It’s hard to believe after seeing how things are now, but had the House impeached immediately and the Senate held the trial the next day, I do think Trump would’ve been convicted and barred from future office. History could’ve been very different.

For every Argentina-Cabo Verde, there’s a Colombia-Ghana. 🥲

My posts most days. I'm sorry.

Is there anything faker than that stupid momentum meter? Just total made up nonsense.

Sports!!

HAHA. SCREW YOU BIH.

I love soccer but the degree to which a very high proportion of games turns on extreme judgment calls like that is really not good.

I briefed the MA Joint Committee on Education yesterday on "innovative assessment and accountability," an informal 3-hour conversation. I cited @mpolikoff.bsky.social & @bethschueler.bsky.social My opening remarks: andrewho.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/file... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez_U...

This is *absolutely* bananas; the wildest (not complimentary) thing you'll read about education today. And the names in the story (both real and fake) are amazing.

This was interesting and something I had not thought about!

This whole thread.

Today, SCOTUS ruled states can bar trans students from womens' sports. It lets 27 existing bans stand but imposes no national ban. It's also the first issue of QueerED, my new newsletter for LGBTQ+-inclusive schools. I hope you'll read and share! balebo.substack.com/p/queered-tr...

My annual week (slash month) of maximum homosexuality has come to end. The rest of the year I’ll just be very gay rather than exceptionally gay 🥲.

Eating chicken breast in Premium Select be like

Seems like “ability to handle right wing politics” was the main criterion here, which, honestly, seems about right for this position.

All fields have bad scholarship. The production of bad scholarship is an indictment of the scholars who produce it. That some justices chose to cite the bad scholarship is an indictment of those justices. None of it is an indictment of an entire segment of the academy.

Lololol just the worst ppl doing the worst job at the easy tasks. A huge chunk of the audience for these fireworks is (sunburnt, exhausted, parched) kids under the age of 13. Starting them at 11PM is sadistic. Pity the parents/caregivers/group organizers/tour leaders/etc.

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State Superintendent will no longer manage California schools under deal Newsom cuts with Legislature edsource.org?page_id=761057 Seems good.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Scott Wiener is an absolute saint

Nice to see more dancing on the grave of Sal Khan’s blighted “vision” for AI in education. (I, ahem, did call my shot two years ago.)

Absolutely grotesque.

AI tools are evolving rapidly, and schools are adopting them faster than researchers can evaluate them. In a new chapter, Cristina Barnard, Lily Fesler, and Susanna Loeb examine what we know about AI's role in K–12 schools and its effects. Learn more: livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...

This is why I've been tearing my hair out over the CA 11th district election. SF leftists are eager to support someone who has done NOTHING (Chan) over someone who has, through compromise, passed *hundreds* of bills that have real and positive impacts (Weiner).

I think there's actually a useful difference we can draw here. Namely: there is incrementalism that comes from pushing wherever possible (and with whatever levels possible) to make progress toward a maximalist demand, versus incrementalism that's positioned as an excuse for setting minor goals

Correct. They're going to trot out a 7-2 decision that acknowledges the sky is blue and they expect that's going to make everyone forget all of this insane fuckery. The Supreme Court must be reformed, and soon.

I think Wiener’s take on NCLB is not aligned with the evidence. Though there are fair critiques of the prior generation of accountability, I think we are much better positioned to do it well this time around. open.substack.com/pub/edpolicy...

Every now and then I still publish peer-reviewed journal articles. This one is a first for me in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. We examine attitudes toward LGBT issues in schools and relationships with respondents' social networks. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

The Drop-off in Dropouts www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/h...

i-Ready is a convenient target for the techlash embroiling schools. But many of the attacks on it are unfair, distort evidence, or would apply to nearly any curriculum or assessment used in schools. This is a clear and reasonable response. *disclosure: I serve on a research advisory board for CA.

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(paraphrasing, borrowing) Nobody’s free until everybody’s free. All the rest is commentary.

good morning 🌯

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

*types out petty tweet about someone’s new appointment* *deletes it* See, I have matured!

There are a number of useful insights here but I think the most important is that you can take an EVEN simpler approach if you want: use last year’s attendance data to figure out who to prioritize for early outreach and support this upcoming year.

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

Great reporting here from @mattbarnum.bsky.social // Non-college career pathways have a math problem. cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/non-colleg...

Great work from Nat Malkus and Sam Hollon to show that we can make remarkably accurate predictions about kids' chronic absenteeism very early in the school year using available data: www.aei.org/research-pro...

A candidate who runs on making dynamic pricing like this illegal and breaking up Ticketmaster wins every electoral college vote it’s really that simple

"We find that credit recovery assessments as executed lack rigor and validity, and that answers to most assessment items are readily available across multiple websites or platforms." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Given the growing evidence on cognitive offloading and skills erosion, this may be very prudent policy. And it will make for an informative social experiment, with much of the US serving as an counterexample

You should have been avoiding MDPI journals before this, BTW.

Many people immediately said "correlation isn't causation" without reading the paper. I'm happy to see that acknowledged, but the approach is more sophisticated than simple correlation, and I appreciate Dr. Dowd's deeper dive. Though IMO the title should be "DiD the iPhone cause the baby bust?"

you really get the distinct sense that vance takes joy in nothing, which matters politically because voters like to know that you enjoy *something* about life

This game is dreadful

L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

I mean the thing about this no-bid contract going so visibly wrong so quickly is that it's a weird coincidence because surely all the other corrupt no-bid contracts they're doing for things that aren't so visible are all producing perfect work that won't collapse or explode or whatever.