NYC! This Saturday! IC cofounder Mariame Kaba & abolitionist organizer/educator Neta Bomani will explore how they used archival records to highlight moments from the life of Joan Bird, revolutionary freedom fighter. Register at: bit.ly/FragmentedEncounters 📍 NYC 🗓️ Saturday, July 11 🕰️ 4pm

Three regular hexagons. The smallest has area 6. What’s the pink area? #geometrypuzzle

"How do you incorporate laughter in your classroom?" What a great question! Either in replies or at @teacher2teacher.bsky.social, what is your favorite way to bring laughter into your space? #EduSky www.edutopia.org/teacher2teac...

My latest: I don’t respect America at 250. The only thing I can think of is how America is still a young, spoiled brat of a nation that no one is able to discipline. Foreign writers have been commenting on the US's developmental problems for centuries. karenattiah.substack.com/p/america-ne...

"KKK, but Best Buy, bitch"

Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.

See you at the Tricentennial! 😇 Happy birthday 🇺🇸!

Living the American Dream: Trump’s Huge Windfall Has Few Known Global Precedents www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

Building a world class curriculum for whom? New blog post from me tenpencemore.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/t...

"[T]here is always a very natural tendency on the part of the Fascist government to do everything possible to create the impression, despite the wavering and hand-to-mouth character of its actual economic policy, that it is following the bold and well-defined course which it claims."- Wilhelm Röpke

EastNewYorkCLT.org will soon be the first community land trust in NYC's history to purchase a commercial property off the private market. A 2-story brick building will become the “East Brooklyn Liberation Center,” its headquarters, with affordable office space for other local orgs. #ShareGoodNewsToo

Interestingly, ACT will be operated as a for-profit subsidiary of the non-profit ETS. It will probably be important to follow the money trail as it becomes visible over the next year or two.

testing companies don’t just administer tests, they can lobby for policies

No one thought it was possible, but Trump is Making Iran Great Again. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/...

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

Check out my Substack! #Addtoblacksky #mathed #Blackeducation

I had the pleasure of writing a response to Kirchgasler’s paper in Science Education about affect in post-Brown science education reform. Her analysis helped me build on the genre characteristics that I talked about in my racialized deviance paper last year. #Blackademics #mathedresearch #scienceed

“Critics question abolitionist movement's strategies after a string of Supreme Court setbacks”

This paper has been a REALLY long time coming. It's about a course I taught for many years called Tools of Inquiry, in which I try to teach students to ask and explore their own mathematical questions, including with technology. It's a little like an introduction to research experience at scale!

"Tools of Inquiry: Reimagining Student Research" by Brian P Katz (BK) @thewordninjabk.bsky.social about a course focused on students learning to ask and explore their own mathematical questions and to use technology to support mathematical inquiry. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You’ve Pet your last Shop Boy

They were furious about 'cancel culture' precisely because they don't want social opprobrium to limit their or their peers' acting out on bigotry & misogyny from being limited.

Research Studies Of The Week larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/06/26/r...

SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett has 2 Black Haitian kids who she adopted. Today she ruled to expel 700K Haitians who were here legally. Proximity to white supremacy is not protection from white supremacy. And proximity to Black and brown people is not exemption from being a fascist and racist.

Present the whole spectrum of math as a human activity. Give students time to think and feel. Present math in all of its glory. Show how math has been used to diminish or exclude others. Forget about being a “math person”—just be a person. We need all types!

#iTeachMath 7 story Basket! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/r...

It's EDUCATION CRISIS Time! "The public schools of NYC are producing in large numbers boys and girls holding grammar school certificates who cannot write legibly, can not spell simple words, can not add, subtract, multiply or divide accurately, 1/10

Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

Let’s suppose you had 7 minutes to address the Modernizing Math Education 9-14 committee. What would you want them to know? #iTeachMath Agenda for June 23: www.nationalacademies.org/cdn/material... Note: only a few on the committee have teaching experience in 9-12, and it’s not recent.

So many things! 1. There are 9-12 teachers doing this work 👋 2. A lot of modernizing involves what was laid out in the 80s and 90s. That is, relevant math and numerical computing platforms were highlighted & introduced then. 3. Chatbots are unrelated to modernizing mathematics education.

“Public confidence” is exactly my point though. The villains here are the bad-faith actors eroding public confidence, not the totally normal election procedures. There is no reason taking a week to count votes is a problem by itself!

Note, as my second grade teacher once said to me, “This is not a rhetorical question.” #iTeachMath

Let’s suppose you had 7 minutes to address the Modernizing Math Education 9-14 committee. What would you want them to know? #iTeachMath Agenda for June 23: www.nationalacademies.org/cdn/material... Note: only a few on the committee have teaching experience in 9-12, and it’s not recent.

Questions for my #iTeachMath colleagues regarding the linked project. What does "modernizing" math ed mean to you and the students you work with? What changes in the last decade or decades have proven worthwhile to your students? Which have not? www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEP...

Reports of the demise of the humanities are always greatly exaggerated

About half of the immigrants in Maine are women of color, with the plurality of those women of color being Black women immigrants. Orgs like this one fill gaps in government services that should be provided by the state and federal government. www.inherpresence.org

I am saddened to learn about the passing of one of two @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social professors who most influenced my life, Professor Gene Klotz. www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/...

Gene Klotz will be greatly missed by the NCTM and mathematics education communities, his colleagues, students, and friends.  #iTeachMath www.nctm.org/News-and-Cal...

This guy was arrested Tuesday night and is in prison for making terroristic threats. His name is Jake Lang. He's a pardoned January 6 insurrectionist. His bail is set at $1M newrepublic.com/post/211646/...

A World Cup dream denied — Somali referee Omar Artan receives a hero's welcome at home after being blocked from entering the United States and taking part in the World Cup. n.pr/3Sj0PYx

If your “prior” entering the series was that the two teams were evenly matched and you treated each game as a coin flip, the mere fact of New York’s 2-1 edge would give it a 70 percent chance of winning the series. #iTeachMath www.nytimes.com/athletic/734...

This is a 1987 appreciation post. That is all.

#DuBoisChallenge2026 - Week 10, showing the proportion of Black Americans in a growing population through Reconstruction Code in #rstats: github.com/drjohnrussel...

Check out this entry for the #DuboisChallenge2026 from Rene Villa www.linkedin.com/posts/allenh...

Just killed a mosquito on a plane in Seattle that flew down from Fairbanks, Alaska and is on its way to Boston It was full of blood Great exercise in how disease vectors move about quickly

K-12 teachers should also have control over their curriculum, which is yet another reason teachers across the K-20 spectrum need to be in solidarity. What happens in K-12 schools is often a canary in the coal mine.

> What does "modernizing" math ed mean to you and the students you work with? ⬇️⬇️⬇️