teacher | scholar | ENG & EDU lecturer | literary, critical, & postdigital #literacies
Trevor Aleo
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If people are concerned about AP score inflation, just wait until they realize that what those tests are measuring bears very little resemblance to the forms of reading, writing, & thinking they’ll have to do in their college humanities classes!
It’s pretty wild how many of the worst ideas from edu-consultants, admin, central office types, etc. are microwaved managerial approaches from the corporate world that have long past their expiration date. The MBA-ification of everything is seriously a scourge.
I’ve said from the jump there’s nothing inherently progressive or liberatory about hardline, anti-tech positions. The people profiting off of the moral panic are more than happy to rub elbows with reactionaries if it means improving their market share.
Case & point. ⤵️
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Bluesky the sports poetry app
When I had students ask me why they should take US history in college when they took it in high school—“I got a 5 on the AP!”—I would tell them it was because now I could teach them things that they wouldn’t have been allowed to learn in high school because someone’s parents would’ve been mad.
"meaningful critique requires a clearer picture of what high school English is, what it has been asked to do, and why it so often becomes the repository for disciplinary anxiety" post45.org/2026/06/intr...
Announcing our June #literacies chat, Play and Interaction in Literacy Learning hosted by Dr. Alex Corbitt (alexcorbitt.bsky.social) on 6/30. We can’t wait to see you there!
not trusting teachers—maybe especially in the humanities—is a big, gnarly problem, spanning grade levels and institutions
Imagine if Tech or Finance allowed their story to be told in the mainstream press almost exclusively by people who hated them. This is what Education has chosen, in large part because it is saboteurs from Finance and Tech who have been doing the choosing.
