Annie Abrams

having a perspective is good, we should teach that in schools

it’s such a relief to be able to articulate an idea that’s been brewing

it’s sad that more people don’t find using chatgpt to write completely unsatisfying

have been thinking a lot about how aesthetic education can also be fascist

and it's too important because we're talking about helping young people, who are ends in themselves

i mean...right?!

when teachers have the ability to make these choices and actively decide to stick with ap classroom or whatever, it drives me absolutely up a wall, and i think it's a big problem when districts make those decisions for them

if, as a teacher, my administrator handed me this textbook and told me i'd lose my job if i deviated from it, would you call sticking to it "bad teaching"

www.bfwpub.com/high-school/...

Sometimes those standards lead to top-down curricular choices that squeeze out books. And it's the law to follow those directives. Some places are more stringent about it than others. Districts differ.

got it, thanks

You write here about how NYS did, in fact, adopt CCSS?

Are there any state-level histories of the kind you describe?

Ok, do you have an alternative account that I ought to read? I'm really asking!

When you said, "I can tell just from the lede that it's not going to accurately reflect what happened," I wondered if there was an alternative account that you prefer.

I'd be interested to read.

Do you have a published alternative account of what happened?

that's not actually what my article's about, will keep you posted

How Business Got Schooled in the War Over Common Core | Fortune

Have you read this article? fortune.com/longform/com...

DeSantis Deals Blow to Woke Takeover of Education The College Board has backed down to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and now will revise its national Advanced Placement course in African American studies.

you mean like this?

www.heritage.org/education/co...

The College Board is neither particularly conservative nor particularly progressive today. It is, rather, particularly market-sensitive and criticism-sensitive, deferential to any power center that might threaten its relentless drive for reach and market share.

yep

If GOP is indeed steadfast in destroying the College Board, the progressive agenda is to make sure nothing replaces it. The College Board is an EdTech tapeworm inside K-16 gobbling away from both ends. I’m pretty sure its GOP critics just wish they owned the tapeworm.

the college board's not a progressive organization

the company profits from standardizing courses bearing both high school and college credit, on what planet is that progressive

LMAO AP US Gov has ONE Black person's writing as a "foundational document" (surprise, it's MLK Jr., and surprise, the guided reading exercise CB makes for it excludes the "white moderate" section). They axed Roe v. Wade as a required case the second the SCOTUS overturned it in Dobbs (2022).

Opinion | An ‘Oorah!’ to the Classic Learning Test U.S. service academies move to accept an SAT and ACT alternative.

"The College Board in particular sometimes appears lost in a progressive haze."

No, it's something else.

www.wsj.com/opinion/clas...

it's worth combatting right-wing allegations that the college board is a "progressive" monstrosity

They had a whole year of reading some of his influences (Douglass, Emerson, Eliot, etc) leading up to it. But in terms of more manageable things: his essay "Hidden Name and Complex Fate" is great, and book reviews from the 1950s help make clear what kind of intervention he made.

almost like that system was designed in part by some of the same people who would now like for everyone to use ai

sometimes teachers feel like the choice is between using ai and failing to do right by their students, judging them as evil on that basis seems like a misstep to me