Students who take AP Statistics are 3x more likely to be able to tell the difference between correlation and causation.

Was lucky enough to have some help with the Christmas lights this year.

I'd totally be smarter if I just had an edit button...

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

If David Coleman and Trevor Packer had a baby:

Just tell me where to sign up.

So, uh, let's stop pouring money into them??

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

Please make your way all the way through this excellent thread. It acknowledges the challenges we are all facing in education and gives a clear path forward. It gives me hope. And that is something I haven't felt in a while friends.

Multiple things are true: I have students eager to learn whose enjoyment of reading has been drummed out of them; I have students who want to write (& think) for themselves who become paralyzed at needing to do it; I also have students who resist seeing my class as anything but a box to check.

There is a metric shit-ton of problems our society is facing, but I'd argue this is the one they pretty much all stem from:

If anyone needs me I'll be dusting off my Neil Diamond Christmas CD albums in preparation for tomorrow.

As I've said before, the best thing you can encourage your child to be is a failed sports* coach. *Men's football and basketball especially.

4 should be 1 8 should be 3 1 should be 2 I will cede, however, that this list still qualifies hims for whatever he wants to run for.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

I'm tweaking, into a whole new era G-funk, step to this, I dare ya Funk, on a whole new level The rhythm is the bass and the bass is the treble Chords, strings, we brings melody G-funk, where rhythm is life And life is rhythm

Watching MAN IN THE INSIDE and the bit about the AI coffee machine not working without a sample of your DNA is perfect. No notes.

Ok, maybe we should look into this Ivy League grade inflation thing...

Me after playing tennis on a Friday after a long week.

As a teacher, this random reddit post just made my day.

If you can, make some time to read this if you're in anyway connected to a classroom:

Evergreen analysis of any Ken Burns documentary:

The Dems are gonna fumble this bag so freaking hard. 🤦‍♂️

31-41% of survey respondents are awesome.

If I ran for president solely on the platform of de-golding the White House I'd get at least 200 electoral votes right?

This is the best repudiation of the "crisis of masculinity" that I've read. Everyone should read it when they have the chance:

No work tomorrow? Good a time as any to watch PREY again.

Yeah :D

Mamdani is going to impose Shari's Law where everyone can get pies 24 hours a day.

As someone who teaches in a building that did this I hate absolutely everything about it.

That TD better stand bc I think that almost took Gus out.

"Acing the exam ≠ the ability to apply that knowledge" resonated with my soul on this Friday after reminding my kids exam payments are due Monday.

This right here 👇

My 18 page long list of AI skepticism links has a whole section on fascism and racism docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I forgot how the last few episodes of season 2 of Justified are really, really good TV.

Look, none of us is perfect ok.

USS Maine Gulf of Tonkin The Diplomat on Netflix What else am I missing?

Today Task Manager told me Word wasn't open when it was the app I cntrl/alt/dlt'ed from. So naturally when I end task-ed Outlook, Word closed.

Ah yes, what is there to do but, you know, our freaking jobs as teachers?

How badly do you think he wanted to reanimate Shelby Foote for this? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/a...

Today the Crash Course video I was showing was interrupted halfway through by an ad for a Chucky movie. God I love the enshittifaction of everything...

I'm really starting to feel like the people who hate education might win.

You know if you turned that first comma into a period and stopped typing you might actually have a union message. But instead you're helping corporations learn how to replace workers.

Definitive proof AI can't be fixed

You all know my feelings on AI, but here's to hoping it's not hallucinating this time.

Watching the Enron documentary in Sociology today and here are my takeaways: >W absolutely sucked >ND had a Democratic senator and his comb over was epic >Skilling should still be in prison >We're never going to properly regulate financial markets in this country