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The whale’s mouth is your course, the fish are your beautifully-designed assignments, the mouth closing = the moment you realize grades are due.

Had a hard time deciding where the Imperial Death March starts playing in this Texas Tech memo. “Alternate materials?” Or the part where faculty may assign the industry-standard textbook but must not “highlight, assess, or allocate instructional time” to bad-bad-very-bad content?

“Picked up a lot of partially correct ideas about research over her years” now competing “Post Malone & Jelly Roll: music for people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody.”

Why not 200%? Because then I can walk it back by 50% and still 100% agree.

If I get one data-teaching wish, it’s that my students understand percent change (positive & negative) and the difference between percent change and percentage point change. Achieving this goal would produce a 600% decline in world terribleness.

Uber blasting Pump Up the Jam

"The New York Times seems to constantly forget, or just doesn’t care, that only about 1% of U.S. college kids attend the dozen so-called Ivy-plus top-tier universities, and that less than 30% attend any type of private university." - @willbunch.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/JuBLs2

This was never about the worst of the worst. We have continually demanded answers about how many of our children were taken into federal detention. Trump’s DHS has continually refused to give us information. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

My students vote on last week of semester topic and they chose: Social Class at Princeton, from admission through graduation Why not go out with a real bang?

If thou hast exceeded thy overdue work limit, every sacred text commands: thou shalt order ice cream cake unto thy home. #Everything.Is.Legal.In.NJ

Huh: "Part of the problem is that Iowa's private schools have been raising their prices, according to research out of Princeton University. A new, unpublished update, which researchers shared with NPR, found that, by the program's third year, ESAs had led to a roughly 40% increase in tuition."

Great long form article on Cedar Rapids, which includes a peek at private school tuition effects after 3 years of ESAs + reporter Cory Turner gets a principal on record about tuition hikes - Jedi mind trick caliber reporting.

Josh Cowen: You shouldn’t take seriously a single thing red state Republicans say about accountability in education until they require the same standards for voucher schools that they demand for traditional public schools.

“we’ve devised a grim reality for younger Americans. If you want to watch porn or place a prop bet, the wind is at your back. If you want to go to college or start a business, the wind is in your face.”

As it turns out: electrified tracks end in DC, so we'll switch to a diesel engine, allowing riders to reflect on what progress looks like, backwards.

So, highly recommend @andrewdeanho.bsky.social's thought deck on what training looks like given AI

11 hours, 40 minutes Amtrak from Trenton to Durham. The tracks have the gentle, gliding feel of JD Vance explaining theology to the Pope.

Doubling down on policies that will harm kids: Republican lawmakers eager to begin tracking immigrant students in TN public schs also added a last-minute amendment that would require public schs to collect student Social Security numbers to maintain hold harmless funding over the next several yrs

Fair description of the world today.

Any teacher would have told you: you need something real - whether better teaching training, supports for students, etc - to replace exclusionary discipline before you end or slow its use.

Peter Thiel’s door is clearly made of NPC material, so how is it even getting nailed?

cool that rigorous empirical work and someone’s viewpoint are the same

Word to the wise: you mess w NJ pizza karma and you will pay

I made fun and they are withholding my pizza in spite

every ad i now suffer: perimenopause lasts 3x longer than the confederacy. if you advertised it like that, i'd buy it.

class network as of 2 weeks ago (captured so I could start assigning seats to avoid prior contacts) next time I will do this every two weeks (tie = knew before, has turned & talked with, or spent time outside of class; have 3 separate measures but decided to collapse here)

A+ for creativity but I declined

Our full conference schedule is out and it is a banger!! Join us in RI on May 1st. 🌎+🎓

My Trenton neighborhood did not need a drive through cannabis dispensary.

For the rest of the day, refer to everyone who crosses you as The Gooch.

When you read AI prose for a living, encountering it in Bluesky posts not only produces heartburn, but tears. This is not defeat. It is passion.

Epistemological crisis is a lot to take before 6am.

New @Brookings commentary on the consequences of current immigration enforcement campaigns & attacks on immigrant communities for students & schools. www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

"Voters have rejected every statewide private voucher or education tax credit initiative since 1970. Washington, Oregon, Kentucky, Maryland & Arizona voters each have done so once. Michigan, Nebraska, Utah & California have rejected these items twice. Colorado voters have rejected vouchers 3 times"

Becky with the bad grades, still in search of someone to blame.

Teaching @larivera.bsky.social's book has involved finding gems like this for lecture.

If any other intervention produced outcomes of this size - GPA improvements of .24SD & reductions in course failure of .14SD - districts would be desperate to implement it. Instead, because ethnic studies has been labeled as "woke," efforts to scale have slowed.

Now with a QR code: Can I Buy That with My Arizona ESA account? Data are from ADE’s recent “technical report” reviewing 3000 purchase orders; in other words, right out of the horse’s mouth.

“For our new BBC podcast, Top Comment, we spoke to a representative of Explosive Media, one of the key accounts generating these clips. He wanted us to refer to him as Mr Explosive.”

“a game-changing bachelor of applied science in elementary education. The design is elegantly simple: a partnership with a local school district desperate for teachers, a pathway for paraeducators and high school juniors & seniors, & paid employment throughout both the associate & bachelor’s degree”

Surely I am the last to know, but highly rec for co-working

Under Trump the federal government has ended nearly all civil rights inquiries except those weaponizing the law to push right-wing policy. It’s a gross dereliction of duty and of American history. And something to remember when you hear “return education to the states.” 2/2

Finally in print. "Preserving Rural Schools from the Voucher and Charter Threat" share.google/BOoaRovvyarK...

Someone should check in on the rational actor assumption. Seems like it has had a hell of a week/month/year/decade.

cool sunrise situation

👀That would be something “I just will say this, is that every school has to make sure they take every child. Right? If we have to compete on a level playing field, the playing field has to be level all the way. That's so important." Feenstra during Q&A session with the Westside Conservative Club

A new experiment, suggested by a student: I fed my reading response prompt for @larivera.bsky.social's Pedigree to ChatGPT & Claude. I then sent the responses to students and encouraged them to outperform it. First, the prompt

Now do Arizona school vouchers