires feel even more laborious.

But maybe illiteracy is teachers’ fault -- ah yes, that familiar story line -- for adopting what The New Yorker recently dismissed as “vibes based literacy” instruction rather than the (so cleverly named) “science of reading.” (From The Atlantic, in 2024, a story on Lucy Calkins and “How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis.” If the vibes are bad, she’s the culprit, plenty of publications and podcasters would have you believe. And yet, "the reading wars" and debates over phonics versus whole language extend back to the nineteenth century too.)

Or maybe educators or teacher-educators aren’t directly to blame; but surely, somehow, somewhere, schools must be at fault. Maybe the decline of reading is the fallout of some failed education policy: the Common Core, perhaps, or going farther back in time, No Child Left Behind. Or maybe the better word here (certainly among the usual suspects of education reform) is not so much “failed” as a legacy “unfulfilled” – The Atlantic, for its part, has been at the forefront of calls to bring back standardized testing and its associated high-stakes accountability measures.

Perhaps we're perpetually stuck at "the end of reading" because we're so caught up in finding a culprit for some broader civilizational decline. (We're always told we're at the end there too, it seems.) It's not that I don't worry about reading – who's reading, how much reading, what kind of reading material, and so on. I do. I worry because I love reading – books are among the most wondrous inventions of humankind. And I love reading because without it, I could not write and I could not think. Not well. Not clearly. Not intelligently.

These practices are all deeply intertwined for me, and I worry that it's the latter in particular that culturally (technologically, politically, and economically) we no longer value. We don't invest in cultivating young readers because we don't actually want thinkers. We don't actually value imagination or inquiry, because increasingly, we find ourselves in a world for which the only forms of agency and expression involve clicking and consuming."]]></description>
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    <title>Black Mountain College: A Way of Thinking</title>
    <dc:date>2026-07-07T18:45:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Black Mountain College is remembered as a remarkable school in the mountains of Western North Carolina. It was home to extraordinary artists, architects, musicians, poets, dancers, scientists, educators, and students whose work helped shape the twentieth century.

But Black Mountain College is bigger than a place.

It is a way of thinking.

Founded in 1933, the College proposed something both simple and radical: that education could be a shared act of discovery rather than the transfer of knowledge from expert to student. Learning wasn't confined to classrooms. It happened in the studio, on the farm, around the dinner table, while constructing buildings, during performances, on long walks across campus, and in conversations that stretched late into the evening. Some of the most meaningful discoveries happen where different ways of thinking meet.

The College asked questions that still resonate today.

What if curiosity mattered more than certainty
What if listening was valued as deeply as speaking?
What if making, thinking, and living were not separate pursuits, but expressions of the same creative life?
What if education was not simply preparation for life, but life itself?

Black Mountain College never claimed to have perfected these ideas. It struggled. It argued. It evolved. Like every meaningful experiment, it was marked by contradiction as well as brilliance. Experiments are not valuable because they are flawless. They matter because they expand what we imagine is possible.

The College didn't leave us a blueprint.
It left us a way of making.

A way of listening.
A way of learning.
A way of working together.
A way of remaining open to what comes next."]]></description>
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    <title>Signals from Another World: Proletarian Theater as a Site for Education Texts by Asja Lācis and Walter Benjamin, with an introduction by Andris Brinkmanis - South Magazine Issue #9 [documenta 14 #4] - documenta 14</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Signals from Another World: Proletarian Theater as a Site for Education
Texts by Asja Lācis and Walter Benjamin, with an introduction by Andris Brinkmanis"

...

"What are the forms of culture still capable of assuming the shape of a chorus, an assembly? Which cultural forms might help build communities in which a multitude of diversities might be expressed as a collective force, as a voice able to articulate its discourse, its desires, and give shape to its politics, even if just for a specific period of time? And might such experiences produce knowledge that resists the infinite separation imposed by capitalism and bring one back to self-determined vita activa (praxis)? Indeed, what tools for a positive dialectics do we still have at our disposal and where shall we look for them? 

To revisit the intellectual legacy of early twentieth-century Germany and Soviet Russia means to revisit the “ruins of yesterday where today’s riddles are solved,” as Walter Benjamin once put it. It also means to face wounds and confront ghosts that this time might become allies in our attempt to decipher what can be learned from their haunting presence. To cope with these phantom limbs and ghostly presences of modernity, sometimes violently blasted out of the collective memory, and to oppose the anosognosia of our time is perhaps the task of the materialist historian today. To learn to understand what a body—a social body—was once able to do and still can or cannot do, may provide the necessary awareness to lay the ground for art forms and politics yet to come."]]></description>
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    <title>My University Students Cheat. I Don’t Blame Them. - Macleans.ca</title>
    <dc:date>2026-07-02T02:26:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Marks reward cheating over learning—and students can’t afford to fail"

...

"Last semester, on the final exam of the health-care law class I teach, my students scored the highest grades I’ve seen in 20 years as an instructor. It was an at-home, closed-book exam. Eight per cent of the class scored perfect on the multiple-choice section, and over half scored over 90. In the long-answer section, the responses were formulaic, typo-free and detached from the course material; they lacked the telltale signs of rushed exam writing. It was clear my students were using AI to cheat.

After the exam, I gave the class an anonymous, informal poll: I asked how many of them were cheating. Of those who responded, eight per cent admitted to it. How many students did they think were cheating? Over a quarter of respondents indicated they knew other students had cheated on the exam, and 73 per cent indicated they knew of students cheating in other classes. And that doesn’t account for the response bias: just under half the class responded to the poll, and I suspect those who didn’t respond were more likely to have cheated. I decided to annul the exam results, not counting them toward final grades.

I’ve spent my whole life in academia, first in theology, then in law. I know cheating has always been around. But I’m deeply alarmed by the idea that students are cheating en masse. There’s a whole online ecosystem for cheating: forums to share advice on circumventing AI detectors and proctor technology; software for humanizing AI-generated writing; tips for using AI to reduce (or eliminate) workload. Cheating is becoming culturally normalized. Two thirds of the people who responded to my survey agreed that students widely perceive cheating as acceptable. I’m not surprised. Think about what this generation has witnessed: the mortgage crisis driven by corrupt bankers, an American president who cheats and lies and is still elected; lawyers using AI to write for them and lying about it, a sporting world full of doping scandals. Students are repeating what we’ve modelled for them.

In the past few years, the way young people value their education has shifted. Universities are increasingly corporatized. They function as businesses, oriented toward maximizing revenue: professors are rewarded for grants and publications rather than leadership or mentorship, and students are reduced to head counts and tuition dollars. In turn, students behave like customers. It’s a fee for service: they pay their tuition and expect good grades and a degree. Learning becomes superfluous.

When I was studying the humanities, my classmates and I were concerned with ideas and arguments. We were reading course material to understand it, not to get a mark. Now, grades have become the sole currency of academic life. Students frequently email me asking outright for a higher grade, sometimes literally seconds after they receive it. They all want a 90 or higher. Marks are inflated across the board. At Ontario high schools, there was a six per cent increase in grade averages for graduating students between 2011 and 2021. I’ve seen 100 per cent averages on scholarship applications. Some schools are implementing policies to try to curb the inflation—including Harvard, which just put a cap on the number of As assigned in each undergraduate course.

Students know an undergraduate degree doesn’t automatically land a well-paying job—or any job, for that matter—so they’re vying for acceptance to highly competitive postgraduate programs. There’s an enormous financial imperative to succeed academically, and students tell me that if you don’t cheat, you’re at a disadvantage. I went to university on my own dollar; my parents couldn’t afford to support me. I only paid off my undergraduate student loans last year, at 45 years old. For students today, the debts are even worse. They’re pushed to maximize productivity and output, racking up accolades and resumé entries while maintaining previously unattainable averages.

At the same time, cheating has become more accessible than ever thanks to AI. I see students using generative AI in all aspects of their work: summarizing the readings, research, note-taking, essay writing. Not all AI usage is cheating by default, and in some ways, it’s even levelling the playing field by making the same shortcuts available to everyone. When I was in law school, you could purchase CANS—consolidated annotated notes—from previous years as study aids. But they were expensive. Resources like CANS and tutors were reserved for students who could afford them. For the rest of us, AI could have been a free alternative. The problems arise when students use AI despite instructions not to, as was the case with my exam.

My options as an educator are limited. I’m exploring different grading schemas, but all of them require more resources than are made available to me. I could have one in-person exam worth 100 per cent of the course grade and put all my TA hours toward grading it. I could rely on oral exams, which would take weeks out of the semester to schedule and administer. One professor I know tried to introduce a participation grade in a class with hundreds of students. Students could scan a QR code to register their attendance. They would show up, talk until they got the code, then walk out.

Ultimately, this reveals the failures of an antiquated grading system. Our standard modes of assessment primarily track recall and memorization, not engagement or progress. One semester, I had a student who had some challenges with her grammar and syntax. We worked on her writing together throughout the semester, and it was a successful learning experience. Another student that semester had a flair for well-crafted drivel. I couldn’t give the first student an A-plus—her end product couldn’t justify it. But who put more work in? Who learned the most? The people with the highest grades are not necessarily my best or hardest-working students. They may just have the most free time, money, educational support or family backing. Some schools are attuned to this tension and adapting accordingly. The U of T law school, for example, uses an honours-pass-fail grading system. If we reimagined grading to assess skills that can’t be replicated by ChatGPT, students wouldn’t use it. As it is, marks are a perverse incentive—they reward cheating over learning.

My colleagues and I feel completely unsupported by the school administration. Publishing requirements are going up, and class sizes are ballooning. We have less faculty doing more work with less support, meaning there’s less time to build relationships with students. When I annulled the exam results, I told the administration that I need substantive guidance on how to run a class this large because I can no longer reliably mark it. They didn’t have a useful policy in place to address my concerns. Instead, they overrode my decision. Against my recommendations, they included the multiple-choice portion of the exam in the final grade—despite knowing that I called out cheating in this section. Their decision sent a singular message: cheating is fine and faculty has to accept it. This is anathema to the goals of education.

I’ve been told I should just use anti-cheating technology, like online proctors or AI detectors. I don’t use either in my classes. For one, they can easily be circumvented. More importantly, you can’t police people into having integrity. Instead, I try to impart to my students the reasons why cheating is morally wrong. The first question on my exam was about the deontological duty not to cheat. It was something we’d discussed at length throughout the semester. Within this ethical framework, relationships give rise to duties—the health-care provider to the patient or the lawyer to the client—and the rightness of your actions depends on how they align with those duties. Students have a duty not to cheat. It should be that simple. Anti-cheating technology can’t teach them that, and we can’t expect that students who lack integrity in school will spontaneously develop it in order to meet their professional obligations after they graduate.

Academic integrity needs to be taught starting on day one at every level of education. Every university student should have to take an ethics course in their first year, no matter their major. And there needs to be accountability when there are breaches. Administrators need to support their faculty, not railroad them. Colleagues have shared with me that even when students have been caught cheating, no penalty was imposed. Cheating is a product of the society we’ve created. It’s learned behaviour—and that means, with enough work, it can be unlearned."]]></description>
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    <title>The Algorithmic Order</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-27T06:22:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The history of education technology is inseparable from the history of standardized testing."]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | The ‘No Child Left Behind’ Nostalgia Is Delusional - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-27T06:13:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[via Audrey Watters:
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-algorithmic-order/ 

"In a recent op-ed in The New York Times, Ross Weiner argues that the calls to bring back the test-based accountability of “No Child Left Behind” is delusional. (Well, to be fair that’s the word that the headline writer chose: "delusional.") Weiner describes these policies as insufficient then and inadequate now. “Young people are placing more emphasis on purpose, relationships and contribution than on older markers of status,” he argues.

<blockquote>For a generation, the reform coalition took its validation from economists and accountability metrics, while treating parents, students and communities as mere functionaries rather than partners in a shared civic enterprise.

    Taking their priorities seriously would mean broadening what we expect from the classroom. Schools should put what students can do on equal footing with what they know, embedding real skills in academic learning rather than leaving them to chance or sequencing them to later in life. Schools should reconnect with the communities they serve, so young people learn through and about the places where they live. And they should reanimate the character-forming, developmental mission a pluralistic democracy requires.

    Federal policy has an essential role to play in public education: protecting civil rights, funding quality data and research, and encouraging promising practices to spread. But the formative mission cannot be mandated by Washington. Belonging, the foundation of both learning and civic commitment, is relational and starts local; it cannot be standardized or scaled, but must be cultivated by schools that are responsive to the communities they serve.</blockquote>

It’s not a fully-fleshed out vision for education, to be sure, but it does gesture at something quite different from the technocratic one that schools have spent the last few decades delivering -- and delivering via education technology, via a machinery that shapes the form and increasingly the content, the curricula and the pedagogy. Funny, for all the invocation of "the future of education" from ed-tech evangelists and testing companies and politicians, they're almost always talking about the past, or at least about much older narratives of what that future might look like. (And in doing so, they ignore that computers have been ubiquitous in classrooms for a very very long time now.)"]]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | No, American schools aren't failing</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-25T08:13:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A claim so familiar, people no longer feel obligated to back it up with evidence."

[archived: https://archive.is/WHzji ]

"The belief that American public schools are an international embarrassment, sites of endless failure, is one of the few things our polarized political system seems to agree on. After all, the transition from George W. Bush’s presidential education policy to that of Barack Obama was one of remarkable continuity, based on a shared premise: Our schools were in a broad state of emergency. Today, politicians of both parties still tell that story, as do op-ed pages and nonprofit organizations and bipartisan cable panels. The notion has hardened into an axiom, a claim so familiar that the people making it no longer feel obligated to back it up with evidence. But we don’t have to buy this narrative, and we shouldn’t — because the evidence tells us that the narrative just isn’t true.

The best way to consider a country’s educational performance is in relation to the performance of international peers, and the most authoritative international benchmark is the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam, which tests 15-year-olds across 81 education systems. In the most recent results, from 2022, American students tested better in reading than 68 of the 80 other systems and well above the international average. In science, they bested 56 of 80. Math is our weakest subject, but even there we outscore 43 systems and tie with a dozen more, meaning that on our worst day we still do better than more than half the developed world. Our top performers look particularly good on the PISA; for example, 14 percent of American teenagers scored at the highest level in reading, double the OECD average.

Some critics note that our education system is expensive and say that we should demand better results for our money. But this demand implies that there’s a straightforward relationship between per-pupil spending and test scores; decades of evidence demonstrate that there is not. And the results show that we produce many sterling students for our money.

Indeed, the students at the top of our system aren’t merely fine; they’re the best on earth. American teams have placed in the top three at the International Mathematical Olympiad every year for a decade and won or tied for first in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2024. In 2025, all five members of the US physics team won gold at the International Physics Olympiad, making the United States the only country to sweep gold that year. Our chemistry, biology, informatics, linguistics, and other teams collect medals year after year. These are overwhelmingly public-school kids from ordinary suburban and urban districts, outcompeting the best academic talent the world can produce. You rarely read about them because their success doesn’t fit the declinist story.

But scores are dropping, aren’t they? Yes, and that’s exactly why international context matters. The 2022 PISA results showed an unprecedented worldwide collapse, with average scores across the OECD falling roughly 10 points in reading and 15 in math. When students in Germany, Norway, and New Zealand decline in lockstep with students in Arizona and Connecticut, the cause is plainly not American teachers, unions, or curricula. (My own guess is that the smartphone is to blame, but I can’t prove it.) Even as our raw scores fell, our international rank rose in all three subjects because our peers’ scores fell further. Again, when was the last time you heard that in our media?

None of this is to deny that some American schools are in crisis. But those failures aren’t spread evenly across our system; they’re concentrated in a small number of places suffering from poverty, structural racism, and institutional decline. The United States has the highest child-poverty rate in the OECD (roughly a quarter of our children live in poverty, versus less than 10 percent in top-scoring nations like Finland and Denmark) and our socioeconomic and demographic stratification is pronounced. As such, our aggregate scores on assessments like PISA are weighed down disproportionately by disadvantaged students.

In Detroit, which sits at the bottom of every large urban US district tested, two-thirds of students were chronically absent in a recent year, speaking to a lack of stability and resources at the family level. What teachers could succeed in those conditions? Cleveland, Baltimore, districts in the impoverished rural areas of West Virginia — they all tell a similar story. The American schools that struggle the worst share no common curriculum, union contract, or pedagogy. What they share is extreme poverty, segregation, and decades of disinvestment — in local labor markets, transportation, and health care.

Imagine swapping the students of Detroit with those of wealthy Bloomfield Hills next door, where the schools have excellent performance metrics. Does anyone believe the students from Detroit would suddenly excel?

Simply shoveling money at urban schools is not the answer. In fact, poorer, higher-minority schools in the United States receive significantly more per-pupil funding than richer and whiter schools. As it stands, the teachers in the Detroit public school system are asked to achieve similar results to the ones in the Bloomfield system, despite the vast disparities in living and learning environments of the students they teach.

I’m known to be very skeptical about the influence of schools and teachers on test scores, which tend to reflect the socioeconomic conditions of groups and the variation in talent levels between individuals. But you don’t have to share my views in that regard to acknowledge that our worst-performing schools face conditions that no amount of teaching quality can overcome. And consider a fact that’s almost never reported: America’s most disadvantaged students, those in the bottom international decile in socioeconomic status, rank sixth out of 64 comparable nations in math. In other words, even in the midst of all that poverty and dysfunction, our poorest kids outperform almost all of the world’s other poorest kids. The problem is not that our schools fail poor children at an unusual rate. It is that some of our communities are deprived to a scandalous degree.

In sum, our median student does just fine, our best students are the envy of the world, but our worst-performing students drag down our averages in a way that makes our overall performance look much worse than it is — and those extreme negative outliers are almost universally found in communities with intense socioeconomic challenges.

This resolves a puzzle that has baffled pollsters for 40 years. American parents consistently rate the nation’s schools quite poorly while giving their own children’s schools high marks. Average grades for the American school system writ large typically fall in the C or D range, but more than three-quarters of parents typically give their own kids’ schools an A or B. Often this is regarded as a kind of cognitive bias, of irrationality on the part of those parents; surely, they must be viewing their own schools with rose-colored glasses, or so the conventional wisdom has long held. In fact, that attitude makes perfect sense when you reflect on the quantitative reality I’ve described: Most American K-12 schools and students really are doing quite well, which is reflected in the high marks parents give to their own local schools, but like all of us, parents have heard the relentless doomsaying about the country’s schools. Parents judge their own schools from direct experience and the national system from what they see on television. That is, on the question they actually know something about, about which they have the best evidence, they’re quite positive, and they have every reason to be.

