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Welcome to All of the Above, the show that gives you an un-standardized take on education! We're your home for news and analysis of all the complex, relevant, and controversial issues impacting our schools today. Hosted by the super-dope duo of history teacher Dr.
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The Impossible Choice: That Nikole Hannah-Jones Article Everyone Is Talking About (opens the original)
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This Week: Few things have gotten more people in America to have a (hopefully) substantive conversation about the core issue of segregation in American public education than has this phenomenal article by the legendary Nikole Hannah Jones in the NY Times magazine this week. In the nation’s largest school system, in a city boasting with pride about its democratic socialist mayor and its proud tradition of progressivism, lurks one of the most deeply segregated school systems in America. And, it is
Plastics Propaganda in School, and Black Boy Retention Continues (opens the original)
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This Week: Who knew the plastics industry was infiltrating K-12 science curricula with lessons that help kids do things like pretending to be an employee of Dow Chemical and building a better plastic bag, or understanding the ubiquitous and positive nature of plastics in our lives? Yeah, it’s happening. Also, a sad, if not shocking piece in the Hechinger Report calls out persistent disproportionality in Black boys being retained a year in schoo l, even as overall rates of retention fall across t
NYC, LA Lead the Way on AI Pushback in Schools (opens the original)
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This Week: It has been a busy few weeks of stories in education, so we begin with a lightning round of headlines covering everything from a hero teacher saving 900 students in Nepal, to the Catholic Bishops in Florida telling the attorney general to kick rocks. Then, we dig deep into the big news out of the nations’ two largest school systems - NYC and LA - which have both taken bold moves to restrict generative AI tolls and usage in schools, as well as screen time during the school day, especia
So Much for the Promise of Virtual Tutoring (opens the original)
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Today on AOTA Shorts: Varsity Tutors for Schools, one of the nation’s largest virtual tutoring providers, has abruptly closed up shop. Citing a lack of evidence of effectiveness , it appears their district partners had begun seeking other providers. As we emerge from the pandemic era, where billions in additional federal funding for education sparked a wave of high-dose tutoring and other ed tech based service providers, schools and districts are now forced to grapple with both costs and the har
Still Separate and Unequal. What Now? (opens the original)
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Today on AOTA Shorts: A group of families and education advocates in Massachusetts join a growing number of lawsuits challenging school segregation across the country. Since the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, America begrudgingly inched forward in its efforts to integrate public schools, and then almost immediately began backtracking on that promise systematically. Today schools are more segregated than they’ve been in decades, and with entrenched racial housing patterns,
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