over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

in a week of events triggering my intergenerational trauma, this is deeply upsetting

Taxpayer-funded discrimination, peak 2026: "around 40 percent of the religious schools have policies that favor students of their own faith and around 25 percent have policies that discriminate against LGBTQ+ students."

It makes me happy that two of my Bay Area friends asked me when I am moving 🥰

Our job is to keep showing up and taking care of each other. And knowing when to pause to refill so we can go back to doing it more. Everything else is commentary.

In this editorial, I explore what it means to teach (mathematics) in a time of polycrisis. I use Anna Tsing's argument from "The Mushroom at the End of the World" to unearth the capitalist logics that underlie much of our educational enterprise to reimagine new possibilities. #iteachmath #EduSky

Grateful for the opportunity to read an early draft of @ilanahorn.bsky.social's first editorial as JRME Editor. She writes about math education research during precarious times near & far in the world. I always value Lani's metaphor use in her writing to make sense of complex ideas. cc: @nctm.org

In this editorial, I explore what it means to teach (mathematics) in a time of polycrisis. I use Anna Tsing's argument from "The Mushroom at the End of the World" to unearth the capitalist logics that underlie much of our educational enterprise to reimagine new possibilities. #iteachmath #EduSky

My first editorial for @nctm.org's research journal, the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education: Mathematics Education at the End of the World pubs.nctm.org/view/journal... #iteachmath #EduSky

🚨NASHVILLE: “NOBODY KNEW ABOUT THIS… show up today: 4pm.” Local biz owners blindsided by a push by councilman Taylor to limit what (black-owned) businesses on Buchanan St. can do at night, which could shut them down- and usher in gentrification. More: www.instagram.com/reel/DTPbcwK...

That's just part of the comptroller's report. I would argue, it gets worse. bsky.app/profile/ezra...

A report from the Tennessee Comptroller's Office offered the first formal review of the program, which took effect in the 2022-23 school year.... www.tennessean.com/story/news/e...

Whatever your thoughts are on measurement in education, I strongly advocate downloading this (it's open-access!) and spending some time with it. I did one of those "oh!" of name recognition a whole bunch of times and the chapter titles are great.

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

Iowa Dem win is 2nd election in the past month where the Dem candidate has run against private school vouchers. (See also Georgia state house flip). I've been a lonely voice arguing that vouchers will be an albatross for the GOP, especially as costs balloon www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

Only 8 states and DC have minimum salaries for teachers that exceed the minimum salary that ICE is offering to agents. Yet, unlike ICE agents, teachers in every state are required to have a bachelor's degree.

On this day of nada mucho, I decided to empirically demonstrate my frustration with Apple's severely limited capacity to transcribe the Yiddish words that densely populate my vocabulary. Exhibit A: On the left are the Yiddish words. On the right, the voice-to-text. #JewSky

yep.this #@%!!! year.

Strong work here! Also, it would be fun to run these numbers a second time, but using percentages of *disposable* income (i.e. after basic housing, food, transportation, child care, and health care needs are paid for)

I am saddened by the news that Courtney Cazden has passed away. I remember meeting her at one of my first @aeraedresearch.bsky.social meetings, and she was kind enough to talk to me as a doctoral student. (cont'd) cgscholar.com/community/co...

there are many flavors of miseducation that allow these dangerous goofballs to make false proclamations like this: failures of civic education, history education, reading comprehension... ... but, ouch! does this kind of mathematical and financial illiteracy hurt!

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

my work has been highly impacted by this faux efficiency, which was just a cover for an ideological agenda and privatization of government services. people need to know what a total scam this whole thing was.

In any choice system (chart, mag, vouchers, intra-dist, open enr), schools can make staying so miserable parents “voluntarily” pull kids: think daily calls, endless mtgs, CPS threats over absences. Not valorizing zoned schools as a model of justice, but this is a persistent problem in need of remedy

some good news for #teamdairy 🧀🍦

Our robot overlords are really getting to me today. (Translation: I have been trying to get customer service issues resolved.)

We are failing our kids

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

McCarthyism, automated.

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Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

It is hard to describe the simmering outrage I feel with the government going after fake antisemitism to give cover to their authoritarian goals while actual antisemitism grows unchecked, in some ways inflamed by the fake version. #Bondi

highly recommend this practice

build fast and break things, they said. but breaking the ways that our public goods operate only destroys our social fabric

Yes!!! And related (gift article) #EduSky www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

[GIFT LINK] Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class. by @danagoldstein.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u... This has downstream effects for professors. I am all for prioritizing certain readings in courses, but we need students to engage with challenging texts over time.

Phil Weiser was my freshman year RA

I love the year-end chart story! It's both a great way to catch up on some of the big issues in education and a testament to the power of a good figure in conveying an idea. Vax Rates, ESAs, and Cell Phone Bans: 12 Charts That Defined Education in 2025 www.the74million.org/article/12-c...

"...without more explicit attention to how AI supports specific forms of learning (the “how” and “for what” of learning) and an understanding of “for whom” and “with whom” we are designing, we run the risk of perpetuating rather than attenuating inequities that exist..." #AcademicSky #EduSky

[GIFT LINK] I'd love to hear people's thoughts on Australia's social media ban for under 16s. Will it help with social media distraction/addiction? Help kids focus more? ... or will it just invite creative workarounds? ... kick the addiction can down the road? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/w...

Here are the best books I read this year, in no particular order. They were not all published this year, but that is when I read them. 📘COLORED TELEVISION Danzy Senna 📗ISOLA Allegra Goodman 📕SPELL FREEDOM Elaine Weiss 📙A MARRIAGE AT SEA Sophie Elmhirst 📘GREAT CIRCLE Maggie Shipstead

Annual story time! #EduSky 6 years ago, my friend Tom tweeted this. Because I’m a holiday LOVER who had a classroom tree and array of holiday assignments, I paused and decided to poll my students to gauge their feelings. +

Are you a K12 teacher who works with immigrant students? Are you eager to tell the world about the many ways they make our schools and communities better? Apply for this paid 5-month fellowship from The Century Foundation’s National Newcomer Network. Deadline Jan. 4 bit.ly/EVENFellows2026 #EduSky

I am delighted this morning to see that @ddmeyer.bsky.social is back from his 8 month newsletter hiatus. Dan is my go-to voice on the murky intersection of ed tech and math education. He has some thoughts on the current AI situation: danmeyer.substack.com/p/why-teachi...

My eldest shared Operation Santa with me, an effort by the USPS to have kids' letters to Santa read and fulfilled. We had fun going out and sharing with a couple of people. If you are able to give, it seems like a very direct way to do so: www.uspsoperationsanta.com

"As one senior researcher told me, decades of painstaking work vanished overnight in an attack by an inexperienced and ideologically driven staff intent on dismantling the bureaucracy without understanding its purpose."

181 public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after TN Secretary of State Tre Hargett ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters popular.info/p/tennessee-... via @juddlegum.bsky.social cc: @thetnholler.bsky.social

"Learning to listen, to attend carefully and relentlessly, to unexpected others […] is the single disposition that renders education what it can and must be: the interaction quite literally constituting (ethical) community." -- my colleague, philosopher of education @barbstengel.bsky.social