In Backlash Against Tech in Schools, Parents Are Winning Rollbacks www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/t...

ED Tech is responsible for a lot of harm to children’s learning. You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

I've been covering tech, and tech industry influence, in schools for more than a decade. And I've never seen this kind of rapidly scaling effort by parents pushing for more oversight of the laptops and learning apps that schools give kids. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/t...

In Backlash Against Tech in Schools, Parents Are Winning Rollbacks www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/t...

Ask Your Senators to Support Funding for Celiac Disease Research www.congressweb.com/CDF/23?frame...

It was a pleasure to talk with Heather Bernt-Santy on her That Early Childhood Podcast with my co-authors Melinda Holohan and Jean Rogers about our book, Screen-Aware Early Childhood (@tcpress.bsky.social). Listen to the episode here: www.thatearlychildhoodnerd.com/podcast/epis...

Thanks so much to Hillary Willkinson for inviting my co-authors Jean Rogers and Melinda Holohan to the Health Screen Habits podcast to discuss our book, Screen-Aware Early Childhood (@tcpress). Listen to it here: www.healthyscreenhabits.org/s15-episode-...

An exciting day! The book is here. Many thanks to @tcpress.bsky.social for their encouragement and support. And congrats to my co-authors Mindy Holohan and Jean Rogers! Find the book here: www.tcpress.com/screen-aware...

Thanks to the Texas Tribune for this comprehensive, fully reported account of the firing of the Texas A&M Instructor for teaching “gender ideology.” www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

There is a throughline between Texas A&M's embarrassing response to a student's complaint and a certain newspaper's "who's to say who signed it" article. www.pbump.net/o/the-climat...

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/08/14/n... The lack of support for public education in NH is disgraceful—from early childhood education through college. This state does not prioritize educating its children and youth.

NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

Proud to share this preorder offer for our new book about screen awareness!

Received my new passport today after applying online just six days ago. A simple and efficient process. No doubt Musk will find a way to screw it up.

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls

Newborns can be so tiny that it’s easy to forget just how fast they’re actually growing. Starting from a single cell, the newborn brain alone contains an estimated 100 billion neural cells. (Thread 🧵)

Hassan, through tears: "I am the proud mother of a 36 year old with severe cerebral palsy. And a day does not go by when I don't think about what I did I do when I was pregnant with him... So please do not suggest that anybody in this body doesn't want to know what the cause of autism is" Powerful

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

On that note, a great piece by Merrill Markoe ☺️ bsky.app/profile/maur...

While Zuckerberg and Meta got a win from House GOP leaders by blocking KOSA and COPPA, think about who lost. www.politico.com/news/2024/12...