Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A few strategies I use: 1. Talk with students about how: 1) AI tends to produce work that is at best mediocre and at worst just wrong, 2) using AI habitually weakens the critical thinking skills that make college valuable, and 3) AI exploits environmental resources and content creators.

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New report from @crpe.bsky.social: The State of the American Student: Getting US Students Back on Track in Math crpe.org/the-state-of... #iteachmath #EduSky

happy constitution day theonion.com/area-man-pas...

a couple of nights ago, i went to a screening of COUNTED OUT, a documentary film that came out last year. its thesis is that, in our information age, mathematical literacy is crucial to our personal and societal wellbeing. countedoutfilm.com/about/ #iteachmath

*and see also my research with @ilanahorn.bsky.social and @graceachen.bsky.social on how the myth of meritocracy helps educators to justify using homework in status-reinforcing ways. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

*see, for example, my research on the advantages that privileged families have with homework, and how they can leverage those advantages to help their kids get away with breaking the rules, when the rules are inconvenient for them. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I'm not the biggest fan of homework (a whole branch of my research* examines its problems). But this is homework at its best: an opportunity for kids to think critically about what they're learning in school and apply it in creative, personally meaningful ways, with time to work/get help in class.

#PairedTexts www.psychreg.org/ai-dependenc...

Parents *shouldn't have to* lead the way in helping kids navigate AI risks and opportunities. Parents should be able to trust that developers and regulators are working to ensure that AI is safe and ethical, and that educators are trained to help kids navigate these tools responsibly. 1/

[GIFT ARTICLE] Tr*mp is Shutting Down the War on Cancer I am a 16 year cancer survivor. I had a 10% chance of living 5 years, and a 5% chance of living 10 years at the time of my diagnosis. Access to new immunotherapy treatments unquestionably saved my life. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

just sharing that in this political moment, zoom bombings seem to be making a comeback. i hosted a webinar this week that had it happen, and i heard of another one on my campus and a third that happened during a dissertation defense. secure your settings, folks, and don't let in randos.

nothing says late stage capitalism like a toddler burnt out from the hustle and grind of preschool

An Immersive New Museum Dedicated to Maths is Opening in London - Featuring Code-Breaking, Experiments, Challenges and more @mathsworld.com secretldn.com/mathsworld-i...

Where are the discussions about teacher shortages in these articles? How many of these students have been taught year after year by non- or emergency licensed teachers that don't have the pedagogical content knowledge or skills to meet students' needs? www.the74million.org/article/covi...

Fun opportunity for advanced high school students/college students: The math story competition invites short digital stories connecting a mathematical idea to the real world. It invites students to be creative, develop their curiosity and have fun with mathematics. mathstory.org

In a recent office hours discussion with a doctoral student, we were talking about the transition from coursework to independent scholarship. They mentioned that they had developed unhealthy habits of overwork during the first years of grad school and were worried about burnout.

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them: They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

we need to quit meta en masse because regulation is not coming

[GIFT ARTICLE] Your Zodiac signs is 2000 years out of date. I would love to talk about this with high school kids. There is some interesting math in this piece. #iteachmath www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

the worst part is that we are being protected from a very fake version of antisemitism (criticism of the Israeli government) while the everyday antisemitism is allowed to flourish. madness.

Our first JRME talk for the academic year is this Tuesday at 12 PM Eastern! Dr. José Gutiérrez and his colleagues will be sharing their paper "Signs of Power and Dominance: The Logic of Elimination in Mathematics at Indian Boarding Schools" #iteachmath #edusky vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

i have been saying that "school choice" is not an actual choice without robust public transportation infrastructure. by normalizing caregiver transport, we have devalued school transit, so this seems like an unsurprising consequence of our disinvestment in educational access.

i dropped my youngest of 3 at college last week. there are the obvious places for big feelings and tears (the dorm, the drive away), but the place that always gets me hardest is the grocery store, as i reach for the kid's favorite snacks and realize, "oh! i don't need to get that now!"

Action needed! Please share! #EduSky House Labor, Health and Human Relations, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee is meeting TODAY at 5pm. They promised no Title I cuts. Now it’s –27%. Tell your Rep to vote NO on the House ed bill. Act now: actionnetwork.org/letters/they...

Rossiter coined the term "Matilda effect" for when women's scientific work is attributed to men. It was a twist on the "Matthew effect," famously attributed to Robert Merton, but actually studied jointly by Merton and his wife Harriet Zuckerman, who was denied co-authorship

REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “People want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but it’s a form of theological malpractice when you pray for something you have the power to change.”

[GIFT ARTICLE] Mathematician Eugenia Chang explores the choices we make to determine if two things — numbers, shapes, words and even people — are equal. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/s... #iteachmath

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns

i quit instagram this month in protest of these youth-targeted chatbots. if we are friends, please send me pictures of your babies, pets, and kids, because that was the last thing i was hanging around for, despite decades of ethical breaches.

chatgpt applies for a job

somebody on here pointed out the hilarity of pairing camo with visibility vests, and now i can't unsee the ridiculousness

Rep. @jrclemmons.bsky.social asking @govbilllee some fair questions…

[GIFT ARTICLE] Make America Healthy Again, Even if It Gets You Sick by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

The district refused, but we did it anyways in more subversive ways. For many of them, I think it did support their emotional capacity for “weathering” these instances, but also actually kept them from leaving the profession.

For exactly the reasons Lani is pointing to. They NEED each other to sustain and improve their practice. And, in their existing placements, were being bullied (no exaggeration) into conformity w the status quo…

…in the last district I worked with, I argued that we should take all the teachers committed to research-based teaching and allow them all to transfer to one site together…

these GF vegan banana muffins are beloved by everyone who tries them. in regular rotation around here. minimalistbaker.com/1-bowl-vegan...

This is such a great point, and I never thought of it that way. How can we create social contexts for teachers that allow them to do the emotional work of including all students (which is hard work, I know).

last day to sign up for the fall Consistent Money-Moving Project cycle—every pledge helps ❤️

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

🧵 New #openaccess pub just dropped: "Teachers' subjectivities in responsive instruction: When ambitious instruction encounters challenging teaching situations" by me, Yeliz Günal Aggül, Shuqin Li, and Christine Hood #AcademicSky #EduSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Direct link to the report, focusing on the cost of conflict during the 2023-24 academic year: idea.gseis.ucla.edu/publications...

4 in 5 parents with young children report emotional distress including anxiety, stress, and depression. Child care costs $300-400/week in some areas.

Someone on here was recently asking me about research on teachers' time use. Here is a recent summary: tntp.org/wp-content/u... (was it you, @tracyzager.bsky.social?)

"A recent national study surveyed superintendents and found the nation’s schools spent $3.2 billion on managing culturally divisive conflict in a single year." #EduSky www.laschoolreport.com/californias-...

from my kids... a short stop-motion animation: 'help desk' youtu.be/veHTIDT1jJ0?...