Greg Toppo
@gtoppo
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Senior Writer, @The74; Co-author, RUNNING WITH ROBOTS: The American High School’s 3rd Century @running_robots; author of THE GAME BELIEVES IN YOU @gamebelieves
Maryland, USA
Joined August 2008
It’s got history. It’s got time travel. It’s got a feisty Ernest Hemingway chatbot. It’s RUNNING WITH ROBOTS: THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL’S THIRD CENTURY, out today from @mitpress. @Running_Robots
https://t.co/7M7npvIcuj
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“I deserve to be punished.” PowerSchool Hacker ‘Thankful I Got Caught,’ Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison - must-read from @The74's @mkeierleber:
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Matthew D. Lane pleaded guilty to the cyberattack, which compromised the sensitive information of more than 60 million students.
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The Post-Pandemic Promise of High-Impact Tutoring: My @The74 interview with @lizcohen12. Link in first comment.
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Are schools that are good at teaching reading also good at teaching math? That's the subject of my latest piece for @The74 -->
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Months After Deep Cuts at @usedgov, Education Researchers See Reason for Cautious Optimism - my latest for @The74
https://t.co/ufR3toT1Vz
#IES #NCES
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New hiring and talk of modernization led one researcher to say, ‘I am more hopeful than I was three months ago.’
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The "Reading Rainbow" reboot will be hosted by TikTok star Mychal Threets: https://t.co/MgRebHoGMV
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Oklahoma Schools Chief Ryan Walters Steps Down to Lead Anti-Union Group - new from @lrj417 via @The74
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‘This fight is going national,’ he said of his departure, which one critic called ‘a positive move for Oklahoma.’
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"The education world needs original reporting much more than it needs additional commentary."
My first Substack note is on the Wall Street Journal / Barnum / Chalkbeat situation, the gist of which is crossed fingers it doesn't turn into the Answer Sheet and that the Journal education team doesn't continue to dwindle. https://t.co/3PPMQJCQ4N
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From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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THIS a thousand times from @TheFIREorg's @AdGo via my colleague @mkeierleber's piece about Charlie Kirk’s killing ... and the possible chill to campus speech @The74
https://t.co/PeHMwQSnSK
#1A
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"We have to wind down this discourse that we're having. We have to be more civil. We have to teach how to disagree." -@EDSecMcMahon on aftermath of Charlie Kirk shooting ... she also notes that same day there were 2 other school shootings.
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"It's an exciting time in education. It's an exciting time in labor development in our country but it's a challenge, and it's a real responsibility for us to not get stuck in what has clearly not been working before but to have open minds on how we move forward." -@EDSecMcMahon
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Title I, IDEA funds will continue to flow even if @usedgov goes away, suggests @EDSecMcMahon at @ReaganInstitute #RISE event.
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"It needs guardrails, but the AI that I've seen has been working." -@EDSecMcMahon on how AI is helping to teach reading. I guess she is now clear on the difference between #AI and #A1. #RISE @ReaganInstitute
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"Kids, they can't write cursively." -@EDSecMcMahon on one of the problems with our education system. She gives a nod to classical schools, which are teaching cursive, among other things.
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R.I.P. to the guy who made working the phones in a newsroom look glamorous and inspired a generation of journos.
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