The myth of universal failure didn’t come out of nowhere, and for the record I don’t think it was born entirely in bad faith. Some of the people who spread it were no doubt animated by a real and decent impulse to improve the lives of American children, saw the awful conditions in our inner cities, and overextrapolated their impression of school failure. Others were likely so motivated to attack public schools for ideological reasons that they didn’t care much about misrepresenting the data. Whatever the motives, over time it became far too common for politicians, pundits, and members of the media to take data that showed a handful of distressed communities dragging down otherwise strong averages and present it as proof that American education was rotten from root to branch. An honest reading pointed toward investing in poor places and pursuing avenues for shared prosperity other than just schooling; the sensationalist reading pointed toward dismantling public schools. Many people chose the sensationalist one and repeated it until it became something “everybody knew.”

The stakes are significant. If the failures of American education really are systemwide, the response has to be wholesale reform — new national mandates and perhaps a federal takeover of local education policy; even more standardized testing; the criminalization of teacher unions; private school vouchers for all. But the reality is that our educational failure is concentrated, and it’s concentrated in predictable places, which means the remedy must be too: Serious investment for the communities where poverty has done its damage, not merely for the schools that sit inside them, along with an effort to build more pathways to middle class stability for those who are not academically motivated.

There is some evidence that such investment, for example in environmental cleanup or direct financial assistance for poorer families, can improve learning outcomes. There too, though, the evidence is contested and the effects unclear. But this investment offers obvious advantages: Even if bringing more money and development into poor communities does not close academic gaps, the direct economic advantages will endure.

These efforts are both harder and more expensive than yet another round of complaining about teachers and their unions, but they have the advantage of potentially solving real problems. If we have a moral duty to improve our schools, as the school reformers insist, then that begins with a moral duty to tell the truth."]]></description>
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    <title>Écoute, paysages et territoires sonores, où est le plaisir d’ouïr ? | POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS</title>
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"In my almost daily, long-term monitoring of projects concerning listening, soundscapes and territories, and the interactions between art and science within ecological-artistic approaches, I observe that the pleasure of creating and perceiving is often relegated to the background, or even virtually absent.

I certainly don't deny the necessity of studies and awareness campaigns "against" noise, nor the urgency of protecting our eardrums, our acoustic spaces, and our health. However, reducing the soundscape to a kind of acoustic collapse seems to me a counterproductive dead end. I've said it before and I'll say it again.

We generally forget that pleasures, whether it's enjoying delicious home-cooked meals together or hearing the world through shared listening experiences, make us aware of the values ​​we must defend tooth and nail, ears included.

Showing only the negative side of a soundscape, admittedly a somewhat verbose one, deprives us of an auditory pleasure that, through sonic landscapes, reduces our experiences to acknowledgments of failure, or even discouragement, leading us to retreat behind soundproof walls and triple-glazed windows. All of this isolates us from the socially accessible world. The pleasure of listening together, of discovering and sharing moments where a bell chimes with festive joy, where the river soothes us, where the bustle of a market connects us, allows us to resist a society weakened by its social isolation. Listening to little sonic gems, as one would go to a concert, positions pleasure as a necessary pursuit of well-being in the face of a world that is, to say the least, unsettling, if not anxiety-inducing.

The interactions between science, metrology, standards, legislation, art, sensory experiences, and pleasure are, in my opinion, not sufficiently developed, for various reasons.

Let's take a concrete example: aside from festive and musical events, urban planning leaves little room for the pleasure of listening. Places tend to close in, to protect themselves, to ignore beautiful acoustic spaces, and to focus on a rather austere, even sometimes regressive and confining, noise reduction policy, rather than on promoting spaces with good sound.

Pleasure is essentially linked to the notion of calm and tranquility, which I can understand, at the risk of impoverishing public space and missing out on many of its attractions, including auditory ones.

Experiencing pleasure doesn't require deploying significant resources, devices, or technologies; quite the opposite.

One evening, as I was returning home at dusk, on a late spring day, I stopped to listen to the sounds of festive voices, here and there, near and far. Parties in apartments, barbecues in gardens, conversations on doorsteps—there was a gentle, almost palpable, quality of life. Wonderful atmospheres unfolded with every step I took. These are the kinds of moments I cherish, the unexpected encounters that must be seized in the moment. It's a true joy to hear life flowing, life pulsing.

But it also represents years spent honing my ear, training it to appreciate these auditory pleasures, just as the eye trains itself to contemplate a landscape, a painting, a dance, and the taste buds to savor delicate foods from near and far.

Pleasure is readily available, but the more we experience everyday or exceptional, unique auditory situations, the more powerful it becomes. This observation reinforces the need to develop active, in situ, and shared pedagogies.

The pleasure of feeling, of being moved, of (re)discovering the world through listening, combined with other sensory experiences, and/or the pleasure of doing, imagining, and creating zones of tranquility where listening and speaking can unfold with minimal inhibition, where interdisciplinary experiences can intersect, is priceless.

The pursuit of pleasure in no way obscures, quite the contrary, the presence of all that can assault us. It offers an alternative, a way to resist a pervasive gloom, so as not to despair too much while listening to the world's recurring tensions.

The artist, if he is not able to heal painful situations, offers visions, or offbeat, poetic hearings, of a world in which pleasure is like a breath of fresh air, a poetry which, if it will not save us from predicted catastrophes, may perhaps make them less violent."]

"Au cours ma veille quasi quotidienne, au long cours, sur les projets concernant l’écoute, les paysages et territoires sonores, les interactions art-sciences autour des approches écologico-artistiques, je constate que le plaisir de faire, de percevoir, est bien souvent en arrière-plan, voire quasiment absent.

Je ne dénie pas, tant s’en faut, la nécessité des études et des actions de sensibilisation « contre » le bruit, ni l’urgence de protéger nos tympans, nos espaces acoustiques, notre santé, néanmoins, réduire le paysage sonore à une sorte de collapsologie acoustique me semble une impasse contre-productive. Je l’ai déjà dit est le répète encore.

On oublie généralement que le ou les plaisirs, qu’ils soient ceux de déguster collectivement de bons petits plats mijotés ou d’entendre le monde via des écoutes partagées, nous font prendre conscience des valeurs qu’ils nous faut défendre becs et ongles, oreilles comprises.

Ne montrer que la seule face négative d’un monde sonore, certes un peu bavard, nous prive d’une jouissance auditive qui, via des aménités audio-paysagères, réduit nos expériences à des constats d’échecs, voire à des découragements nous retranchant derrière des murs anti-bruit, des triples vitrages. Tout cela nous isole du monde socialement ouissible. Le plaisir d’écouter de concert, de dénicher et de partager des moments où la cloche égrène une joie festive, où la rivière nous apaise, où l’animation d’un marché nous relie, nous fait résister face à une société fragilisée par ses isolements sociaux. Écouter de petites pépites sonores, comme on irait à un concert, place le plaisir comme une recherche de bien-être nécessaire, face à un monde pour le moins inquiétant, si ce n’est angoissant.

Les interactions entre science, métrologie, normatif, législatif, art, expériences sensibles, plaisir, ne sont pas, selon moi, suffisamment développées, pour différentes raisons du reste.

Prenons un exemple concret, hors mis les animations festives, musicales, l’aménagement urbain ne donne que peu de place au plaisir d’écouter. Les lieux ont plutôt tendance à se refermer, à se protéger, à ignorer les beaux espaces acoustiques, et à miser sur une politique de réduction du bruit plutôt austère, voire parfois régressive et enfermante, que sur la valorisation de lieux bien-sonnants.

Le plaisir est relié essentiellement à la notion de calme, de tranquillité, ce que je peux comprendre, au risque de paupériser l’espace public et de passer à côté de nombre de ses attraits, y compris auditifs.

Prendre du plaisir ne nécessite pas pour autant de déployer d’importants moyens, dispositifs ou technologies, bien au contraire.

Un soir où je rentrais chez moi, à tombée de nuit, dans une fin de journée printanière, je m’arrêtais pour écouter, ici et là, proches ou lointaines, des voix assez festives. Fêtes en appartement, barbecues en jardins, conversations sur le pas de la porte, il y avait une douceur de vivre qui s’entendait à oreille nue. De magnifiques ambiances se développaient au gré de mes pas. Ce sont des situations que j’affectionne, qui se présentent à l’improviste, et qu’il faut savoir saisir dans le lieu et dans l’instant. Une vraie joie d’ouïr la vie qui va, la vie qui bat.

Mais ce sont aussi des années passées à tendre l’oreille pour l’exercer à profiter de ces plaisirs auditifs, comme l’œil s’entraine à contempler un paysage, un tableau, une danse, et les papilles à déguster de délicates nourritures d’ici ou là.

Le plaisir est à portée d’oreille, mais plus on expérimente des situations auriculaires quotidiennes ou exceptionnelles, singulières, plus il devient puissant. Un constat qui conforte la nécessité de développer des pédagogies actives, in situ, partagées.

Le plaisir de ressentir, de s’émouvoir, de (re)découvrir le monde par l’écoute, associé à d’autres expériences sensorielles, et/ou celui de faire, d’imaginer, d’aménager, des zones de quiétude, où l’écoute et la parole peuvent se déployer sans trop de masquages, où l’on peut croiser des expériences indisciplinaires n’a pas de prix.

La recherche de plaisir n’occulte en rien, bien au contraire, la présence de tout ce qui peut nous agresser. Elle se pose en alternative, en façon se résister à une morosité ambiante, pour ne pas trop désespérer en écoutant sonner le monde dans ses multiples tensions récurrentes.

L’artiste, s’il n’est pas en capacité de soigner des situations douloureuses, propose des visions, ou auditions décalées, poétiques, d’un monde dans lequel le plaisir est comme une bouffée d’air, une poésie qui, si elle ne nous sauvera pas de catastrophes annoncées, les rendront peut-être moins violentes."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-06-09T07:23:54+00:00</dc:date>
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Fonti: Why is China’s gruelling gaokao college entrance exam so tough? - South China Morning Post - 31 maggio 2025"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["La scuola è una delle grandi infrastrutture democratiche della nostra società"

...

"La mattina del 13 maggio, a Reggio Emilia, quando la Principessa del Galles ha incontrato bambini e bambine, insegnanti, atelieristi, ricercatori e comunità educanti del Reggio Emilia Approach, si è materializzato qualcosa di profondo. Il riconoscimento internazionale del fatto che l’educazione sia oggi una delle grandi questioni politiche del nostro tempo. Non «politiche educative» nel senso amministrativo del termine, ma politica nel suo significato originario e più alto: costruire le condizioni della convivenza civile.

In un’epoca segnata da guerre, polarizzazioni, linguaggi aggressivi e crescente frammentazione sociale, l’educazione rappresenta uno dei pochi strumenti capaci di generare coesione. 

Per questo credo che oggi si debba avere il coraggio di affermare una tesi apparentemente semplice, ma profondamente radicale: educare è un atto politico, nonviolento, di pace. L’educazione è un atto politico perché forma persone capaci di convivere nella complessità, accogliendo come ricchezza la differenza, senza trasformarla in conflitto. Perché insegna il dialogo, invece della sopraffazione a cui assistiamo nei massimi sistemi. Perché costruisce cittadini e cittadine, e non semplicemente individui in competizione. Negli ultimi anni abbiamo assistito a una trasformazione profonda dello spazio pubblico.

I social network hanno accelerato la velocità delle reazioni, ridotto il tempo della riflessione, amplificato la radicalizzazione. La comunicazione politica e sociale si è progressivamente spostata verso registri emotivi e conflittuali. Anche i giovani crescono immersi in un ecosistema che spinge verso la semplificazione, la polarizzazione, l’immediatezza e la performance continua.

Dentro questo scenario, la scuola rischia di essere percepita soltanto come luogo di valutazione, selezione e preparazione tecnica al lavoro. Ma se la riduciamo a questo, perdiamo la sua funzione più importante.

La scuola è una delle ultime grandi infrastrutture democratiche delle nostre società. È il luogo in cui una comunità decide che il futuro non può essere lasciato al caso né alle disuguaglianze di partenza. Ogni giorno, nelle scuole, si compie un lavoro silenzioso ma decisivo: si impara ad ascoltare, a collaborare, a rispettare, a discutere senza distruggere, a convivere tra differenze. Sono gesti apparentemente ordinari. In realtà sono gli anticorpi democratici di una società. Un dirigente scolastico non è soltanto un amministratore efficiente. È un costruttore di comunità. È la persona che deve creare le condizioni affinché una scuola diventi un luogo di fiducia, di crescita reciproca, di innovazione umana prima ancora che tecnologica. Allo stesso modo, ogni volta che un docente valorizza la parola di uno studente fragile, che sceglie di accompagnare, di includere, di costruire fiducia, costruisce non soltanto il sapere, ma il modo con cui una società impara a stare insieme. Ed è per questo che dirigenti e insegnanti sono oggi, forse più che in passato, figure decisive per la qualità democratica delle nostre comunità.

Esperienze come quella del Reggio Emilia Approach assumono allora un significato internazionale che va oltre la pedagogia dell’infanzia. Il mondo guarda a Reggio Emilia perché lì si è sviluppata un’idea di educazione fondata sulla relazione, sull’ascolto, sulla creatività e sul riconoscimento della dignità dei bambini e delle bambine come cittadini fin dall’inizio della vita. Loris Malaguzzi parlava dei «cento linguaggi» dei bambini. Quella intuizione oggi appare ancora più moderna. Perché nell’epoca dell’intelligenza artificiale il rischio più grande non è soltanto tecnologico. È antropologico.

L’intelligenza artificiale cambierà profondamente il lavoro, la produzione e l’accesso al sapere. Ma proprio per questo aumenterà il valore delle competenze più umane: l’ascolto, l’empatia, il pensiero critico, la capacità di cooperare, la responsabilità verso gli altri. Ecco perché l’educazione sarà il vero terreno politico del XXI secolo.

Non ci sarà democrazia stabile senza comunità educanti forti, né innovazione sostenibile senza cultura critica. Non ci sarà coesione sociale senza scuole capaci di generare appartenenza. Forse è anche questo che la visita della Principessa Kate ha simbolicamente riconosciuto: che il futuro delle società contemporanee si gioca molto prima delle università, dei mercati e della politica istituzionale. Si gioca nei luoghi in cui i bambini imparano a guardare il mondo e gli altri. Luoghi che in molti contesti mancano e di cui c’è massimo bisogno. Nel tempo delle macchine intelligenti, la vera sfida sarà restare umani. E l’educazione resterà il più potente atto politico nonviolento che una società possa compiere.

* Presidente di Fondazione Reggio Children"]]></description>
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    <title>The Slow Work of Becoming - by Jeppe Klitgaard Stricker</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-05T09:35:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-slow-work-of-becoming</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["On Epistemological Sovereignty in an Age of Instant Information"

[via:
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/at-what-cost/ ]

"Generative AI has caused a crisis in higher education, but I think we have largely misdiagnosed it. The conversation tends to focus on what students do with generative AI - whether they use it to cheat, whether they can evaluate its output, whether institutions can detect it - and how the technology affects critical thinking, this somewhat elusive term we often take for granted yet struggle to define.

These are important problems, but they also reveal how students arriving at our institutions have spent years inside an information environment that, largely unintentionally, undermines the kind of sustained, self-directed attention that education depends on.

Most students do not arrive at university having spent their formative years on JSTOR or with extensive online library resources. And even if they have, various social media apps will have been right by their side. Digital technologies, as a broad category, will have taught them that information should be fast, that uncertainty is a problem to be resolved immediately, and that anything requiring sustained effort is probably not worth the trouble.

The pedagogical problem here is not the internet, but something else. The issue is partly the instrumental logic institutions have fine-tuned over decades (I recently wrote about this here), partly that students carry the attentional habits formed in these environments into the domain of higher education - including, crucially, the seminar room, the library, and every encounter with ideas that rewards patience rather than speed.

The Attention Economy and the Borrowed Brain

A student cannot choose what counts as knowledge on their own. When they enter higher education, they enter conversations that have been going on for centuries, ones that carry accumulated judgments about what counts as evidence, argument, and truth.

However, the contemporary attention economy functions less like a collective intelligence and more like a cognitive environment that increasingly supplies ready-made opinions and judgments faster than individuals and certainly groups can form their own.

The consequences for education are serious, as what we might call epistemological sovereignty, or simply becoming, is not merely a personal achievement or judgement call. It is a collective responsibility, one that institutions, disciplines and academic communities have historically maintained on behalf of those entering the conversation. The attention economy erodes that responsibility. It answers the question of what matters before the student has had the chance to ask it, and it does so at a scale that no individual institution can easily counter alone.

Now, generative AI intensifies the problem considerably. In many ways it is the attention economy compressed into a single interface - sycophantically indifferent to whether the user is developing genuine understanding or merely obtaining a plausible output. I have previously written about the novice paradox: evaluating generative AI output well requires the very expertise students are still in the process of developing.

But there is a prior problem. Before students can even begin to evaluate what generative AI gives them, they need to have developed a sense of what they are looking for, and implicitly, what a good answer looks like. That prior formation of thought is precisely what the broader information environment has made harder to achieve. And it is precisely what universities exist to provide.

Becoming Equals Slow and Steady

There is a critical difference between having knowledge and becoming someone who knows. And the distance between them cannot be closed by more efficient information delivery, regardless of how that delivery is organised.

Becoming, in the sense that genuine education has always intended, is typically not very efficient. It requires motivation, time, failure, and space to think and develop. You do not develop judgment by acquiring answers, but by living through the process of arriving at them, getting them wrong, and trying again. This is hard work.

With the internet, and now especially generative AI, speed and availability are what these systems do best - and they have no inherent mechanism for valuing slower processes. The result is an optimisation trap: students learn to ask the questions these tools handle well, and gradually stop asking the ones they do not - narrowing rather than expanding their thinking, without quite noticing that this is happening.

This is a problem for individual students, and it is a problem for the institutions that are supposed to hold the line. Higher education should insist on the value of what takes longest to understand precisely because it takes a long time. Not every question deserves instant answers, and not every uncertainty needs to be closed immediately. Perhaps this is especially true in higher education: the capacity to remain productively uncertain, to hold a difficult question open long enough to actually think about it, is one of the things serious education, and research, are supposed to develop.

