Tony Perry

Largely, they don't really know. Overgeneralizing: They've heard of TpT. They do google image searches for things that look like a lesson. Maybe they follow some folks on social media who share. The most pragmatic thing I do in Ed Tech is to learn about existing repositories of vetted materials.

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By orgs like the AFT! sharemylesson.com My preservice teachers have a lot of fun exploring and getting already available instructional materials

The first part of my summer

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

Excellent story in on the collateral damage taken by community colleges in Trump’s war on higher education. None of what the administration is doing helps workforce development or vocational education. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...

Seriously, I learned recently that some students are taught to "let it rip" when it comes to AERA proposals (e.g., no results/incomplete analysis, barely edited) and a lot of it gets through! That is the confidence I want.

Now comes the dreaded edit...but maybe we start to get OK at this writing thing over time?

When you first check the word count and hit 1,996 of 2,000 on the first try! #AERA26

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Higher Ed Legal folks: Is it universally (or mostly) true that legal counsel to public universities is part of their state's executive branch and typically reports to the state AG (elected or political appointee)? That is, counsel does not work directly for a university or board of higher ed?

Christ Church in the background with plants and grass in the foreground

Sometimes this job takes me cool places

Yes please put this out into the universe

"The real work starts elsewhere: demanding public, noncommercial alternatives. Pressuring districts and states to support independent AI literacy programs. Centering critical literacy before any discussion of tools. Building collective bargaining language..."

So, while these changes signal to particularly loud folks about a problem in (or solution to?) elite higher ed today, I doubt they will spur lasting change in college admissions (aside from taking the air out of other potentially good ideas).

Even changes that seemed tailor-made to unique organizations, like MIT's maker portfolio to assess technical creativity, have extremely low submission rates (and big differences in who submits). web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/2.... MIT was one of the first to bring back SAT/ACT requirements 3/n

Looks like Sal is trying to build a portfolio for admissions. Well, other folks have tried that: mastery.org/what-we-do/h... with a much longer list of schools "accepting" the evidence for admissions. But we have no evidence of how this evidence factors into decisions. 2/n

Because the silly new "debate portfolio" is making the rounds, some digging shows about 500 students participate in
spring 25, maybe 800 more this summer. Fewer than 5% of applicants at most of these fancy places. schoolhouse.world/blog/dialogu... 1/n

True. Related but unrelated, we have XQ billboards in rural ND.

Suddenly sacked Former education stats chief describes her final days under DOGE

And the exact circumstances of her dismissal were chilling -- both figuratively and literally. Please read if you have some time today. (3/3)
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Am I the only one still burned by what MS did to FlipGrid? Anyway, we'll hear some "success" stories, but not because of the partnership. Resourceful teachers will find a way forward. Disappointed that this story destroys goodwill for what two-partnerships could be 4/4.

PL to use commercial products is a waste of time. Products will come and go. Teachers make just legal, ethical, moral, and learning decisions in schools by engaging with the technology of AI systems (broad and deep). 3/n.

PL around commercial products, funded entirely by the tech companies, has no eye towards sustainability. The calls for credibility from leadership fell on deaf ears. Nothing about this tech is inevitable. Lots of "could" and "may" in the NYTimes article. 2/n

I've been writing about both (gen)AI and school-industry partnerships that transform student learning. The AFT news? Disappointing. Mutually-beneficial partnerships run on trust. A push model for PL for commercial products is not designed to build trust. 1/n

ICYMI

As an endnote, the street-level folks in each case do not use WBL language. They talk about youth-adult interactions in authentic spaces. A story of positive youth development as much as career readiness. The first version of this paper was that, but several field-wide 🎩journals desk-rejected.

I wrote this though the lens of work-based learning (WBL). As some amazing studies are underway to investigate student outcomes from WBL participation (e.g., cteresearchnetwork.org/research/wor...), I hope my work shows how to create meaningful student learning experiences.

For common design features: explicit trust-building, signaling institutional credibility, (striving for) robust systems and aligning instructional systems with industry needs. Qual systems modeling was a helpful lens to illuminate how this work happens and what makes a successful system.

I investigate three exemplary cases (rural, urban, suburban) to better understand the systems needed to implement partnerships that transform learning experiences for all students. Cross-sector partnership is rare, challenging, and depends on local assets. How do they do it?

Unlocking the Black Box of School–Industry Partnerships: A Comparative Case Study Many schools are creating and expanding their work-based learning (WBL) offerings to provide students access to meaningful adult–youth interactions during high school in response to increased policy ...

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Surprised there's a qual methods text used other than Poth and Cresswell

Comic. [block quote] “Far better an approximate answer to the *right* question, which is often vague, than an *exact* answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.” -John W. Tukey, The Future of Data Analysis (1962) [caption] Happy Approximate Birthday to John Tukey, author of my favorite statistics quote, who was born 110.000 years ago sometime this week.

Tukey

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