Peter Greene
@palan57.bsky.social
public education fan, education ranter, retired teacher, SAHD, tailgate trombone, Venangoland PA, Curmudgucation, The Progressive, Forbes.com, Bucks County Beacon
Should State Policymakers Decide What Every Student Reads? theeducationreport.substack.com/p/should-sta...
Should State Policymakers Decide What Every Student Reads?
A policy change out of Texas raises questions about the role of state-level policymakers in public education
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Texas Republican Platform: Leaving Children Uninsured, Underserved, Unheard, and Unprotected brucelesley.substack.com/p/texas-repu...
Texas Republican Platform: Leaving Children Uninsured, Underserved, Unheard, and Unprotected
There is far more to what happened at the Texas GOP Convention than the story about the elephant peeing all over the convention floor.
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Project 2025 has some thoughts about women's sports... open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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Teaching and the $1.98 Porsche @lutzfernandez.bsky.social @mattbarnum.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...
Teaching and the $1.98 Porsche
One of the most widely read pieces I ever wrote was a piece for Forbes about the need to stop talking about a “teacher shortage,” which incuded this paragraph.
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The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won't Die open.substack.com/pub/paulthom...
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won't Die
"[K]ids with birthdays in the last two months of the year were 65% more likely to be labeled as having a learning disability than those born during the first two months." Jessica Gould (4 August 2026)
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Vivek Ramaswamy wants to strip Ohio teachers of a right most workers take for granted www.cleveland.com/news/2026/07...
Ramaswamy would end teachers union bargaining — but not for the Teamsters. Here's why that distinction matters
Has Ohio's education debate stopped being about education? The Today in Ohio podcast explores how culture-war politics are eclipsing the issues that matter most for students.
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A ‘lost generation’ of teachers left the classroom. Schools are still dealing with the consequences.
Veteran teachers left, principals cycled through too, and high-poverty schools likely faced the greatest strain. Here’s what years of churn did to classrooms.
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Happy to hear directly from students. Sad that they don't have a functioning government.
Congress hasn't passed AI rules for schools. So these 98 teens did it themselves
Should students be allowed to use AI on assignments? What about on tests? Who should teach AI literacy? About 100 teenagers got together to try to decide.
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A review of FLAG’s finances, donor operations and online donation network reveals a less celebratory picture. There is little evidence that the nonprofit has provided the civics education it claims. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.
Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG w...
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"It took one colleague around seven years to bank 77 sick days to use for a single pregnancy. “Women go back sooner than they should have, because they don’t have the days,” Jones said. “You end up in this deficit zone.”"
Newsom Reverses on Long-Sought Paid Leave Benefit for Teachers in California - KFF Health News
California lawmakers gave public school teachers 14 weeks of paid leave in the state’s new budget, a long-sought benefit for the largely female workforce. Gov. Gavin Newsom previously opposed similar ...
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'People in Springfield called themselves “heritage citizens,” euphemism for entitlement. Who is really a heritage citizen on land that is stolen? When we are all immigrants? How far back do you have to trace family to be “heritage” citizen?Is it just abt being white?' www.patreon.com/LyzLenz/post...
Who will you blame when they’re gone? | Men Yell at Me
I did not intend to come to Springfield, Ohio, the week that temporary protected status (TPS) ended for Haitian immigrants. Since the Suprem
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Three Things I Would Encourage Every Teacher To Do Going Into This School Year open.substack.com/pub/thebroke...
Three Things I Would Encourage Every Teacher To Do Going Into This School Year
No matter what you teach or how long you've taught
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The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade open.substack.com/pub/populari...
The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade
Last Friday, President Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) informing visitors that the museum pr...
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Academically, researchers have often found no significant differences in achievement between schol districts on 5- vs. 4-day schedules, particularly when districts with shorter weeks maintain instructional hours. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
States Start to Crack Down on 4-Day School Weeks
Measures limiting when schools can adopt shortened schedules center on maintaining academic achievement.
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Valuable thread. LLM + ignorance = meszs
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last wk.These errors (which the industry wants us to refer to as "hallucination" - a whimsical, obscuring, anthropomorphizing euphemism) are the reason that reliable AI use requires the discernment that comes from skill and expertise. 8/
"Instead of explicitly saying what they’re saying, they’re coding their aims—breeding distrust in contraception, pushing teens toward early marriage, enforcing traditional gender roles—in language that is a hybrid of anti-abortion talking points and Make America Healthy Again pseudoscience."
I Thought Conservative Sex Education Couldn’t Get Worse. The Trump Administration Found a Way.
Abstinence-only education is a proven disaster. But the new plan is somehow even more dangerous.
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“As conservative activists around the country chip away at church-state separation in education, that leaves a key question unanswered: Can Colorado stop a religious school from being recognized and funded as a public school?“
Education Officials Knew ‘Public Christian School’ Was Religious Before It Opened – Pagosa Daily Post News Events & Video for Pagosa Springs Colorado
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1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed. It will go very successfully indeed" 2026: BBC News, "Both terminals at the UK's second busiest airport, Gatwick, are without running water.. Toilets can't be flushed"
Fisher-Price Is Pivoting to AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Manufacturing open.substack.com/pub/mcsweene...
Fisher-Price Is Pivoting to AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Manufacturing
by Robert Rooney
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OneDrive is just annoying as shit. One more example of why I don't trust Big Tech when they say, "Oh, this will work just like this, every time."
Wolfers: For nine out of the last 10 presidencies, if you’d said, “How much should we blame the president for what’s going on with the economy right now?” I would have said that the president is just one factor among many. That’s what I would have said nine out of 10 times. This is the 10th time.
If your product encourages workflows involving protected student information, districts need governance before teachers need access. open.substack.com/pub/drjoephi...
Anthropic Launched Claude for Teachers. We Blocked It for Our District.
We made that decision quickly and thoroughly.
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Understanding as Proof of Error mail.cyberneticforests.com/understandin...
Understanding as Proof of Error
Clarice Lispector, Translation, and Artificial Intelligence 💡Nerd Warning: 1/5 (Low). I'm a writer who fears the snare of words: the words I say hide others - Which? Maybe I'll say them. – Clarice ...
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Rationale for War with Iran or Reason Men Back into Parking Spaces? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rat...
Rationale for War with Iran or Reason Men Back into Parking Spaces?
“They enjoy displaying their skill even if little is actually accomplished and it takes longer than necessary.”
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