In an information environment that has evolved rapidly in recent years, universities must be able to retain a focus that the attention economy cannot offer: a higher resolution view of what is right here, human to human - the student in front of us, and the thesis idea that needs more than a moment to become clear.

This is not inefficiency.

It is the condition under which becoming is possible at all."]]></description>
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    <title>California’s Public Universities Went All in on A.I. Now They’re Tearing Themselves Apart. - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-01T22:24:19+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>positions politics</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-31T03:57:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://positionspolitics.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["debates
collaborations
exchanges
on 'Asia' and its global significance

Escalating twenty-first-century crises have created an urgent need for direct interaction among scholars and readers. We aim to renovate how we debate, organize, and inform.

praxis
praxis is community debate to grasp onto an emergent question on ‘Asia’, offering readers an opportunity to shake things up; an orientation, political strategy, or a tactical dispute. praxis engages opinion broadly and solicits immediate response.

episteme
episteme addresses current crises in ‘Asia’ and responding movements. We provide critical reflections and philosophical reconsiderations of events as they unfold, seeking to emphasize transformations agitating ‘Asia’ and the world.

eikon
eikon works at the edges of political engagement in the arts. Experiments in thought, image, and politics exposed to a theory-driven political art open unknowns. The politics of aesthetics is a politics we cannot escape.

paideia
paideia experiments with the pedagogic in written, visual, and sonic form. It engages the unthought through evocative approaches to the transmission of knowledge, to materials to be tried out, and to work designed by students.

about positions: asia critique
Offering a fresh approach to Asia scholarship, positions develops theoretical, philosophical, historical, and critical approaches in a forum open to debate. In expansive scholarly articles, commentaries, poetry, visual art, and political and philosophical debates, contributors consider a broad variety of pressing questions. Thematic issues tackle new, sometimes pathbreaking areas of concern (or traditional areas from a fresh vantage point) and are interspersed with general issues offering scholarship that calls our scholarly assumptions into question and expands our various archives. The breadth and pace of the journal ensure that readers seeking to add “Asia” to their areas of critical competency are included in our debates, challenged and informed.

positions politics editorial collective
Selda Altan 
Tani Barlow
Rebecca Karl
Jeongmin Kim
Suzy Kim
Fabio Lanza
Lan Li
Ritty Lukose
Wendy Matsumura
Srirupa Roy
Aminda Smith
Tori Yang
Angela Zito

contact us
You can reach us directly at:
positionspolitics AT gmail . com"]]></description>
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    <title>Disabling Modernism</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-30T22:54:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://placesjournal.org/article/modernist-schools-for-disabled-children-new-deal-era/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["During the first decade of the New Deal, modernist architects designed schools for disabled children that proposed radical visions of civic care."]]></description>
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    <title>Do Chatbots Really Belong in Schools? with Tom Mullaney - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-29T07:21:45+00:00</dc:date>
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Tom Mullaney is a high school social studies teacher in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson."]]></description>
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    <title>The Surveillance Classroom - by Andrew Cantarutti</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-27T07:45:20+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What Watching Students Teaches Them About What We Believe"

...

"What the Watched Student Learns

The strongest argument against surveillance in schools is not unreliability — though that’s real enough. It is what surveillance models. Our core objective as educators is not to ensure compliance toward an easily measured goal; it’s to assist in the formation of young people so that they may become trusting, caring, and capable members of a healthy society.

The philosopher Onora O’Neill draws a distinction between trust and control. Trust requires vulnerability and the acceptance of risk. She says, “Where we have guarantees of proofs, placing trust is redundant.” In other words, if a system uses watertight monitoring to ensure that someone performs perfectly, you aren’t actually trusting them; you’re just managing their compliance. Trust only exists where we give up control.

Surveillance produces compliance, not character. If we wish for someone to be trustworthy, we have to, as Emerson suggested, open up the space for trust to take root. A student completing an essay inside keystroke-monitoring software isn’t learning to be honest; they’re learning to perform honesty for the system. This is a different skill entirely, and it’s not one that schools should be teaching. A classroom that surveils its students teaches them that they are suspect, that their inner processes are a liability, and that the school’s relationship to them is adversarial.

O’Neill’s characterization of trust and control is amplified by Nguyen’s thesis. A student whose behaviour is optimized for an integrity score develops the capacity for score-management, not integrity. A student whose emotions are measured continuously develops performance awareness, not self-awareness. Ironically, surveillance produces convincing imitations of the qualities we hope young people develop while stifling their actual formation.

A camera or an algorithm can’t replace the relational — and immeasurable — knowledge that a teacher develops about a student over time, through repeated observation, exchange, and authentic care. As Barrett explains, trying to measure and analyze a student’s emotions actually displaces the opportunity to build relational trust that only occurs between people, not people and machines.

The Walled Garden’s answer to the illegibility of genuine learning isn’t surveillance, but redesigned conditions. Artifacts of Attention — handwritten drafts, annotated sources, and in-class work periods — don’t monitor students for compliance; they create the conditions under which authentic student engagement becomes more likely and more visible. A teacher who reads a student’s essay outline, subsequent drafts, and their final product doesn’t need a keystroke log to know whether thinking and growth occurred. They created the conditions that made thinking possible, and with it, genuine interest in the process.

There is a stark distinction to be made here: assessment that reveals process versus surveillance that monitors compliance. The first treats students as trustworthy learners. The second treats them as untrustworthy liabilities. Both can produce a document. Only one produces a student.

Schools Built for Trust

Consider what young people are inheriting:

• According to the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer, an annual global report, only 36% of people believe things will be better for the next generation. 61% believe that government and business make their lives harder and serve narrow interests. And 53% of 18-34 year-olds approve of hostile activism: “attacking people online, intentionally spreading disinformation, threatening or committing violence, damaging public or private property.”

• According to a UN DESA Policy Brief from December of last year, “more than half of the world’s population reports little or no trust in their government.”

Young people in classrooms right now are forming their foundational sense of what institutions are, what they do, and whether they deserve engagement. They’re forming those opinions through their lived experience, not through civics lessons.

The good news is that schools, among institutions, are in a unique position. According to Edelman’s 2026 report, teachers are trusted by 70% of people, second only to scientists. Their 2023 report noted that 64% considered teachers “a unifying force”, higher than any other profession. If we do the math — eight hours a day, across twelve years — it’s clear that what schools model through their practices, rather than their stated values, shapes civic dispositions at scale.

The AMP State of Global Youth Report (2025) reinforces this claim: “the thread that runs through all of these is that the youth trust people they know or people that work directly with individuals far more than they trust systems, platforms, or any political structure.” This makes sense when we consider what we know about trust — that it’s built through relational experience: through fairness, by being heard, and through small acts of consistent care. This is what good teachers do.

Schools, and the professionals who work within them, need to remember that they aren’t passive mirrors of social conditions. Their design choices, the metrics they record, and the software they license are pedagogical and civic acts. Fashion assessment in a humane manner and watch trust grow. Outsource surveillance to an algorithm and watch it erode.

If we want students who will grow into citizens capable of trusting and being trusted, that capacity has to be practised somewhere. The surveillance classroom can’t produce it. The Walled Garden can."]]></description>
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    <title>Raj Chetty's Just-So Stories - Freddie deBoer</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-26T23:47:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For a long time I’ve been getting some version of the comment, “What about Chetty!” in response to my perspective on education, as in Raj Chetty, the economist who for the past decade has made a lot of waves asserting that our education problems are straightforwardly the product of bad teachers and that replacing them will have implausibly large economic effects. I tend to try and work from a broader perspective than “this is why I think this guy is wrong,” but I get this request so often, here you go. This is why I think Raj Chetty is wrong."

...

"So, to recap. The thing being measured changes year to year for the same teacher; sometimes it changes from period to period; it changes when you switch statistical models; it changes when you switch the composition of the class. Meanwhile, the supposed quasi-experimental defense against student-sorting bias does not survive replication. And when deployed in the real world, the system is broken enough that a federal court treated it as a due-process violation. This all describes a body of research and chief researcher which have both received pretty close to unanimous positive coverage in the media! The ed reform reality distortion field is very powerful, and nowhere has it been more powerful than when it comes to the halo effect around Raj Chetty.

It’s possible to maintain that there is some true underlying “teacher quality” out there, and that we simply lack the instruments to measure it reliably. I’m not married to the idea that there’s no such thing as teacher quality. (I am however married to the idea that there’s no such thing as school quality.) But there are two highly-plausible possibilities that render this factor largely irrelevant. First is the possibility that teacher influence on student outcomes just isn’t very large at all, probably in the single digits in terms of what portion of the variance in student test scores teachers can control, and thus not a solution to any large-scale problems. Second, there’s the possibility in of meaningful interaction effects, that what teachers contribute to student outcomes is genuine but emerges from the interaction of a particular teacher with a particular group of students in a particular school under particular conditions, rather than a stable, transferable individual attribute that can be ranked on a single dimension. If true, the bottom-five-percent teacher whose dismissal would supposedly net $250,000 per classroom is largely a statistical artifact: a person who happened to land below the cutoff in a noisy estimate that in another year or based on another model would have placed elsewhere.

Chetty and his team have made some serious empirical efforts. There was, at one time, a plausible story to be told about their findings. But we now have more than a decade’s worth of reasons to be deeply skeptical of their claims; the fact that so many informed people come to me with the assumption that Chetty’s work is some sort of neoliberal trump card just shows the degree to which the establishment media has advanced an anti-teacher point of view. The strong policy claims that have hitched onto Chetty’s work, the insistence that we can fairly identify, reward, and dismiss teachers on the basis of value-added scores, and that doing so will yield large, predictable gains in lifetime outcomes - it all rests on measurements that are noisy, fickle, arbitrary, and unfair. Until the construct of teacher quality passes the tests we would demand of any other quantitative trait, the responsible reading of the evidence is not that we have found a powerful tool for increasing social justice but that we have learned how easy it is to mistake noise, sorting, and modeling choice for the thing we wish we were measuring.

Unfortunately, the previously-mentioned media effort to inoculate Chetty from criticism had proven quite effective, and he’s very rarely put in a position to defend his views. Still, someone email this to Chetty. And, fuck it, to Barack Obama, Michelle Rhee, Eva Moskowitz, Matt Yglesias, Jon Chait, Arne Duncan…"]]></description>
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    <title>After OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute)</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-14T04:33:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Apple Podcasts | Spotify

As part of the Spring Symposium at the Wake Forest Humanities Institute, Matt Seybold discusses the present and future of AI speculation, including an extended discussion with Wake Forest faculty, many who were part of WFHI’s Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Language, Theory, & Artificial Intelligence.

Cast (in order of appearance): Jennifer Greiman, Matt Seybold, Derek Lee, Michaela Appeltova, Nisrine Rahal, Barry Trachtenberg, Jeff Bills-Solomon, Dean Franco, Amanda Gengler

Featured Guests

Jennifer Greiman is Professor of English at Wake Forest University and Director of The Humanities Institute there.

Matt Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, as well as resident scholar at the Center For Mark Twain Studies and executive producer of The American Vandal Podcast.

Episode Bibliography

Emily Bender & Alex Hanna, The AI Con (HarperCollins, 2025)

Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, et al. “On The Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” FAccT 2021

Tressie McMillan Cottom, “The Tech Fantasy That Powers AI is Running on Fumes” The New York Times (April 29, 2025)

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (U California Press, 1984)

Virginia Dignum, The AI Paradox: How To Make Sense of a Complex Future (Princeton UP, 2026)

Ronan Farrow & Andrew Marantz, “Moment of Truth” The New Yorker (April 13, 2026)

Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams & Nigthmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI (Penguin Random House, 2026)

Andy Hines, Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism & The University (U Chicago Press, 2022)

E. D. Hirsch, Cultural Literacy (Houghton Mifflin, 1987)

Tyler Johnston, “The reporters at this new site are AI bots. OpenAI’s Super PAC appears to be funding it.” Model Republic (April 24, 2026)

Matthew Kirschenbaum, “Grok is an Epistemic Weapon” Tech Policy Press (January 13, 2026)

Matthew Kirschenbaum, “Texpocalypse Now: AI and The New Political Economy of Writing” PennAI (April 17, 2026)

Matthew Kirschenbaum & Rita Raley, “AI & The University as a Service” PMLA (May 2024)

Christopher Newfield, Unmaking The Public University (Harvard UP, 2011)

Britt S. Paris, Radical Infrastructure: Imagining The Internet From The Ground Up (U. California, 2026)

Ann Pettifor, The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People & The Planet (Verso, 2026)

Ann Pettifor, “The Next Crisis is Coming” Politics Joe (April 1, 2026)

Ann Pettifor, “Is the next financial crisis only a matter of time?” De Balie (February 16, 2026)

Daniel Roher & Charlie Tyrell, The AI Doc, or How I Became An Apocaloptimist (2026)

Matt Seybold, “Against Technofeudal Education” The American Vandal (June 10, 2025)

Matt Seybold, “The Technofeudal Text” The American Vandal (August 25, 2025)

Matt Seybold, “Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production” The American Vandal (November 5, 2025)

Matt Seybold & Eric Hayot, “The ‘Crisis In The Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.” Chronicle Of Higher Education (December 29, 2025)

Matt Seybold & John Warner, “The Technology That’s Taking Your Freedom” Academic Freedom On The Line (February 3, 2026)

Matt Seybold et al, “The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble” The American Vandal (March 24, 2026)

Matt Seybold et al, “HBCUs & The Philanthrocapitalist Swindle” The American Vandal (February 4, 2025)

Jacob Silverman, “The Death of an AI Whistleblower” The Nation (May 2026)

Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight For The Future of AI (Polity, 2026)

Ben Tarnoff, “Frankenstein’s Regret” The Nation (May 2026)

Wake Forest Humanities Institute, “Language, Theory, & Artificial Intelligence” (May 2026)

McKenzie Wark, Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (Verso, 2019)"]]></description>
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Features

What Does AI Do?
By Daniel Greene

AI and Critical Thinking
By Heather Hax

Cal State’s War on Working-Class Education
By Martha Lincoln and Martha Kenney

Color-Coded Austerity and Shades of Gray
By David Kinsella

AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue
By Justine Zhang, Shreya Chowdhary, and Nathan Kim

Keeping Humans in the Loop
By Troy A. Swanson

Bringing the Fragments Together
By Britt Paris and Rebecca Reynolds

The AI Nuisance
By Jonathan Rees

Online Only

Lessons from the Faculty of a Small Denominational Seminary on Defending Academic Freedom
By Richard L. Hester

Intellectual Property and Brainpower Versus AI in Academic Publishing
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Teaching Climate Change in the Age of ChatGPT
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Book Reviews

Lessons and Cautionary Tales from Big Tech
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Pedagogical Practices to Close the Achievement Gap
By Terry Carter

Respect for Me but Not for Thee
By Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Columns

From the Editor: AI in the Corporate University
By Michael Ferguson

Nota Bene

AAUP Members Mobilize in Campus Actions
By Kelly Benjamin

2025–26 AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey Results
By Glenn Colby

Legal Developments
By Johnda Bentley

AAUP and AFT Launch Higher Education Platform
By Kelly Benjamin

Coalition Challenges Campus Ties to ICE Contractors
By Sean Rudolph

Faculty Raise Concerns About Proposed Accreditor
By Sean Rudolph

New Faculty Unions in Maryland Secure First Contracts
By Michael Ferguson

UAKU Ratifies Landmark First Contract
By Michael Ferguson

Report on Academic Freedom and Collective Bargaining
By Anita Levy

CDAF Resources for the Academic Community
By Kathryn Taylor

Organize Every Campus Campaign Builds Core Skills
By Trent McDonald

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    <dc:date>2026-05-06T05:46:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Once we identify the problem—the sheer magnitude of what is being lost—it becomes immediately clear what any solution worthy of the name must accomplish: the hours must be recovered. How to do this is a good question. I have heard tales of complicated incentive schemes involving baroque grade distributions, of in-class writing samples used as internal benchmarks for outside-class writing, of Dead Poets Society reenactments. I don’t know that these won’t work. But I know what I think about when I confront this question: a big room. A pleasant-enough room with tables and chairs, and maybe some cookies at 9 p.m., budget permitting. A room that it is very easy for an instructor to require a student to spend time in—as easy as checking a box. A room with lockers for your bag, that you can walk into with just a book or a question to spend a few hours with, without distractions, without any offers of “help.” Sometimes when I tell colleagues about it they express concern that requiring students to spend time in my room would feel punitive and paternalistic. But most people just say it sounds like heaven."

[via:
https://ablerism.micro.blog/2026/05/02/an-architectural-haven-for-slow.html
https://micro.blog/ayjay/89477118 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Broken Record</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-05T14:20:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I often feel like I’m repeating myself here, because in fact I am. I am, in part, because ed-tech entrepreneurs and evangelists keep repackaging the same ideas, desperate to sound innovative instead of stuck in some Cold War science fiction fantasy. “Intelligent tutoring systems” become “adaptive learning” then “personalized learning” and now AI tutors, for example.

I thought I’d write something about conversation-ending cliches in today’s newsletter -- about the ways in which certain phrases get trotted out repeatedly in education-technology and serve to shut down debate and inquiry. You know the stuff: all the talk about the inevitability of AI and the “jobs of the future” and whatnot. Then I remembered that I’d written about this very thing: about psychologist Robert Jay Lifton’s notion of the "thought-terminating cliche" as a way to end a conversation and, importantly, to silence criticism or doubt: "brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized, and easily expressed. They become the start and finish of any ideological analysis,” as he put it. It’s a rhetorical tactic of cults, Amanda Montell argues in her book on the language of fanaticism.

I wrote about this very thing not even six months ago. It’s as good a sign as any, I suppose, that I need to take a little break. But truthfully, it’s May 1 and the first couple of weeks of May are just really, really hard for me. My head and heart aren’t here; they’re there.

There were some really important stories this week: the news from ASU, for starters, about the school’s new “AI” tool Atomic that, without professors’ knowledge or consent, has vacuumed up their course materials from the LMS -- lecture materials, videos, and so on -- to train a chatbot that will offer “personalized” (LOL) micro-lessons full of short, fast AI slop. (For the bargain subscription fee of $5/month.)

Ben Williamson observes that this is part of a push on the part of universities to reduce everything to a data asset that can be further monetized. That is, this isn’t simply about the elimination of faculty labor and expertise through automation -- although it is assuredly also that -- but the turn in the purpose of of higher education institutions from “academics” -- teaching, learning, research -- to “financialization.” It shouldn’t be a surprise that ASU is at the forefront of this, with its long history of working with GSV and its connection to the god-awful ASU-GSV event (bonus: ASU professor wil.i.am and “AI” “future-proofing”).

