What are you up to Tuesday, March 31 at 7pm ET? Join @ncte.org's Secondary Section (7-12 ELA teachers!) for Zoom space to chat, connect, and explore NCTE. How can NCTE support you? What has worked? Come meet other secondary ELA teachers who are members of NCTE. ncte.org/secondary-of... #NCTEChat

Fostering Spaces of Liberation in Literacy Research is just 2 days away 3/31 at 8-9:00pm EST/ 6-7pm PST! We hope you will add your voice to the conversation! #literacies

Sad to see that Australia is now going through the same sad period of dogma from an "evidence-based" group of people. LinkedIn suggests that is, once again, a lot of discontent. This post offers a way out of the mess, and into more productive dialogue: christianmooreanderson.com/evidence-bas...

I am begging y’all. Stop getting all your hot takes on tech policy from airport nonfiction written by ~heterodox centrists~ & your own priors. Big tech is bad. May of these policies alleging to protect kids from big tech are ALSO bad. Both are true & both are funded by the same people.

📰 The future of local news depends on what we preserve today. Join the Internet Archive, Poynter Institute, and Investigative Reporters and Editors for the National Summit on Local News Preservation. 📅 June 17, 2026 📍 National Harbor, MD 🎟️ 🆓 blog.archive.org/2026/03/23/n... 🧵

In the age of Canvas-brained learning, it's really great to see students appreciate having scholars zoomed into class. I try to schedule at least one visit into my classes every year, and it's great to see students admire and learn from these specialists who are teaching them much more than content.

the whole introduction of LYRIC LOGIC— titled "Philosophical Poetry"— is available to read via preview at @columbiaup.bsky.social 's site cup.columbia.edu/book/lyric-l...

New post! ● Teaching tricks, fidelity, and the illusion of "best bets" #UKEd #EduSky christianmooreanderson.com/teaching-tri...

Looking to introduce your students to Eco-Criticism? These 5 great emagazine articles are the perfect place to start! Available for subscribers via the online article archive: buff.ly/9u0CdWv

I'm a broken record on this, but... Matt's work (here and across the whole AV library) beautifully showcase the affordances of podcasts as a form. While we should all fight against EdTech, I also *strongly* believe it's vital we keep exploring new mediums/modes of knowledge sharing & production.

New episode out. Kim Stanley Robinson on his work, utopic realism, the future of Mars, Fredric Jameson… and so on www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z47K... Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel.

The Finale of our “Close Reading For The 21st Century” trilogy is out in the world. I promise it will make you laugh, make you cry, make you wish you were dead, & make you rage against the dying of the light. Okay?

Stan has an absolutely amazing "foreword," touching and brilliant, in our forthcoming book on Jameson: www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...

anyway if you want to read a whole book and not just a skeet about why culture producers +even professional culture consumers are caught in a hamster wheel of literalism, intolerance for representation, inability to read metaphors,+ the demand for direct messages: www.versobooks.com/products/303...

My obituary for Habermas in @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/03/habe...

Really enjoyed @afilreis.bsky.social’s “The Classroom & the Crowd!” Few books scratch my itch for progressive pedagogy, digital media, & literary studies at the same time the way this did. Highly recommend to the #literacies crew! Excited to share our podcast episode soon. @columbiaup.bsky.social

Annie Abrams is doing some of the best commentary on ongoing efforts to make k-12 teaching increasingly rigid and unimaginative, with teachers themselves enjoined to be little more than automatons. Strong pressure to use teaching scripts — scripts that encourage children to memorize but not think.

My quest to explore the intersection between secondary English education & literary studies continues! In this episode, I had a great conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence about the power & potential of public humanities online. #literacies #edusky #academicsky open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

from the people who brought you "Destroying Public Education in Favor of Test-Based Accountability," we present "School 2: What We Previously Dismantled Was Actually Good It Turns Out"

Excited to present my session, "Pixels & Prose: Supporting Audiovisual Essay Composing" at the SSWCA conference on Saturday! As someone who's still (relatively) new to CT, I'm looking forward to connecting with more local educators/researchers in & beyond the @writingproject.bsky.social network.

Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.

1st time I’ve seen a politician with an accurate take on the bi-partisan efforts to lock down the internet. Also, someone should share this with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social ASAP because there’s an 80% chance AOC learned this because she’s been the ONE person (rightly!) crashing out over this nonstop.

100% BUT the liberal establishment does have alternatives: 1) HQIM made by a team of psyshometricians & McKinsey consultants perfectly calibrated to raise NAEP scores 2) Chatbots made by a team of psyshometricians & McKinsey consultants perfectly calibrated to optimize future projections of GDP.

But of they don’t advocate for policies that would create the material conditions necessary for teachers to have the time/space/support needed for the liberal arts to flourish. Nor do they want to create learning opportunities that might advance it. They want to impose it through legislative fiat.

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 31st! We are so excited to announce our March #literacies chat "Fostering Spaces of Liberation in Literacy Research" with special guest host Dr. Ryan Schey @ryanschey.bsky.social

“Cohen describes books as ‘the oldest and best place where opinions and impressions and whole worlds are captured and recorded.’ He’s right.” John Downes-Angus on “Banning Books in America.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/banning-books-america-samuel-cohen-censorship-libraries-education/

Wrote about @samcohen.bsky.social’s book banning volume for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. The volume invites us to consider why books matter—and it shows the many ways they’re under attack, even here in progressive NYC. lareviewofbooks.org/article/bann...

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Absolutely unreal how so much time, capital, energy, etc. is being put into these companies and this is what they come up with. Like, this is such a stupid and horrifyingly dystopian way to frame learning that I don’t even know where to start.

The intentional thought that @mraleosays.bsky.social puts into designing his course is incredible! The concepts he’s exploring with students makes for deep and rich learning. #TeacherSky

Well, I started something new! I hope you’ll join me and read along over on Substack 😊 open.substack.com/pub/declarat...

Finally got around to writing up a reflection post detailing my process for building this course. It’s still ongoing, but I’m excited to share how it’s going and see what folks think about some of the questions we’re exploring. open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

What’s most annoying about this is it assumes economic insecurity is a product of individual “skills gaps” as opposed to a structural condition of our political/economic systems. So now Ss are trapped in a system obsessed with job prep at a time when every company is gutting their future jobs.

Writing is thinking.

Education programs too! We read “Anti-intellectualism in American Life” in the one educational philosophy course we had to take in undergrad and a lot of people were annoyed that “it wasn’t practical.” I was the weirdo who loved it and was like “I don’t know, yall. Kind of feels important 😬?”

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin posted today by @sjcerv.bsky.social

As it happens, I’m teaching Persepolis 2 in my “Texts, Tensions, and Globalization” course this semester. I’ve taught Persepolis 1 a number of times, but would welcome any tips, resources, suggestions on 2. For context: My thematic framing for the course. ⤵️

youtu.be/ag5E1Xtq7lM?... Going to post this over & over. There are many ways to understand our current policy landscape, but an important & under-discussed one is a crisis of measurement. We trust test scores the same way we trust we’re being charged fairly @ the gas pump—without a 2nd thought.

Maintaining robust public education will require us to hold "blue state" governors and legislators accountable for their crusade to "Make Literacy Technical Again" by turning classrooms over to corporations through curriculum mandates and testing requirements while failing to stand up to censorship.

There’s an odd subset of folks claiming he was “bAsiCaLLy a soCiAList!” as though his personal politics are relevant to the fact his writing is most frequently used to prop up reactionary/regressive views of culture & his curriculum is pushed as a market-based solution to educational inequality.

extraordinary episode of the always great DIG podcast, on the history of the commons thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

a fan of this energy tbh, and ambitious politicos should be trying to outdo each other here

mythbusting posters from humanitiesworks.org in the wild at Western Michigan University!

“One possible criterion with which to evaluate the success of a close reading is how well it understands itself as being part of & beholden to a community, even as it tries to challenge that community's terms of engagement. Or, as Dan & Johanna phrase it, as a product of & an offering to community.”