Annie Abrams

I've got an essay in there!

Anika Prather’s doing interesting work in that vein and I’m very glad to know about it!

which major orgs, partnerships, initiatives are focusing on how and why to read books, APART FROM THE CLASSICAL MOVEMENT

there is a lot of loud talk about "cultivating ai literacy" and i would like for us to also discuss book literacy

The Appendix on an AI policy is actually quite bad. Having an AI deliver a summary before reading has major implications in terms of the experience of student learning. What we want students to do and how they do it is the question. The experience of reading is not the same as reading a summary.

Did anyone happen to go to this panel on AP history exams at AHA last year? aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web...

AI is undeniably useful in completing school-related artifacts more quickly and efficiently, but that utility is sometimes the opposite of learning. This is why I believe we need to focus at the level of experience and only then ask how AI might be used inside that experience.

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I missed it entirely

are they talking about it on twitter?!

has someone published on that?

oh wow

has anyone laid out exactly what the right-wing definition of merit is in the context of college admissions? would love to read

so admissions is supposed to be based on what? test scores alone?

we'll see

have been thinking for a long time now that affirmative arguments about alternatives are overdue

there’s been a “recalibration” going on since 2019

they cut the multiple choice question choices from 5 to 4, for instance—that’s a possibility too

I don’t think that accounts for the Lang shift from last year (54% “pass rate”) to this one (74%)

it’s sad and weird to think of depriving students of the total pleasure of writing something and having someone else really consider it

omg

I've got an essay in there!

agree

classical stuff drives me up a wall, truly

it’s the cynicism above all else that gets me

yeah, it’s not like I’ve been coy about the One True Path for years, there really is no easy way forward

right, but one might argue that ap does not do a good job stepping in there

/important to see it’s okay to disagree with someone’s solution to a problem while agreeing with them about a problem they’ve identified. Some of the more dismissive reactions I’ve encountered when talking about this are from people who helped build/really believe in our policy context.

I don’t think that what one might call a common core’s really remained intact even in many institutions where one might expect to find it or has ever been equitably distributed

I think it’s a problem if old books are right-wing coded

It blows my mind.