Over a month since my last post. Wow. Anyway, last week was full of Artificial Intelligence events. On Wednesday, I attended a talk by Ray Kurzweil, hosted by Trinity High School - a posh private school on the Upper West Side, The Academy for Teachers, and Teach for America. Thursday was a StuyCS event which was really about early stage startups but much of the discussion revolved around AI and Friday was a meeting of CUNY CS educators where the topic of the day was, of course, AI - I was there to pitch, well, Pitchfest.

Last week my StuyCS family community had a discussion about Zohran Mamdani's plans for gifted education. For people outside of New York, Mamdani is the Democratic candidate for mayor and there was a recent article outlining his plans or rather, his positions on gifted ed - always a hot button topic for Stuy alums. It also turns out to be a hot button topic in education in general in New York.

I saw this release from NYSED the other day. New York State wants to create a standard set of policies and procedures for schools implementing Dual Credit programs. A Dual Credit class is a college class taken by high school students. The high school offering the class does so in partnership with some college or university. A student who passes the class receives both high school and college credit. They in fact, get a transcript from the partner college with the course or courses they've taken.