If Dr. Seuss Opined About How to Fix School Funding... https://dianeravitch.net/2026/06/03/if-dr-seuss-opined-about-how-to-fix-school-funding/ via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
If Dr. Seuss Opined About How to Fix School Funding…

Bruce D. Baker is one of the nation’s foremost experts on school finance. He is now a Professor of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami. His blog is SchoolFinance 101. He recently…

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Can AI Handle Parent-Teacher Conferences? - It is not a great use of a teachers time. https://teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/06/02/can-ai-handle-parent-teacher-conferences/ via @nancyflanagan #EducationMatters
Can AI Handle Parent-Teacher Conferences?

Please? Here’s the actual headline: Teacher-Parent Meetings Can Be Tense. Can AI Simulations Help? If you’ve waded around in mainstream edu-media lately, you don’t really need to read the article. …

Teacher in a strange land
Can AI Handle Parent-Teacher Conferences? - It is not a great use of a teachers time. https://teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/06/02/can-ai-handle-parent-teacher-conferences/ via @nancyflanagan #EducationMatters
Can AI Handle Parent-Teacher Conferences?

Please? Here’s the actual headline: Teacher-Parent Meetings Can Be Tense. Can AI Simulations Help? If you’ve waded around in mainstream edu-media lately, you don’t really need to read the article. …

Teacher in a strange land
Can Schools Play Catch-Up? - One more case of over-promising that AI can do something it can’t actually do. https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/can-schools-play-catch-up?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #EducationMatters
Can Schools Play Catch-Up?

From its launch as Campbell Brown’s attempt to be a major education player in anti-public ed politics, The74 has become a very mixed bag.

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Nine girls arraigned in court over 'suspected arson attack' at Kenyan girls' school http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSrCpM #Kenya #ArsonAttack #EducationMatters #GirlsEducation #JusticeForVictims
The early years shape a child’s future! Parents and teachers play a powerful role in building confidence, curiosity, and lifelong learning habits. Discover practical ways to support early learning and help children thrive at home and in the classroom.
🔗 https://theglorybook.com/read-blog/7924_what-parents-and-teachers-can-do-today-to-support-early-learning.html
#EarlyLearning #ParentingTips #EducationMatters #ChildDevelopment #LearningThroughPlay #SchoolReadiness #ParentTeacherPartnership #EarlyChildhoodEducation #KidsLearning #Parenting #Teachers #Education #LearningJourney
Brian Brady: What Knowledge Is Worth Learning? - How do we cultivate minds that can actually perceive reality? https://dianeravitch.net/2026/06/01/benjamin-brady-what-knowledge-is-worth-learning/ via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
Brian Brady: What Knowledge Is Worth Learning?

Brian Brady is the grandson of Marion Brady, a progressive educator who has been critical of typical school subject-based curricula for many decades. Benjamin asks questions that his grandfather Ma…

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Defending the Early Years To Close Up Shop - This is sad. It seems driven because of existing in a billionaire drive era. https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/defending-the-early-years-to-close?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #EducationMatters
Defending the Early Years To Close Up Shop

Defending the Early Years was founded in 2012 to respond to the new wave of bad reformy ideas and has ever since been a powerful and helpful voice in the world of early childhood education.

Curmudgucation
ICYMI: Final Final Stretch Edition (5/31)

By the end of the coming week, school will have wound down for the year for the Board of Directors and the CMO here at the Institute, and summer will officially begin.

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Conversation Among Friends: Deborah Meier & Alfie Kohn

Alifie Kohn jsut sent me this link to a talk we gave at a Coalition of Essential School conference in 2011.

Deborah Meier on Education