Lois Weiner
@drloisweiner.bsky.social
Career teacher, education prof, teacher union activist. Researcher, writer, in the struggle for social justice, union democracy. Socialist. https://loisweiner.net/ and https://futureschools.substack.com/
Wonder if NEA members agree with @neatoday.bsky.social $325,000 "partnership" with Microsoft about using #AI? They never voted on it. Does NEA care how the tech bros are ravaging the environment, intensifying surveillance? Maybe members do. Shouldn't they set policy?
"OpenAI can now let U.S. national security agencies use its tools and services, even if they're not hosted on Microsoft's cloud." How Microsoft will train teachers on the ethical use of #AI in @aft.org @uft partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, tech moguls. thejournal.com/articles/202...
Microsoft, OpenAI Restructure Partnership -- THE Journal
Microsoft and OpenAI have announced they are redefining their partnership as part of a major recapitalization effort aimed at preparing for the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
thejournal.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Wonder if NEA members agree with @neatoday.bsky.social $325,000 "partnership" with Microsoft about using #AI? They never voted on it. Does NEA care how the tech bros are ravaging the environment, intensifying surveillance? Maybe members do. Shouldn't they set policy?
"OpenAI can now let U.S. national security agencies use its tools and services, even if they're not hosted on Microsoft's cloud." How Microsoft will train teachers on the ethical use of #AI in @aft.org @uft partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, tech moguls. thejournal.com/articles/202...
Microsoft, OpenAI Restructure Partnership -- THE Journal
Microsoft and OpenAI have announced they are redefining their partnership as part of a major recapitalization effort aimed at preparing for the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
thejournal.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"OpenAI can now let U.S. national security agencies use its tools and services, even if they're not hosted on Microsoft's cloud." How Microsoft will train teachers on the ethical use of #AI in @aft.org @uft partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, tech moguls. thejournal.com/articles/202...
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
Thread explain the charts, implications. Executive summary: Gen Z rocks!
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Thread explain the charts, implications. Executive summary: Gen Z rocks!
Shows their fear of our knowing and acting on a politics of real morality. Kudos and solidarity to the resisters.
Yanking a priest out of the crowd to throw him to the ground and arrest him.
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Shows their fear of our knowing and acting on a politics of real morality. Kudos and solidarity to the resisters.
Whole convo is wrong. Bigger, biggest issue is domination of standardized testing, to control curriculum and assessment. Reason they're embedded in schools? Profit.
"Yet NAEP is low stakes for schools, so there is less incentive to try to inflate scores through excessive teaching to the test."
Isn't the bigger issue that NAEP is low stakes *for students* who have less incentive to try to get the answers right?
Isn't the bigger issue that NAEP is low stakes *for students* who have less incentive to try to get the answers right?
We’re still fighting about pandemic-era school closures — but do they still matter?
We’ve got answers to that and other questions from a new tranche of state testing data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Whole convo is wrong. Bigger, biggest issue is domination of standardized testing, to control curriculum and assessment. Reason they're embedded in schools? Profit.
The real story of #NewOrleans schools after Katrina, one about #racism, one we don't see in legacy media or"independent outlets" funded by big money. @npeaction.bsky.social report by top-knotch #education #researcher Kristen Buras: networkforpubliceducation.org/wp-content/u...
networkforpubliceducation.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The real story of #NewOrleans schools after Katrina, one about #racism, one we don't see in legacy media or"independent outlets" funded by big money. @npeaction.bsky.social report by top-knotch #education #researcher Kristen Buras: networkforpubliceducation.org/wp-content/u...
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Dig a little deeper before hitching a ride on the tried-and-failed bandwagon of phonics direct instruction. Know the politics before embracing a method:
www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/05/nake...
www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/05/nake...
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Dig a little deeper before hitching a ride on the tried-and-failed bandwagon of phonics direct instruction. Know the politics before embracing a method:
www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/05/nake...
www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/05/nake...
How is #AI going to change work? Most liberal analysis, including from labor reporters who should know better, ignores how AI already altered the data supply chain, which suggests how quickly alterations will come: pulitzercenter.org/resource/how...
How We Investigated the Human Labor Behind AI
Understanding the data supply chain behind training generative AI is essential to show who profits from this precarious billion-dollar industry. Este artigo sobre a metodologia da reportagem também...
pulitzercenter.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How is #AI going to change work? Most liberal analysis, including from labor reporters who should know better, ignores how AI already altered the data supply chain, which suggests how quickly alterations will come: pulitzercenter.org/resource/how...
Any efforts like this in other states being organized?
Join members of the powerful Raise Up Mass coalition on Thursday to demand attention by our legistors!
This week for Raise Up: join us (w/ your umbrella ☔️) for a rally where we ask state legislators to pass our Mass. Corporate Fair Share bill & use of the state’s reserve fund (aka the 'Rainy Day Fund') to offset devastating federal cuts to SNAP, education, and healthcare: raiseupma.us/rainyday
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Any efforts like this in other states being organized?
From the replies it seems lots of folks want to focus on politics and not feelings. Curious they think ideas and votes count more than feeling when life demands an opposition party that opposes rather than surrendering.
Many feel betrayal and frustration, and the feelings are hot right now.
I get it. I have my own feelings.
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I get it. I have my own feelings.
