The latest issue of History of Education Quarterly is out. Here's a thread with open-access links to all of the articles...

Ron DeSantis et al.: History teachers are cramming left-wing propaganda yada yada.... Real history teachers: Hey guys check out this cool 3D map of Hannibal's Alps crossing...

This is the thing power-mad delusional narcissists hate the most:

This just kills me. In every field, they are doing long-lasting damage without any reason. "They had lost years of research in a matter of weeks. Whole labs had been closed...and none of it appeared to have anything to do with the quality or import of the research itself." [gift link]

For your weekend listen: PragerU makes bad history content. Really bad--like Frederick Douglass explaining how the Founding Fathers were the REAL abolitionists. And now it's on the approved list in 11 states. Check out NPR's On Point for more from me and @edweek.org's Sarah Schwartz:

Seems to ban some pretty important topics: 1.) the Civil War 2.) pretty much ANY strike 3.) Civil Rights "Under the bill, teachers would be forbidden from framing historical events “primarily as class, racial, or identity-based conflicts intended to foster division rather than resolution.”""

Thank you Rep Selig: “Teachers in New Hampshire are not indoctrinating students into Marxism or any other political ideology,” said Rep. Loren Selig, a Durham Democrat. “As a former teacher, if I could indoctrinate my students, it would have been to shower and show up with their homework.”

For your weekend listen: PragerU makes bad history content. Really bad--like Frederick Douglass explaining how the Founding Fathers were the REAL abolitionists. And now it's on the approved list in 11 states. Check out NPR's On Point for more from me and @edweek.org's Sarah Schwartz:

The USA has long benefited from top talent flight from authoritarian regimes. Not just skaters, but...Einstein! And my dad, who fled from Stalin to help send the US to the moon. (Pictured here c. 1969 working on Apollo). Today's authoritarian regime in the US is sending them elsewhere....

Let's keep right-wing propaganda out of our public schools. Check out yesterday's episode of NPR's On Point, where we talked about the many creepy dangers of PragerU's terrible content. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

Let's keep right-wing propaganda out of our public schools. Check out yesterday's episode of NPR's On Point, where we talked about the many creepy dangers of PragerU's terrible content. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

It is not a good development that this kind of “investigation” is being led by the Justice Department

New episode of the pod.

Hey history friends! We'll be talking about PragerU this morning on NPR's On Point at 10 eastern. Yes, the folks who brought you "slavery was not that bad;" the "woke" teacher test, and Frederick Douglass explaining why the Founders were...the real abolitionists. www.npr.org/podcasts/510...

The harsher the laws, the more scared elites are. Exhibit B: in the 1800s, GA already had a brutal law against Black education. But the leaders of Augusta passed an even more brutal one--penalizing even white landowners if anyone held a clandestine school on their lots.

Dear Everyone, Help me out here: Am I the only one who waves when they make awkward eye contact?

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵 academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

You know we've been together for a long long time. I'm ready to move from en dash to hyphen with you.

You know we've been together for a long long time. I'm ready to move from en dash to hyphen with you.

What better way to say "I love you" than with the Chicago Manual of Style

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

If you have to say that...

Brewers pitchers n catchers report tomorrow. Please don't get inoculated against Brewers Fever.

Well if the people who brought you the Zune, Bing, Groove Music, the Windows Phone (the Kin?), Kinect, Cortana, the Xbox One, and Internet Explorer say my job is at risk, I guess I should listen

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024. Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

It's a little bit jargon-y, but there is a technical term for a historian who tells you they're not jealous of Superbowl/Bad Bunny collabs. The term is "liar."

lol: Not even @theonion.com can keep up with how stupid and racist they really are....

Carter G. Woodson and the Politics of Civil War Memory #BlackHistoryMonth 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

“I served President Barack Obama for eight years. Every day I witnessed his decency, his integrity, his character, his compassion. It just demonstrates how absent that is now.“ Former CIA Director John Brennan on the racist video Pres. Trump posted on his social media account featuring the Obamas.

wow too much for tim scott is saying something

This is, from a historical point of view, insane: "With the promise of Manifest Destiny beating in every American heart, President James K. Polk took swift action to defend our Nation’s security, our dignity, and our sovereign borders." www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Sorry to be that guy, but holy cow we certainly HAVE seen intense surveillance and attacks on university professors before. Pick a decade: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s....you get it.

Sorry to be that guy, but holy cow we certainly HAVE seen intense surveillance and attacks on university professors before. Pick a decade: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s....you get it.

New York history folks: Any guesses why the school attendance in Kings County (Brooklynish) was so low in 1817? Rockland County claimed 51% attendance; Albany was 77%. But Kings was only 23%. Any idea why?

Woo! I'll take it--this has been a great winter so far....

Here's a story that deserves attention. These standards push Trump talking points into school curriculum. For real, it's the worst I’ve seen in over 100 years of right-wing school aggression.

Right on. The message that connected: 1.) Right-wing school-board takeovers are bad. 2.) High quality public schools are good. The "Party for Quality Education" will defeat the "Party for Killing People in the Streets"

Huge loss for Trumpism in general? Absolutely. But look closer: This was a SCHOOL election. Moms For Liberty/TurningPointUSA/book banners lost. The winning issue: Better public schools for all. [gift link]

Kids these days....1853 edition: "...now the times have strangely altered....Hence it not infrequently occurs that lads will enter a neighbor’s house and sit with their heads covered and reply to any inquiries made, with 1. Shock 2. Emphatic monosyllables.”

Okay, everything sucks, but here's some student art from New York City's African Free School, 1812-1828:

We saw this with creationism battles, too. We assume that conservatives don't want their children to learn the truth, but generally they do. We ALL want our children to get the best knowledge. Some people just don't trust the schools to decide on the "best."

In latest poll on economic anxiety, voters cite education as even less affordable than housing. Yet the percentage of voters who think education is the most important issue facing the country is hovering around zero. (This may also explain why Rahm Emanuel, the education candidate, polls so poorly)

What happens if fewer children get vaccinated? Japan holds lessons for US and is racing to make up for lost ground after decades of setbacks. www.nature.com/articles/d41... Like the proposed Hep-B vaccine "study" in Africa, we already know the answer (if we take the trouble to look at data!)

Thanks to @anya1anya.bsky.social @hechingerreport.org for keeping our focus on this huge school issue. On Jan. 1, 2027, Trump's new private-school subsidy will go into effect. It could devastate our school landscape and whomp on public-school budgets. New Hampshire gives a preview:

Gift link: Whenever we see a new ed-scam story, it tells us something about ourselves. Everyone wanted to believe that the right school could fix racism and poverty. No one wanted to talk about the fact that racism is a bigger problem than that. Plus, there's a sad history... (1/2)

Honestly shocked to learn that my new book about the early history of US public education has been awarded an NEH fellowship. Thanks to the anonymous reviewers who offered such kind words, and who still volunteered to review proposals in these extreme times. Read more about the book here:

About to start.

The next Christian public school test case is in the works. Seems to me like a much weaker case than the Oklahoma Catholic/public school, but we'll see how it plays out. Thanks to @mattbarnum.bsky.social at @chalkbeat.org and Ann Schimke for following this story so closely.

I really thought and hoped @ncecire.bsky.social had already had the last laff about the "Is AI good for children" thing: