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Texas High School Shut Down Musical for Cross-Gender Casting. It’s Happening Everywhere. Original
An empty stage is a sad thing. getty South Grand Prairie High School in Grand Prairie, Texas has cancelled its production of Little Shop of Horrors, citing the casting of a female in the male leading role. Howard Sherman at Downstage Center broke the story earlier this week of Ana Mota, the senior who had been cast for the lead role of Seymour Krelborn in the celebrated musical. When casting was announced, district administration reacted to Mota’s casting.
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著書『Coding Kids』で、ジャーナリストのナターシャ・シンガーは、コンピュータ教育がいかにして「IT大手が教室を取り込むための便利な経路」となったかを描いている。 シンガーは、特定の形のコンピュータ教育を教室に導入しようとする動きを、急成長する業界の文脈に位置づけている。業界内では、女性や黒人の比率の低さが指摘される一方で、成長を支える人材をどう確保するかという懸念もあった。 シンガーが特に注目するのは、ハディ・パルトヴィと（2013年に設立された）Code.orgである。彼女は、パルトヴィが「自らの非営利団体を、話題の新アプリを持つスタートアップのように」運営していたと指摘する。迅速で機動的、急速にスケールし、素早く失敗して上に進むことを重視するスタートアップ文化に従うCode.orgは、大手IT企業の関心と提携を引き寄せた。...
Federal School Vouchers Offer Little Flexibility For States Original
Since Congress passed President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill with its federal school voucher, questions have abounded about the exact form that the tax credit program would take. Today the Treasury Department released proposed rules for the voucher program, and some of those questions are being answered. One of the persistent questions has been how much flexibility will states have in how the program is administered.
How Did Computer Tech Giants Commandeer America’s Classrooms Original
What's lost in this forest? getty In Coding Kids, journalist Natasha Singer tells the story of how computer education became “a handy vector for tech giants to capture the classroom.” Singer places the drive to put computer education--in a particular form--inside classrooms in the context of an industry that was growing rapidly, worried about finding personnel to fuel that growth even as some folks pointed out that women and Blacks were underrepresented in the industry.
Where Are Special Student Needs Growing?
When it comes to filling teaching positions, teachers for students with special needs are consistently difficult to hire and retain. A new report helps track where the needs for special education and related services are growing. BlazerWorks, a business that helps schools with staffing needs, has created a report that shows which states are best and worst for special education support.
Where Are Special Student Needs Growing?
Female special education teacher working with a special need elementary age boy, she is helping him to cut paper, more schoolchildren in background getty When it comes to filling teaching positions, teachers for students with special needs are consistently difficult to hire and retain. A new report helps track where the needs for special education and related services are growing.
In Oklahoma, Another Brick In The Wall Between Church And State Totters Original
It is taking a real beating. getty Oklahoma is once again the site of a crucial court battle over whether or not taxpayers can be required to fund a religious charter school. And this time, the court is backing the religious charter. In March 2026, the Oklahoma Charter School Board rejected an application for a Jewish virtual charter school from the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School, a Florida-based Jewish charter school chain that already operates charter schools in that state.
The Call For School Voucher Accountability Original
The Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama just released a survey from their Education Research Center, including questions that measured support for the state’s taxpayer-funded voucher program. And while many Alabamians support the program, many more would like to see it attached to some measures that would level the playing field for private and public schools.
Anti-Democracy In America
The through line for MAGA politics is simple enough. Some people are better than others, and everything wrong with this country can be traced to efforts to lift up people who do not deserve to be lifted up. Poor people are poor because they deserve to be poor, and policy efforts to lift them up are bad and wrong (so axe the social safety net).
From Hedge Fund To Alternatives Platform: How US Managers Are Pursuing Growth And Stability
09/21/26 Judging by the headline numbers, the hedge fund industry has never been healthier. Total industry capital reached record levels through the second quarter of 2026 (approaching an estimated $5.6 trillion), with first half returns the strongest in several years. The record, however, is largely a performance story, and performance dispersion across hedge funds has widened considerably.
