It's time to move on from this outdated understanding of what AI models do. Agentic AI is not just fancy autocomplete. The models can pull data, write code to analyze it, verify claims, create audit trails, etc. It's not error-proof and vigilance is essential, but it's not the ChatGPT of 2024-2025.
It's out and about!
I wrote about the quiet erosion of the five day school week. Take Wake County Public Schools, for example, where students will experience only two uninterrupted five-day instructional weeks in Sept, Nov, Dec, and Mar next year. I worry we haven't fully considered the costs of this policy choice.
Incredibly interesting read!
"Pensions do not improve teacher effort or selectively retain high-performing teachers." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Brendan Bartanen
"These changes have produced policy regime decay and little consistency or direction for state and local policymakers in K-12 education." #EdResearch #EdPolicy
edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1492
“Too often, discussions about teaching are driven by assumptions, isolated experiences, or national narratives that may not reflect what is happening in the aggregate across Arkansas”
www.arkansasonline.com/news/2026/ju...
Twenty-five years ago, the United States was on the cusp of a major expansion of the federal government’s role in K-12 education policy. The No Child Left Behind legislation passed with bipartisan sup...
The problem with using an LLM to write social science is that all it can do is scrape/weight/summarize reorganize text that's been used in relation to the topic - even if that training set is rife with mis & dis-information. It's quality neutral regurgitation. Hence the cell phone conclusion.
Since we're heading into academic job market season, a reminder: I've collected some advice (esp. for new grads): www.paul-bruno.com/2021/07/tips...
And reach out if you'd like to set up a time to chat about the job market and how to navigate it. I'm not an expert by any means, but happy to talk.
