Annie Abrams

Jeremy Tate, the Classic Learning Test’s CEO, seeks to emulate the College Board’s CEO, David Coleman.

Sounds maybe trivial in the context of all current news but legitimating that product paves the way for their alternative to AP and IB.

“House Study Bill 547 (‘The Admissions Reform Act’) would require Iowa’s public universities to admit students…only on ‘merit’ and the likelihood they will stay in the state after graduation. It would also require the universities to accept the Classic Learning Test”

what if standardized curriculum is more damaging than it is protective

AI in education has never been just a commercial intrusion, but a scientific field-building business centred on well-funded technical innovations and "learning science". Its apparent "success" today builds on that, by adding value-generating platform subscriptions and contractual lock-ins.

and that’s from 10 years ago!

Whitman: “Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast’s struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself, must be on the alert”

I wish it was still appropriate to just dismiss this kind of thing as goofy.

I don’t think Pondiscio is a conservative, I think he’s something else.

I engage with conservative thought all the time.

“To read well is a kind of supplication, and the ability to see the crafted thing is so beautiful that you experience it with reverence.” David Coleman, CEO of the College Board

odd!

nceatalk.org/2015/10/reve...

“seems” is a really important word in this world

possibly also apathetic about the humanity of students, teachers, writers

I’m unconvinced it has anything to do with “skills” either to be honest

I would say, too, that what you call “let’s do Modernism” has little, in practice, to do with art

of course the issue is epistemic

this is “knowledge rich curriculum”

Hah currently writing about how a chapter leader here in NYC organized her chapter to wear “I read banned books” shirts since the principal refused to let middle school teachers teach books—conflicted with the curriculum they bought. Everything is bonkers.

Am not sure it’s either.

Check out grades 6-8!

It’s ELA.

you might find the middle grades curriculum here interesting— curriculum.eleducation.org

That hasn’t been my experience of K12 curricular mandates.

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I think a lot of the Norton Critical Editions have this effect. For instance, this random example from their big list has not only relevant critical essays but also contextual materials that lend themselves well to left analysis. wwnorton.com/books/978039...

yep

To me the important part is less canon and more interpretation-aiding resources. So it's not 'I want a left-wing list of The Great Books' but 'I want some books lit people agree are good, and which are cheap to publish because public domain, to be easily available w/ a good critical apparatus.'

and, in the meantime, purveyors of HQIM and state book lists are not so worried about any of this

I’m no fan of Bloom’s attempts to a outline a purely aesthetic canon either

it is true though, and I think interesting to consider, that Matthiessen’s and Parrington’s projects were overtly leftist

that’s true, though I do think that canon building is inescapably political

left vs right isn’t the way I like to think about that