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6 days ago | 
nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Neil Selwyn
The promise of ‘labour-saving’ technology is rarely straightforward. While new technologies will often lead to different working conditions, whether or not these equate with better working conditions tends to contestable (especially if we ask the pointed question of ‘better for whom?’).
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1 week ago | 
nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Diane Ravitch
The Texas House of Representatives is moving to a vote on vouchers. Governor Greg Abbott has been pushing vouchers for years, but the House legislators have defeated them again and again, even though Republicans have a super-majority in both houses. The votes were provided by a combination of urban Democrats and rural Republicans. The rural Republicans decided that protecting their local public school was more important than pleasing Governor Abbott.
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2 weeks ago | 
nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Nancy Flanagan
If you were in the classroom, as I was for well over three decades, you will have had some experience with tracking— ability grouping, or dividing the class into the Bluebirds, the Orioles and the Buzzards at reading time. And you will know that some teachers strongly resist the impulse to sort and label students, while others endorsed the practice of dividing students by their—key word alert!—perceived differences. I taught 7th grade math for two (non-consecutive) years.
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1 month ago | 
nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Neil Selwyn
The past few years have seen various examples of the fully-automated classroom be put into operation, prompting equal amounts of consternation and celebration. One such Arizona charter school opening in 2025 is described as using AI-driven platforms to give students short bursts of personalised ‘core instruction’. This school – ‘Unbound Academy’ – will be fully-online and targeted at fourth to eighth graders.
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1 month ago | 
nepc.colorado.edu | Beckie Supiano |YearBy Year |David F. Labaree
This post is a recent essay by Beckie Supiano from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here’s a link to the original. There’s been a lot written lately about the effect that the pandemic had on student learning, and this piece picks up on some of that analysis. But what I find so compelling about this piece is how the author goes more deeply into the role that the educational standards has had in dumbing down the capabilities of students.
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1 month ago | 
nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Diane Ravitch
Governor Bill Lee was determined to get a universal voucher bill, regardless of which families get the money or what it costs the state. Since Republicans control the legislature, he got what he wanted. The plan will be phased in. The legislature knows that most vouchers will subsidize private school tuition. They probably know that vouchers don’t raise academic achievement. They surely know that Tennessee students did well on the national test, NAEP, compared to most other states.
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1 month ago | 
nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Neil Selwyn
Share Share on Bluesky Why is Facebook not here? Why is Twitter not here? Share on LinkedIn Permalink Email March 5, 2025 I’ve tried AI for things like student feedback and been very surprised. We had a 10-mark Geography assignment on Google Docs. I thought the AI would be hopeless, but I put in a list of criteria that I wanted it to mark and the comments were spot on.
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2 months ago | 
nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Nancy Flanagan
For most of my adult life (other than a brief but wonderful stint in the People’s Republic of Ann Arbor), I’ve been the proverbial blue dot on a red background. Although I am out there as a Democrat (on the executive board of the county party, and Democratic candidate for office), I always felt fine about living near, and occasionally hanging out with, Republicans. They were my neighbors and my work colleagues, the white-collar parents of my students, singers in the church choir I directed.
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2 months ago | 
nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Nancy Flanagan
or most of my adult life (other than a brief but wonderful stint in the People’s Republic of Ann Arbor), I’ve been the proverbial blue dot on a red background. Although I am out there as a Democrat (on the executive board of the county party, and Democratic candidate for office), I always felt fine about living near, and occasionally hanging out with, Republicans. They were my neighbors and my work colleagues, the white-collar parents of my students, singers in the church choir I directed.
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2 months ago | 
nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Ben Williamson
Share Share on Bluesky Why is Facebook not here? Why is Twitter not here? Share on LinkedIn Permalink Email February 18, 2025 The UK Labour government has announced plans to “turbocharge” the deployment of artificial intelligence in public services.
