And here's @gregpak.net's testimony to the @council.nyc.gov AGAINST "A.i." in the public schools! Huge h/t to @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social for leading this fight! youtu.be/7-h3rPb-4G4?...

Then maybe try…

2 of these 3 stars wouldn’t be Americans under Trump’s preferred policies.

A favorite research project for students is to have them not identify, but map where all those ingredients came from. Who produces them? How are they shipped? What’s journey to your favorite food takes on its way to your stomach?

“…the enemy is at once too strong and too weak. Fascist regimes are doomed to lose their wars, because they are constitutionally incapable of making an objective assessment of the enemy’s strengths.” - Umberto Eco

Ok, West Loop Branch. Nicely done.

Oh, today is the day we get to buy shares in a company that its CEO uses to stoke racial violence?

You know what produced durable white working class Democratic voters? Unions. Republicans know that, which is why they’ve spent decades strangling unions. But instead of rebuilding their foundational institutions, the national Dems are all in on charismatic scum bags because it works for the GOP.

look at this cop takeover

a whole bunch of these are available at Inga on 18th street and at @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social on Milwaukee Ave. there might be extra gossip written in the margins also 🖤

today's first public comment is from CTU discussing the budget cuts there are deep cuts to teaching positions it's so frustrating that this city increases the police budget year after year and shorts the schools year after year

The goal of putting police in schools is to create order & compliance through the threat & use of force. These cops are doing exactly what Texas lawmakers wanted. #PoliceFreeSchools

A movie set across the Mediterranean stars a dude from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

So, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes a brilliant (as usual) op-ed about genAI and some tech bro attempts to ridicule it. The guy, Mike Solana, is probably not worth my time but it seems he's gay and as a Gay, I am unduly annoyed by evil gays. Also, I'm bored. So here's my debunking of this guy.

Well, “you failed and we, the non-racists, are here to save your simple asses” is one kind of message to send to the organizations on the ground I guess. I simply might go a different way.

I've decided that my new measure of Provosts is how much I know about them. It's an inverse relationship. Best provost: The guy (I think it was a guy?) at my last school whose name I don't know and whose face I couldn't pick out from a line-up. He (presumably) did his thing, didn't hassle me. Good.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

When JD Vance talks about “Heritage Americans,” he is arguing that there is a natural, permanent social structure that none of the flowery language of laws or constitutions can change…and that it’s dangerous to even have those ideas around.

The missing context is Rufo’s whole mission statement: that leftists marched through institutions like public schools & higher ed the last 60 years to politicize youth against America, so conservatives much now counter-march back through to restore the nation. Fantasy, but politically useful.

Terrifying & unsurprising. #SROsGotToGo

These anti-trans public school district investigations should be a wake up call that it is highly probable that the Trump administration’s federal school voucher regulations will not protect against LGBTQ+ discrimination in private schools that participate in the program.

The fist event from the Midwest Social Studies Education Hub! Come join us & kick off a new era of collaborative learning with a panel of scholars & teachers on teaching the American Revolution. Register here - bit.ly/3QwXWTh

The fist event from the Midwest Social Studies Education Hub! Come join us & kick off a new era of collaborative learning with a panel of scholars & teachers on teaching the American Revolution. Register here - bit.ly/3QwXWTh

Enshrining “partisan advantage” as a legitimate use of state party is so deeply, deeply messed up.

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/