Something about thought-terminating cliches and cults there, for sure.

So here are a bunch of links to a bunch of stories that hopefully you won’t spend your weekend reading. Hopefully you’ll be offline, outside.

I will be. And I’ll be back in a few weeks, not with a clear head or happy heart. But I will be back."]]></description>
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    <title>Sara Hendren: Who Is the Built World Actually Built For? - Art of Inquiry | Podcast on Spotify</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-05T14:11:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sara Hendren didn't start out in engineering. She started as a visual artist, then moved into cultural history, studying objects, artifacts, and what they say about the world that made them. Then life brought her into pediatric spaces filled with a new kind of object: gadgets and tools designed for a child's body, yes, but also doing quiet therapeutic work, covered in butterflies and bugs, useful and expressive all at once. She found herself asking: what is an object broadcasting beyond its user? What does it mean that eyeglasses get sold as fashion while hearing aids are hidden away as clinical? That was the moment everything snapped together, her training in the history of artifacts, the politics of disability, and the material culture of prosthetics all converging at once. In this free-flowing conversation, Sara walks us through the space between mechanical design and design for expression, why the logical and meticulous side of making art and the creative side of meaningful engineering are really the same instinct. As the world asks more and more from its engineers, Sara brings it all back to a question that feels more urgent than ever: can a designed object change not just how we move through the world, but how we see it?"

[via:
https://ablerism.micro.blog/2026/04/29/i-had-fun-speaking-on.html

"I had fun speaking on the Art of Inquiry, a podcast created by two Northeastern engineering students interested in the arts and humanities. My strange career path, my mentor Krzysztof Wodiczko introducing me to interrogative design, raising a child with Down syndrome, studio + lab culture, more."]]]></description>
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    <title>Learning? Yes, of course. Education? No thanks.</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-26T08:05:02+00:00</dc:date>
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https://patrickfarenga.substack.com/p/learning-of-course-education-no-thanks ]

"The legal reasons for forcing people to attend school, created in the 19th century and still in operation today, are based on the logic that school attendance creates good citizens, good workers, and provides a place where children can be while their parents work. While compulsory school laws can be cited for its part in increasing literacy and math skills, these increases are also due to forces outside of school, such as families, tutors, and friends, the growth of mass media, guilds and unions, museums, public libraries, and government and business policies that increase people’s wellbeing and skills. There is little evidence that just graduating elementary, high school, or college makes people better citizens or workers.

Nonetheless, we continue to promote education as the solution for nearly all our problems without questioning if education, as we’ve structured it, is the best way to help children learn and adults to teach. We can question the tools of education—curricula, evaluation, teacher training—but we can’t question the reason education exists as an institution that takes up so much of our time and money: “How would society progress without education?”

Teaching and learning are human activities that existed long before they became professionalized and regulated into education. But learning skills and knowledge for personal gain is no longer the emphasis for getting a degree. School has become the vehicle for education to create social justice, better jobs, better living, better morals, more intelligent government policies. Higher education, in particular, is where you learn how to change the world!

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Nonetheless, bad citizens and workers continue to graduate and influence society. Further, as many school critiques note, schooling often reproduces social class differences and promotes herd behavior over independent democratic engagement.

The usual efforts to reform school—more schools, more intensive curricula—continue to be insufficient. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (“the Nation’s Report Card”) shows that U.S. student performance has been stalled or slightly down in reading, math, and science for the past 20 years.1 Plus, the introduction of system-wide school practices, such as New Math in the 1960s or the Units of Study reading program in 2003, often confuse or diminish learning for many students (and confounds some teachers too!).

Higher education is no better. Legacy admissions and nepotism undermine the chances for less wealthy but more worthy students to get into elite schools. Further, a large and growing number of published academic research is being challenged or revoked based on citing fake studies and plagiarism.2 It is no surprise that students use AI and paper mills to write research papers and essays since their elders do so and get rewarded for it.

Why is it so hard for schools to fix these problems? Perhaps it is due to Upton Sinclair’s observation: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Dr. Seymour Sarason, in his book The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change (Allyn and Bacon, 1971), argues that school reforms confront existing behavioral and programmatic regularities, yet the intended outcomes are seldom clearly stated and often disappear during the change process. As a result, reforms frequently reproduce old practices. Sarason writes, “It certainly was not an intended outcome of the introduction of new math that it should be taught precisely the way the old math was taught. But that has been the outcome, and it would be surprising if it were otherwise. … Discerning overt behavior or programmatic regularities requires that one look at the school culture from a nonjudgmental, non-interpretive stance, a requirement that is not natural to us. We are so used to thinking about what other people are thinking that we pay little attention to what is there to see. (PF: My emphasis.) (p.3)

Though it is obscured by educators’ claims that schooling is the only way children can learn to be productive citizens in modern times, if we remove school’s rose-tinted glasses we can see that compulsory education’s main purpose—to make children obey authority—is well documented through history and research. If education can get off this track and focus on a mission of enabling and appreciating learning in all its forms, instead of just results from inside school, we can start to see what else is possible besides more intensive instruction and forced attendance.

This has been the impetus for many people to create their own schools, such as Bronson Alcott in the 19th century US and A.S. Neil (UK), Maria Montessori (Italy,) and Rudolph Steiner (Germany) in the 20th. These founders saw that children learn in many different modes and places, and though they have different methods and theories for teaching and learning and, in some cases, have become expensive private schools, they are all still suspect in the eyes of professional educators.

What, exactly, does education mean? Aaron Falbel wrote how John Holt defined education:

<blockquote>In 1982, a British interviewer asked John Holt how he defined the word “education.” He responded: “It’s not a word I personally use. … The word “education” is a word much used, and different people mean different things by it. But on the whole, it seems to me what most people mean by “education” has got some ideas built into it or contains certain assumptions, and one of them is that learning is an activity which is separate from the rest of life and done best of all when we are not doing anything else and best of all in places where nothing else is done–learning places, places especially constructed for learning. Another assumption is that education is a designed process in which some people do things to other people or get other people to do things which will presumably be for their own good. Education means that some A is doing something to somebody else B. I guess that, basically, is what most people understand education to be about” The interviewer pressed John further: “Very well, but what is your definition?” John replied: “I don’t know of any definition of it that would seem to me to be acceptable. I wrote a book called Instead of Education, and what I mean by this is instead of this designed process which is carried on in specially constructed places under various kinds of bribe and threat. I don’t know what single word I’d put [in its place]. I would talk about a process in which we become more informed, intelligent, curious, competent, skillful, aware by our interaction with the world around us, because of the mainstream of life, so to speak. In other words, I learn a great deal, but I do it in the process of living, working, playing, being with friends. There is no division in my life between learning, work, play, etc. These things are all one. I don’t have a word which I could easily put in the place of “education,” unless it might be “living.”3</blockquote>

Children and adults have lived and learned successfully in the flow of community and family life throughout human history without compulsory schooling. We know that people who are talented or knowledgeable can share their wisdom with others in a variety of settings, not just in special places reserved for professional teaching and learning. But our laws, customs, and mind sets have been directed away from our heritage of learning towards the regime of instruction.

John Holt’s book Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better provides not just an analysis of the limits of schooling but also examples of other places, institutions, people, and experiences that exist or could be created for children and adults to learn and grow throughout their lives. What also makes this book interesting is how it ends with a call for people to take their children out of school and teach them in their homes and local communities if the schools are not helping their children. This statement led people from around the world who were already teaching their own children to contact John, and this became the impetus for him to found Growing Without Schooling magazine in 1977.

John was certainly influenced by Illich’s work and book Deschooling Society (Harper & Row, 1971) and he moved his own work from theory to practice when he founded Growing Without Schooling magazine in 1977. 49 years have passed since GWS was founded and homeschooling has grown from the 25,000 estimate John used in 1981 to an estimate of 3.5 million children taught at home in the United States in 2026.4 John hoped school, like a business seeing it’s sales decline, would alter its course and let families that want to use school on an as-needed basis to do so.

Holt wrote about children learning in their communities, in play, sports, projects, and theatrical efforts, from neighbors, friends, and family, and places like the Peckham Center in London—a combined medical research and health support program with a lively community center/cafeteria/gymnasium for working class adults and children. Rather than try to incorporate these and other ideas that expand what education can be, our government and school policymakers continue to double down on the existing structure: more tests, more instruction, and more after-school tutoring to make sure students stay focused on task.

One thing most school administrators and teachers agree upon is that children need more time in school, which became terribly clear during the pandemic. Few educators thought to provide children with social or learning opportunities outdoors during the pandemic, in a schoolyard or public park. Instead they decided to keep students glued to their computer screens while they were being marched through the school curriculum in their homes. This shows how devotion to theories of education subsume common sense about what engenders learning, self-esteem, and social activity, which are entwined.

I’m reminded about all this due to a provocative education policy paper I read in NORRAG, the Global Education Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute: Fighting Against Education: No Alternatives Within the Educated Mind. The authors are united as “Le Goliard: A collective, nomadic, de-professionalized intellectual who wanders erratically on the fringes of dominant certainties and institutions.” It is a strong polemic, as these quotes show:"]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education - The New York Times</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["By Molly Worthen

Dr. Worthen, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is the author of “Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History From the Puritans to Donald Trump.”"

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"Paige Drygas, who teaches high school English at a private school just north of Dallas, feels no pressure to make learning fun. She distinguishes between “fun” — meaning stress-free amusement — and the burden she feels to “get students engaged as much as possible. I can see it in their eye contact,” she told me. “I’m trying to get their minds going. For example, I don’t think many people would describe Emerson and Thoreau as fun.”

Maybe that’s why some teachers have their students play “Walden,” a video game in which players simulate Thoreau’s solitary sojourn at Walden Pond. The game is free for teachers, but Ms. Drygas sticks to the texts. “The idea of self-reliance is really interesting. Once you engage that big idea, class moves quickly.”

Ms. Drygas is not only a fun-skeptic. She also requires her students to hand write their essays, read books in hard copy and use laptops as little as possible. These countercultural classroom policies all go together, because fun used to be a wonderful thing in school. Then screens came to dominate instruction time and software developers answered the call to make school fun and personalize learning with a growing marketplace of online games.

This has been the greatest blunder in the past decade of K-12 education: the decision to give every child a personal computer and to gamify everything from standardized test preparation to recess. Mistaken ideas about the nature of learning have combined with a hefty dose of Big Tech propaganda to distort our picture of what school is for. Technology must return to its proper place in the classroom — as a supplemental tool, rather than the source and summit of education.

The logic for bringing more technology into K-12 classrooms seemed intuitive, even before the Covid-19 pandemic pushed school onto screens. If adults were using the latest personal devices and software to do their jobs more efficiently, then surely using them in the classroom would make learning more efficient, too, and prepare students for the modern workplace.

Besides, so the thinking goes, kids today are digital natives. Because they’ve grown up around screens, their brains must be fundamentally different from those of older generations. Teachers need to “meet them where they are” by catering to shorter attention spans and swapping books for multimedia lessons. The more that math and language assignments resemble a video game, the more students will learn.

Every step in this argument is wrong. Researchers have begun to correlate falling test scores in wealthy countries around the world with aggressive adoption of devices in schools (88 percent of American public schools now follow what’s known as the 1-to-1 policy, providing one laptop or tablet for every student). In the United States, math and reading scores among 13-year-olds peaked in 2012 and have declined since.

The analogy between the workplace and the classroom ignores the fact that young people learn differently from adults: They need far more direction and exposure to a variety of sensory activities. Perhaps that means sand and blocks in younger grades. For me, history came alive through the homemade costumes of a “medieval times” fair in high school, especially the memorable sensory activity of trying to make my timeline project look “really medieval” by soaking it in tea and browning it in the oven — where it caught fire. (I then spent hours recreating it.)

My quest to simulate ancient vellum may have been a little eccentric, but my basic mental wiring wasn’t. The concept of a digital native is a myth. The advent of iPhones and laptops did not undo eons of brain evolution in the space of a few years — even if excessive screen time is associated with the thinning of the cerebral cortex. (The damage appears to be reversible, thanks to the brain’s plasticity.)

“People are mistaking kids’ preference for deep biological reality,” Jared Cooney Horvath, a neuroscientist who consults with schools on digital policy, told me. “My daughter loves Popsicles. I have a choice: I could meet her where she’s at and start every meal with a Popsicle. But that doesn’t change the fact that, biologically, Popsicles aren’t good for her, and she needs some vegetables.”

In his new book, “The Digital Delusion,” Dr. Horvath surveys the vast body of research demonstrating the damage to learning that comes with overuse of so-called ed tech, the mass of digital devices and software that have saturated schools. Studies indicate that comprehension collapses when students read texts on screens. Their attention spans shrivel as well: A study of college students working on laptops during a lecture class found that they spent an average of 38 minutes of every hour off task. And even in the age of Google, old-fashioned memorization remains important: Knowledge stored in our brains, not in the cloud, is the seedbed for creative thinking.

Perhaps the most insidious aspect of ed tech’s invasion is the widespread adoption of video-game-style apps to teach, assess and entertain students. These apps feed a broader ethos of gamification that encourages students to fixate on points, badges and other digital dopamine hits — and shy away from the experimentation, frustration and struggle that real learning demands.

The problem is not games themselves. Good teachers have always used games to motivate students and connect them with classmates. But over the past 15 years or so, the hubbub of active, analog games has given way to far quieter classrooms where students spend significant blocks of time in headphones, swiping and scrolling through onscreen activities.

The company Kahoot! says that eight million teachers worldwide use its quiz games for “future-ready skill building.” About 17 million students — roughly one-third of American students from pre-K through 12th grade — use iReady, a digital platform that promises “an active experience that motivates students to take ownership of their learning.” If students get to school early, or bad weather keeps them inside at recess, they can kill time with iReady games like “Hungry Fish” (an arithmetic game) and “Cupcake” (a virtual cupcake business that requires math and map reading).

In some cases, the more they play, the more credits they earn to unlock new games. The curriculum giant McGraw-Hill offers a mobile study app called Sharpen, which chops up lessons into bite-size videos and quizzes. Cartoon avatars and bursts of animated confetti encourage users to “keep up your streak and earn new rewards.”

Denise Champney is a speech pathologist in Rhode Island who has worked in public schools for 25 years, mainly with neurodivergent learners. “The persuasive design of computer games is meant to keep kids using, with no interaction with other people, just with a screen,” she told me. “I’ve seen it with iReady math. They’re just clicking; they want to get through it. They are not reading, because they don’t really need to read. They say, ‘I kind of know what they’re asking, so I’ll click on what I think the answer is.’”

The overuse of online games — and screen-based technology in general — may be especially harmful to students with A.D.H.D. and autism. These students master narrow pattern recognition “instead of working on the skills they need, like reading, writing and multisensory engagement,” Ms. Champney said. She has noticed that they also use laptops to escape from challenging social situations: “Kids bring these devices from class to class, and if they struggle with an interaction, they’ll just pull out their computer and play video games.”

Multiplayer games do not necessarily encourage healthy social skills. Inge Esping, the principal of McPherson Middle School in central Kansas, recalled the final day of school two years ago, when an all-grade online rock-paper-scissors tournament devolved into Lord of the Flies. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much lying, cheating, meanness or crying,” Ms. Esping told me. “It was the worst last day ever. We had to end the game early.”

Her school made headlines this year by abandoning the 1-to-1 laptop policy, mainly at the behest of teachers, who argued that “gravely limiting time on technology will be a positive step for the students,” Ms. Esping said.

Every kind of learning requires facing uncomfortable situations, navigating ambiguity and coping with failure — whether the subject is group dynamics at recess or the details of cell biology. Too often, online games provide friction-free pseudo-engagement, cultivate a narrow set of skills and encourage the assumption that all questions have a single correct answer.

“The more varied the contexts in which you apply a skill, the broader that skill becomes. But computers are wickedly narrow,” Dr. Horvath, the neuroscientist, said. Students “get good at the game, and their score will go up, but as soon as you take them off the screen, most of those skills will go.”

Emily Cherkin, who works with families and schools as “the Screentime Consultant,” taught middle school English for 12 years before her frustration with technology as a teacher and a parent turned her into an “accidental activist,” she told me. “When you gamify lessons, you’re not enhancing learning, but holding students’ attention so they stay engaged with a product longer. That’s at odds with child development. Children should not be spending hours on a screen.” (Ms. Cherkin also worries about the student data that ed tech companies collect, often without parents’ knowledge. She is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the software company PowerSchool, whose 2024 security breach affected millions of children and teachers, exposing personal information to hackers who demanded extortion payments from schools.)

Ms. Cherkin doesn’t oppose technology outright. “I’m not anti-tech. I just want schools to be tech-intentional,” she said. “Of course, kids should learn how technology works, but that is very different from giving 6-year-olds an iPad to learn how to read.”

In my conversations with the growing community of parents, teachers and researchers who criticize ed tech, no one seemed to share my enthusiasm for going back to vellum and quills. The solution, instead, is thoughtful moderation.

Schools should drop the 1-to-1 policy that has encouraged students to see their laptops and tablets as extensions of themselves. Digital games can be effective tools — as long as they emphasize collaboration, creativity and risk-taking rather than lonely scrolling for the next dopamine hit.

I’m intrigued — warily — by Skyler Carr’s approach. He co-founded Mission.io after a few years working in charter schools. As a STEM specialist, he tried “to reach students who were struggling to be engaged in a traditional classroom environment,” he told me. Mission.io creates simulations that embed Common Core grade-level standards in dramatic scenarios that inject real-life stakes into class material. Mission.io is trying to do gamification the right way.

For example, if a sixth-grade teacher uses the company’s program to test students on molecular biology, “we encourage the teacher to say, ‘We’ll be learning about particles and compounds, and you need to know this stuff because tomorrow we’re going on a mission. If you don’t know it, we won’t succeed.’ We want you to introduce it with an understanding that it’s got purpose,” Mr. Carr said.

On mission day, students learn that a nearby lab has suffered a dangerous chemical leak, leaving a researcher trapped. They split into teams and analyze data on airborne molecules in different parts of the lab to figure out which atom they can change to make the floating molecules nontoxic.

Mission.io’s online interface is full of cool graphics and adaptive, choose-your-own-adventure-style story lines. “We’ve got some amazing artists who were unfulfilled making skins for video games,” Mr. Carr said. But the point is to get students on their feet and moving around the classroom, sharing information and brainstorming solutions face to face.