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学生が課題に取り組む際に、ChatGPTやClaudeといった大規模言語モデル（LLM）を用いたAI（人工知能）に作文を丸投げすべきではない、という点で教育者たちの見解はおおむね一致している。一方で、AIを文章作成の「補助」や「支援」として活用し、たとえば学生が書いた草稿の編集や「仕上げ」をさせるのは許容範囲だとみる向きもある。だが、新しい研究論文によれば、それはどうやら良くない考えのようだ。 『LLMはいかに私たちの文章を歪めるか』と題したこの論文は、LLMを活用した推敲が「文章の内容や意味を大きく書き換える」ことを示している。ただ文章が無味乾燥で個性のないありふれた表現ばかりになってしまうだけではない。多くの場合、LLMは書き手が意図した意味そのものを改変してしまうことが研究によって判明したのだ。 LLMを多用するユーザーらは、文章が「自分らしい表現ではなくなった」と報告している。研究チームはさらに踏み込んで、LLMが文章を特定の「LLM文体」へと歪めており、その結果、人間が執筆した文章と意味的に異なるものが生み出されていることを明らかにした。...
Don’t Use AI To Edit Writing
While teachers largely agree that Large Language Model AI such as ChatGPT or Claude should not be used by students to write entire assignments, there is another school of thought that AI can be used by students to "help" with writing assignments, including the use of AI to edit or "clean up" a student rough draft. A new research paper suggests that's a bad idea.
Don’t Use AI To Edit Writing
3 hours ago Presented by Zeta Every forward-deployed engineering (FDE) pitch sounds identical for the first ten minutes: an engineer embedded on-site, a workflow encoded within weeks, a demo that finally works on the customer's real data. What differs is what happens in the following months, and most vendors …
10 Instructional Illusions Original
Your classroom is around here somewhere getty In their book Instructional Illusions, Paul Kirschner, Carl Hendrick and Jim Heal argue that one defining characteristic of human learning is that “what we think works or is good for learning and what actually works or is good for learning are often some distance apart.” They set out to describe “illusions, not myths” and are clear up front that they don’t consider teachers or teaching “to be engaged in any deliberate act of deception.” In other...
Report: Teacher Are Being Squeezed Financially Original
Should have chosen another line of work. getty A new report from the Economic Policy Institute and Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds that teachers are still paying a penalty for choosing a classroom career instead of comparable professions. The new report shows that the teacher pay penalty for 2025 stands at 25.2%, meaning that teachers earn about 25% less than college graduates in other professions.
In Alabama, A Community Looks To Take Back Its Schools Original
After two years of struggles, Bessemer, Alabama will elect a whole new school board this Tuesday and, perhaps, move one step closer to escaping state control. The district provides an example of the kinds of issues that lead to, and follow from, a state takeover. Bessemer is a city of around 25,000 residents just southwest of Birmingham. It started out in the late 1800s as a steelmaking city; that industry has since moved out.
Families Ask Supreme Court To Reject Texas Law That Requires Ten Commandments Classroom Displays Original
Once again, the courts wrestle with the presence of religion in a public classroom. getty More than two dozen families from a variety of faiths and school districts have challenged the Texas law that requires schools to post the state-approved version of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. The law was passed by the Texas legislature and signed by Governor Greg Abbott in 2025 Texas parents challenged it in court almost immediately.
AI And The Centaur In The Classroom Original
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 22: Cory Doctorow speaks onstage during Unfinished Live at The Shed on September 22, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Unfinished Live ) Getty Images for Unfinished Live In his newest book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, Cory Doctorow offers a framework that could be used by educators to figure out where (if anywhere) AI fits in a classroom.
