How Democrats Lost the Plot on Schools—and How to Get It Back

Important via @MargueriteRoza & Maggie Cicco One detail in FSTC proposed regs will reduce participation in public schools fordhaminstitute.org/nationa… @EdunomicsLab @deborahgist @ninasrees @CharlesBarone @marcportermagee @blew_jim @Jorge_Elorza @meltzere

"Colorado public school groups are jumping in on Trump-backed tax-credit scholarship program" @Chalkbeat H/T @ChadAldeman chalkbeat.org/colorado/2026/…

What I don't have a sense of is, in the states that have already signaled they will opt in, are advocates mobilizing to make it work for the most disadvantaged public school students, even/especially those advocates who don't like the program?

Over the next decade or two (by time children born today graduate high school), the technologies coming behind AI will test basic ideas about what it means to be human, how to create a just and fair society, and what humans need to do to survive and thrive

Too few states have a plan in place. We wrote in @The74 about what needs to happen now the74million.org/article/wan…

This is what crowd out looks like.

Brain implants that now help paralyzed patients move a cursor could someday improve memory or attention in healthy people. Gene editing, prosthetics and wearable sensors are already blurring the line between treating a compromised body and upgrading a healthy one. Further out, but taken seriously in well-funded labs that have already mapped an entire fruit fly brain and set a digital version walking, is the idea of copying a human mind into a machine.

Sounds like they are trying to do the right thing but I wish they didn't refer to these actions as "penalties."

Update: we parents got our kids' 2026 NJSLA-A scores on Friday. Both of our now 8th graders scores are up on both ELA and math. Watching now for public release and sorting out changes in cut scores v. real growth.

In an @NationalParents survey of more than 1,500 parents of K-12 public school students, 85% support K-12 public schools teaching students about AI safety; 77% support K-12 public schools teaching students ways to use AI tools effectively.

I don’t want to freak anybody out, but today’s AI is only the latest wave of an absolute flood of new technologies that will change education and human kind in ways we can scarcely imagine.

A kid who has never learned to swim is the most likely to drown. The same goes for the kids for whom we try to ban AI: they'll use it anyway, in secret and badly.