Laptops become tools for in-person collaboration, rather than private gaming consoles (if — and it’s a big “if” — players resist the temptations of the internet). At the end of a mission, students and teachers evaluate both the outcome and the process.

“You can fail the mission and still get good scores on collaboration and critical thinking,” Mr. Carr said. “That’s enlightening for kids who are used to failing. It can open up their minds about how they should be working.”

Mr. Carr and his colleagues have made one decision that sets Mission.io apart from many ed tech companies: Their funding comes from foundation grants and the schools that purchase their programs. “We had a chance to bring on investors early on, and it was an intense conversation. But we knew venture capital and the expectations,” he said. He had seen investors acquire other games and prioritize profit over education. “We needed to be able to let schools call the shots,” he said.

To call the right shots, however, teachers, administrators and families need a clear vision of what education is for. It’s no accident that American schools fell hard and fast for ed tech while the old consensus about what it means to be “college and career ready” was unraveling.

For decades, culture-war debates over American history and science curriculums have consumed public schools. At the same time, many researchers have called the Common Core national curriculum standards a failure. Even elite private schools now struggle to define their purpose, to figure out what mishmash of personal taste and identity categories should replace the politically incorrect Western canon.

“Even highly educated parents don’t put a lot of thought into the deeper purpose of school,” Ms. Drygas, the English teacher in Texas, said. “They just think about how to get their kids into whatever college they want to get to.”

So it has been comforting to think that everyone can still agree on one thing: The more innovation, the better. “Most schools have no guiding ballast anymore,” Dr. Horvath told me. “Tech filled that void for a while.”

But no technology is philosophically neutral. The apps and games that provide a simulacrum of educational progress also encourage students to absorb a certain worldview, an idea of what they should strive for. They end up with the impression that learning is a matter of box ticking, pattern recognition, completing discrete tasks and “leveling up.”

When they get to college and face open-ended essay questions and other forms of ambiguity — when they begin thinking about what they should do after graduation and try to figure out the point of it all — they panic. When a professor asks them to read an entire novel, the task feels overwhelming.

They got into college by mastering a gamified system. But that’s a false picture of the world. Take it from Emerson. He wrote in “Self-Reliance” that real education requires a person to learn that there is no algorithm for fulfillment: “Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil.” Serious intellectual work and moral reasoning cannot be gamified."]]></description>
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    <title>The School Reformer &quot;Accountability Era&quot; Narrative Simply Does Not Add Up</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The PISA declines visible in American math and reading scores over the 2003–2022 period aren’t remotely anomalous; they’re part of a near-universal pattern among wealthy, developed democracies. In particular, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Canada, and Australia - that is, countries with many economic and social similarities but radically different curriculum philosophies, funding structures, pedagogical traditions, etc - all show trajectories strikingly similar to that of the United States. (In fact Finland, long held up as the gold standard of education reform and frequently invoked as a rebuke to American approaches, has seen some of the steepest reading declines in the developed world.) If policy and pedagogy were the primary drivers of American underperformance, one would expect American trends to diverge from those of peer nations, to look distinctively bad in ways that track distinctively American choices. Instead, what the data show is convergence: a broad, shared downward drift across the developed world that almost certainly reflects forces operating above the level of any individual nation’s classroom policy. Pinning these trends on American policy choices, without accounting for why virtually identical trends appear in countries that made very different choices, is not serious analysis.

What could those “forces operating above the level of any individual nation’s classroom policy” be? Well, I was just telling you not to make broad claims about the causes of widespread changes in educational metrics without strong evidence. But what do I suspect? I suspect that it’s related to the fact that children and adolescence have, in the past ten or fifteen years, almost universally adopted a kind of technology that has unique capacity to suck up their attention, drain their mental energy, and waste their time. I think in a decade we’re going to have very strong evidence that it was always the smartphones.

Which means that, once again, American teachers and schools are not guilty of the horrible crimes against children’s potential that they have been accused of. Then again, “accountability” was always less about education policy in the substantive sense and more of a political and moral narrative. Demanding accountability allowed elites to believe that compassion consisted of demanding more from teachers who were asked to do the impossible and students struggling against major socioeconomic barriers. But politicians and neoliberal wonks found that this profoundly unfair behavior towards public educators could be effectively rebranded as high expectations. Accountability rhetoric allowed politicians to posture as champions of children while systematically undermining the working conditions of teachers and narrowing the curriculum to whatever could be cheaply measured. We allowed pundits to talk endlessly about “what works” to improve test scores while refusing to confront the most basic empirical fact in all of education: that schools are downstream of society, not the other way around."]]></description>
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    <title>RIP Khanmigo &amp; Edtech Industry Dreams of AI Tutors</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-16T04:08:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/rip-khanmigo-and-edtech-industry</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["These are stages of grief, and Khan, himself, seems to have moved towards “acceptance.” He now says, “I think our biggest lever is really investing in the human systems,” with technology playing a supporting rather than leading role. This is doubtlessly a more fruitful path for education technology, as edtech historians like Larry Cuban and Justin Reich and edtech critics like Audrey Watters have argued for decades. It remains to be seen, however, if this path will appeal to Khan’s benefactors in the technology industry. Will they be as excited to support human systems as they have been software that tries to abstract humans away from human systems?

Indeed, given that Sal Khan has tried unsuccessfully for nearly two decades to abstract humans away from human systems—first with human explanation, then with human evaluation, and most recently with human tutoring—it seems unlikely that he is the right person now to pivot edtech towards humanity. Instead, it seems more likely that he should sit the next decade out and spend that time learning everything he can about the humans at the heart of the system that, for two decades, he has tried and failed to transform."]]></description>
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    <title>An illustrated guide to resisting &quot;AI is inevitable&quot; in education</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-15T06:40:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-resisting</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["1. Ask the AI-in-education enthusiast to clarify their premise."

...

"2. Ask the AI-in-education enthusiast if they are familiar with recent research indicating that generative AI leads to widespread “cognitive surrender.”"

...

"3. If you feel the need to pile on with research, consider citing to this recent report from Stanford showing the complete lack of empirical research to support the use of AI in education."

...

"4. Ask the AI-in-education enthusiast if they are familiar with any of the recent efforts led by students pushing back hard on the intrusion of AI into their education."

...

"5. Politely point out that Sal Khan, perhaps the most prominent advocate for the capacity of AI to “revolutionize“ education, has recently changed his tune."

...

"6. Direct the AI-in-education enthusiast to the PureGenius website to see if they get the joke."

...

"7. Ask the AI-in-education enthusiast if they are familiar with the broader pushback against the intrusion of education technology into schools led by educators and parents."

...

"8. Gently remind the AI-in-education enthusiast that we have evidence in our own lifetime that highly addictive products marketed to children that cause serious harm are something we can address through policy and norms."

...

"9. If the AI-in-education enthusiast has the audacity to cite f***ing AlphaSchool as counterexample and “proof of what’s possible,” liberally reference any or all the myriad reasons this is one of the most embarrassing possible arguments they could make."

...

"10. If all else fails, try appealing to the poetry of human existence. But don’t hold your breath."]]></description>
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Deirdre Heddon, Stephanie Springgay & Harry Wilson

<blockquote>The dynamic relationships between walking, performance and performativity are long-standing, from psychogeographic drifts which trace capitalism's appropriations and productions of place, to protest marches which mobilize demands for justice; from ceremonial walks as memorialisations of place, to (mis)guided tours which rewrite partial histories; from attentive walking as ways of knowing and feeling differently, to technologically-enhanced walking performances that take the city as their stage. Across a number of years, Research in Drama Education has published a wide range of essays which focus on walking. Given the increasing visibility of walking as a field of practice and the vitality of interdisciplinary scholarship which centres walking, a dedicated edition on the subject felt overdue. As the pieces shared in this edition demonstrate, walking as a mobile, situated and relational method of applied critical practice harbours exploration, criticality, and activism.</blockquote>

Walking and writing as praxes of belonging: stories of gentrification and migration from Toronto’s urban quotidian
Christine Balt

Encountering Olympic landscapes: walking as a pedagogic tool in Stratford, London
Clare Qualmann & Blake Morris

[Multimedia Article] ‘A mind’s eye view’: remote, collaborative walking as a critical spatial practice
Deirdre Macleod

Walking-with a 6-year-old and a smartphone: locative AR, counter-mapping and the productive disruptions of intergenerational collaboration in Placing Spaces
Harry Robert Wilson

In someone else’s steps: walking, listening and the ethics of encounter
Olivia Lamont Bishop

Walk as performative cartography: mapping Delhi’s erased histories through Janam’s street performances
Priyanka Pathak

‘Space is weird…’: contemplative-drifting with student archives as place-based-pedagogy
Steve Donnelly

Walking through knowledge: contextual research strategies in Ga Mashie
Philip Kwame Boafo

Pedestrian theatre as critical urban historiography: the National Theatre of Greece’s Topography of Death or Lest We Forget
Daniel Dilliplane

Moving mourning: an analysis of the Grenfell Memorial Silent Walk and its re-enactment
Linda Taylor & Eve Wedderburn

Littoral futures: walking Freshwater Brook
Robert Bean & Barbara Lounder

*Is this the end of the world or am I just beginning?* Walking-scenographic methods for encountering bodies and landscapes in transition
Nic Farr

‘Peel Park Shimmering’: revealing the paleoecological past and multi-species present of a city park through sound walking practice
Joanne Scott

Wandering through sonic territories in Aotearoa
Becca Wood

Walking under dark-skies: sensing spaces of inclusion in national parks
Claire Hind & Jenny Hall

‘Every time we walk, it is a pride march!’ A conversation on the everyday politics of queer walking
Erdem Avşar & Özgül Akıncı

How do you participate in a garden when you are not the gardener? Enacting and facilitating walking and embodied, sensory practices within a hospice garden with patients receiving palliative care
Steven Anderson & Laura Bradshaw

Let’s walk! Worcestershire: how process drama and mobile technologies create pathways for learning disabled, autistic and neurodiverse walkers
Kris Darby & Paul Sutton

Walking after Kim Jones and Papo Colo
Didier Morelli

[Poetry] Walking/not-walking
Idit Nathan & Helen Stratford"]]></description>
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Screens, Kane noticed, had made it easier for students — and, if he’s being honest, for teachers — to opt out of that contract. “Chromebooks can be a classroom-management strategy,” he said. “Students tend to be a little more docile with a screen in front of them. And it was just so easy for me to sit behind my screen and watch the little dots marching across the dashboard and not really teach.” He’s noticed that teaching in an analog environment is more demanding. “I’m more fatigued,” he said. “But I’m happy with that.”"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What would it mean to experience philosophy not as a body of knowledge to be transmitted, but as a sensation to be felt? Craig is joined by Charles J. Stivale, author of Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars 1970-1987 and co-director of the Deleuze Seminars Archive at Purdue, and Dr. Bob Langan to reconstruct the atmosphere of Deleuze's legendary classroom: the overcrowded rooms, the student contestations, and the radical pedagogical experiment that post-68 French university life made possible. This is the closest you're going to get to sitting at Deleuze's feet on a Tuesday afternoon. Continuing discussion is available for subscribers via our Patreon account.

Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary -  https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-unfolding-the-deleuze-seminars-1970-1987.html

Dr. Bob Langan's links:
https://www.roberthlangan.com/
ig: roberthlangan

Jung and Spinoza: Passage Through The Blessed Self - https://www.routledge.com/Jung-and-Spinoza-Passage-Through-The-Blessed-Self/Langan/p/book/9781032851853 "

[Aslo here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3O4a66ePEKHXusdvZx9MnR
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unfolding-the-deleuze-seminars-experimental-pedagogy/id1512615438?i=1000759422080 ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Teaching a group is hard, so there’s a tendency to retreat to what works for individuals. Give everyone flashcards. Give everyone a computer. Every kid has a tutor. Every kid works on the app. This tendency is maybe especially strong in thinking about math facts, since they’re so heavily studied by special education and psychological researchers who tend to think in terms of individual support—the one-on-one intervention or study. The “Science of Learning” has a bias towards individual pedagogy.

This tendency should be resisted. Teaching a group is most viable when you’re able to teach them as a group. When you treat them as twenty single individuals, each on their own different path, the job also gets twenty times harder. Now, I’m not naive. I understand there are times when the different needs of students are too great for uniform expectations. But I think we’re often too eager to turn a class into a collection of individuals. Instead we can keep class vibrant, interactive, and engaging without asking everyone to retreat to their desks. The collective deserves more respect."

[via:
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/miseducative-experiences/ ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Amid declining test scores, the country has pivoted away from screens and invested in back-to-basics school materials."

[Also posted here:

"Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
Sweden is bringing back books amid declining test scores."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/sweden-goes-back-to-basics-swapping-screens-for-books-in-the-classroom/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School, They Usually Mean Schools Without &quot;Bad Kids&quot;</title>
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    <link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/when-people-say-they-want-good-schools</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["parents intuitively understand that a school's "quality" is a product of how its student body was selected"

...

"The notion that we should help students learn by purging the worst-performing, most-disruptive students is appealing to anyone who has ever witnessed a classroom torpedoed by a student who has no interest in learning, but of course it’s also dangerous. There’s an inherent inflationary tendency, when we’re defining the worst, least-committed students. Charter school roster-pruning can be, in some instances, sufficiently aggressive to root out students who have an interest in learning but limited talent. And those less-talented kids, below a certain age, have to end up somewhere; this is, indeed, core to the complaints of public school teachers, that they run the schools of last resort and are then blamed when many of their kids fail. From a broader perspective, we could be adults and admit that many parents who send their kids to private schools just want to avoid the “bad kids,” and that whether they admit it to themselves or not, they’re really talking about Black kids or poor kids. We had to have a Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation, followed by a massive desegregation effort that was never fully completed, because parents want their kids to be kept away from certain other kids. There is a more sympathetic version of this in the pro-charter-selectivity attitude, and as I’ve intimated, this version is very often made by Black parents who want their kids to escape their station. Whether we decide to give them what they want by engineering benevolent segregation or not, can we at least admit that that’s what we’re doing, and that the public schools who get their leftovers will inevitably look worse for that very reason?"]]></description>
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    <title>What People Want From Our Schools Has Never Been Accomplished, Anywhere, Ever</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-13T05:14:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/what-people-want-from-our-schools</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["educating an entire society into prosperity is a radical modern fantasy, not "getting things back to normal""

...

"We Don’t Know If What We’re Trying is Possible

The United States has embarked on a project that is historically unprecedented: the attempt to make every student “college-ready” and to build a labor market that presumes universal higher education. The degree to which “college for all” is an explicit demand can be lawyered forever; if you’d like to say “No one actually wants college for all,” go ahead. The simple reality is that making all students college ready has long been a thinktank demand, a politician promise, and a goal of charter school networks; whether you want to call it a strawman or not, the idea that the entire labor market is going to flow through schooling, that we’re going to educate our citizenry into employability, is a central reality of modern American economics and politics. In The Cult of Smart I quoted (I believe) every president from Carter through Obama as endorsing education as the path to prosperity. And in the neoliberal era, where so much of the labor market for uneducated citizens has been dismantled, nobody has a very good idea of how people reach the good life without education. So we’re trying to educate everybody. Simple!

I need people to understand this: no society in history has ever achieved such a thing, not even the most aggressively meritocratic or education-obsessed ones. There are countries with better aggregate education data than ours (although there’s always caveats and context) and there’s countries with a higher percentage of adults with college degrees (although in some countries college-level work is similar to the high school-level work that American students do). There are no countries that have built an economy where every worker actually possesses the kind of skills that most are thinking of when they think of a college education, and there are no societies in history where education has been the dominant creator of jobs and financial opportunity in the way implied by the rhetoric we routinely hear from politicians. The idea that we can take a population of tens of millions of young people, with all the diversity of ability, interest, and circumstance that entails, and funnel them into a single academic track is a radical social experiment, and the fact that there’s still so much constant angst about education suggests that it’s not going well. Pretending that we’re just trying to get education “back to normal” is a way of laundering a wildly ambitious scheme into inevitability, as if the failure to achieve this impossible standard is a deviation rather than the natural outcome of the attempt.

To imagine that we are simply replicating the supposed good old days by demanding college readiness for all is to ignore the fact that no country’s default has ever looked like this. And the constant escalation of crisis rhetoric has consequences. By treating universal college readiness as the baseline, we set ourselves up for perpetual crisis, because the system cannot deliver what it promises. Students who do not thrive in academic environments are cast as failures, even though they may possess skills and talents that societies have historically valued in other ways. Employers, meanwhile, inflate credential requirements not because the work demands it, but because the education arms race has made degrees into proxies for discipline and compliance. The result is a labor market that is both exclusionary and brittle, built on the false premise that education can be the sole engine of economic life. To insist that this is “normal” is to deny history, and to guarantee disappointment.

If you want to go ahead and grind whatever your particular axe about education happens to be, knock yourself out. But please, stop saying things like “I just want us to get back to a world where kids were graduating high school with basic skills!” Because the world you’re referring to never existed."]]></description>
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    <title>What AI Is Teaching Us About Humanities Education</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-10T06:36:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How I learned to stop worrying and be thankful for chatbots."

[archived:
https://archive.is/tDR2g ]

"If you are a professor of humanities, as I am, then widespread use of chatbots by your students is either the worst thing that’s ever happened to you—or one of the best. What I suggest is scary for non-academics, I know, but bear with me: Let’s try looking at these matters from the teacher’s point of view.

If you are committed to doing what you’ve always done—which you may well be, because what you’ve always done is all you know how to do—then the rise of the chatbots will hurt, and hurt a lot. If you’re the typical humanities professor, what you’ve always done is assign the good old thesis essay (with or without research, depending on the situation): an essay that stakes a claim and then defends that claim against possible objections. In its most classic form, such an essay will have an introductory paragraph that states the thesis, then three major points in which that thesis is developed and defended against potential objections, and then a conclusion. In high school, that’s a five-paragraph essay; in college, the essays are often longer, but they have essentially the same structure. (If you’re not a humanities professor, you’re still probably having some essay memories right now … painful ones, I expect.)

If that’s what you assign, you can be very clear about this: No matter what rules you establish, your students are going to get AI to do these essays for them. It’s exactly the kind of thing the chatbots are really good at, because it’s completely formulaic and mechanical, and there are zillions of examples out there for the LLMs to draw upon.

