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The Economist: “We found that graduates in fields more exposed to AI have suffered markedly worse outcomes.”
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J.R. Dean
@JefferDean
Lifelong Arkansan, husband of one, father of several, Catholic, education sector, working in philanthropy.
Fayetteville, AR Katılım Aralık 2012
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Wealthy parents are going to start sending their kids to "low tech" private schools while working class kids are going to be handed tablets filled with ed tech and AI. Writing by hand and turning in paper assignments will become the new upper-class cultural symbol.
The Associated Press@AP
Kids in Lower Merion school district in Pennsylvania get iPads starting in kindergarten, switch to Chromebooks in second grade and get their own MacBooks in eighth grade. Hundreds of parents signed a petition asking to preserve their ability to opt their children out of using digital devices during the school day. The school district has pushed back, saying it’s not feasible to let hundreds of students opt out of technology that is essential to the curriculum.
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Reading scores, 3rd graders to 8th graders, 2015 to 2025. This is a national tragedy.
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LLMs will always sound like millennials because no subsequent generation will be literate enough to produce much training text
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Feltner’s Whatta-Burger Closes After 58 Years
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Raising teens is fun if you want someone to think you’re the dumbest human alive while simultaneously needing your help to do anything
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This is legitimately insane.
Banning cell phones in schools might turn out to be the best thing we’ve done for our kids in a generation.
Karen Vaites@karenvaites
One year into cell phone bans, Dallas schools see 24% increase in library book checkouts. 👏👏👏 "Public school districts in Texas are almost one school year into the first statewide cellphone ban, and a North Texas school district is seeing positive impacts. Dallas ISD officials said that, district-wide, they have seen a significant increase in library book checkouts, which they largely attribute to students no longer having cellphones with them during the school day. "I started hearing, 'Oh, I'm so bored. I can't get on my phone after I do my work or during lunchtime,'" Hillcrest High School librarian Nina Canales said. "Once they lock into these stories, they don't seem to care about their phones at all." From the first day of school to March 31, 2026, the district reported an increase of more than 200,000 additional books checked out compared to the previous year. A look at the library checkouts for the previous year: 2025-2026 Total Circulation (1st day of school to March 31, 2026) – 1,084,837 2024-2025 Total circulation (1st day of school to March 31, 2025) – 872,430 Total library book checkout increase: 24.35% At Dallas ISD's Hillcrest High, students are following this trend. Canales said there were roughly 500 books checked out in the first nine weeks of the 2024-2025 school year. This school year, that number spiked to about 1,800 books. "That floored me," Canales said. "I had to re-do the report again because I was like, 'What, are you kidding me?'" Students felt the impact too. "Now that I'm busy with a bunch of work and college, I don't find myself missing my phone that much, even at home," said Yamilet Jimenez, 9th grader." By @laceybeasnews. @JonHaidt @safe_screens
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this is true, tragic, and woefully under-reported/under-discussed
liemandt@jliemandt
High-end private schools are lying to parents about their students’ grades.
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I told a few folks on here this, but I will repeat: I live in Kansas City, which has a hospitable, kind culture. I come to OKC once a year to visit, bringing my family of four. OKC and Oklahoma are elite. The culture, the kindness, it’s fantastic. I love it so much.
Andrew Smith🧸🎀🏴☠️@SoonerSoupGuy
I beg you, go watch the Oklahoma Standard on espn. Especially if you’re not from Oklahoma. I’m so damn proud to be an Oklahoman.
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Senator Ben Sasse, nearing the end of his life with the utmost grace and dignity, reflects on the foundations of patriotism. It begins with the devotion to your family, your neighbors, your faith, and your community. That’s the core idea of the American spirit - and the source of all the blessings America has today.
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“Many senators I know would not be able to breathe without that job. It would kill them to leave,” says Scott Pelley.
“I don't want what you said to be true. But I fear that that is true. And that is a sign of a much, much deeper problem,” responds former Sen. Ben Sasse. cbsn.ws/48UGcY4
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I’ll propose a third way:
I don’t think of marriage as a shift to “being taken care of.”
I think of our family unit about being able to be *more* ambitious (across home and work and sanctity) because we work as a unit, and lean into fruitful asymmetries.
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Thomas Mirus@CatholicPods
A further thought. Society used to be set up in such a way that a woman didn't have to say out loud "I want to be taken care of". It was understood, that was just how it worked. But now that single women are (thru necessity not fault) living professional lifestyles that seem to communicate the opposite of that, they have to find other ways to communicate that they would actually like to switch gears once they marry rather than continue a quasi-independent life that happens to be under the same roof.
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I blame the parents. A part of childhood should be spent watching your dad's favorite violent movies & suffering through your mom's favorite songs in the car. That's how a living cultural memory is transmitted -- not via a perpetual bubble of age-appropriate content.
John Attridge@John_Attridge
Film literacy among young people is at an all time low. My gen z students are shockingly unfamiliar with many key landmarks of modern cinema that were released in the 1990s
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LeBron and LeBron and
Bronny in 2006 Bronny in 2026
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In a media environment dominated by short-form video and slop, actually having watched hundreds of films or read a lot of books is a status marker showing you have an attention span.
Criterion Collection@Criterion
✨Jon Hamm's Closet Picks!✨
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Fascinating new poll: Not only is Gen Z pessimistic, but nearly half wish they lived in the past -- specifically the 90s, before smartphones and social media.
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Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:
Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.
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At 54, former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse is dying of pancreatic cancer. In a conversation with Scott Pelley, he shares his message on faith, family, AI, and a divided nation. Sunday on 60 Minutes. 60Minutes.com
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This is actually kinda insane
In 1996, a 14-year-old kid watched Jaws and got obsessed with Quint’s WWII monologue.
He then began researching the 1945 sinking of the USS Indianapolis, interviewed around 150 survivors, and reviewed 800 documents. His research focused on the role of the ship’s captain, Charles B. McVay III, who had been court-martialed after the incident. He came to believe that Captain Charles Butler McVay III, who had been blamed for the tragedy, was innocent.
The 14-year-old, Hunter Scott, presented his findings to the United States Congress at age 14. In 2000, Congress passed a resolution clearing Captain McVay’s name, and the U.S. Navy later formally exonerated him.
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