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Annie Abrams
@annieabrams.bsky.social
· May 28
This Year, We All Realized That Kids Aren’t Reading Books in School. Only the Right Is Offering a Solution.
Common Core and the College Board are my enemies. But the classical education movement is not my friend.
slate.com
Gift link to my argument in favor of teaching works of "serious literary value" in public schools: slate.com/life/2025/05...
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it's seven pages long, adobe
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
it's seven pages long, adobe
we should teach in schools about using your words
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
we should teach in schools about using your words
every day i think about the midcentury plans for the advanced placement program
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
every day i think about the midcentury plans for the advanced placement program
dewey wrote about the etymology of the word “expression”: it requires pressing
“At no point does the model ever give you friction,” he added. “It never pushes back. It’ll just yes and yes and yes. It’s just forever engaging.”
This is what we have unleashed in k12 schools.
This is what we have unleashed in k12 schools.
NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
dewey wrote about the etymology of the word “expression”: it requires pressing
what a strange piece of writing this article is
I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next.
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
what a strange piece of writing this article is
i mean it sounds absurd to say that college admissions is the rationale for a standardized testing regime that teaches writing as mad libs and fragmented excerpt reading
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
i mean it sounds absurd to say that college admissions is the rationale for a standardized testing regime that teaches writing as mad libs and fragmented excerpt reading
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This morning, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I, along with Robert LeBlanc, gave a workshop on close reading @ncte.org — and then got to hang out in person for a bit too!
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This morning, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I, along with Robert LeBlanc, gave a workshop on close reading @ncte.org — and then got to hang out in person for a bit too!
"The lives of the Black artists who make up Black excellence were shaped by the institutions of the past century, which were rooted in a belief in a common public good and a deep appreciation for the history of artistic craft. We are living through the destruction of all that."
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"The lives of the Black artists who make up Black excellence were shaped by the institutions of the past century, which were rooted in a belief in a common public good and a deep appreciation for the history of artistic craft. We are living through the destruction of all that."
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I automatically read anything by Kaitlyn
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I automatically read anything by Kaitlyn
this should be the guiding principle of dem ed policy
"yeah i read that too...you have any thoughts of your own?"
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
this should be the guiding principle of dem ed policy
we need more matt damons
It’s like their dream is to be the guy that Matt Damon roasts in Good Will Hunting.
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
we need more matt damons
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These guys’ obsession with the classics is 60% aesthetics and the rest is chauvinism.
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
These guys’ obsession with the classics is 60% aesthetics and the rest is chauvinism.
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People trying to design such curricula know what Plato also knew. Art can be powerful. So powerful, in fact, that it can be dangerous to an authoritarian state.
Well, I agree with them about that!
Well, I agree with them about that!
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
People trying to design such curricula know what Plato also knew. Art can be powerful. So powerful, in fact, that it can be dangerous to an authoritarian state.
Well, I agree with them about that!
Well, I agree with them about that!
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Of course students need guidance, but a rote structure can all too easily lead to dodging the critical question: do you have something to say about this?
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Of course students need guidance, but a rote structure can all too easily lead to dodging the critical question: do you have something to say about this?
was interesting for students to read each other’s attempts at close reading—they realized that you can follow topic sentence, evidence, analysis, conclusion format without making much sense
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
was interesting for students to read each other’s attempts at close reading—they realized that you can follow topic sentence, evidence, analysis, conclusion format without making much sense
plato's republic is not a manual
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
plato's republic is not a manual
it's undignified
Are we really at a stage in public education where we consider it OK to have literally Google-branded schoolchildren whose learner identities are tied to being "responsible AI" users of private for-profit technologies?
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
it's undignified
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or to read deeply, or to read for themselves. Can't replace the delightfully confusing experience of reading Moby-Dick with a set of memetic amusements nor the book's profoundly unsettling ideas with a set of pat and obvious moral lessons.
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
or to read deeply, or to read for themselves. Can't replace the delightfully confusing experience of reading Moby-Dick with a set of memetic amusements nor the book's profoundly unsettling ideas with a set of pat and obvious moral lessons.
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All my wry jokes about Ishmael are immediately understood because there are hand gestures. 👌
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
All my wry jokes about Ishmael are immediately understood because there are hand gestures. 👌
"Ishmael blathers in low style about Plato and art and whales, all the while making wry jokes that only he fully understands"
nope
nope
i remain fascinated by this right-wing description of teaching moby dick: www.hillsdale.edu/hillsdale-bl...
Call Us Ishmael: Teaching Moby Dick at Golden View Classical Academy
Mr. Ian Atherton, the Upper School Humanities teacher at Golden View Classical Academy, shares how he brings Herman Melville’s classic novel, Moby Dick, to life through Whale Days, complete with harpo...
www.hillsdale.edu
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"Ishmael blathers in low style about Plato and art and whales, all the while making wry jokes that only he fully understands"
nope
nope
we should have proper aesthetic education in schools
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
just bleak, man
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
we should have proper aesthetic education in schools
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Rousseau’s intro to his confessions is funny but also more moving now in AI-era
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Rousseau’s intro to his confessions is funny but also more moving now in AI-era
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one of you more equipped to talk about Plato than I should do this
has anyone written a recent essay on the right wing/tech obsession with plato?
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
one of you more equipped to talk about Plato than I should do this
has anyone written a recent essay on the right wing/tech obsession with plato?
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
has anyone written a recent essay on the right wing/tech obsession with plato?