Jen Jennings

graph showing significant growth in home schooling in Broward County, FL

From hanging chads to hanging at home: Broward County is now the epicenter of Florida's home schooling growth.

A TASTE OF À LA CARTE LEARNING - NextSteps: Step Up For Students

Something to be thankful for, Moms.

A la carte learning: Bringing the fresh hell of coordinating multiple summer camps - now all year round.

Unity Christian School prepares to open new Clinton campus after years of delays After flooding setbacks, Unity Christian School is nearing completion of its new Clinton campus, with classes expected to move in by January.

Policymakers used to bemoan "welfare magnet" states. Now, a private school is moving across the river (IL-IA) for voucher $, "to once again reclaim the IA families that had a tough decision of saying, you know, I can do it for...a lower price on the IA side." [School claims decision predated ESA]

“This tech-obsessed moment may have finally pushed humanists to identify the value of their disciplines and play to their strengths, after first going fetal for far too long when assailed by return-on-investment literalists who willfully misunderstand the fit between school and work”

it is the classic NYT contrarianism - AI unexpectedly saves the humanities!“A.I. could well hasten the end of teachers just telling their students to write an essay and putting a grade on the result.”

In an Abeka history textbook, authors write that “slaves seemed to be better investments than indentured servants,” & claim that freedmen promoted “fiscal irresponsibility” during Reconstruction. Authors blamed the decline of “American’s views on race relations” on the nation’s first Black president

I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.

After shining a perpetual light on the 5 Americans with 300K of student debt, the NYT has moved on to profiling the 5 humanities professors who love AI.

Turns out that holding kids back if they can't read by 3rd grade is good for temporary test score increases but terrible for the adults the kids become www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Just do it. It’s delicious.

CONGRATS!

Abstract for "The truly isolated: Spatial isolation of advantage in the United States" by Shannon Rieger, Angela Li, and Patrick Sharkey, published at Urban Studies

👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.

👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...

You know higher ed is in real trouble when the econ job market is suffering - currently below 2020 levels.

If you play w grok on a bus, perhaps you get what you deserve but ick

In a public transportation induced moment of insanity, I did this; wow, is grok the most misogynist AI ever.

“her pussy probably smells like expired yogurt and broken dreams…She’s got the sex appeal of a moldy gym sock and the brain capacity of whatever’s stuck to the bottom of it.”

an Epic, Vulgar Roast

woke grill discriminates against men

Thankfully, deeply uneventful.

America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?

"More parents are discovering that their children simply don’t fit, a terrifying possibility when achievement in school can determine achievement in life. At that point, the best thing to do is to prove that your child has a mental disorder."

Or, it's okay if your kid isn't an academic star.

Impressionist Amtrak scene, cabybara hairclip and coffee

The empirical question at hand:
does Thanksgiving week make the average 7am Amtrak rider more or less offensive? It begins. Capybara clip lends calm, unbothered energy.

ICE detained teenaged US citizen during school lunch break, family says Christian Jimenez, Oregon high school senior, faces possible obstruction charges after traffic stop by immigration agents

At ICE, we're respectin' power
Join ICE, I hear they got great hours
There's a sign-on bonus of 50 grand
They're in need of you, needin' to feel like a man

Little miss spoof cover, little miss class on thanksgiving week with stuffed animals instead of students

All that practice teaching stuffed animals is about to pay off.

‘Initiative’ Review: High School as an Epic Struggle

If you're in NYC and enjoy a high school-focused play, check out Initiative at the Public Theater. 5 hours, but well worth it.

One big, achievable win for the American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social: create a single upload recommendation system for doctoral admissions (akin to the law school admissions).

One upload for each student would be a real blessing.

Broken clock twice a day, etc

The disruption affects kids who are absent, kids who are there, and the poor teachers who, as always, are trying to hold it together when no one else will.

School voucher confidential: Yes, the other parents are talking about you - Arkansas Times Now that the voucher issue has moved beyond politicians and into the hands of parents, we wanted to know what real people really thought. Who’s using these vouchers, and why? Who’s still out there sin...

Commentary by actual parents. School voucher confidential: Yes, the other parents are talking about you arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Schools Are Accommodating Student Anxiety — and Making It Worse Removing stressors robs students of growth opportunities, writes TC's Ben Lovett and his co-author Alex Jordan

"Academic accommodations for anxiety convey two harmful messages. First, they imply that the feared situation is truly dangerous. Public speaking, testing, or lunch with classmates are too risky...Second, they suggest that the student can’t withstand the distress. Those messages increase anxiety."

Federal election donations by the 100 wealthiest Americans

Federal election donations from the 100 wealthiest Americans, by party

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Justice Louis Brandeis

Only half of Republicans support vaccine requirements for school attendance. The intersection of those attitudes with school voucher polices: Titanic, “may I meet you, glacier?”

I teach the article - unlikely to recognize otherwise :)