Leonie interviews Diane Ravitch, famed education scholar, historian and advocate, about her evolution from a neo-conservative thinker to a progressive leader in the fight to save public education, and what she thinks about Donald Trump's attempt to attack and dismantle education at nearly every level.
Politico, Zohran Mamdani leads general election poll for NYC mayor, https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/zohran-mamdani-leads-general-election-poll-00443469
AI in the classroom, Presentation at Network for Public Education conference, April 6, 2025, https://studentprivacymatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/AI-for-NPE-final-.pdf
AFT press release, AFT to Launch National Academy for AI Instruction with Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and United Federation of Teachers, https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-launch-national-academy-ai-instruction-microsoft-openai-anthropic-and-united
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Julian Vasquez Heilig, AI Code Red: Supercharging Racism, Rewriting History, and Hijacking Learning, https://cloakinginequity.com/2025/06/20/code-red-how-ai-is-set-to-supercharge-racism-rewrite-history-and-hijack-learning/
Diane Ravitch, An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else, preorder at https://cup.columbia.edu/book/an-education/9780231220293/
Science, Senate spending panel would rescue science funding, https://www.science.org/content/article/senate-spending-panel-would-rescue-nsf-and-nasa-science-funding