Let's not forget Linda's claim: A1 will make schools more tender and juicy, without adding too much sodium.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

"Twenty years ago, a landmark court case held that intelligent design cannot be taught in science classrooms. What lessons does it offer for conflicts in education?" Click the article to join us in reflecting on Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Glad to talk with Jeff Solochek @tampabaytimes.bsky.social. Talked history of teaching anti-communism along with @sethcotlar.bsky.social and Jon Zimmerman. Get this: the standards weirdly insist that McCarthy should not be made fun of. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

In teacher preparation courses, we ask beginning teachers to create lesson plans. Of course, this level of lesson planning depth is not done in the classroom, but it is to learn what makes a good lesson plan. So, I asked AI to do it and described two different contexts. The results were concerning.🧵

Deadline Extended Until Nov 15, 2025 We are accepting applications for TWO postdoctoral fellows! Fellowships are for two years and offer competitive wages and travel funds. Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...

Glad to talk with Jeff Solochek @tampabaytimes.bsky.social. Talked history of teaching anti-communism along with @sethcotlar.bsky.social and Jon Zimmerman. Get this: the standards weirdly insist that McCarthy should not be made fun of. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

Honest question here: Why was the NYT coverage of Mamdani's education SOOOO different for high school and college? Bowdoin is pilloried as a left-wing race-baiting school; Bronx Science is described as fun and formative. Seems weirder than usual...

Skeletons for #Halloween, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). About the least rare rare book in existence (we have 5 copies) but this one hand-coloured and part of a donation made in 1574 by Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. CUL Inc.0.A.7.2[888].

What are you reading right now? I'm re-reading @earlymodjustice.bsky.social 's terrific By Birth or Consent

I’ll just be waiting out the next 3 years in my…

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

There's nothing new about right-wingers attacking schools. @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social @rickperlstein.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social have told the stories. But today is different. Now the call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE. (The White House.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

Required reading for school people: This is literally the oldest failed story in the history of US public schools: 1.) new tech works great at school for rich kids; 2.) well-meaning but inexperienced philanthropists impose it on all kids; 3.) ....it crashes out hard. adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/t...

Proudly showcasing America's rich diversity: Hair sometimes combed left, sometimes combed right.

📉 Why did student achievement start declining before COVID? How are school enrollment patterns shifting five years after? Join us for our Nov 13 EdWorkingPapers webinar featuring James H. Wyckoff, @abbyfrancis.bsky.social, and @joshua-goodman.com edworkingpapers.com/webinar-series

But school districts don't have to mirror the segregation of our neighborhoods, and school taxes don't have to reflect local wealth inequality. Instead, school districts can be purposefully drawn to 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 those injustices. 3/5 www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Arts & Sciences Dean says WashU will not sign Trump’s higher ed compact as-is - Student Life www.studlife.com/news/2025/10...

Okay, say what you want about NYT, but "ripped the face off" is a pretty good way to describe this:

Just as with evolution and climate change science, schools might be the only place some students will hear the real facts about #NoKings.

Channeling my inner @larryglickman.bsky.social this morning--outraged by this BS headline. Trump's higher-ed power grab is not an "offer of preferential funding." It is a attempt to crush the independent power of research universities. It would kill them and leave us all worse off.

Glad to see this news! And Pres Bienen nails it: This "compact" is not a 'deal' or whatever. It would be a death blow for any research university.

The Turd Reich

John Roberts, 2027: "If the Founders had wanted to discourage presidents from posting diarrhea/crown/fighter-plane videos, they would have said so explicitly."

100 years ago, they came for UNC-Chapel Hill. They accused it of teaching evolution, non-heroic US history, and anti-racism. They threatened its budget. Pres. Harry Chase fought back and won. He told voters that if they wanted a “real university,” there could be no ideological control.

Pitches are due 10/20!

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776). In America, the law is king.

Good to hear. But let's be clear: This is not a "Deal for Special Treatment." This is a wild Trumpy power grab that would eviscerate Brown's status as a research university.

The Trump administration announced a $100k fine to accompany each H1-B visa, the fine could wreak havoc on rural school districts who rely on them to bring in teachers. n.pr/4qgx4Eo

We actually know a lot about what happens when conservatives embargo ideas at public universities. In the 1920s, they called it "evolution," but conservatives really targeted a broad range of ideas, including modern science but also ideas about racial equality. What happened back then? A 🧵

Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent. Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Not just red-state publics. There are plenty of existing MAGA universities that already qualify for that anti-DEI money. Get ready for infusions of federal $$ to the new "Liberty University Center for Patriotic History" or the "Biola University Center for Religion in Public Life"

University leaders: Please pay attention. If you truckle, you will only alienate the people you rely on to exist. In the 1920s, when Mississippi banned evolution from its public colleges, the flagship almost died from student attrition.

Here is is, from Bryan Stevenson @eji.org. What's wrong with "heroic history?" "It’s like saying, 'I’m going to the doctor, but I’ve already instructed my doctor, Don’t give me any bad news' ... if you don’t want to be sick... you have to be willing to hear the truth of your condition." [gift link]:

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

Feels weird to announce good news in the midst of all this, but I just learned Mr. Lancaster's System is a finalist for the Robert L. Hampel Outstanding Book Award from the History of Ed Society. Wish me luck, and thanks to the judges and @gmbritton.bsky.social!

Research universities can't negotiate about science. It's not possible to give up, like, half or 2/3 of science. It's not even about doing the right thing (which MIT should absolutely do.) This is an old one: When you cut the baby in half, it dies.

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

Religious Studies folks: If you know any students thinking about applying for the PhD program at Penn, please send them this invitation to our online information session on Oct. 13!

We actually know a lot about what happens when conservatives embargo ideas at public universities. In the 1920s, they called it "evolution," but conservatives really targeted a broad range of ideas, including modern science but also ideas about racial equality. What happened back then? A 🧵

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Introducing nationalism in history class today. From: Captain America, Vol 7, #14 – “Loose Nuke: Part 4.”

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

I hope the folks at Texas Tech are watching. For a full century, it has been extremely easy to crush and loot public universities. But it has never been possible to impose one specific set of ideas or to block another set.

Such a sad story from Sarasota. Thanks to @byjoshmoody.bsky.social for this update. Even sadder because this is a hundred-year-old lesson we could see coming two years ago, as I wrote in 2023 in @chronicle.com:

Here's a gift link so you can read this fantastic column by @pastpunditry.bsky.social: Dr. Hemmer nails it: "the modern right in America *emerged* as a censorious movement." So true--you can see the pattern everywhere--here are a couple more examples: 🧵

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here: