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public education fan, education ranter, retired teacher, SAHD, tailgate trombone, Venangoland PA, Curmudgucation, The Progressive, Forbes.com, Bucks County Beacon, typos proud evidence of non-AI writing

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 1h
Wow. This might save you fifteen or twenty seconds!
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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 12/10/2026
“Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them ‘whores’ misogynists.”
variety.com
Dan Levy Calls Out Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue and Says ‘More Men Need to Be Standing Up’: ‘Speechless That Something Like That Can Exist on Live National Television’
"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy is calling out Shane Gillis' "Saturday Night Live" monologue, saying that "more men need to be standing up."
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 2h
Here Comes Direct Instruction, Again curmudgucation.substack.com/p/here-comes...
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Here Comes Direct Instruction, Again
Emily Hanford is back with another story to sell about a story someone’s been sold.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 2h
MAGA Moms Sic AI On School Districts curmudgucation.substack.com/p/maga-moms-...
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MAGA Moms Sic AI On School Districts
In the midst of their current summit (cleverly scheduled for the end of Banned Books Week), Moms for Liberty unveiled a new AI tool.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 3h
Here Comes Direct Instruction, Again curmudgucation.substack.com/p/here-comes...
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Here Comes Direct Instruction, Again
Emily Handford is back with another story to sell about a story someone’s been sold.
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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 12h
Tr*mp cut down 430 trees at a historic D.C. public golf course over the weekend with another 299 trees scheduled for removal the next day. After being court-ordered not to. Horrifying de-forestation. Imagine hating tress that much.
apnews.com
Federal judge orders Trump administration to halt work for a day on historic DC golf course
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt work for a day on a historic D.C. golf course, pending more court action. U.S.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 14h
The rise of the Jim Crow theobros open.substack.com/pub/confront...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
How a growing network of Reformed pastors and influencers is blending segregationist theology, the manosphere, and internet outrage to monetize white supremacy.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 14h
I sense a Darwin Award sweep coming
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 20h
An Economically Conservative Approach to Deciding Whether to Adopt or Expand Vouchers schoolfinance101.com/2026/10/12/a...
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An Economically Conservative Approach to Deciding Whether to Adopt or Expand Vouchers
Five questions any fiscal conservative should ask before spending $5 billion a year on private school vouchers, using Florida’s own numbers.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yep. Defending Main Street PAC—a GOP SuperPAC focused on boosting non-MAGA Republicans—spent $20-25K on digital ads against Troy Jackson in Portland ... OREGON. Receipts: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
MAGA Moms Sic AI On School Districts curmudgucation.substack.com/p/maga-moms-...
curmudgucation.substack.com
MAGA Moms Sic AI On School Districts
In the midst of their current summit (cleverly scheduled for the end of Banned Books Week), Moms for Liberty unveiled a new AI tool.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Or you could, you know, talk to them and listen to them.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
MAGA Moms Sic AI On School Districts curmudgucation.substack.com/p/maga-moms-... @masspolprofmo.bsky.social
curmudgucation.substack.com
MAGA Moms Sic AI On School Districts
In the midst of their current summit (cleverly scheduled for the end of Banned Books Week), Moms for Liberty unveiled a new AI tool.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
ICYMI: Banned Edition (10/11) curmudgucation.substack.com/p/icymi-bann...
curmudgucation.substack.com
ICYMI: Banned Edition (10/11)
I have deliberately waited until after Banned Books Week this year to talk about banned books because it’s a topic I hate to see relegated to just one week where we all wring our hands with concern an...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You can lie to yourself every day that this horseshit doesn't make you lazy and stupid, but reality comes at you pretty fast
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I started my car, put a brick on the gas pedal, and put it in gear. The rogue vehicle went down the street and smashed into someone's kitchen on its own. Clearly no human can be held responsible for the destruction.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
*sigh* They didn’t just write the code. They trained the agents on data pertaining to what they did and TOLD THEM TO DO IT. The “rogue” and “we can’t control this” shit is PR hype. I need Journalists to stop being the most credulous marks on the planet.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thank goodness they were acting on their own and no one could be held accountable🥸
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The mathematicians have absolutely had enough of Open AI’s bullshit www.ahmath.org/statements
ahmath.org
Statements — AHM
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 09/10/2026
by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A product no one asked for, that no one wants, that doesn't do what it claims, that burns money
futurism.com
AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents
It turns out that AI demand is significantly lower than expected, as OpenAI shaves $20 billion off its revenue expectations for 2026.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
buckscountybeacon.com/2026/10/9-re...
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9 Reasons Why Governor Josh Shapiro Must Say ‘No’ to Trump’s Federal School Vouchers - Bucks County Beacon
The Democratic governor has shown himself to be voucher-curious in the past.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Banned Books Week: The Florida Law That Opened the Floodgates accountabaloney.substack.com/p/banned-boo...
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Banned Books Week: The Florida Law That Opened the Floodgates
Byron Donalds touts his role in the law that helped make Florida a national leader in book challenges.
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 09/10/2026
9 Reasons Why Governor Josh Shapiro Must Say ‘No’ to Trump’s Federal School Vouchers | The Democratic governor has shown himself to be voucher-curious in the past, writes @palan57.bsky.social.
