"It is now the position of the United States government that people with disabilities don't have a right to be part of their communities" - Alison Barkoff, health law and policy professor at George Washington University

“We kind of have disregard for everybody's children, but our own … as long as my kid is getting a nice education, my kid is getting a good test score, my kid is having a good lunch, screw everybody else. There isn't a genuine concern for the experience of children.” Susan Engel

Social studies teachers, check this out!

The pace of teaching can be relentless. This not only makes teaching difficult but is antithetical to pursuits for justice. The professional norms that push teachers to be maximally time efficient from ‘bell-to-bell’ reinforce a racist social choreography. New research explores this dynamic. #EduSky

Thank you, Alice Wong, for all that you taught us. And thank you for demanding a better world. You will be deeply missed.

The pace of teaching can be relentless. This not only makes teaching difficult but is antithetical to pursuits for justice. The professional norms that push teachers to be maximally time efficient from ‘bell-to-bell’ reinforce a racist social choreography. New research explores this dynamic. #EduSky

This is an example of why we wrote this-Trying to trace the incredible harms that are being committed against children, not to suggest we should be doing these things to adults, but to name the unique traumas and the longlasting harm it is creating in children's lives www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Somehow @idislikestephen.bsky.social and @robinpr.bsky.social were able to discuss the “Halloween canon” without mentioning the Misfits. Revise and resubmit please.

For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities. Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.

Despite all the handwringing about “intellectual diversity” the reality is that higher ed exposes young people to a vastly different array of people and experiences than almost anything else you can do.

I also worry that the Mahmoud decision just opened the door for a follow-up supreme court case that would extend this argument and suggest parents have the religious right to not have their students taught by LGBTQ+ teachers, further forcing Queer teachers out of the profession.

Happy Disability Pride Month! I encourage you to celebrate by learning about why Black folks & others may not claim disability pride, but still belong in disability community. Check out my free, open access book #BlackDisabiltyPolitics from @dukepress.bsky.social! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Proposed cuts to SNAP could increase the number of people experiencing food insecurity and worsen affordability challenges for those struggling to access food, as well as for those at risk of losing health insurance due to other changes in the legislation.

There’s a through line between the Mahmoud decision and the new segregationist Tr*mp policies, which similarly establish positions where any substantive presence or recognition of a member of a marginalized community is an affront to whiteness. (Go back and re-read @drsubini.bsky.social & Stovall)

I can’t get passed this… proposed funding for ICE detention will be greater than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.

Alito's decision here is rooted in a normative claim that Queer people should not exist--apparently the mere existence of Queer people is "burdensome" and "coercive" to the religiously conservative. This is cruel. Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.

Alito's decision here is rooted in a normative claim that Queer people should not exist--apparently the mere existence of Queer people is "burdensome" and "coercive" to the religiously conservative. This is cruel. Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.

Also for gods sake 330m in the context of an >8b budget isn’t a BOOST. Its barely keeping pace with inflation

More than 47,000 acres of land along Northern California’s Klamath River was recently returned to the Yurok Tribe in the state’s largest land back deal to date. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

I wrote a thing about the Chicago school finance crisis www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chic...

Menomonee Falls, rated among the top ten safest communities in Wisconsin, is planning on reallocating $300,000 from its library to its police department. Because Menomonee Falls is just that rampant with crime, right? Who needs a library?

Why do public entities have to pay interest on loans when they lend to each other? Like why should a school district have to pay interest on a loan from its own state govt? I get that accounting rules say you have to and maybe it’s in law, but like why can’t we change those?

I'm not teaching this term, so rather than working this out with my students I will subject you to it. My read of this (tentative) pronouncement on AI in K-12. 1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co. 2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require. & 3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵

Yes. Us too. And, it’s worth remembering that many IEP services (OT, PT, SLP) are funded in-part by Medicaid. This resegregationist moment is as also about disability

As an educator and parent of a child who receives special ed services, this is terrifying. “Trump then said, "Bobby Kennedy, the Health and Human Services, will be handling special needs."” #edusky www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...

I’m helping to raise money for the Wisconsin Abortion Fund! If you have some discretionary income would you be willing to donate to support low income folks get financial help to have the abortions they want & need? If you can’t donate, please reshare! fund.nnaf.org/fundraiser/6...

Lots going on here. A brief 🧵 of the dynamics involved: urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/03/15/w...

Charles Mills warned us about white ignorance that "resists", "fights back", is "militant", "aggressive", "refuses to go quietly", and "not at all confined to the illiterate and uneducated but propagated at the highest levels of the land, indeed presenting itself unblushingly as knowledge".

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We really don't spend enough time just stating that Trump hates good things. Green infrastructure and biking are among the best things in cities and only retrograde losers think otherwise.

“From Mexico to Greenland, Panama to Ukraine, the Trump administration is bullying allies to align with its vision of national primacy and ethnic supremacy.“

“Republicans are considering slashing hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, the safety-net health insurance program, to help finance an extension of Trump-era tax cuts and beefed-up border enforcement…” www.politico.com/live-updates...

Even if Medicaid portals reopen, dont forget that members of Congress are arguing for deep funding cuts to the program. My family relies on Medicaid to support our son—from daily medical supplies & equipment to PT, OT, & SLP. Medicaid means not having to decide between basic needs & medical costs.

SLC folks: Email and call your senators and urge them to vote NO to HB 267!!!: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

In my head all day.

As we see these images of people crying at the border after the asylum system shut down, it is again worth considering how indescribably desperate a person must feel to travel with their children through the desert, across the water, or through the Darien Gap simply for the *possibility* of safety.

Super excited to share this work with everyone! It was born out of experiences/lessons my colleague and friend Dr. Oliver Tapaha have gained working through the Navajo Nation’s Human Research Review Board’s protocol for conducting research. #researchethics #tribalIRB #indigenousresearchmethods

YES. And, orienting schools toward meeting essential needs means reimagining the rhythm and organization of the school day. Right now, pacing expectations, school discipline policies, etc. undercut any attempt to substantively “build relationships”

To all of the awesome social studies teachers, consider counter-mapping as a curricular method for collaboratively engaging the politics of place with your students #edusky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GN77NXCVCEXFFXGVBPVA/full?target=10.1080/00377996.2024.2364677

Stunts like this should make clear that White Evangelical Christians weren't holding their noses while they voted. Instead, as I show in Holding It Together, religious messaging is actively pushing them MAGA (eg, by promoting the myth of meritocracy). 3/ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

This is pretty great. No subscription required for this article; gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

To all of the awesome social studies teachers, consider counter-mapping as a curricular method for collaboratively engaging the politics of place with your students #edusky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GN77NXCVCEXFFXGVBPVA/full?target=10.1080/00377996.2024.2364677

Excited to share this study exploring how mundane forms of white supremacy extend from certain classroom management practices and the way that classroom spaces are oriented to specific relational norms. #edusky

NBC: CRIME IS UP ON THE NYC SUBWAY. The NYPD reports 86 assaults in 2024, up from 77 in 2023. Now, ofc, no article notes this, but the MTA averages ~2.5-3 MILLION riders/day. So: 86 assaults out of ~175M-210M rides. If you take the train twice/day, you get attacked ONCE every 2,500 YEARS.

I’ve had a manuscript under review for 5 months. At what point do you consider pulling it to resubmit at another journal? #academicsky

Walked into the school office to pick up the kid early. I overhear the principal yelling at another student, “you keep this up I’m sending you outta here in handcuffs!” I didn’t think this had to be said, but threatening young people with arrest is never the solution. #edusky