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A Dose of Their Own Medicine: CO District Sued for Book Bans
Today on AOTA Shorts: We’ve talked a lot about the potential costs to school systems (and taxpayers, of course) for the madness of book bans and laws allowing the challenging of “woke” content in sch…
Published on 2 months ago
Trump & McMahon Put Nail in the Coffin of USDOE
Today on AOTA Shorts: They said they were going to do it before the election. They began the process of death by 1000 cuts (or a few dozen cuts as it may be) in week one when they took office. And no…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Cash for Attendance: Good Look, or Nah?
This Week: Everyone in education knows that chronic absenteeism is a big deal. While the numbers are improving slowly in recent years, we’ve still yet to return to pre-pandemic levels of students who…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Teacher Pay Penalty Hits Record High
Today on AOTA Shorts: You’ve heard it all… summers off, your day ends at 3pm, so many holidays, what you do is so admirable, affirmations of the belief that we should pay teachers more (as they vote …
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
White Affirmative Action: The Classic Learning Test Gains Traction
Today on AOTA Shorts: In what we can only think of as some new wave, reverse reverse racism nonsense, the Classic Standardized Test is gaining ground nationally as a competitor to the traditional col…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
USC Doubles Down on Legacy and Donor Admits, Violating New CA Law
Today on AOTA Shorts: Haters call them the “University of Spoiled Children” but USC isn’t doing themselves any favors these days with a brazen violation of the new CA law banning donor and legacy sta…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Dumber by Design: Faculty Prepare for An Exodus from the South
This Week: As the right wing war on higher education continues a climate of “fear and hopelessness” sets in among the ranks of college faculty across the former confederate states in particular. One …
Published on 3 months ago
Amidst the Chilling Effect: Educator Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Weaponization of a Killing w/Gerardo Muñoz
This Week: Educators across the country are facing investigations, professional sanctions, doxing, and being placed on public lists in states across the country for statements posted following the pu…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Normalizing the Not Normal: Vaccine Denial, Dismantling Public Ed, and Armed Drones in Schools
This Week: Jeff got a letter published in EdWeek this month, challenging the publication of right wing opinion pieces that are racist, and overtly hostile to the institution of public school. This br…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Mpls School Shooting, Ten Commandments in TX Schools, and the Fallout from Mahmoud Begins
This Week: Here we are again. Another tragic school shooting, and the tone deaf, empty gestures of thoughts and prayers is all we’re left with from those in power. We can, and most, do better. Meanwh…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago