it wasn't until 1904 that Margaret Haley would make an impassioned plea for school teachers to organize it was a nation-building argument "Practical experience in meeting the responsibilities of citizenship directly not in evading or shifting them, is the prime need of the American people."

It’s always too quant guys telling each other "exactlyyyy.”

Wow. What miraculous, world-changing, life-saving, history-altering, previously unfathomable invention does this company produce? Oh, software?

Also, pay reviewers & pay editors.

Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

The deadline for submitting proposals for CUFA 2026 has been extended. The new date is April 20, 2026, at 11:59 PM Hawaii Standard Time (HST). For further details and to view the call for proposals, please visit this link:

Someone sent me this.

Can I make a Kelshi bet on how long before he nods off?

there are 3 frontrunners for the CPS Superintendent search, one is the senior director of educational policy at the City she was investigated multiple times for failure to report various kinds of child abuse, CPS Legal absolved itself of wrongdoing but voices of students can be heard in the memos

here's some of the primary source history on it essentially, CPS did not know what to do with a core/shell of a school and the Mayor's Office was not inclined to help them and Arne Duncan didn't work his way out of it to have a CPS school

The TikTok generation. Sigh.

Reminds me of the gleeful reports about users feeling Twitter in the early Musk days. Turns out that a smaller, ideologically homogenous, & sycophantic Twitter-verse is a great platform for influencing political & media discourse. Ellison definitely knows this & is acting accordingly.

The 2026 CUFA Program Chairs are excited to share the call for proposals with members & the broader #socialstudies community: Continuities, Countercurrents, & Change in Social Studies. Proposals will be due April 13, 2026, 11:59pm Hawaii Standard Time. Submissions go live March 6!

OpenConference has been fixed! The submission systems should reflect the call now.

Every ad for a Dem airing Chicago promises to “fight.” Sure.

How did they cancel all those NEH grants so quickly? Ahhhh, of course…

Some more background on Ish & the bs he is dealing with. Please sign & share in support a great leader in social studies ed.

The 2026 CUFA Program Chairs are excited to share the call for proposals with members & the broader #socialstudies community: Continuities, Countercurrents, & Change in Social Studies. Proposals will be due April 13, 2026, 11:59pm Hawaii Standard Time. Submissions go live March 6!

Ish is one of the finest social studies educators in the country. The Black history curriculum he leads is a model of deep local engagement contextualized into national & international movements. He needs our support. Please sign & share. actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

Ish is one of the finest social studies educators in the country. The Black history curriculum he leads is a model of deep local engagement contextualized into national & international movements. He needs our support. Please sign & share. actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Defend Ismael Jimenez! Defend Teaching the Truth! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state. Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.

What stands out to me is treating productive capacity as a political variable(!) Moving from 500 to 1,400 shovelers at $30/hr is a real foray into capacity expansion organized around a clear public standard, instead of letting the “how do we pay for it?” frame set the ceiling in advance. 1/

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

schools are also a place to see how the city and chicago public schools enact anti-Black policy through policing of leisure spaces the curfew signs are extremely common at CPS high schools but often posted on the walls closest to the basketball courts

One of the most trenchant things I’ve read about Epstein & the bigger protect he was wrapped up in.

After a month and a half break from print, the Reader makes its debut as a monthly. Thank you to everyone who supported the paper last year when we were scraping by week to week, and all the ups and downs before then. Thank you to everyone who picks up a new issue, it means the world.

“Why haven’t construction workers become as productive as me, a person looks at screens 14 hours per day?” The world may never know.

I am hosting this FREE workshop to help us navigate this current moment with our little ones. Please invite your comrades, community, and kin. We are not helpless and we are in an intergenerational struggle. ASL & NOTE TAKER PRESENT

📣 New Statement from BCSS on civics, democratic responsibility, & the role of educators in this moment. We affirm that civics education is not neutral. It bends toward liberty & justice through critical inquiry, historical truth, & collective responsibility.

A new statement from the Big City Social Studies Group - "State Violence & Civics Education in a Democracy" "Civics education in a democracy bends towards liberty and justice, not of its own accord, but through the efforts of educators and students." bigcitysocialstudies.org/video-and-so...

A new statement from the Big City Social Studies Group - "State Violence & Civics Education in a Democracy" "Civics education in a democracy bends towards liberty and justice, not of its own accord, but through the efforts of educators and students." bigcitysocialstudies.org/video-and-so...

Statement on "State Violence & Civics Education in a Democracy" from the Big City Social Studies Group. "Civics education in a democracy bends towards liberty and justice, not of its own accord, but through the efforts of educators and students."

Reform the campaign of terror?

i agree with the speakers here that we should have conservatory model arts high schools in chicago we shouldn't have just one, we should have many and they should be district run

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, licensed nurse

Video, trigger warning www.facebook.com/reel/1207062...

Video, trigger warning www.facebook.com/reel/1207062...

Counterpoint - Don’t distinguish. Just run on it.

i focus a good chunk of my research on what is going on inside York High School (Cook County Jail) and Jefferson High School (Juvenile Temporary Detention Center) and despite them being called high schools chicago arrests and imprisons kids as young as 13

"Hootsuite could receive up to $2.8 million USD for contract with US immigration enforcement". If your organization has a hootsuite account, contact their sales (they don't have tech support so don't bother with that) & threaten to cancel

Unfortunately, it’s only Dems who see early polls on an issue & decide it’s a lost cause instead of using every tool to, you know, change public opinion.

Great zine to print and share covering the basics of what's at stake for trans folks & everyone in the Supreme Court cases on trans girls right to participate in school sports from Gender Justice Leadership Programs ourtranstruth.org/trans-athlet...

Good question, from one of my mom's SNCC posters. Photo by Danny Lyon.

IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES.

Years ago I read an interview with Jerry Butler where he was asked, what if Curtis stayed working in the cigar shop & never pursued music full time. Butler replied, “Then he would have been the Curtis Mayfield of selling cigars.”

it would be cool if CTA handed out headphones for anyone who wants the accommodation to lower noise and the headphones could be plugged into jacks at the seats for easy listening, the CTA guided tour of Chicago "hop off here if you're going to go to the best McDonald's in the city"