Your university has likely purchased some software that claims to be able to detect AI use. But all such services occasionally produce false positives, and that has made many universities very wary about using them. It would not be good publicity—nor good marketing—to let it be known that students were denied credit, or perhaps even denied graduation, because a service said that their work was AI-generated when in fact it was not. So if you want to game your students’ system for gaming your system, hard times are a-comin’—unless, like some professors I know, you keep assigning the same things you’ve always assigned while merely telling your students that they’re on their honor not to use AI. (If you can do that and sleep at night, I admire your powers of compartmentalization. But only your powers of compartmentalization.)

One of the favors that chatbots have done for humanities professors is to reveal to us that chatbots are so good at doing the thesis-essay assignment because it has always been an exceptionally formulaic thing. If we engage in a little self-examination, we’ll realize that we like it formulaic, because that reduces the time and mental energy we have to invest in grading. It’s easy to compare any given student’s essay to the template in your mind and quickly see the extent to which it matches or deviates from it. The rise of the chatbots—with their algorithmic pattern-matching, their stochastic parrot behavior—has revealed that students and faculty alike have been, for many decades, functioning in exactly the same way. If we could confront our chatbots the way parents confront their kids about drug use, the bots would surely reply “I learned it by watching you!”

If we’re willing to let the rise of the chatbots force certain questions upon us, this could be not the worst of times, but the best of them. A little reflection would allow us to see the ways that we have for many years misunderstood what we’re all about: We may have thought we wanted our students to be more sensitive readers, more thoughtful interpreters, more rigorous analysts, but what we were really telling our students was that we wanted them to be better writers of thesis essays.

What do such essay assignments achieve? Well, you might say, they show that students have understood the texts assigned to them, that they can read intelligently, interpret with some degree of sophistication, and relay those interpretations in clear prose. Fine. But what if that’s not what the assignments actually do? What if they don’t mark genuine engagement with and response to literature? What if, instead, they simply reward students who internalize the formula and are able to regurgitate it? On some level, we’ve probably all realized that in many cases that’s exactly what happens. The rise of the chatbots gives us an opportunity to admit it. And that’s a pretty good thing. 

I should pause here to say that, of course, there are many professors in the humanities who want their students to use AI to do their assignments—who wish to increase their students’ dependence on the big AI companies. To those professors I say: Go in peace, and may our paths never cross.

To resume:

When I have talked with my fellow professors in the Great Texts program at Baylor’s Honors College, I have learned a few things. Some professors have for many years been giving oral examinations in the old Oxford and Cambridge tutorial style, where students read their papers aloud, and the professor interrupts to ask questions like “What do you mean by that word? What does that phrase mean?” This allows the professor to discover whether the student actually knows what he or she is talking about. In such situations, and in full oral exams, there are few ways to hide your ignorance. Professors who teach this way can largely (if not wholly) ignore the AI freakout. 

Other professors have been using this new world as an opportunity to rethink what they’re doing and why. One colleague, for instance, went to Walmart and bought her students a bunch of cheap composition notebooks, handed them out, and asked the students to use them to make commonplace books—that is, choice quotations from wise authors written out in your own hand. I have been bringing into class handouts with a paragraph or two on them, and asking the students to annotate them thoroughly in class. This does take up more classroom time, but I compensate by making short audio lectures that I email to my students. I’ve always given a lot of reading quizzes; now I give more. This is a version of what some people call the flipped classroom, but accelerated by the rise of chatbots.

I’ll be retiring from teaching at the end of this year. It has been wonderful to spend time coming up with alternative assignments—trying, after more than 40 years in the classroom, to think in fresh ways about what I want my students to know and what I want them to be able to do. Properly understood, the disruption of humanities teaching by AI is a gift, and I plan to receive it as such, rather than complain about a burden. As a teacher, I find these new conditions invigorating and refreshing. I feel like Charles Foster Kane when he started his career as a newspaper publisher: I don’t know how to teach masterpieces of literature and philosophy and theology, I just try everything I can think of. I find that my students—even if they’re not always as excited as I am—welcome these experiments and are quite willing to engage in them.

I’m teaching a course on fantasy this semester, and we’re now reading The Lord of the Rings. I asked my students to note the extensive maps printed at the end of that book, which the previous books we’ve read—George MacDonald’s Phantastes, Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter, and Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees—do not have. I handed my students some blank sheets of paper and asked them to draw, as best they could, maps of the worlds of those books. They quickly discovered that it was not possible to do this for Phantastes—though it was quite easy, if with some debate about how best to do it, for the other two. Phantastes is unmappable. Which leads to an interesting question: Why? Why did MacDonald write a book set in a world you can’t map? That turns out to be a very important question if you want to understand his peculiar and powerful book.

I don’t think we would have gotten into these issues about the visualization of fictional worlds—why it matters, and what you do instead when you can’t visualize—if I hadn’t been on the lookout for a different kind of assignment.

So for me, the rise of the chatbots has been an unexpected, late-career gift. It has made my teaching more fun for me, and I think more interesting for my students. And I believe the lessons I have learned can be generalized.

As humanities education has become more threatened by budget cuts, an all-consuming university focus on STEM, and self-inflicted unpopularity, it has in a circling-the-wagons way become more and more fad-obsessed and formulaic in its gestures. I remember when, 25 years ago, every English department in America suddenly decided it had to have a “body critic” to talk about “representations of the body” in literature. (Never “bodies,” by the way: the body.) That led to graduate seminars on “Feminism and the Body,” or “The Black Body in the Southern Imagination,” or “The Colonized Body”—which then became undergraduate classes. That’s just one example among many. This trickling-down of concepts from initial critical writings to graduate seminars to undergraduate classes, and then the expectation that undergraduates would be able to (stochastically!) parrot this discourse in their essays, has been how humanities departments function. The boundaries of academic discourse got policed more vigorously as the territory shrank.

The circling of wagons makes sense when we’re confident that the enemy is outside our perimeter, but when the enemy is everywhere, including inside our wagons’ tents and holding the reins of our horses, then some new and imaginative strategies are called for. The current circumstances, properly seized, could prompt a genuine reinvigoration of the humanities, and even of student interest in taking humanities classes. By depriving students of constant AI use—or, to put it more accurately, by allowing them some respite from the tyranny of the chatbots over their lives—we actually enable them to exercise their minds in unfamiliar, and for some unprecedented, ways. 

In short, there’s a great opportunity here for those who want to take it. Humanities professors of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our self-forged chains."]]></description>
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    <title>We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI | Techdirt</title>
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    <title>Mathematician Knocks School - by Patrick Farenga</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-04T03:08:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://patrickfarenga.substack.com/p/mathematician-knocks-school</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is another article in the “more things change the more they stay the same” mold. This one features an expert mathematician from 40 years ago making a similar critique Holt first made in the sixties and that some researchers and teachers are making today: “… very young children learn in manifold ways, at a rate that will never be equaled in later life, and with no formal teaching. Yet the same children find much simpler things far more difficult as soon as they are formally taught in school.”

From the article “Learning Math By Thinking” by Fred M. Hechinger, the New York Times, 6/10/86:

… Dr. Hassler Whitney, a distinguished mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, says that for several decades mathematics teaching has largely failed. He predicts that the current round of tougher standards and longer hours threatens to “throw great numbers, already with great math anxiety, into severe crisis.”

Dr. Whitney has spent many years in classrooms, both teaching mathematics and observing how it is taught, and he calls for an end to what he considers wrongheaded ways.

Long before school, he says, very young children “learn in manifold ways, at a rate that will never be equaled in later life, and with no formal teaching.” For example, they learn to speak and communicate, and to deal with their environment. Yet the same children find much simpler things far more difficult as soon as they are formally taught in school.

Learning mathematics, Dr. Whitney says, should mean “finding one’s way through problems of new sorts, and taking responsibility for the results.”

“This has been completely forgotten” in most schools, he finds. “The pressure is now to pass standardized tests. This means simply to remember the rules for a certain number of standard exercises at the moment of the test and thus ‘show achievement.’ This is the lowest form of learning, of no use in the outside world.”

Dr. Whitney, in a recent report in the Journal of Mathematical Behavior recalled an experiment begun in 1929 by L.P. Benezet, then superintendent of schools in Manchester, N.H. Mr. Benezet was distressed over eighth graders’ poor command of English and their inability to communicate ideas.

“In the fall of 1929,” he wrote in 1935, “I made up my mind to try an experiment of abandoning all formal instruction in arithmetic below the seventh grade and concentrate instead on teaching the children to read, to reason. and recite” by reporting on books they had read and incidents they had seen. The children were no longer made to struggle with long division. “For some years,” Mr. Benezet went on, “I had noticed that the effect of early introduction of arithmetic had been too dull and almost chloroform the child’s reasoning faculties.”

Over the years numbers crept into children’s experience, Mr Benezet said. They learned to deal with “halves” and “doubles,” with estimates of size, with a natural development of multiplication tables and slowly, with formal arithmetic.

Mr. Benezet concluded that children who had not been dragged into early but only dimly understood mathematics eventually outdistanced those who had. Literacy in English and a capacity to think independently and to speak and write clearly helped many to do well in mathematics, too.

In the traditional school climate, Dr. Whitney writes, children’s natural thinking “becomes gradually replaced by attempts at rote learning, with disaster as a result.” In high school, students increasingly say, “Just tell me which formula to use,” a way of saying “Don’t ask me to think.”

Because teachers must “cover the material,” Dr. Whitney adds, there is less time to think. When students are called on, they must answer instantly. Wrong answers are not discussed.

“Students and teachers are all victims” as national commissions clamor for more mathematics without realizing, Dr. Whitney warns, that they may create less knowledge and more anxiety. He says it is crucial to stop just learning the rules."]]></description>
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    <title>The plot to replace teachers with tech</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The popular i-Ready platform dulls young minds"

[archived:
https://archive.ph/hsvbh

via:

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/02/seeds-scribes-and-jeremiahs/

"John Allen Wooden eviscerates a major player in the ed-tech industry: “Partisan tribalists may blame their favorite villains — lazy union teachers and woke-ness for the Right, structural racism and poverty for the Left. But both political parties have been equally guilty of legislating more and more standardized testing over the past 25 years, creating an ideal environment for Big Tech to hawk ‘data-based’ panaceas like i-Ready. Marketed as a high-tech solution to lagging scores on government-mandated tests, i-Ready is used across 30-plus US states and a staggering 70% of the top-100 school districts, covering nearly half of elementary- and middle-school children. This, even though i-Ready has never been proved to successfully teach, immerses already-screen-addled kids in yet more screens, and in all likelihood is making America’s children quantifiably dumber.”"

and 

https://social.ayjay.org/2026/02/28/this-story-about-a-universally.html

"This story about a universally despised, utterly useless, and yet widely deployed e-learning app should remind us of a key truth: American schools at all levels will buy and mandate the use of anything that promises them cost savings. (And “cost savings” = “employing fewer humans.”) "]]]></description>
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    <title>Exceptional Works: Raymond Saunders | It Wasn't Easy Being a First Grader, 1979/1984 | David Zwirner</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“To me [making art is] like writing, it’s like poetry. When do you end the line? There’s a beginning, middle, and end, but the process is the middle, the essence of where you are.”

—Raymond Saunders

[image: "Raymond Saunders, It Wasn't Easy Being a First Grader, 1979/1984"]

The works of celebrated American artist Raymond Saunders (1934–2025) bring together the artist’s extensive formal training with his own observations and experience. Expressionistic swaths of paint, minimalist motifs, line drawings, and passages of vibrant color tangle with found objects from his urban environment, creating unexpected visual rhymes and resonances.

Saunders taught art throughout his career. It Wasn't Easy Being a First Grader (1979/1984) speaks vividly of this important aspect of the artist’s work, and includes crayons, cursive handwriting, and numbers as emblems of early education.

[image: "M. R. Robinson, at right, presenting award to Raymond “Ray” Saunders at National High School Art Exhibition, 1953. Photo by Charles “Teenie” Harris. © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh"]

Having earned his MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, in 1961, Saunders began teaching at California State University, Hayward, in 1968 and went on to join the faculty of his alma mater (later known as California College of the Arts), where he was given the distinction of professor emeritus. For Saunders, teaching and artmaking were equal pursuits, and each in turn informed the other, resulting in the frequently didactic, shorthand mode of expression that is a hallmark of his works.

Saunders’s creative and holistic approach to education was in part a response to his skepticism around traditional systems of training. As the artist stated, “I’ve had too much schooling to think of myself as either naive or childish.… I mean, children paint beautifully, but as long as the designation ‘children’s art’ exists, there will be an undermining of their content.”

A publication made in 2002 is the result of a semester-long project with Saunders and a first grade class at Park Day School, Oakland. The booklet features transcribed conversations between Saunders and the class, as well as students’ artwork.

[two images:

"This publication is the culmination of a semester-long project with Saunders and a first grade class at Park Day School, Oakland, in 2002, and intersperses transcribed conversations between Saunders and the class with students’ artwork."]

Saunders developed a nonhierarchical relationship to pedagogy that came to echo the expansive nature of his artmaking.

Nothing to Say, an interview between Saunders and the writer Christopher Cook, was published on the occasion of the exhibition Raymond Saunders: Paintings, Drawings, Collages at Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Massachusetts, in 1987. The interview between Saunders and Cook, then director of the Addison Gallery, inspired a collection of twenty-five postcards with excerpted quotes from their conversation which include the artist's meditations on teaching art.
A postcard from “NOTHING TO SAY”, dated 1987

[image: "A postcard from the series Nothing to Say by Raymond Saunders in conversation with the writer Christopher Cook, 1987"]

In It Wasn’t Easy Being a First Grader, real crayons and fragments of children’s drawings and book illustrations are among the elements affixed to the striking royal blue canvas, a rare use of colored ground for the artist. The work overtly references grade school and the growing pains of youth, with color swatches, a number table, and “Raymond” written in neat cursive at the top of the canvas.

[image: "Raymond Saunders, It Wasn't Easy Being a First Grader, 1979/1984 (detail)"]

“Saunders’s visual alchemy ultimately renders the picture a layered, essentially abstract, composition. His narratives wander freely. Chronological sequence is fluid, and the story being told is an impressionistic one.”

—Richard Armstrong, then-director at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1996

[image: "Installation view, Raymond Saunders: Flowers from a Black Garden, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2025. Photo by Zachary Riggleman"]

Saunders’s first retrospective at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2025 reflected the artist’s early connection to the museum; growing up in Pittsburgh, Saunders participated in the museum’s Saturday art classes for young people, which continue to this day. His mentor, Joseph C. Fitzpatrick, teacher and director of art for Pittsburgh public schools, also taught Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, and Mel Bochner. Saunders obtained a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and went on to earn a BFA from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1960.

[image: "A postcard from the series Nothing to Say by Raymond Saunders in conversation with the writer Christopher Cook, 1987"]

[images:

"Joan Miró, Blue II, 1961, reproduced as part of a selection of postcards from Saunders’s collection, gathered by the artist throughout his domestic and international travels over the years"

"Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism, 1915–1916, reproduced as part of a selection of postcards from Saunders’s collection, gathered by the artist throughout his domestic and international travels over the years"

"Balthasar van der Ast, Basket of Flowers, c. 1622, reproduced as part of a selection of postcards from Saunders’s collection, gathered by the artist throughout his domestic and international travels over the years"

"Emil Nolde, Twilight, early twentieth century; part of a selection of postcards from Saunders’s collection, gathered by the artist throughout his domestic and international travels over the years"]

A consummate student as well as a dedicated teacher, Saunders collected images of other artists’ work, as discussed in an interview with Judith Wilson in 1980:

“I need what they do.... It makes me who I am.... It’s like a piece of music, and someone says, ‘How does it make you feel?’ You cannot ever say how it makes you feel, but you will continue to listen. And in that same sense, I can’t tell you what it does, but I’d hate to be without it.... But because it’s someone else’s [art], I can leave it alone. I can be happy with it ... because it’s theirs.... But I’m not happy because, thank you, but I want to do something else.” 

[image: "A spread from Here for the Children, a fundraising booklet published to benefit the Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Northern California in the mid-1980s"]

It Wasn't Easy Being a First Grader is illustrated in Here for the Children, a fundraising booklet published to benefit the Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Northern California in the mid-1980s. This image shows the painting in its earlier iteration—Saunders first executed it in 1979 and reworked it in 1984, in keeping with the loose, ever-evolving, and improvisatory nature of his painting style. Saunders understood making art, like teaching, to be an ongoing process, and the artist would frequently return to his compositions. The present version of the painting shows the addition of spray-painted markings and supplementary collage elements.

[embed: "Raymond Saunders discussing his work and process in an interview, 1994" (SFMOMA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QQUnMlvzTI ]

“Raymond Saunders reconstitutes reality for us and with us.... We look at his pictures and (suddenly or slowly) begin to imagine our own humanity—a kind of trembling tenderness touched with menace, exhilaration, relief, and the outrageous bounty at our disposal. From an environment of the lost, the discarded, Saunders creates another wholly inscribed world of found things in which chalk and metal and paint and wallpaper and toys and insignia combine to destabilize and soothe us—then to change us altogether like a tropical medicine belt. Glorious.”

—The author Toni Morrison in her 1993 introduction to a solo exhibition of Saunders’s work"]]></description>
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    <title>Raymond Saunders: Notes from LA | Los Angeles | February 24—April 25, 2026 | David Zwirner</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-26T06:14:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Raymond Saunders (1934–2025) at the gallery’s 616 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes, this is Saunders’s third solo exhibition with David Zwirner and will mark the first exhibition in Los Angeles devoted to the artist’s work in more than a decade."

...

"“California felt physical to me.... I prefer to be [there] really for just those reasons, that I like how it feels.”

—Raymond Saunders, interview with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994"

...

"Celebrating Saunders’s time in California—the artist lived and worked in Oakland for most of his adult life—this exhibition features a selection of paintings and works on paper that embody many of the distinct material and conceptual concerns of the artist’s decades-long practice.

Saunders had close ties to the West Coast, where most of his studio years were spent, and he became well-known as an arts educator there. For Saunders, teaching and artmaking were equal pursuits, and each in turn informed the other, resulting in the frequently didactic, shorthand mode of expression that is a hallmark of his works."

...

"Saunders understood teaching to be, like making art, an ongoing process of learning, and embraced the classroom as a vital site for exchange—of knowledge, of experiences, of ways of seeing the world. He embodied a creative and holistic approach to education that was in part a response to his skepticism around traditional, didactic systems of training. Beginning with his early art training in Pittsburgh’s public schools, Saunders developed a nonhierarchical relationship to pedagogy that came to echo the expansive nature of his artmaking."

