Project 2052 keeps expanding! We’re excited to share “A Day on the Bengal Delta, or, Coming Home” by @cannafis.bsky.social. The short story presents a brief history of post-revolution South Asia as told from the vantage points of four narrators, each with their own dreams, hopes, and demons.

A text rife with contradictions where a neoliberal technocrat, threatened with having their competencies automated by AI, articulates the problem more clearly than I’ve seen: fedscoop.com/when-philant...

I feel like the wars have taken the public eye off the republic off of which the empire feeds. “The Keep Public Funds in Public Schools Actwould repeal this federal voucher program and stop the diversion of public dollars before it grows further.” actionnetwork.org/letters/repe...

Pretty cool: this candidate for school board in Minneapolis is reading my book and listed it on her campaign website www.shannonforschoolboard.com/reading/as-p...

North Carolina Supreme Court Overturns Landmark School Funding Case edlawcenter.org/north-caroli...

New school district structure just dropped in Indianapolis. Seems like a combo of receivership and ‘recovery zone’ à la NOLA. www.governing.com/policy/india...

Want to see how messy the politics of school vouchers are for Dems? Here's likely 2028 candidate Mark Kelly on what a disaster vouchers have been for Arizona. Meanwhile, pro-voucher Dems are in Mass. today to push Gov. Maura Healey to sign onto Trump's voucher plan www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

“For example, if there are 50 deaths on a day at the OT and 75 deaths at 10°C above the OT, we attribute the difference — 25 deaths — to heat.” www.theclimatebrink.com/p/how-many-p...?

“Toxic Assets: Seeing like a Land Bank” citygroup.nyc/Toxic-Assets

Been thinking a lot about these lines from Althusser's book on imperialism:

excellent

If you want to get some perspectives from teachers on what it's like to teach right now, this is a great special issue of Workplace: ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/wo...

I just gave a book talk about radical school finance a few floors above where UTLA was bargaining their big contract. Solidarity and thanks to the organizers—and the bargainers who joined us!

Tomorrow!

And after the Robin DG Kelley talk Thursday, on Saturday, I’ll be doing a book talk with @utlanow.bsky.social at 11am PST. Sign up here!

Fourth-point-five: Much more on the pension giveaways here -- www.vitalcitynyc.org/why-are-new-...

RESULT: Democrats have flipped this school board seat in Tulsa. They ousted the conservative board member I wrote about here, who suggested that immigrant children endanger other kids.

And after the Robin DG Kelley talk Thursday, on Saturday, I’ll be doing a book talk with @utlanow.bsky.social at 11am PST. Sign up here!

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The Milton Friedman logic of “schools should be like restaurants” means that sometimes a school will randomly close and a whole community wakes up one morning to find their essential infrastructure vanished. Like this school. www.ajc.com/education/20...

school board seats at play tomorrow: —the Anchorage seat where a candidate said "ban trans kids" & praised Hitler's econ policies —the lone conservatives left in St. Charles, MO, & Kenosha, WI, which were recently centers of book bans —the Tulsa incumbent who said immigrant kids endanger others

If you’re at AERA you’d be dumb not to come to this lecture by Robin DG Kelley Thursday night at 6pm.

If you’re at AERA you’d be dumb not to come to this lecture by Robin DG Kelley Thursday night at 6pm.

Introducing: The Seattle Loop

New Nora de la Cour just dropped !

The Right is selling a vision of classical education that promises to build character and nurture wonder. Liberals are stuck aiming for higher test scores and employability. Public education defenders need our own inspiring take on the meaning of school.

It’s me writing for @debtcollective.bsky.social about credit ratings and NYC. www.inthered.org/p/mamdani-vs...

Speechless, but also so much to say about this graph. The compulsion cycle of Ed reform is so dense and the subject so variable that education research just isn’t replicated—it’s whoever makes the most noise, generates panic, soothes political-economic nerves. From: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

"Another priority for the coalition will be modernizing and decarbonizing schools. Terrence Martin, president of AFT Michigan, discussed the need for upgrades across the state to improve conditions for students, teachers, and staff." www.ilr.cornell.edu/climate-jobs...

A hard look at what's happened in schools with edtech means a hard look at American technophilia, the capitalist push to treat schools like businesses, and persistent myth that schools and teachers are stubbornly stuck in the past.

Hoo boy

“its current iteration is the most radical to date: combining fiscal expansion with far-reaching tax reforms which take aim at the very structure of Brazilian oligarchy, and seek to replace it with a new model of fiscal democracy.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fis...

The fabulous @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social is coming to Seton Hall to talk all things public education in this critical moment. It's part of our new educational leadership, management, and policy speaker series. Will be great! events.shu.edu/event/48552-...

Critical theory is moving into quantitative methods and it's really awesome to see, particularly in education www.quant4whatcollective.org/about

I'm about to start speaking here! Come if you want! psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Well this fucking rocks www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo6j...

The School in Capitalist France (1971) is a very underappreciated book in critical education. Anticipates Bowles & Gintis. At one point, I was planning on translating it, but I hit a wall. In any case, here are the original authors chatting with respondents about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENjy...

This looks great www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

So, I built a little BETA "Tinder meets ESA" application in which you can swipe left and right on Arizona ESA purchases that were part of the state's recent sample, and see if they were allowed or unallowed. Enjoy! You can play two rounds right now. Comments welcome.

Anyone out there editing a series at an academic publisher who might be interested in an edited volume on international school finance regimes?

What did happen to New Jersey's public bank? njbiz.com/whatever-hap...

School closures: a panic when it's caused by a rampany virus, nothing-to-see here when it's caused by escalating climate disasters.

This is misleading. Here's how much the MA Millionaire Tax raised vs the most generous possible assumption of how much combined revenue was lost from millionaire movers.

My tiktok about Portland is in the news! www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

Even the LLI is talking about the polycrisis www.lincolninst.edu/publications...

I was on the Varn Vlog talking about school finance, philosophy, my book, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Jr...

Nebraska's state leaders wants this future. Less and less education. I imagine it's because they also know that increased education reduces authoritarian tendencies. And they very much like being authoritarians.

The MORE-UFT caucus in NYC is doing a reading group of my book, and one of the core organizers’ cats bought a bunch of copies for them.