🧵
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
From the replies it seems lots of folks want to focus on politics and not feelings. Curious they think ideas and votes count more than feeling when life demands an opposition party that opposes rather than surrendering.
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Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
Though we've lived through almost a year of Trump and my research showed vital changes in ed policy, much remains the same for education since June. This Future of Our Schools piece about the dangers is frighteningly relevant in this moment. ICYMI: futureschools.substack.com/p/this-momen...
This Moment for Education Workers
We face a stunningly comprehensive ideological, cultural, social, political, and economic offensive
futureschools.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Though we've lived through almost a year of Trump and my research showed vital changes in ed policy, much remains the same for education since June. This Future of Our Schools piece about the dangers is frighteningly relevant in this moment. ICYMI: futureschools.substack.com/p/this-momen...
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SCOTUS declined to hear the challenge meant to overturn Obergefell. Which means marriage equality stays. Heritage Foundation and other Christian nationalists were counting on this case to roll back rights. Welp…Not today!
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
SCOTUS declined to hear the challenge meant to overturn Obergefell. Which means marriage equality stays. Heritage Foundation and other Christian nationalists were counting on this case to roll back rights. Welp…Not today!
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Only "negotiated" in the same way surrender is.
Apparently, it is negotiable!
Health care isn’t negotiable.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Only "negotiated" in the same way surrender is.
Anyone know how NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand plans to vote on trusting the GOP's promises and tanking on the shutdown? Here's her contact info. I'm calling. www.gillibrand.senate.gov
Homepage - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York
www.gillibrand.senate.gov
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Anyone know how NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand plans to vote on trusting the GOP's promises and tanking on the shutdown? Here's her contact info. I'm calling. www.gillibrand.senate.gov
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It's time to say high-stakes standards connected to NCLB and Common Core don't work. Do not double down and create the same standards for three and four-year-olds. @EduSky
nancyebailey.com/2025/11/07/t...
nancyebailey.com/2025/11/07/t...
The So-Called Science of Reading’s New Focus on Babies - Nancy Bailey's Education Website
At the Thomas B. Fordham Wonk-a-Thon, where they ask what should happen next, Elliot Regenstein, a lawyer, states that The science of reading doesn’t start with kindergarten—it starts at birth. Fordha...
nancyebailey.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It's time to say high-stakes standards connected to NCLB and Common Core don't work. Do not double down and create the same standards for three and four-year-olds. @EduSky
nancyebailey.com/2025/11/07/t...
nancyebailey.com/2025/11/07/t...
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BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
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We're extremely dishonest about the realities of aging in this country. The older I get, the more this becomes apparent to me.
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We're extremely dishonest about the realities of aging in this country. The older I get, the more this becomes apparent to me.
When we read reports from non-profit think tanks and "independent" media, how do we know if/how funding from tech foundations and private equity (their $$$ is everywhere) influences analysis? My go-to is @mapthepower.bsky.social after looking at "about" and "funders." A real eye-opener!
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
When we read reports from non-profit think tanks and "independent" media, how do we know if/how funding from tech foundations and private equity (their $$$ is everywhere) influences analysis? My go-to is @mapthepower.bsky.social after looking at "about" and "funders." A real eye-opener!
We need to tell our schools (pre-K through higher ed) and institutions that represent us, (professional organizations and unions) to say "no" to #AI being thrust on us by tech moguls. It's our right and duty to decide how/when/if its use is right: futureschools.substack.com/p/just-say-n...
Just Say No to Corporate AI Partnerships in K12 and Higher Ed
Soon after the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) announced a partnership with Microsoft and OpenAI to create a brick-and-mortar national AI training center for teachers located at the United Feder...
futureschools.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
We need to tell our schools (pre-K through higher ed) and institutions that represent us, (professional organizations and unions) to say "no" to #AI being thrust on us by tech moguls. It's our right and duty to decide how/when/if its use is right: futureschools.substack.com/p/just-say-n...
Not light reading, in any respect. But worth the mental real estate. "The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire oligarch class to seize control of knowledge production itself and with that, control of reality."
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Not light reading, in any respect. But worth the mental real estate. "The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire oligarch class to seize control of knowledge production itself and with that, control of reality."
Very important story. This bill, identical to what the far Right is doing on DEI in schools, was signed by liberal hero Gavin Newsom. When it comes to dissent about Palestine, big money rules both parties.
AB 715 Illegally Muzzles Students and Teachers on Palestine
https://f.mtr.cool/ifqsvwcwin
AB 715 empowers anyone to anonymously file a complaint claiming that classroom content are critical of Israel and thus antisemitic. @marjoriecohn #palestine
https://f.mtr.cool/ifqsvwcwin
AB 715 empowers anyone to anonymously file a complaint claiming that classroom content are critical of Israel and thus antisemitic. @marjoriecohn #palestine
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Very important story. This bill, identical to what the far Right is doing on DEI in schools, was signed by liberal hero Gavin Newsom. When it comes to dissent about Palestine, big money rules both parties.
I'm telling Governor Hochul to sign these bills to protect our civil liberties. They've been on her desk for months. Hope you sign too! She can't count on my support by acting like the GOP. action.aclu.org/send-message...
Tell Governor Hochul to sign these bills
Please take action!
action.aclu.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I'm telling Governor Hochul to sign these bills to protect our civil liberties. They've been on her desk for months. Hope you sign too! She can't count on my support by acting like the GOP. action.aclu.org/send-message...