This looks like a great place for an oil slick!

Interesting framing from two members of Harvard faculty conflating their intramural angst about the challenge of ranking and sorting the spectacularly excellent with the entirety of education. Hubris much?

Shapes of Seattle 2

Shapes of Seattle

Ship shapes 🚢

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

Great place to drill for oil, not.

This is the height of corruption. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Ever heard of Parkinson's Law? It stipulates that work expands to fill the time available. It means we need to develop really clear boundaries for work and non work, otherwise work will always spill over into the time that is available. #StressBites #Teachappy

I've never understood why ppl take complaints about commencement speakers as a dire free speech issue. It seems to me that they have one special speaking slot - for a celebration, not a debate - and the students are just saying "that guy/gal sucks! pick someone else!"

The New York Times editorial board is tracking 12 categories of democratic erosion in the United States, based on historical patterns and interviews with experts www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A consistent theme in American history

California is one of many states rewriting the rules for recycling to shift the burden onto manufacturers, rather than the public. It’s a good moment to rethink how you recycle plastic waste in your home and community — and push for what matters most. wapo.st/4ntNQyW

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

All the cool kids do #math using multiple methods #iTeachMath

Art of the Steal

Nearly 450 hospitals across 44 states are at immediate risk of cutting services or closing entirely because Washington slashed $1 trillion from Medicaid. This isn't just budget math – it's our ERs and our lives. Join us June 1-7 to fight back: sevendaysinjune.org #HealthCutsKill

My post from this week: ● Information theory and why explaining clearly isn't enough christianmooreanderson.com/the-transmis... #EduSky #UKEd

Which is better, a 25% off deal or get 40% extra for your dollar? #iTeachMath

Delving into those historical (traditional?) math #iTeachMath textbooks once again. Thanks to Library of Congress @librarycongress

Too many American children leave school without learning the skills they need to be successful workers and citizens! 1/3

Conservative “civic centers” are being embedded in public universities to normalize a right-wing version of U.S. history & political thought in order to produce the kinds of knowledge that some politicians & ideologues would prefer. “This civics curriculum is really just propaganda.” #AcademicSky

Déjà vu all over again in #education. Will be posting quotes from this book written in the late 1980s over the coming days.

It seems clear there are important connections between personality research and motivation with implications for education research. I'm super excited this paper, which explores those connections, is in our forthcoming topical collection in Educational Psychology Review! #PsychSciSky #EduSky

“Research and reporting that treat standardized math and reading scores as the full measure of student achievement do a great disservice to students, teachers, and anyone else who cares about the quality of education in this country.” - Peter Greene @palan57 1/4

In #Mathstoday, my 11th grade (Y12) precalculus class started series/summation. We did sequences in Jan/Feb, are are coming off of limits. I gave them these photos/problems to introduce sums & motivate and introduce sigma notation. (Photos by me and a friend) 1/3 docs.google.com/presentation...

Does one kind of violet just invade the other? #plants

New Post: ● The Transmission Trap: What information theory tells us about teaching Shannon's information theory was groundbreaking. As a fundamental theory of communication, it can also tell us something crucial about teaching. #EduSky #UKEd christianmooreanderson.com/the-transmis...

Gov. Rhoden Replaces Common Core with Common Sense Math Shifts in instruction with a focus on reasoning, modeling, and problem-solving are embedded throughout. #iTeachMath news.sd.gov/news?id=...#iTeachMath1/5

Will we ever learn? #education "High school students of old, like the well-dressed young man depicted at left, went home each night with a full complement of homework in the three R's. Today, in New York City, students are given fewer and less-challenging assignments." 1/10

“…many students become utterly confused if they are not able to identify a problem situation as to type or if they cannot recall the mechanical processes on which they had come to rely, and which they had learned by rote, for the solution of the problems.” #iTeachMath 1941 1/3

The value of reliable statistics #iTeachMath

Wait, John Dewey framed education around "jobs"? I can't even imagine what Dewey text could be misconstrued into this. It's pure invention.

Making maps like this is pretty cool too #iTeachMath castrio.me/nyc “super simple website where you can see everywhere you can get to in under an hour on the NYC subway. The generated map is both a heat-map (changes color) and a cartogram (warps space).”

Abstract art

I stay on another platform just so I can watch people go bonkers over this #iTeachMath

Hadn't seen it framed exactly this way. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

What is going on here?

I got sconed this morning.

'Field of education evaluation is fixated on one question—“what works?” It privileges what we can easily measure over what we ought to understand. And it treats school contexts as interchangeable backdrops rather than vital elements of success.' www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

It was great to see a shot of our International Set of Cuisenaire rods being used in the BBC Breakfast interview with Cat Eadle from @dyscalculianetwork.bsky.social a few weeks ago. #cuisenairerods are still a favourite manipulative and provide a concrete grounding in mathematical concepts.

“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts...when it wasn’t really ready..." a quote with near-universal applications

Good #dogs wapo.st/4cz4Akr

Oh, would you look at that: Men are perceived as more creative than women even when competency is controlled for, and more deserving of rewards. Five studies shows men are routinely seen having more 'out of the box' creativity. But not only are women... adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/gender-ste...

New Have You Heard: we talk to four current and former teachers about what blue states keep getting wrong about public education. @johndownesangus.bsky.social, @jaustinedu.bsky.social, @annieabrams.bsky.social and Nora De La Cour on why they have the blue state blues soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...

My PhD dissertation on how the separation of work and home shaped gender identity in 19th century America would have been prohibited in 21st century Texas

In our school district it feels like we're expending so much energy just trying to protect public schooling as a concept that we have nothing left to fix the many things that are not great about how our schools currently operate

“Everybody knows that throwing money at education doesn’t work” 1999 edition

I guess I should have a put a link to my new book in this thread lol The book has a whole chapter in it about the cost and value of space curiosity and travel and what moving away from being a military-driven field www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Because what‘s happening isn’t really that NASA is in trouble. What‘s happening is NASA is being transformed. What’s happening is that climate science and astrophysics are in trouble. The nature of the transformation is important. And again, most people don’t read past the headline/post.