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
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Peter Greene
@palan57.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Find me at original flavor curmudgucation.blogspot.com or fancy new substack curmudgucation.substack.com
Does McMahon Want To Let Teachers Teach?
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Does McMahon Want To Let Teachers Teach?
Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced this week (September 17) an initiative from her old buddies at the America First Policy Institute-- the Let Teachers Teach Coalition-- which appears to borr...
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September 19, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Does McMahon Want To Let Teachers Teach?
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All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more:
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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism
Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...
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September 18, 2026 at 12:13 AM
All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more:
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Charter school mogul secretly bankrolled 25 Republicans — now he's under investigation (Raw Story)
The founder of one of Arizona's largest charter school networks is now facing a criminal investigationover allegations his political action committee illegal...
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September 18, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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September 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
Natalie's volleyball team cut 40 girls. They didn't find another sport: they found their phones
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Natalie's volleyball team cut 40 girls. They didn't find another sport: they found their phones
A Denver foundation shows there's a third way between rec league and $6,000-a-year clubs
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September 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Natalie's volleyball team cut 40 girls. They didn't find another sport: they found their phones
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Here's a suitcase full of truths about school administrators. There could be a dozen gem-like pull quotes in this short piece, from @palan57.bsky.social: curmudgucation.substack.com/p/the-admini...
The Administration Roof
A manager’s job is to create and maintain, as much as possible, the conditions under which their employees can do the very best work.
curmudgucation.substack.com
September 17, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Here's a suitcase full of truths about school administrators. There could be a dozen gem-like pull quotes in this short piece, from @palan57.bsky.social: curmudgucation.substack.com/p/the-admini...
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Shout out to the student journalists at The Daily Iowan for reporting on the travesty that is Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom. With quotes from me dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...
Uncertainty in leadership, curriculum surrounds UI Center for Intellectual Freedom
In the barren walls of his Calvin Hall office, where the Center for Intellectual Freedom resides, interim director and University of Iowa economics professor Luciano de Castro shuffles a stack of pape...
dailyiowan.com
September 16, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Shout out to the student journalists at The Daily Iowan for reporting on the travesty that is Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom. With quotes from me dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...
The Administration Roof
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The Administration Roof
A manager’s job is to create and maintain, as much as possible, the conditions under which their employees can do the very best work.
curmudgucation.substack.com
September 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM
The Administration Roof
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Brilliant, must-read @kevincarey1.bsky.social: “We need more than just a Department of Education. We need a Department of Children and Learning.”
A Department of Education—And Then Some
American children are in trouble. After generations of improvement, test scores are declining and fewer children are showing up to class. COVID-19 knocked school systems off-kilter, disrupting the ste...
democracyjournal.org
September 16, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Brilliant, must-read @kevincarey1.bsky.social: “We need more than just a Department of Education. We need a Department of Children and Learning.”
The $75k-a-year private school encouraging kids to go viral on Twitter sfstandard.com/2026/09/16/7...
The $75k-a-year private school encouraging kids to go viral on Twitter
Life skills or initiation? Alpha School’s eight-week boot camp splits the internet.
sfstandard.com
September 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The $75k-a-year private school encouraging kids to go viral on Twitter sfstandard.com/2026/09/16/7...
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Occasionally, I read that teachers should teach content & only content. It’s our job to drop facts into brains, then test those brains to see how the facts are holding up. Not to consider values or moral responsibility. To stay in our facts-only lane. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/09/16/e...
Educational Guilt
From a piece by Steven Mintz: [Yom Kippur is] a very different conception of moral responsibility from the one modern liberal societies generally favor. We tend to think guilt should track individu…
teacherinastrangeland.blog
September 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Occasionally, I read that teachers should teach content & only content. It’s our job to drop facts into brains, then test those brains to see how the facts are holding up. Not to consider values or moral responsibility. To stay in our facts-only lane. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/09/16/e...
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A minor detail is missing from the headline.
September 16, 2026 at 12:20 AM
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional.
This is the first suit of its kind.
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This is the first suit of its kind.
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
19thnews.org
September 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional.
This is the first suit of its kind.
19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
This is the first suit of its kind.
19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Indeed, We The People Should Be
Getting The Same Healthcare And
Paid Leave As McTurtle.......🐢
Getting The Same Healthcare And
Paid Leave As McTurtle.......🐢
September 16, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Indeed, We The People Should Be
Getting The Same Healthcare And
Paid Leave As McTurtle.......🐢
Getting The Same Healthcare And
Paid Leave As McTurtle.......🐢
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"Voting isn't marriage. It's public transport. You're not waiting for "the one". You're getting on the bus. And if there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay home and sulk. You take the one that's going closest to where you want to be." #Vote for the Non-Felon #Voting #USPoli
September 15, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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Trump's solution for declining test scores is private school vouchers and dismembering the Department of Ed. In @democracyjournal.org, I argue the next president should do exactly the opposite, by creating a bigger, better Department of Children and Learning.
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A Department of Education—And Then Some
American children are in trouble. After generations of improvement, test scores are declining and fewer children are showing up to class. COVID-19 knocked school systems off-kilter, disrupting the ste...
democracyjournal.org
September 16, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Trump's solution for declining test scores is private school vouchers and dismembering the Department of Ed. In @democracyjournal.org, I argue the next president should do exactly the opposite, by creating a bigger, better Department of Children and Learning.
democracyjournal.org/magazine/82/...
democracyjournal.org/magazine/82/...
Disney’s Films Used to Look Different
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Disney’s Films Used to Look Different
Plus: news.
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September 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Disney’s Films Used to Look Different
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The ‘Nonexistent’ Research on AI’s Benefits for Education
Colleges are going all in on artificial intelligence. But it could be a long time before independent research emerges on how it should—or shouldn’t—be used to improve learning outcomes. https://bit.ly/4j2gAOL
#EDUSky #AcademicSky
Colleges are going all in on artificial intelligence. But it could be a long time before independent research emerges on how it should—or shouldn’t—be used to improve learning outcomes. https://bit.ly/4j2gAOL
#EDUSky #AcademicSky
September 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
The ‘Nonexistent’ Research on AI’s Benefits for Education
Colleges are going all in on artificial intelligence. But it could be a long time before independent research emerges on how it should—or shouldn’t—be used to improve learning outcomes. https://bit.ly/4j2gAOL
#EDUSky #AcademicSky
Colleges are going all in on artificial intelligence. But it could be a long time before independent research emerges on how it should—or shouldn’t—be used to improve learning outcomes. https://bit.ly/4j2gAOL
#EDUSky #AcademicSky
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The water on the moon could likely support a small village or town, but not a large “metropolis,” a recent paper found.
The Moon Doesn’t Have Enough Water For Musk’s ‘Self-Growing’ City Of Millions, Researchers Say
The water on the moon could likely support a small village or town, but not a large “metropolis,” a recent paper found.
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September 14, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The water on the moon could likely support a small village or town, but not a large “metropolis,” a recent paper found.
"The College is actively demonstrating that it would rather cut what’s hard to measure than defend what’s hard to replace."
The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson
The Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
"The College is actively demonstrating that it would rather cut what’s hard to measure than defend what’s hard to replace."
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The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson
The Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Slop schools
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Slop schools
My latest for the Boston Globe
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September 15, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Slop schools
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Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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September 15, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class.
“Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolity Precedent”
“Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolity Precedent”
September 15, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class.
“Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolity Precedent”
“Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolity Precedent”