Ilana Horn

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I think SATs are b.s. until I learn from @ifbookspod.bsky.social that my SAT math score was higher than El*n's

Vax Rates, ESAs, and Cell Phone Bans: 12 Charts That Defined Education in 2025 These research findings captured the K–12 world at the start of President Trump’s second term.

I love the year-end chart story! It's both a great way to catch up on some of the big issues in education and a testament to the power of a good figure in conveying an idea.

Vax Rates, ESAs, and Cell Phone Bans: 12 Charts That Defined Education in 2025 www.the74million.org/article/12-c...

this is one of her best yet

Responsible Innovation in Designing AI for Education: Attending to the “How,” the “for What,” the “for Whom,” and the “With Whom” in a Rapidly Growing Field - William R. Penuel, Thomas M. Philip, Michael A. Chang, Tamara Sumner, Sidney K. D’Mello, 2025 Artificial intelligence (AI) in education is growing rapidly. Research has long played a role in developing knowledge of AI’s capabilities. Now is a critical ti...

"...without more explicit attention to how AI supports specific forms of learning (the “how” and “for what” of learning) and an understanding of “for whom” and “with whom” we are designing, we run the risk of perpetuating rather than attenuating inequities that exist..." #AcademicSky #EduSky

A Grand Social Media Experiment Begins in Australia

[GIFT LINK] I'd love to hear people's thoughts on Australia's social media ban for under 16s.

Will it help with social media distraction/addiction? Help kids focus more?

... or will it just invite creative workarounds? ... kick the addiction can down the road?

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/w...

and scite.ai

oooh! now i want to have a book club chat with you about it when we are done :)

that makes it harder for sure

but i think even a 3 question google form that asks students to update their progress would require them to account for their work in their own words

in progress reports in class help

adding to my list! thank you 💕

congratulations on the book -- and on the recognition!

I just got a copy of THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY by Kiran Desai, which will be my treat to read once the grades are turned in. 📚

#BookSky

Here are the best books I read this year, in no particular order. They were not all published this year, but that is when I read them.

📘COLORED TELEVISION Danzy Senna
📗ISOLA Allegra Goodman
📕SPELL FREEDOM Elaine Weiss
📙A MARRIAGE AT SEA Sophie Elmhirst
📘GREAT CIRCLE Maggie Shipstead

Tom Rademacher @MrTomRad I don't know who needs to hear this, but you know that fun Christmas activity you're planning for your classroom? Stop. Unless you work at a Christian school, your room doesn't need any stockings or Santas or reindeer. @HEYMRSBOND

Annual story time! #EduSky

6 years ago, my friend Tom tweeted this. Because I’m a holiday LOVER who had a classroom tree and array of holiday assignments,

I paused and decided to poll my students to gauge their feelings.

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pink flyer with a lot of text, ending with the link to the program that is in the main post. the text reads: apply to the elevating the voices of educators of newcomers (even) fellowship. with the federal government pushing an overtly harmful anti-immigrant agenda, much of the recent public discourse about immigrants has been negative -- and false. but teachers have the power to change the narrative. about the EVEN fellowship: The national newcomer network is launching the Elevating Voices of Educators of Newcomers Fellowship, a new paid fellowship for teachers who work directly with newcomers, children of immigrants, and/or English learners -- and who want to tell the world about the many ways these children make our schools and communities better. What EVEN Fellows will do: Even fellows will join a community of teachers determined to improve public discourse about immigrant students. Together they will participate in a series of monthly trainings; write, edit, and publish a narrative highlighting their experiences working with immigrant communities; engage with journalists and reporters to uplift these critical narratives to broader audiences in local and national media. Fellowship logistics: Program dates: February 2 to June 26 2026 Expected commitment: Attend 1 monthly meeting with ongoing 1-on-1 support from NNN staff and experts Stipend: $1500 Questions? [there is an email that i literally cannot read!]

Are you a K12 teacher who works with immigrant students? Are you eager to tell the world about the many ways they make our schools and communities better? Apply for this paid 5-month fellowship from The Century Foundation’s National Newcomer Network. Deadline Jan. 4 bit.ly/EVENFellows2026

#EduSky

Why Teaching is Harder When the Math is Easier I got humbled in class today.

I am delighted this morning to see that @ddmeyer.bsky.social is back from his 8 month newsletter hiatus.

Dan is my go-to voice on the murky intersection of ed tech and math education. He has some thoughts on the current AI situation:

danmeyer.substack.com/p/why-teachi...

When we went to mail the packages, the postal worker told us that not a lot of people use it (at least at our branch).

I think we might make this a seasonal tradition in our family.

USPS Operation Santa® Program Adopt a child's letter to Santa this holiday season with the USPS Operation Santa® program. Spread holiday cheer and help make a child's holiday wish come true.

My eldest shared Operation Santa with me, an effort by the USPS to have kids' letters to Santa read and fulfilled.

We had fun going out and sharing with a couple of people. If you are able to give, it seems like a very direct way to do so:

www.uspsoperationsanta.com

"As one senior researcher told me, decades of painstaking work vanished overnight in an attack by an inexperienced and ideologically driven staff intent on dismantling the bureaucracy without understanding its purpose."

#JewSky

Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or...

181 public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after TN Secretary of State Tre Hargett ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters

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via @juddlegum.bsky.social

cc: @thetnholler.bsky.social

"Learning to listen, to attend carefully and
relentlessly, to unexpected others […] is the single disposition that renders education what it can and must be: the interaction quite literally constituting (ethical) community."

-- my colleague, philosopher of education @barbstengel.bsky.social

"We find sizable negative effects on college enrollment for the California high school graduating class of 2020.... the pandemic appears to have worsened inequalities not only in overall college enrollment but also in access to more elite institutions."

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College Canceled: What Happened to California’s High School Graduating Class of 2020? #OpenAccess #AcademicSky

the cover photo of the book TEACHING AND ITS PREDICAMENTS by David Cohen. it is a vintage photograph (1950s?) of a teacher earnestly leaning toward a boy while she holds a pencil and he has a reader on his lap. His hands are behind his head, and he leans away from her, gazing away from her

The dilemma we face was succinctly stated by one EIC: "The pace of AI development is relentless. The academic timescale is not compatible. We need to accelerate and grapple with this, even though it does not allow us to adhere to our usual processes."

More soon, I imagine...

I just had a meeting with other editors-in-chief of journals in my field to talk about AI issues in publishing.

AI technology has raised a lot of practical and ethical issues in research that our review processes (and the time we allot to them) are unprepared to cope with. #AcademicSky

I love this story so much. The kids are better than all right, the kids are great and give me hope.

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My desire to be open-minded about cultural difference collides with my feminist sensibilities when i get letters as the editor of a journal that open with, "Dear sir"

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.