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2022年の時点で早くも、識者たちは「ChatGPTは高校の英語授業を終わらせる」と言い放っていた。しかしライティングの専門家ジョン・ワーナーが指摘したように、「ChatGPTには、守るに値するものを殺すことなどできない」のだ。 それから4年が経った今も、現場の教師たちは、従来型のライティング課題に対する大規模言語モデル（LLM）の脅威にどう対処すべきか、模索し続けている。チート用のボットではこなせないような課題を組み立てられないだろうか。倫理の授業を繰り返し行えば、生徒たちに課題をコンピュータへ丸投げするのを思いとどまらせられるのだろうか。おそらく、どちらも無理だろう。では代わりに、教師は何をすべきなのか。 まず、そもそも学校の作文課題がなぜチャットボットによる代筆にこれほど脆弱だったのかを理解することが有用である。...
When High School Sports Aren’t For Everyone Original
Not everyone gets a locker. getty Sports are a familiar and traditional part of high schools in the U.S. They build (or reveal) character and yield numerous social, emotional, and cognitive benefits. But while we may think of high school sports as providing opportunities to all students, a new Pennsylvania study suggests that access to athletic opportunities varies widely between districts. In the highly-rated Fairview School District, 36% of students played sports in the 2024-25 season.
How To Make A Writing Classroom AI-Resistant
Guide the pen yourself getty Way back in 2022, pundits were already declaring that “ChatGPT will end high school English.” But as writing expert John Warner pointed out, “ChatGPT can’t kill anything worth preserving.” Four years later, classroom teachers continue to question how to manage the threat of Large Language Models to a traditional writing assignments. Can assignments be structured so that a cheatbot can’t successfully complete them?
How To Make A Writing Classroom AI-Resistant
Way back in 2022, pundits were already declaring that "ChatGPT will end high school English." But as writing expert John Warner pointed out, "ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving." Four years later, classroom teachers continue to question how to manage the threat of Large Language Models to a traditional writing assignments. Can assignments be structured so that a cheatbot can't successfully complete them?
How To Make A Writing Classroom AI-Resistant
Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is …
Will Federal Vouchers Usher In A New Era Of School Voucher Regulation? Original
More guard rails, please. getty State level school vouchers have enjoyed a period of growth largely free from regulation and oversight, but the advent of federal vouchers has the potential to change that. Most states have voucher laws that explicitly forbid the state from interfering in any way with how a voucher-receiving school conducts business.
Court Keeps Piece Of Church State Wall Intact In Maine
In June 2022 the Supreme Court ruled in Carson v. Makin that Maine must extend its school voucher to include religious schools. But while that decision set a precent cited by many advocates arguing for public funding of private religious schools, it left one hurdle for those schools to overcome. For now, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled most of that the hurdle will stay in place. Carson v. Makin spun from a peculiarity of Maine education law.
Arizona One Step Closer To Voucher Accountability Original
Voucher accountability is headed to an Arizona voting booth in November getty The attempt to add guardrails to Arizona’s high-spending taxpayer-funded school voucher system has cleared one more hurdle. A coalition of parents and educators, represented by Save Our Schools Arizona and the Arizona Education Association, collected 421,251 signatures to place a ballot measure up to vote in November. 256,000 were required to put the measure on the ballot.
Want Education Change? Give Teachers The Time To Implement Original
Every classroom has a clock getty Over the years, folks concerned about education have discussed the importance of policy changes and the resources needed to implement them. But a new research brief argues that the critical resource is rarely discussed-- time. Time is always a resource in demand for teachers; time for grading papers, planning lessons, and dealing with meetings and conferences can eat up that resource on a daily basis.
NEA Reports On The State Of Teacher Pay Original
Can I really afford to do this? getty A new report from the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teacher union, shows that teacher pay is failing to keep up with inflation. The average public teacher salary has from $71,985 in 2023-24 to roughly $74,495 in 2024–25. But adjusted for inflation, teacher salaries have fallen by 5% over the last decade. The report finds that 35% of school districts have an average starting salary of at least $50,000.