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9 Reasons Why Governor Josh Shapiro Must Say ‘No’ to Trump’s Federal School Vouchers - Bucks County Beacon
The Democratic governor has shown himself to be voucher-curious in the past.
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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wrote about how the hollowing out of higher education is hurting rural students. Wisconsin is an extreme cautionary tale but rising inequality and the obsessive focus on ROI are happening everywhere barnraisingmedia.com/gutting-two-...
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Gutting Two-Year Colleges Leaves Rural Students Behind
Experts warns the demise of Wisconsin’s two-year liberal arts transfer colleges represents the equivalent of “desertification” of education for rural and first-generation students.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A ‘Gold Rush Moment’ for Private Education progressive.org/public-schoo...
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A ‘Gold Rush Moment’ for Private Education
State officials weigh a new federal school voucher program that is ripe for profiteering and discrimination.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).
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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fascism Warning Play “The Wave” Silenced at Ocean County Vocational in New Jersey hesherman1.substack.com/p/fascism-wa...
hesherman1.substack.com
Fascism Warning Play “The Wave” Silenced at Ocean County Vocational in New Jersey
“It’s School Theatre Censorship Season,” Part 3
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What's Wrong With Educational Research (Part 23,881) curmudgucation.substack.com/p/whats-wron...
curmudgucation.substack.com
What's Wrong With Educational Research (Part 23,881)
Noah Smith is an “econ blogger” who mostly does econ stuff, but a week ago he decided to take a swipe at education.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Department of Education denies Freedom of Information Act request for school voucher data otherduties.substack.com/p/department...
otherduties.substack.com
Department of Education denies request for school voucher data
On September 24, 2026, I submitted a Freedom Information Act request to the South Carolina Department of Education requesting “copies of all student test results submitted to the Department for the 20...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026
"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Pushing back"? She only votes against measures after being assured her vote won't matter. Making sad faces while fully supporting Trump is still supporting Trump. A "concerned" partisan is still a partisan.
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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
School people: We're about a month away from SCOTUS deliberations in St. Mary's v. Roy. It's a big deal: Private schools want to take public money but keep their "right" to discriminate against LGBTQ families. They built their case on a bogus history, so we filed a brief telling the real story:
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026
Theory-free inference is a bid to substitute one for the other: the beauty and terror of being able to manipulate the world without studying or understanding it is that it can be done with money alone. No experts needed.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026
The fact that a theory-free AI might demand far more cash to accomplish a task (even a "solved" one like playing chess) than an expert would charge is beside the point. Billionaires *have* money, they *don't* have expertise.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
In Wisconsin alone, there were 39 private schools where every student used tuition vouchers during the most recent school year. Together, these schools educated 7,923 children and took in roughly $87 million from the voucher program. (Published August)
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
This product should not exist.
nytimes.com
Why My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very Worried
A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What We Mean When We Say "Good School" (pt. 3) thejosevilson.com/what-we-mean...
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What We Mean When We Say "Good School" (pt. 3) | The Jose Vilson
What did an awkward ride to the airport teach me about good schools? Read the story and let me know what you think here!
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't understand. DFER assured me that privatizing public education is a super-duper winning strategy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
New in PN: Roger Marshall is running an all time terrible campaign "After decades of crawling further and further into the orifice of the right-wing media bubble, GOP candidates no longer know how to distinguish truth from propaganda, much less how to persuade skeptical voters."
publicnotice.co
Roger Marshall is running an all time terrible campaign
Red state MAGAs aren’t equipped for real competition and accountability.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The NYT slowly catching up to @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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Opinion | The School Policy Scam Turning Voters Blue (Gift Article)
In Texas and Iowa, Democrats are successfully tying universal school vouchers to corruption.
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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@palan57.bsky.social is right: Teachers need to know stuff, especially in an era where information is suspect, misleading and paywalled. When teachers are not seen as experts—or don’t see themselves as experts—we’re in trouble. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/10/06/i...
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Information vs. Knowledge vs. Application
Let me cut to the chase: You should read Peter Greene’s piece, Teachers Should Know Stuff, if you’re involved in education in any way. Actually, you should subscribe and read all his work, because …
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Arianna Prothero @ariannaprothero.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Education Week reviewed what is on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and assembled this guide to highlight the statewide races and ballot initiatives of greatest consequence to schools. www.edweek.org/policy-polit... @edweek.org #edusky
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EdWeek's Guide to the 2026 Elections: Where Education Is on the Ballot
Education Week reviewed what's on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Big Money Continues to Roll into Massachusetts Coalition for a Stealthy Oligarchy mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/latest-fro...
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Big Money Continues to Roll into Massachusetts Coalition for a Stealthy Oligarchy
The October 5 reports have dropped from Office of Campaign and Political Finance and add to what we’ve seen from the Coalition for Healthy Democracy 2026.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That special distinction of creating a typo so bad that auto-correct cannot determine what the hell you meant.
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Education Week @edweek.org · 06/10/2026
Why Don’t We Talk More About Family Structure in Schooling? (Opinion): A new report examines the role of family structure on academic success.
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Why Don’t We Talk More About Family Structure in Schooling? (Opinion)
A new report examines the role of family structure on academic success.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, setting more rules for a guy whose defining features is that he ignores rules-- that's an awesome plan.
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