This much needed, nuanced piece finally pushed me to sit down & get all my thoughts out about the "literacy crisis." It's my best attempt to combat the moral panic clickbait that circulates in The Discourse™️ and offer a fuller account of #literacies in the plural. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Three Theses On the Literacy Crisis

Why The Atlantic and the Moral Panic Machine Are Misdiagnosing the "End of Reading"

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Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WIRED sent me to Mississippi to report a different kind of feature about reading. Why are third-graders there acing standardized tests but older students are still struggling with comprehension? What does measuring "literacy" even mean?

WIRED sent me to Mississippi to report a different kind of feature about reading. Why are third-graders there acing standardized tests but older students are still struggling with comprehension? What does measuring "literacy" even mean?

Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read

Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.

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🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The article is paywalled, so DM me for a copy.

Refusing Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Inequity, and the Problem of Critical Optimism - Niral Shah, David Stroupe, Aman Yadav, Tess Bernhard, Charles Logan, Elizabeth B. Dyer, Peng ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)—like many technologies before—comes with hope and worry about its implications for education. In this essay, using generative AI as...

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🤖NEW PUB🤖 Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators by a lot of our @civicsoftech.bsky.social team: @jbpleasa.bsky.social @mariekheath.bsky.social @charleswlogan.bsky.social Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1743... Just DM if you can't access it. /1

Well hey, this looks RAD

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

I’m so excited to read this!

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

It is a sign of how deeply I was underwater at the end of two weeks without childcare with an infant and a toddler that I didn't even see this cluster came out until now. THIS CLUSTER IS SO IMPORTANT! There is an emerging dialogue between high school and college English, long overdue

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

My new essay, on "The Institution(s) of High School English," and the chasm that exists between high school and university English departments, is out now in Post45! Such a pleasure to be thinking alongside this fabulous collection of teachers and scholars! post45.org/2026/06/inst...

The Institution(s) of High School English – Post45

When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...

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Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

Here's our introduction, which gives an overview of the cluster. So many incredible essays! post45.org/2026/06/intr...

Introduction: The Specter of High School English – Post45

There is a specter haunting contemporary literary studies—the specter of high school English. This specter appears most often in moments of anxiety: when college instructors lament students’ inability...

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Thrilled to share a new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on "The Specter of High School English" that I co-edited with Robert LeBlanc. It's an effort to foster richer dialogue between secondary and university English—and it was a joy to work with such brilliant contributors. post45.org/sections/con...

Thrilled to share a new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on "The Specter of High School English" that I co-edited with Robert LeBlanc. It's an effort to foster richer dialogue between secondary and university English—and it was a joy to work with such brilliant contributors. post45.org/sections/con...

New article — the first from an ongoing project that explores how anchoring edtech development in teachers' professional knowledge might support the design of technologies that resist the extractive and deskilling tendencies of platformization in education. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Designing for reciprocity: participatory online professional learning after platformization

Early accounts of educational platforms celebrated their potential to revolutionize professional learning through ‘participatory culture,’ enabling teachers to share resources, gain knowledge from ...

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New article — the first from an ongoing project that explores how anchoring edtech development in teachers' professional knowledge might support the design of technologies that resist the extractive and deskilling tendencies of platformization in education. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Designing for reciprocity: participatory online professional learning after platformization

Early accounts of educational platforms celebrated their potential to revolutionize professional learning through ‘participatory culture,’ enabling teachers to share resources, gain knowledge from ...

tandfonline.com

"But as Charles Logan, T. Philip Nichols, and Antero Garcia recently argued in Kappan, 'the future [educational technology vendors] selling has not arrived — and perhaps it never will. But de-skilling, surveillance, and extraction — all of that is happening now, in our classrooms, today.'"

The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started

Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing mov...

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This piece is amazing for how poorly it informs the public. I get that it's an excerpt from a book whose text was fixed in place months ago, but Khan himself has essentially admitted Khanmigo is a dud. The plucky tale of people who really care working with AI is B.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/b...

OpenAI and Khan Academy Made a Chatbot. What Can We Learn?

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Anthropic is running a continuous research project inside real classrooms at scale and Google DeepMind is doing an RCT of an AI chatbot with 1500 UK schoolkids. Big tech is now all about evidencing AI effects through classroom experiments. The big question is... newsletters.qs.com/6a04954386e7...

🔬 Evidence, education, and EdTech: a new era of outcomes accountability.

Inside the studies, labs, and partnerships shifting how leading institutions compete. Read the EdTech Ecosystem Hubs Report. Innovation events to note in 2026.

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The end of ChatGPT will not be the end of the epistemic warfare it launched, which I see as an extension of the project of deliteracy which began in the ‘70s & which we will have to reckon with no matter how this bubble bursts.

After OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute)

Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S12 E9 · 1h 23m

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I talked to Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth for a story about screen-time limits in schools. Short version: we need to think about the social and academic trade-offs when we allow private edtech to become primary infrastructures for classroom teaching and learning. www.fox4news.com/news/richard....

Richardson ISD considers limiting screen time in classroom

As the conversation around screen time in the classroom gets louder across the country, Richardson ISD is looking at its own use of technology.

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Since moving off Canvas last year, I've experimented with self-hosted websites, shared folders, and hard copies (w/ weekly emails to contextualize readings and offer supplemental resources). Each had different outcomes; all were infinitely better than Canvas. Leave and don't look back.

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

You will be shocked to learn that me and some friends had thoughts about the whole canvas thing www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

You will be shocked to learn that me and some friends had thoughts about the whole canvas thing www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The Canvas Hack Confirmed Some Professors’ Fears. It Likely Won’t Change Anything.

Last week’s widespread Canvas outage validated years of faculty anxiety about higher ed’s dependence on private tech vendors. Most say the likely response is a new vendor, not a new approach.

chronicle.com

We are excited to announce our fifth annual online conference! We are accepting session proposals until June 14. Read all about it here👇 www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/announc...

Announcing the 2026 Civics of Tech Conference — Civics of Technology

Against Tech Hype Hype, hope, disappointment.  Hype is the rhetoric of tech billionaires, of VCs, of tech-pushers, of AI boosters and AI doomers. Hype is about attention, grabbing it, holding...

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Join us for this year's @civicsoftech.bsky.social's free, online conference! We'll be challenging tech hype and its costs for schools and society. We're also excited to welcome @merbroussard.bsky.social and @natashanyt.bsky.social as this year's keynote speakers. More details at:

Announcing the 2026 Civics of Tech Conference — Civics of Technology

Against Tech Hype Hype, hope, disappointment.  Hype is the rhetoric of tech billionaires, of VCs, of tech-pushers, of AI boosters and AI doomers. Hype is about attention, grabbing it, holding...

civicsoftechnology.org

Weird not to see real estate expansion projects, chatbot TAs, or ed-tech privatization on this report of what makes university experience valuable to students

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

'The key findings were said to be “surprisingly simple”: “a good student academic experience ultimately comes down to quality teaching, access to in person interaction with teachers and a strong sense of belonging”.' 2/3

Gotta say, having been in the initial convening on which this framework was to be based, these recs feel way out of step with the serious concerns folks were voicing about AI's commercial capture of education, teacher deskilling, short-circuiting of reading/writing processes, environmental costs.

National Council of Teachers of English@ncte.org · 4mo ago

PRESS RELEASE: NCTE, with support from a national grant from Google.org, has published a working framework for ELA educators seeking to understand the appropriate role of AI in the discipline and help students think critically about AI. ELA educators can contribute feedback: https://bit.ly/4uOxpzD