Vermont And Nebraska Earn Top Grades In Public Education Report Original
Will they be supported at the other end of this trip? getty A new report finds Nebraska and Vermont tops in their commitment to public education. The Network for Public Education, a public education advocacy group co-founded by noted education historian Diane Ravitch, has been releasing reports on US education for nearly a decade.
Will Federal School Vouchers Help Public Schools? Original
After creating a federal school voucher program, the Trump administration has had little trouble convincing red state governors to opt in. Among Democrats, only New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul and Colorado’s Governor Jared Polis have brought their states into the program. The debate for the remaining states includes one major question-- would the federal vouchers benefit public schools by allowing them to take advantage of another federal revenue stream?
In Ohio, A Proposal For School Voucher Transparency Original
Looking for some facts getty Ohio currently operates five taxpayer-funded school voucher programs, spending over a billion dollars a year to send students to private schools. A new Senate bill aims to bring some transparency to how those taxpayer dollars are being spent and allow a more fact-based discussion of voucher policies. Senate Bill 443 is entitled the “Take the Dough, We Gotta Know Act,” and it calls for the state to collect more data about how the taxpayer-funded vouchers are being used.
Federal 2027 Budget Aims To Slash Education Spending—Again
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 03: Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee's Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee about the proposed 15-percent cut to the Education Department's budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump tasked McMahon with shutting down the Education Department.
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誰もが、生徒の学力向上は良いことであり、教師の指導力は非常に望ましいものだと同意している。しかし、これらの用語を定義できる人は多くない。これは問題だ。 Education Consumers Foundationは、テネシー州の教員養成プログラムの成績表を公表し、「同州のプログラムは、効果的な新任教師よりも効果のない新任教師を多く輩出している」と示した。 新たな研究は、学校での携帯電話禁止が学力向上に効果がないと主張する文献に追加された。結果は全体的に複雑だが、携帯電話禁止が生徒の学力を向上させないため、「ほぼゼロの影響」として報じられている。 グロースマインドセット（成長志向）は数年前に注目を集めたが、研究により一般的に生徒の学力向上にプラスの効果がないことが示されるまでのことだった。...
Wisconsin School Board May Silence High School Band Performance Of Trans-Linked Piece Original
Watertown school board tells band to hush. getty The board of Watertown United School District in Wisconsin may require the high school band to pull one piece from its spring concert because of an LGBTQ connection. “A Mother of a Revolution!” is a 2019 composition by Omar Thomas. It was commissioned by the Desert Winds Freedom Band to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.
Gifts For Teacher Appreciation Week Original
It's that time again. getty Teacher Appreciation Week is this week. The National PTA is offering a free downloadable Celebration Toolkit complete with thank you cards and certificates of appreciation. Many retailers are offering freebies and discounts to teachers, and there are numerous articles highlighting many gift ideas for that teacher you want to honor this week. There is nothing wrong with the traditional tchotchkes.
Beware Studies Of “Student Achievement” Original
How much does that stick tell us? getty Everyone agrees that more student achievement is a good thing, and that teacher effectiveness is highly desirable. But not everyone can define those terms. That’s a problem.
Six Key Truths About Rural Schools Original
Just around the bend getty Summer Hopper and Sheneka Williams of Michigan State University have published a paper about rural education that identifies six key ideas about rural schools. The paper appears at the Live Handbook of Education Policy Research at the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP). Hopper and Williams identify six key findings, some of which run counter to conventional wisdom. Rural schools and communities are becoming increasingly diverse.
Ohio Teacher Sues Over Hate Has No Home Here Poster Original
Are blank walls the only safe choice for teachers? getty The Little Miami School District and their school board president have been sued by teacher “John Doe” over the school board’s demand that he take down a “Hate Has No Home Here” poster that has been in his classroom since 2022. The plaintiff charges that his First Amendment rights have been violated; the school board asserts that the poster violates HB 8, the Ohio Parents’ Bill of Rights.
Senate Bill Proposes Rollback Of Federal School Vouchers Original
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 01: U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) speaks at a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on December 1, 2025, in Washington, DC.
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