Greg Toppo

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

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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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THIS from @RobGeorge says more about the casting choices in the new Christopher Nolan "Odyssey" film than anything you'll read this summer.

From Holland to Homer https://t.co/VaUsTfm0Ee

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In Boston, Students Convene to Hammer Out #AI Bill of Rights for Schools - my latest for @The74: https://t.co/4siLAO8F92

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Trump’s Education Department Leaves Mountain of Public Records Requests Unaddressed - new must-read from @The74's @lrj417: https://t.co/NATmJOAWW7 @usedgov

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@karenvaites

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The End of Homework? Teachers Grapple With Cheating in the Age of AI - my latest for @The74: https://t.co/IR48btyzBL

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@alexanderrusso So an end to The Ends?

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Best headline of the month!

In the Age of AI, Everyone Should Be Hiring Theater Kids @The74 https://t.co/EWGDApqBFT

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THIS from @DanaGoldstein's NYT piece on how student AI cheating is becoming harder to catch ... and how new tools are constantly popping up to aid/abet it: https://t.co/dOWdau6MPT

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Survey: Young People Turn to AI to Be ‘Their Real, Unfiltered Selves’ - my latest for @The74 https://t.co/UvfVypaS6E

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@esanzi @CEDR_US @educationgadfly @IESResearch Amber would be the last person to downplay that if it were more than just a few.

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.@educationgadfly's Amber Northern on whether she found #DEI in @IESResearch grants: "If you're looking for it, you're going to find it. There are a handful of grants that sort of had those buzzwords in it, but for the most part, what I saw was not that way. ..." 1/2 #EWA26

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"It was much more about rigorous research, answering questions that people actually care about." 2/2 #EWA26

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.@educationgadfly's Amber Northern, who wrote report on the future of @IESResearch at @usedgov, says "I don't know how IES could be reconfigured without some change."

But she adds re 2025 @DOGE cuts, "I think the cuts ... were too deep and they were too blunt." #EWA26

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"That is why I worry about the quality, what we are going to get. It's like those termites in your wall that you don't really see, and you don't know that they're there until the floor starts falling in." 2/2 #EWA26

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Former @EdNCES Commissioner Peggy Carr on @DOGE cuts: "Many of the contracts that were completely cut were quality-control contracts, and many of the tasks within contracts that were cut were quality-control or oversight components of those contracts...." 1/2 #EWA26

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That'll compromise our understanding the impact of the pandemic "on their education, their educational outcomes and their social emotional development." 2/2

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Former @EdNCES Commissioner Peggy Carr on cancelation of Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: It was studying "the Pandemic Generation, and those studies were stopped, and at this point we'll never know, because it's going to be too late to go back" to restart data collection. 1/2

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Asked what her worries are about @EdNCES going forward, former Commissioner Peggy Carr tells @matt_barnum, “Data quality is something I worry about ... I can see evidence that data quality is not where it should be.” #EWA26

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After more than three decades at @usedgov, NCES Commissioner Peggy Carr said that in Feb 2025, "I was asked to leave in 15 minutes." A security guard waiting nearby. #EWA26

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My latest for @The74 traces the long, groundbreaking career of 'Sesame Street' actor Sonia Manzano via Ernie Bustamante's smart & fascinating new film, 'Street Smart: Lessons from a TV Icon.' https://t.co/a4tr9Kzizo