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Free Reign on Discrimination in Schools as DOJ Guts Civil Rights Act of 1964
Today on AOTA Shorts: Fulfilling her mandate as cartoon villain Attorney General, Pam Bondi effectively gutted what little civil rights infrastructure remains in the United States declaring that the …
Published on 13 hours ago
The Latest Casualty of the Anti DEI Hysteria: White Men
This Week: One one hand, it is shocking to think about, and on the other hand it’s just a continuation of America's long-standing tradition of white folks in power hurting themselves in the never end…
Published on 1 week ago
Almost 40% of Students at Stanford are Disabled. What’s Happening with Gen Z?
This Week: We’re diving into two higher ed topics this week. First, the University of Alabama suspends and cuts funding for two student magazines, one called Nineteen Fifty-Six, which centers Black …
Published on 2 weeks ago
Are Male Teachers Going Out of Style?
This Week: Not sure we were ever in style, to be honest. But, some new data from SUNY Albany shows that the common assumption that the lack of male teachers -- nearly 90% of elementary teachers are …
Published on 1 month ago
ICE terrorism hurts student learning… and water is wet
Today on AOTA Shorts: In a both groundbreaking and not at all surprising analysis of student test scores from a Florida community besieged by ICE terrorism and lawless detainment of community members…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
While the USDOE Trolls us Online, Voters in Colorado Say Tax the Rich to Feed the Kids
This Week: We begin with some highlights from members of the AOTA family. One listener responds to last week’s discussion about vouchers and reports from the dark side in FL about what it’s like for …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Turning School into Shopping at Amazon, and the Continued Gaslighting of Educators About Antisemitism
This Week: The state of Florida has distinguished itself in recent years as a true laboratory for right wing extremist policy in education. Well, the process continues as the impacts of vouchers and …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Cops pull guns on Black student: AI said his bag of chips was a gun
Today on AOTA Shorts: Algorithmic bias is the technical term. Racism in, racism out. But in practice, the unthinkable nearly came to pass last week when a high school student in Baltimore County, MD …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Those who can’t do, teach…right?
This Week: The popular narrative in the American public discourse that teaching is somehow both super easy -- you get off at 3, you have summers off, it’s an easy profession to enter -- and also so h…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
AI Is Eroding Student-Teacher Trust
Today on AOTA Shorts: You’ve probably thought about the consequences of AI in school -- cheating, making us dumber, rampant and undetectable plagiarism, making learning obsolete -- and if you’re on t…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago