New paper on AI as carceral in schools: Tanksley and Cabral "consider how the proliferation of AI technologies into K-12 schools has worked to hide, speed up, and automate educational inequities for Black students, giving rise to a techno-educational carceral apparatus": www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/6/...

Report: In Some Urban Districts, Science of Reading Limits ‘Robust Comprehension’ www.the74million.org/article/repo...

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Funded social science and education PhDs at University of Vienna, deadline 3/2/26. Great opportunity to get paid to do research in another country. #edusky #teaching www.researchgate.net/job/1034778_...

Librarians not only improve learning but also help students with media literacy—a critical skill today. In their absence, this skill falls to the English teacher already pressed to help kids read fluently and write across disciplines. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

This graphic reminds me of artist Marc Lombardi's mapping of Bush-era entanglements; Trump's grift has exponentially magnified what were once "webs of scandal": curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/...

Honored to be nominated for a Pushcart by @terrainorg.bsky.social for my story “Sea Minks” www.terrain.org/2025/fiction...

Did annual cocoa house reading with students—everyone reads an excerpt from their work while I make hot cocoa or tea. Students said it felt weird and disrespectful . . . to have the teacher serve them. So they took tea&cocoa orders and mixed the cocoa for their peers. (I manned boiling water fwiw.)

Someone I know who used to work at one of the many Ed-tech reading companies that rely on our current framework for “literacy” told me that the company’s “bread and butter” were Title 1 middle schools, and I think we should keep that front/center in the reading convo

OMG this again. Most of the teachers interviewed actually say they ARE reading novels with students. Prepackaged curricula are a problem. So don't use them, like teachers quoted here. Where is the "rarely" coming from (other than self-selecting survey responders)? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

This is amazing. Love it: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

We’re #1! And honestly most people just can’t handle how we do things here. www.travelandleisure.com/most-stressf...

No Shocker To Teachers, But New Study Finds SEL Helps Students’ Academic Achievement larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/12/04/n...

NYC used to send NJ its trash; now we get its garbage data and higher utility bills.

Wore what I thought was an Audrey Hepburn-esque black turtleneck today; an 8th grader called me Professor Snape. 🫶

I would like 1) not to grade/work/plan on weekends/vacations and miss important family and down time and 2) have health insurance for my family. Those desires are mutually incompatible. This is about universal health care.

This is a solid critique but fails to mention that much of the stress about college has come from defunding state schools, making college both a economic necessity and an impossibility, in an age of rising income inequality: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...

As shootings decline, NJ violence prevention groups get funding cut www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/11/as-s...

People are getting electricity cut off because of high bills. Causing the higher rates and bills: AI data centers drivehttps://wapo.st/3Xb0mXI

I appreciate Sam Sifton getting daily food and vegetable references in the NYT morning briefing. Much better than random neoliberal opining of prior editor/writer.

Bad infrastucture and SUVs/light trucks account for increase in pedestrian deaths; vehicles disproportionately hit Black and Latino peds on multi lane city roads: www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Four times a year, end of marking period grading season always manages to bring to mind the last line of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find": It's no real pleasure in life.

If you’re looking to support good politics, consider donating to @joel4jc.bsky.social. He’s a dad, a friend, a union organizer—and clearly qualified for the job he’s running for. Headed for a runoff in Jersey City. secure.actblue.com/donate/joel-...

So grateful and honored to have my story, “Wool,” nominated by @cincinnatireview.bsky.social review for Best of Net.

Third story of an NJ resident college student out of state not receiving/having processed mail in ballot. Three makes it a trend.

GOP-led states are blocking college students from registering to vote with campus addresses. In the context of broader attacks on vote-by-mail and early voting, these efforts will systematically disenfranchise young people across the US. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

In NJ, my own son in college out of state and that of a colleague sent in mail-in ballot requests with plenty of time—and the request was never received. They are each able to take a few hours trip to vote in person. But I wonder about other stories of college aged voter disenfranchisement in NJ.

More than 5 million people face an increased cancer risk because they live near a type of industrial plant that would have been subject to rules put forward by the Biden. The Trump administration is rolling them back By the inimitable @lisalsong.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

NJ race is dead heat. Let’s vote NJ, to keep health care, reproductive rights, top education system, pensions, vaccine access—all this could disappear: emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-cit...

I have a handful of “struggling” students who seem (for now 🤞) to be thriving in ELA class in part because we have fun together. I love the way they think; they make each other laugh, while talking about texts; there is space in our room for that laughter. Will AI give students that feeling?

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Bike ride through Jersey City turned harrowing. Light turns green, I go straight in left side protected lane. Pickup truck driver sees me, then turns left; I brake hard, wheel goes up, near miss by inches. No amount of infrastructure can help drivers who can’t see over windshield. Ban light trucks.

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Jersey City politics note: students tell me McGreevey people just put signs on the fences in front of their homes with plastic ties without asking and their parents had to clip them off.

In 2019, Dr. Nicole Mirra @nicole-mirra.bsky.social led a chat over socio-politically situated #literacies politics, research, and youth activism. This feels especially relevant in 2025, and we hope to hear your current takes at HOMECOMING (Tuesday Oct. 28th 5 pm PT; 7 pm CT; 8 pm ET)

Ciattarelli wants to spend $1.6 billion on school vouchers in NJ, for students already in private schools. He hasn't said how he'd pay for it www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/10/ciat...

Ciattarelli is pro vouchers and “parents rights”; Sherrill is pro high impact tutoring, trusting teachers to implement curriculum, and redoing funding formula to help underfunded districts. Choose wisely NJ. www.chalkbeat.org/newark/2025/...

Rankings are gamed, dependent on semi-subjective inputs, and mostly for marketing purposes, but I'll take this one: thedigestonline.com/new-jersey/m...

A haunted house but it's just a nation without public education.

Eighty percent of NYC’s solar power comes from school buildings. Great model for elswhere and anothe reason to fund school infrastructure fully: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

I asked my students how they wanted to be assessed for unit 1: test, paper, story, or group project (pamphlet explaining genres). Most said group, and their reasons are great: fun, reduced stress, learn from others/multiple perspectives, staying on task, sharing roles. Love how reflective they are.

A great political poem: "Government ought to be dull,/ reliable, like snow,/ or salaries. Table salt." @evergreenreview.bsky.social evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...

What nooo? We’ve been waiting for a decade plus since Christie canceled. I think they are digging under Hudson rn. Does someone who knows more know if it’s just almost done anyway?

that girl who listened to madonna and mary j while writing english papers grew up to be that woman listening to beyonce and bieber while editing her dissertation. decades of butt in chair, fingers on keyboard, yearning to teach two classes a semester with benefits. dare to dream.

this week is 31 days long. thoughts from last week were years ago. i'm a century older than last thursday morning.

People have their pet theories for declining scores but there’s a huge body of research that shows income inequality leads to poor social outcomes. Our income inequality has soared over the time of these scores (since 2005). www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

Schools need to resist AI creep. Otherwise, AI teaches students who use AI, everyone killing time until students become labor. My district has encouraged teachers to use Gemini. Make our jobs easier by giving us time to collaborate and plan, vs destroy them with AI creep: www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...

We need “systems of care versus systems of control”; well put @equalityalec.bsky.social. I also learned income inequality predicts social ills more than police resources and that police have big PR budgets. It’s as if they need to persuade that they need $$$ because facts otherwise don’t support it.