...

"“Sights and sounds pass by as one moves along a city street, encountering the world, making decisions, and changing one’s mind as one goes. Such is the beauty of Saunders’s paintings. They are about life and all of its battles and victories, dirtiness and splendor.”

—Connie H. Choi, associate curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem, in the exhibition catalogue for Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011–2012"

...

"Saunders’s assemblage-style paintings frequently begin with a monochromatic black ground elaborated with white chalk—both a pointed reversal of the traditional figure-ground relationship and a nod to his decades spent as a teacher—to which he would subsequently add a range of other markings, materials, and talismans.

Expressionistic swaths of paint, minimalist motifs, line drawings, and passages of vibrant color tangle with found objects, signs, and doors collected from his urban environment, creating unexpected visual rhymes and resonances that reward careful and sustained looking."

...

"“From an environment of the lost, the discarded, Saunders creates another wholly inscribed world of found things in which chalk and metal and paint and wallpaper and toys and insignia combine to destabilize and soothe us—then to change us altogether like a tropical medicine belt. Glorious.”

—Toni Morrison in her catalogue introduction for Raymond Saunders, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1993"

...

"Untitled (1996) is exemplary of Saunders’s late style, which is loosely characterized by the artist’s embrace of a more limited palette and the occasional employment of a white ground instead of his signature black. It Wasn't Easy Being a First Grader (1979/1984) incorporates motifs that speak to Saunders’s lifelong role as an educator."

...

"As seen here, he often included children’s drawings and children’s book illustrations as part of the collaged elements in his compositions. The title of the present work overtly references grade school and the growing pains of youth, with the inclusion of crayons, cursive handwriting, and number tables appearing as emblems of early education."

...

"“Residue is a potent, active force, Saunders’ work attests, whether in material form or the shifting shapes of memory. Personal recollections of painting the living room when he was seven skirt alongside images extracted from collective memory.... The dissonance here yields terrific visual energy. There’s not a moment of blandness or passivity.”

—Leah Ollman, “An All-Embracing View of Life Emerges in Saunders’ Works,” Los Angeles Times, 2001"

...

"As well as an artist and a teacher, Saunders was a committed correspondent. Along with his large-scale, assemblage-style paintings, Saunders also made works on paper and intimate collages whose mixed materials point to the artist’s practices of note-taking—an extension of his mark-making that encompassed scribbling notes to himself, giving notes to his students, receiving notes from colleagues and friends—and the related routine of collecting."

...

"“In these small works on paper the images of Saunders’ graphic vocabulary combine in a resourceful variety of exuberant statements.... All the painterly effects of spatial and atmospheric definition are possible within this limited medium, and it is in this that Saunders excels.”

—Suzanne Foley, curator of Raymond Saunders, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1971"

...

"His collages—which, along with graphite and watercolor drawings, were the subject of his first major museum presentation in a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1971—are intimately scaled, elegant, and restrained compositions defined by the fine and occasionally whimsical quality of Saunders’s line. The artist employs lyrical contours and cryptic gestural marks to depict abstracted figures, text-like inscriptions, and organic objects such as plants, flowers, or vegetables."

...

"“Saunders does not see himself following in the tradition of Pop Art, Assemblage, or other art forms which incorporate found objects. Rather, he uses real objects to provide compositional, textural, and spatial contrasts; their psychological and narrative significance is secondary to formal issues.”

—Joy Feinberg, curator of Raymond Saunders: Recent Work, University Art Museum, University of California, 1976"

...

"Saunders was an archivist who gathered and kept objects and mementos both personal and cultural, precious and abandoned, and these materials appear throughout his work. This throughline is underscored by an illustrative selection of archival materials from his Oakland studio, which are displayed in vitrines installed in the gallery space and further demonstrate the artist’s lifelong impulse to annotate, keep in touch, and accumulate."

...

"These materials include selections from Saunders’s extensive collection of postcards, photographs, and stamps, as well as ephemera from exhibitions, conferences, and classes, among other documents from the artist’s life, one that produced a rich archive both professional and personal."

...

"Saunders’s tall, towering paintings inhabit a physicality that suggests both presence and displacement—embodying an artist who worked across mediums, formats, and cities to produce an inimitable and ever-evolving oeuvre. At once deliberately constructed and improvisatory, didactic and deeply felt, Saunders’s richly built surfaces conjure the fullness of life and its complications, allowing for a vast and nuanced multiplicity of meanings."

...

"“Saunders’ confidence is not displayed in glib ways; it is a quality one perceives through his paintings and the discipline of his methods, his very work ethic. While he is reluctant to offer interpretations of his work, what he does say communicates an understanding of, and respect for, the creative process he experiences.”

—Philip Linhares, curator of Raymond Saunders: Recent Work, Oakland Museum, 1994"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The schools like Alpha School, AltSchool, Summit, and Rocketship are all strikingly dystopian insofar as they compromise, if not reject, any sort of agency for students; they compromise, if not reject, any sort of democratic vision for the classroom. School is simply an exercise in engineering and optimization: command and control and test-prep and feedback loops. There is no space for community or cooperation, no time for play -- there is no openness, no curiosity, no contemplation, no pause. There is no possibility for anything, other than what the algorithm predicts."]]></description>
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    <title>Highlights from Stanford's AI+Education Summit</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-21T21:44:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/highlights-from-stanfords-aieducation</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Several good quotes. An interesting new study. A debate that was one, maybe two chili peppers spicy."

...

"The party is sobering up. The triumphalism of 2023 is out. The edtech rapture is no longer just one more model release away. Instead, from the first slide of the Summit above, panelists frequently argued that any learning gains from AI will be contingent on local implementation and just as likely to result in learning losses, such as those in the second column of the slide."

...

"Teacher Michael Taubman had the line that brought down the house.

<blockquote>In the last year or so, it’s really started to feel like we have 45 minutes together and the together part is what’s really mattering now. We can have screens involved. We can use AI. We should sometimes. But that is a human space. The classroom is taking on an almost sacred dimension for me now. It’s people gathering together to be young and human together, and grow up together, and learn to argue in a very complicated country together, and I think that is increasingly a space that education should be exploring in addition to pedagogy and content.</blockquote>"

...

"Look—this is more or less how the same crowd talked about MOOCs ten years ago. Copy and paste. And AI tutors will fall short of the same bar for the same reason MOOCs did: it’s humans who help humans do hard things. Ever thus. And so many of these technologies—by accident or design—fit a bell jar around the student. They put the kid into an airtight container with the technology inside and every other human outside. That’s all you need to know about their odds of success.

It’ll be another set of panelists in another ten years scratching their heads over the failure of chatbot tutors to transform K-12 education, each panelist now promising the audience that AR / VR / wearables / neural implants / et cetera will be different this time. It simply will."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["‘Why did you write it?’

As an English professor, the YouTube video essayist known as ‘josh (with parentheses)’ has, over the past few years, witnessed a faculty-wide panic about students using large language models (LLMs) to plagiarise assignments. The experience inspired him to create this sprawling video essay on the meaning of LLMs – what they can do and, more to the point, what they can’t. To him, this includes the very act of writing itself, which he contends, borrowing the words of Stephen King, requires a ‘meeting of the minds’. The entertaining and insightful piece spans the poetry of Gertrude Stein and contemporary ‘brainrot’ videos, all while he prods at ChatGPT and his friends. Travelling to some surprising places, he generates an unusually perceptive meditation on what might, at first glance, seem like a near-exhausted topic."

[direct link to video:

"You are a better writer than AI. (Yes, you.)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5wLQ-8eyQI

"As an English professor, I hear people at every level talking constantly about the use of AI in writing, but nobody seems to be talking about the thing that matters most: AI cannot write. Writing has language, and writing has communication, but the communication does not live inside the language. This is a video essay about what writing is. Meetings of the mind with Stephen King, Gertrude Stein, Lewberger, Max Teeth, CyberGrapeUK, and others--but by necessity not with ChatGPT.

Recorded on a Macbook Pro using OBS and a little bit of editing trickery. If you look at the timestamps on the files you can probably deduce that when I say "two weeks ago" I mean about four months ago."]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-02-18T17:54:14+00:00</dc:date>
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...

"Alpha School’s company Workflowy lists “ideas for enhanced tracking & monitoring of kids beyond screentime data.” The goal, according to the note written in Workflowy, was to monitor the way kids are using apps and then use AI to analyze that activity, flag inappropriate behavior like bullying or drug use, and produce a general report about what kids are doing. “Potentially can detect things like changes in friend group or sentiment to flag potential emotional issues to parents,” one bullet point said. 

Alpha School identified Bark, an app that allows parents to surveil their children’s online activity, as potentially offering some of these features, but also said it was “pretty limited” in what data it could get on what kids were doing on apps like Instagram. Alpha School then lists what it calls “hacky” ideas beyond “normal APIs” to get more data on what kids are doing. This includes “fake social media accout [sic] bots to follow the kids and collect what they like, post, comment, etc,” and “use the kid’s logins and scraping the data (would give not just public info like from following but also stuff like the DMs).”

Nothing 404 Media has seen in internal Alpha School documents or heard from former employees indicates that the company ever seriously pursued any of these ideas, but close surveillance of students is fundamental to how Alpha School operates. 

Alpha School makes an app called StudyReel, which monitors activity on a student’s screen, their computer camera and microphone, what apps and websites they’re using, and how they’re moving their mouse. If StudyReel notices that a student is using an unrelated website or app, idling, or not at their computer, the app can nudge them to get back to work. If StudyReel notices that a student is struggling with a particular question, it can direct them to an AI tutor or assign other lessons that will help them. 

Internally and in public messaging, Alpha School refers to these recordings of students as “game tape,” which it reviews in order to help students and improve its teaching. In October, a Wired investigation revealed how this close surveillance upset some students and eventually led their parents to pull them from Alpha School. 

The type of surveillance Alpha School uses on students is functionally identical to the type of surveillance used by Crossover, a platform that matches companies with remote workers. Crossover is also owned by Alpha School’s principal Joe Liemandt. Much like Alpha School, Crossover requires employees to install spyware on their computer that records their screens and tracks their mouse movements to make sure they are being productive. Previous reporting described Crossover as a “software sweatshop,” and that the company’s goal is to turn workers into “algorithms” and “human CPUs.”

“I think it would be great if people understand that Alpha School basically has the same psychological effects as Crossover,” one person with knowledge of Alpha School’s software told me. 

“The idea of installing software that tracks and records everything our kids do and is designed to not let us turn it off is understandably uncomfortable,” an employee who was listed as the product manager of StudyReel wrote in the Workflowy. “We need to do more to justify it, be better at selling it.” 

To do this, the product manager suggested the company “Find StudyReel recordings of students reading the coaching and enjoying it,” and to “Get consent from parents to use it as promotional material (too far?).”

Internally, Alpha School wrote that the “KEY MESSAGE” about StudyReel is that “99% of recordings are never watched by a human” and that “Your data is safe.” However, I saw that Alpha School maintains a spreadsheet which contains a list of student names, their grade, and an archive of their recordings which shows what’s happening on their screen, their remote tutor, and a video of the student taken via their webcam. This spreadsheet is not only available to anyone at the company, but is also shared in such a way that anyone on the internet who has the link can access the spreadsheet and the videos of students.

“If I wanted to, I could go there and just watch students. Anybody who worked in this capacity could watch the videos of students working on their laptops,” one Alpha School employee told me. “So many hours of just students’ faces [...] I'm not sure parents understand exactly what's going on with that data [...] I don't think that this is clearly communicated, because I'm sure there'd be a lot more opt outs if it was.”

Alpha School acknowledged my request for comment but did not provide one in time for publication. 

The former Alpha School employees I talked to all agreed that the company’s goal of condensing core education requirements to two hours of learning in order to give students more time for other, more enriching activities is a good, admirable goal. They also agreed that Alpha School students’ test scores are very high compared to the national average, though they credit the human “guides” at Alpha School for that accomplishment. 

Alpha School’s cofounder MacKenzie Price also admits in the interview with the Hard Fork Podcast that it’s possible the high test scores could be explained by selection bias. Alpha School is an expensive private school. Most students at Alpha School have parents who are concerned about their education and the financial means to send them there, which might be a bigger determining factor in their academic success. Multiple studies have shown that grades, SAT scores, and standardized tests are highly correlated with income. 

The issue according to these former employees is that Alpha School’s two hour learning program usually requires much more than two hours, and more importantly, that the AI products are not working as advertised. 

“Basically the claim that this is some AI magic and much more advanced than other tools is incorrect,” one former employee said. "

[See also:

"Inside an AI-Powered School"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy-38hIhykQ

"This week we start with Emanuel’s wild story about Alpha School, a very hyped AI-powered school. Emanuel got leaked documents and spoke to former employees. After the break, Sam tells us what happens when someone decides to make an AI nudify OnlyFans with your likeness. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph tells us about the agencies buying GeoSpy, an AI that can geolocate photos in seconds.

2:49 - Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire: https://link.mgln.ai/N8BSUA
5:47 - 'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School: https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/
40:01 - 'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans: https://www.404media.co/grok-nudify-ai-images-impersonation-onlyfans/

Image credit: Unsplash

Subscriber's Story - Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds: https://www.404media.co/cops-are-buying-geospy-ai-that-geolocates-photos-in-seconds/ "]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Work the problem from the other end. What do we know about the outcomes for the “A” students of yore, when the A allegedly really meant something? Well, there is some evidence, and it’s not really very comforting for the “we need accurate signals to sort meritocratic worth” camp. The famous Harvard Study of Adult Development, for example, shows both that meritocratic achievement isn’t well mapped to generally good life outcomes and that there have been a lot of B students who have done very well for themselves both in terms of being happy and healthy and in terms of leadership and contribution to society.

More anecdotally, I would point out that I’ve long kept my eye out in memoirs and biographies for a relationship between high academic achievement in college and general achievements in life (artistic, political, entrepreneurial, scholarly, and so on) and there doesn’t seem to be much of a correlation, let alone a clear line of causation, between doing an indifferent job as a college student and being a high-achieving person later on.

Except (perhaps) in one context: you are generally going to find that professors are people who excelled in school, received high grades, and overcame difficult academic challenges, in whatever era of rigor and intensity they personally passed through. Although you do meet astonishingly accomplished scholars and wonderfully gifted teachers who struggled in undergraduate or graduate work (personally, I sometimes think that’s why they are wonderful teachers and highly motivated scholars—they know how to teach and think their way to someone who isn’t a natural at it), broadly speaking academia is a place where high academic performance is the backdrop to becoming a professional and succeeding as one.

Since I think that the education I aspire to provide and the academic institutions I deeply admire are consequential for students and their futures, I believe that good outcomes follow from quality teaching. Since I think quality teaching involves strong feedback loops that include critical assessment of relative performance by individuals and expectations of improvement that can be described and measured, I agree there’s some relationship between what you set as expectations and about telling a student when they’ve fallen short of expectations. Since I agree that some of what I’d like to expect from students, like reading deeply and well or communicating with expressive distinctiveness, is changing at the moment and not for the better, I’m open to thinking about what to do about that change.

When I think about the difference between different students I’ve taught, I think both in terms of the cultivation of repertoires of skills and interests and the sharpening of a student’s ability to narrate their interests in relation to longer-term goals and ambitions. I think about the development of intrinsic motivations over four years and beyond. I see some students really improve in their relative performance within the skills and interests they’re narrowing towards and in how they explain what they know and want, and in the ways they work on their own motivations. I see some students actually get worse in these competencies, and sometimes it is because they’re not paying attention to what they’re doing. Sometimes they’re getting overwhelmed by contradictory guidance from family, professors, mentors, or poor-quality signals from the wider environment about the future that may await them. Sometimes I see a mismatch, that what a student is capable of is not what they’ve decided to do. Or I see a student who indulging some negative feedback loops in terms of clarity of thought, ambition and effort, for any number of reasons—poor mental health, self-pity, uncertainty, fear, anger at an institutional environment that is in fact not built for their presence or ambition. 

Sometimes I see students where I am absolutely confident that this is not the time for them to be in college, but that there will be a time. In many cases, the time to do it right will never come to pass if they don’t work through the time now. Sometimes it’s the lack of thriving now that makes an understanding of later thriving possible. I don’t know how to get that across to a student sometimes, and I’m really sure I don’t want to attempt to tell the world about it through one simple grade. Is that what a B- or a C means to people looking at a transcript? That shouldn’t mean “throw this person away”: it often means instead “put this in the wine cellar for a while and let it age, it’s going to be brilliant later on.”

I don’t think faculty anywhere should attach themselves easily to the maintenance of a past meritocratic ideology, nor assume that grades and standards once upon a time produced such a meritocracy via the maintenance of a clear signaling regime that was avidly consumed by several generations of employers and graduate institutions. If nothing else, that proposition crashes into a way of easy falsifiability by noting that political and economic leadership in the contemporary United States in 2026 is still very associated with past regimes of selective higher education and allegedly rigorous standards of achievement, despite the fact that numerous Ivy League graduates in the Republican Party have pronounced their unending disdain for the educations they rode into professional life and political power.

At the very least, the real actions and demonstrated skills of the people in power now may tell us that there is something far less directly causal about the standards and content of higher education and the professional comportment and ethics that follow from that training. I don’t see anywhere I look, in fact, a tight predictive relationship between how we have measured academic performance within a particular band of selective higher education in any era and any distribution of socioeconomic status or professional accomplishment later on. Let alone happiness, contribution to the world, love, joy, or wisdom. Whatever we do that matters, it matters in ways that are not so easily sorted and annotated. "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We may ask ourselves how we can defend academic integrity from AI, but we should first ask how we became so vulnerable to AI in academia."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Reclaiming Public Spaces for Learning and Friendship"

[See also:

"The Empty Ritual of Schooling (Part One)"
https://patrickfarenga.substack.com/p/the-empty-rituals-of-schooling

"The Empty Ritual of Schooling (Part Two)"
https://patrickfarenga.substack.com/p/the-empty-ritual-of-schooling-part ]]]></description>
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    <title>Justin McDaniel Found a Way to Make Students Read Again</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-18T00:16:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vulture.com/article/justin-mcdaniel-existential-despair-course.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gluttons for Punishment
Justin McDaniel has developed a cult following for getting his students to read — as long as they follow his rules."

[via:
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/01/memorization-gamification-sanctification/

"Lila Shapiro reports on a strange teacher with a strange method of getting students to read. McDaniel doesn’t sound like a healthy man, and cults of personality are also unhealthy, but I’m always intrigued by these Ernest-Shackleton-style sales pitches that seem compelling in a milieu where many students are desperate for someone to give them a challenge: “In his popular class Existential Despair, the students gather one evening each week for seven or eight hours to read an entire book in total silence, then discuss it in a darkened classroom. Some had never read a whole novel before. ‘I’d be lucky if I got through one every four years,’ said a recent graduate named Ryan, who has floppy hair parted in the middle and a marketing degree from Wharton, Penn’s business school. After McDaniel’s class, he said, ‘I got into a rhythm: Every night before bed, I put my phone in another room and I knocked out one chapter.’”"]]]></description>
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    <title>The Walking Assembly 2026 – walk · listen · create</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-15T20:41:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dynamic Knowledge: moving together in practice. How to learn without teaching
9–13 May 2026 · Salt → Albanyà → Muga River (Girona, Catalonia, Spain)

The Walking Assembly 2026 is a nomadic, field-based gathering for artists, researchers, educators, and collectives interested in walking as a form of knowledge-making, relational practice, and ecological inquiry. Building on the Walking Arts and Relational Geographies encounters held in Catalonia in 2022 and 2024, the 2026 edition marks a decisive shift: from conference to assembly, from encounter to movement.

Rather than relying on conventional academic formats, The Walking Assembly proposes an experimental model in which knowledge emerges through shared walking, presence, and collective experience. Learning is understood not as something transmitted or taught, but as something that arises through movement, attention, and being together in place.

Organised by Nau Côclea with an international curatorial team, The Walking Assembly 2026 takes place within the framework of the HO1 POCTEFA cross-border project (Spain–France).
Concept & Theme

Dynamic Knowledge: moving together in practice. How to learn without teaching

The Assembly starts from the recognition that certain forms of knowledge are embodied, relational, ecological, and situated—and cannot be fully grasped through disciplinary research or formal instruction alone. Walking is proposed as:

- a mode of knowing grounded in movement, care, and attention
- a commons based on hospitality, reciprocity, and co-creation
- a way to explore relationships between human and more-than-human worlds

Water, and specifically the Muga River, serves as both guiding metaphor and material presence throughout the Assembly, foregrounding flow, transformation, accumulation, erosion, and return as pedagogical forces.
Structure

Part 1 – Confluence in Salt (Saturday, 9 May 2026)
A one-day open Confluence hosted in Salt (near Girona), bringing together up to 120 participants. Moving beyond traditional conference formats, participants share materials in advance and engage on site through conversations, walks, workshops, and collective sessions. Highlights include a public conversation with Tim Ingold, and an introduction to the walking expedition and thematic walkshops. As part of the parallel programme, expedition participants will take part in an experiential walk in the Urban Gardens of Salt with the Milfulles Association, while non-expedition participants are invited to a counter-mapping workshop led by Luce Choules.

Part 2 – Walking Expedition along the Muga River (10–13 May 2026)
A four-day, three-night nomadic walking expedition based in Albanyà, limited to 30 selected participants. Working in small groups, participants engage in sustained dialogue with the river and its landscapes through themed walkshops, including:

- The river that sees us – Clara Garí and Marc Caellas
- Walking, Writing, and the Commons of Attention – Geert Vermeire
- Personal and Other Pilgrimages – Claudia Zeiske
- Walking on Water – Pau Cata

Evenings are dedicated to collective reflection and sharing. A live photographic fieldwork process, coordinated by Luce Choules, will form an evolving expedition archive."]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | What a School Performance Shows Us About Japanese Education - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-05T02:27:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/opinion/japan-education-childhood.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[archived:
https://archive.ph/4LdAc

See also:

"Opinion | What a School Performance Shows Us About Japanese Education - The New York Times"
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000009295681/instruments-of-a-beating-heart.html

"Documentary Filmmaker Explores Japan’s Rigorous Education Rituals
Her movies try to explain why Japan is the way it is, showing both the upsides and downsides of the country’s commonplace practices. Her latest film focuses on an elementary school."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/world/asia/japan-documentary-films-ema-ryan-yamazaki.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2o52jF4BCY (filmmaker conversation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM3tThvbdi8 (trailer) ]]]></description>
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    <title>The Making of a Japanese | Ema Ryan Yamazaki - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-05T02:23:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Shorenstein APARC's Japan Program held a special advance screening of the forthcoming film THE MAKING OF A JAPANESE. This documentary chronicles life at a large Japanese elementary school in suburban Tokyo, where filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki has distilled over 700 hours of footage into a compelling examination of how Japanese educational institutions cultivate culturally distinct characteristics in young students.

Following the screening, the filmmaker joined in a conversation with Katherine (Kemy) Monahan to discuss the making of the documentary.

Speaker
Raised in Osaka by a Japanese mother and British father, Ema Ryan Yamazaki grew up navigating between Japanese and Western cultures. Having studied filmmaking at New York University, she uses her unique storytelling perspective as an insider and outsider in Japan. In 2017, Ema’s first feature documentary, MONKEY BUSINESS: THE ADVENTURES OF CURIOUS GEORGE’S CREATORS was released worldwide after raising over $186,000 on Kickstarter. In 2019, Ema’s second feature documentary about the phenomenon of high school baseball in Japan, KOSHIEN: JAPAN’S FIELD OF DREAMS, premiered at DOC NYC. In 2020, the film aired on ESPN, and was released theatrically in Japan. It was a New York Times recommendation for international streaming and featured on the Criterion Channel. Ema's latest documentary feature, THE MAKING OF A JAPANESE, follows one year in a Japanese public school. The film premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2023 and is currently playing festivals around the world, with a release set in Japan for December 2024. 

Moderator
Katherine (Kemy) Monahan joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) as a visiting scholar, Japan Program Fellow, for the 2025-2026 academic year. She has served 30 years as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State, across 16 assignments on four continents.  She most recently served as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Japan, following an assignment as Charge d’affaires for Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, and an assignment as Deputy Chief of Mission to New Zealand, Samoa, Cook Islands, and Niue.  Ms. Monahan established and led UNICEF’s Washington D.C.-based International Financial Institutions liaison office, where she negotiated over $1 billion in funding for children in need. Ms. Monahan also served in the U.S. Embassy Mexico as Advisor in the World Bank’s Africa Office, as Deputy Executive Director of the Secretary of State’s Global Health Initiative, and as Senior Development Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels. Earlier in her career, she worked in Warsaw, Poland, to privatize the energy and telecommunications sectors and led the team to ratify the Hague Intercountry Adoption Convention."

[See also:

"Opinion | What a School Performance Shows Us About Japanese Education - The New York Times"
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000009295681/instruments-of-a-beating-heart.html

"Documentary Filmmaker Explores Japan’s Rigorous Education Rituals
Her movies try to explain why Japan is the way it is, showing both the upsides and downsides of the country’s commonplace practices. Her latest film focuses on an elementary school."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/world/asia/japan-documentary-films-ema-ryan-yamazaki.html

"Instruments of a Beating Heart | An Oscar-Nominated Op-Doc"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRW0auOiqm4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM3tThvbdi8 (trailer)]]></description>
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[archived:
https://archive.ph/7Om2d ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the violence of our moment, can the pattern of trust hold?"

...

"As the recent semester drew to a close, I found myself wondering, what is the pattern of the college class? What is its compact, its qualities; what world does it come from or constitute? My friend S. and I have been discussing “pattern languages,” the concept of which comes from the work of architect Christopher Alexander, who developed this understanding of the “timeless way of building” with collaborators Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, and others at Berkeley’s Center for Environmental Structure in the 1970s. Interestingly, there isn’t a “classroom” pattern per se in their 1977 book, A Pattern Language, though such education-related patterns as NETWORK OF LEARNING and SHOPFRONT SCHOOLS are proposed there. Though they feel as though they preexist, that they are not invented but discovered, patterns are less archetypes than aspirations. Open, porous, and radically accessible, so many of them seem to assume relations of trust as a deep resource.

But what of the class itself—that “social institution – workgroup” (patterns 80–86) in which we find ourselves, twelve or twenty or ninety or two hundred students and an instructor, thrown together into this space of expectation, this envelope of institutional mandate, normative hierarchy, and hope for the future, which is the university? Increasingly, I’m aware how little of what happens here, how little of what it means or will come to mean, is determined by that envelope: by the role of higher education in society, say, or the importance of accrued expertise, or the promise of potential.

The writer Paul Elie defines pilgrimage as “a journey taken in light of a story.” To call a class a journey feels shopworn; to call it a pilgrimage, however enlivens it, I think. As pilgrims, we thirteen or thirty-three or ninety-nine go forth in search of the story we will share. Success in the classroom, I’m coming to understand, isn’t a “journey” with the institution as the ship, but is bound up with the discovery of our shared story. Though the story exists before we coax it into presence, this crucially is a beginning and not an end.

The idea of a shared story has fallen on hard times, however. Scandalized by master narratives, we have sought after a seeming lightness in jettisoning the weight of story, falling back on that normative envelope—the “we believe in” of class, college, science, truth; of institution, and order, and rubric. Under the sign of the journey, the class becomes less a pilgrimage than the concourse of some shadowy station, all of us bustling toward our private trains, our own special destinations—a grade, a degree, a job, a like, an evaluation.

The story is patient, however; it waits at the edges of those shadows; it asks only for trust in its discovery. Trust is the pilgrim’s path: trust that sustenance will be offered along the way; trust that one’s fellow pilgrims will teach us and fortify us; trust that we have a guide who recognize the pattern of the way well enough to know its marks even in a changed land. Often the teacher will be this guide, though sometimes someone else from the fellowship will stand and say, just here, I know the way. Their ferocity, their fiat, depends on the trust, however. We all depend on it.

In class, this constellation of trust, this shelter, is the pattern we follow, the habit in which we attire ourselves. The coming-together is ephemeral, and yet it’s the nature of the pattern, and of the stories in light of which we venture forth, to linger long after our fellowship comes to its formal end.

The pattern of the class—the coming together, the rustle of papers, the settle and the setting forth—nurtures this trust, frames it and enfolds it. The pattern is no guarantee, though it will hold the trust with so much more intimacy and strength than any institutional envelope. For we must give ourselves to trust. It is in the nature of the gift.

The story we seek was here before the blossoming of the trust. But if the story is to be found or coaxed forth, this flowering happens before the story may be found. We might have glimpses of the story, the way a pilgrim’s shadow pinioned in the mist will feel like a fellow traveler; the way a deer will browse slowly ahead on the path, attentive even in its disinterest, in its being before and beyond us. Long before the story is caught or drawn close, however, the trust must bloom. And the one who would be silent finds strength of voice; and the one who would speak first finds the silence and helps to hold it open.

When trust trembles on a knife’s edge and the story keeps its distance, there is a dusky chill of enormity in the air. As pilgrims, we ply the edge of that uncertainty, the abyss of it. And sometimes, as we have been told, the abyss looks back; sometimes, the abyss finds its own dark ferocity. In this transit, so much depends on the silent one; the silent one carries such a weight. And we begin to wonder—will the silent one break? Is it in the nature of this silent one to break?

For my class and me this term, the pattern held; the speaker and the silent one came together to carry and to compensate, and the story stole forth and fed from our hands. And yet we were reminded how fragile, how vulnerable, the pattern remains. In the advent of this vulnerability, I felt keenly how the trust has been failed again and again in our time. And I felt the pressure of that failure take the form of fear.

S. reminds me how little we rely in patterns, now, with the modern injunction to make it new giving rise to the existential injunction to find one’s own story. We’re all stumbling through the dusky station, it’s near to midnight, and the last trains are leaving without us. And yet I think it in the nature of the pattern to do its work even in the ruins; that out of the pattern’s matrix, the primordium of the story may open and unfurl and offer itself as gift. We must accept the gift, however, if the pattern is to hold, if its language is to persist. And in trust, S. suggests, in its conjugation of courage and humility, we may find a doorway open to virtue as well.

So the gift is received in trust, a trust that is no mere given, no contrivance of doors and keycards, of who gets in and who is kept out. It’s something we make and hold together. I don’t think that even violence can destroy the pattern. But it makes living into the trust of it ever harder. For the story again and again is uprooted and cast aside. And it is there that violence grows, not in the broken envelope, but in the disturbed soil where the story once grew."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Centering Humanity through Small Acts of Friction

And so, we write here as a call to action. We hope that other educators will join us in helping students and professors to pave an exit ramp off the alienating highway of automated education, and we aspire to achieve this in community, rather than as solitary prompt engineers.

Resistance must entail what Emily Bender and Alex Hanna call in The AI Con “strategic refusal.”

The strategic refusal for which we call takes the form of “acts of friction.”

Friction One: Resolutely center students in our teaching. Maintaining students at the center of our focus means not only refusing to use AI in teaching. Paradoxically, it also means refusing to devise assignments that deflect AI, and, thus, making AI the main focus again. Students, not LLMs, are the protagonists of education and should be treated as such. The friction here means accepting that it is a waste of our and our students’ time to redefine education for the purposes of ChatGPT-proofing our classrooms. Defensive maneuvers, like in-class essay writing exclusively, are acts of deprivation. They deprive students of the opportunity to reflect and refine away from the pressures of the classroom clock. Don’t fulfill the prophecy that “the college essay is dead” because The Atlantic told you so. Keep the essay; but don’t be a cop. Meet thoughtless text extrusion with desultory feedback. Reserve your energy instead for crafting assignments that compel care from students who care enough to think, offering thoughtful feedback on the papers that exhibit their own thoughtfulness.

Friction Two: Cultivate the moments between graded reckonings; slow down the momentum of “optimizing.” What we mean here are small acts of extracurricular and uncredited communion. Reading groups, lightning round presentations, unambitious programs of being in simple, un-CV-able conversations. These pauses alone will insist on humanity’s place in learning. And while these pauses themselves insist on the vitality of getting to think with one another without being subject to metrics and rubrics or succumbing to the thrall of their being against AI, we can also talk to our colleagues and students about our stance on it to show them that there are those who are skeptical.

Friction Three: Interrupt the digital landscape. Erect small speed bumps that jostle and slow our course, drawing attention back to our control over the direction we are taking. This can take the form of sharing print-outs of reading in hallways, leaflets in folders tacked to office doors, pamphlets on tables in common spaces. It also means rejecting the online-ification of education and opting out of Learning Management Systems, while also distributing resources such as those being compiled on the website Against AI.

Friction Four: Ask questions. Rather than accepting the premise that education needs reforming—that the sight of a graph or bar chart proves that a problem exists and that products offer solutions—ask questions of your administration. But this resistance must happen person-to-person. Only once we have created this kind of community will we be comfortable and secure in asking these questions.

In the end, friction means being sand in the gears. It means being the squeaky wheel and the pebble in the shoe, and even the thorn in the side. What this will look like will differ from person to person, and from institution to institution: to propose a single solution would only resemble the disregard for context on which the AI industry thrives.

Whatever small acts of friction one takes, let them make it hard for universities to charge ahead, pouring resources into a technology that none of us asked for. It’s only friction that can bring this momentum to a halt."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-12-16T06:32:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What this essay understands is that whatever the causal roots of surveillance and administrative oversight of student conduct might have been, current practices are killing the agency of students as learners, as members of a community, and as citizens of the world they will inherit. The student that administrators increasingly imagine as fitting and belonging in the institution they run is entirely subject to its authority, subject to procedures, rules and regulations that they not only play no role in shaping but are not even entitled to have information about. Universities now behave towards students as if they wield an unholy mashup of the authority of parents and employers. You can have your handbook of rules and regulations, but it’s not up to you what it says and you’ll just have to accept what it does, while you’re living under its roof.

That just isn’t how people learn, and it isn’t how adults become adults, at least not the adulthood that the utopian rhetoric in college and university catalogs and mission statements claim they’re preparing people to assume.

It’s time for the pendulum to swing back in the other direction, and not just because policies of surveillance and control so blatantly contradict the fundamental purpose of higher education, but also because the systems we grew into are also so vulnerable to exploitation and misuse by people who despise all of us—our students, our faculty, our administration, our alumni, our purpose.

We need to immediately know less about our students and we need to really trust them to discover for themselves, of themselves, with themselves, what kind of world they want to make."]]></description>
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    <link>https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education."]]></description>
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    <title>Was the United States Once a Global Leader in Educational Metrics? Have We Fallen From Those Lofty Heights? No and No</title>
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...

"The narrative that American schools “broke” while the rest of the world flourished is factually incorrect. Learning loss is a global phenomenon, exacerbated by a catastrophic event, not a structural flaw unique to the American education system. And the fact that this decline is so widespread makes efforts to blame American policy and pedagogy specifically very, very weird. Surely, an international decline in academic performance that’s strikingly uniform is not a reason to blame specific American policies! And yet that’s exactly what the declinists do. Part of what’s driving the relentless agita is that the United States has the NAEP, a truly excellent educational assessment, so we have more and better data than a lot of other countries. But that doesn’t mean we’ve done particularly poorly lately. In fact, compared to the industrialized world’s average changes, we’ve done well.

There’s a whole conversation about what’s driving recent international slumps in educational metrics. <strike>(No really, it’s the phones.)</strike> And I am indeed concerned. But the patterns of the data - the fact that the declines happened far earlier than the pandemic both domestically and internationally, the fact that they are happening fairly uniformly across many different demographic groups, the fact that there has been no major national American policy or pedagogical change that can explain it - strongly agitates against seeing this problem in terms of national, state, district, or school-level policy. It just doesn’t make sense to respond to a cross-cultural, massively-international phenomenon like this by yelling about what San Francisco’s wooooooke school board is up to.

<strike>(It’s the phones.)</strike>

The conventional wisdom of American educational decline is a zombie narrative that refuses to die despite being repeatedly killed by data. The reality is that the U.S. has never been a global leader in test scores, or even particularly close to being one; our median students are competent and our elite are exceptional, but our averages look bad because of truly terrible performance at the bottom, which has been a national obsession with little to show for it since before I was born; the average school curriculum is more rigorous than in the past; and our recent downturn in test scores is shared by almost every nation on Earth that participates in collecting data, and worse in many of our most comparable peers. The true challenge facing the U.S. is not a general lack of quality, but a profound inequality that leaves the most vulnerable students behind while the rest of the nation moves forward. And perhaps it’s time to admit that that problem can’t be solved with education policy, either."]]></description>
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