The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades. Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?

If state takeovers don’t consistently improve outcomes, what’s the actual purpose? These takeovers normalize removing local control whenever the state says it’s necessary www.texasobserver.org/state-school...

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.

Thanks to @shannapeeples.bsky.social for a thoughtful review of my Lancaster book. "Laats’ greatest contribution lies in excavating this link between early notions of educational improvement and present-day echoes in perennial technological miracles that promise comprehensive learning on the cheap."

I am not surprised about the degrees which are useful because I have three of them and they've been very useful indeed. This is one of the earliest pieces I ever wrote @insidehighered.com. Spreading the gospel in 2013! www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-v...

Warnings From Weimar www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

"Large data centers, many devoted to researching artificial intelligence, are expected to use more than 150 billion gallons of water across the U.S. over the next five years, according to the advocacy organization Alliance for the Great Lakes. That’s enough water to supply 4.6 million homes."

I highly recommend “Wild Faith” by @swordsjew.bsky.social for understanding the profound damage wrought by this man www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books. bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

"It just gets me upset with the administration, because, why? What was the purpose of the freeze? Why did you do that? You're hurting people, not just adults, but children" www.texastribune.org/2025/08/14/t...

Repost for correct tags: In their book, Drs. McCart, Kelly, and Sailor "use theoretical grounding and practical pathways to argue that belonging is not a feel-good add-on but the foundational condition for educational justice." Read Dr. @shannapeeples.bsky.social's review here: buff.ly/m4EOPDP

"It is disturbing, it is heartbreaking, it is reprehensible, it is unacceptable," - @lausdsup.bsky.social Supt. Carvalho is going to great lengths to protect the children of LA. 🔗 www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n... #ICEGestapo

In their book, Drs. McCart, @wadekelly.com, and Sailor "use both theoretical grounding and practical pathways to argue that belonging is not a feel-good add-on but the foundational condition for educational justice." Read Dr. @shannapeeples.bsky.social's review here buff.ly/m4EOPDP @wwnorton.com

It would be more honest if more people would say "I am doing OK amidst the horrors being suffered by others." It's actually not true that everything is terrible for everyone right now. We're living under unequally distributed fascism.

WATCH: “Democracy demands our outrage, and our courage.” Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social says he shares Maddow’s view that we have “crossed a line”, and says he hopes Tx dems breaking quorum will inspire others to stand up to would-be tyrant Trump. Full: youtu.be/8_OzeeDmoyk?si

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share this far & wide. MISINFORMATION at CDC is spreading throughout our country & most people have no clue. Please stay updated & bookmark this page for your health & well-being.➡️ www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

When we take students’ feedback seriously, we get more than just better design. We get better schools.

My latest must-reads list and some thoughts on why everything feels harder right now. “We're dealing with a series of horrors that are vicious, and they're spiritually exhausting and difficult to combat in law," says @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. "Authoritarianism is here ... and it's sadistic.”

As we all stagger home from vacations & begin working on syllabi in earnest, I’d offer my semesterly recommendation that @wcaleb.org's generic syllabus maker can generate a list of days your class will meet—all you have to do is delete any holidays, etc. from the list wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

We teach what we teach. The end. The first amendment exist or it doesn’t. We are in the business of education or we aren’t. There’s no middle ground.

Our article on assistant principals as equity leaders published today. We explore how school leaders can develop capacity for conversations about race & achievement @belmasoffice.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Education #Research #EquityLeadership #AcademicSky

I wrote about Epstein and the rot that's killing us. "To wave off every horror as a distraction is to participate in the very obfuscation that protects the powerful." Special thanks to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social for talking with me for this piece.

“After listening to [Ozzy] over & over, I realized that he was so popular because he's accessible. There's no pretension in the man. His demons, anxieties & insecurities are on display for everyone. His voice is so easy to sing along with that almost anyone can sound better in comparison”

Most troubling to me is how Alpha's expansion could create a new form of educational apartheid. Wealthy students get human "guides" earning six-figure salaries plus cutting-edge AI, while public school students might get basic AI without the human support (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

This thoughtful review by @shannapeeples.bsky.social provides a vital reminder of the hope we must recapture -- hope we felt while learning about these wonderful Schools of Opportunity. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social @katesomerville.bsky.social @michellevalladares.bsky.social @wileyke.bsky.social ‪‪

In their new volume the editors "offer “existence proofs” (p. 193) that schools can successfully pursue equity despite formidable obstacles." Read Dr. @shannapeeples.bsky.social's review here: buff.ly/WMnLQLw @nepc.bsky.social @tcpress.bsky.social

Can Texas Republicans draw a Congressional map that adds five seats to their existing gerrymander? At the Electoral Innovation Lab, we investigated the odds of a backfire. As it turns out, in a bad year Republicans could end up with as few as 13 out of 38 seats. samwang.substack.com/p/the-texas-...

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

To own $1 billion is to possess more dollars than you’ll ever count. It’s to possess more dollars than any human being will ever count. And Forbes counts 15 Americans who possess hundreds of billions. https://trib.al/7pMNmZ1

🚨Can’t make it to an on the ground Good Trouble event? This is a Virtual John Lewis Action event!

let's take stock here: (Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it. Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷‍♀️ YOLO?

‘One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true—they were successful because they imposed chaos on order’ 1/2

Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop. "A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day" Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

I received irrationally furious emails and messages from strangers who really really really do not like that I constantly tell people that: 1. Yes you need to know who your neighbors are. 2. We are interdependent and cannot survive without other people. These are basic true things.

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.

Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government. www.wired.com/story/next-s...

🌈 Calling queer/trans* ed researchers: I’m organizing an AERA ‘26 Queer SIG panel on strategic obfuscation—how we navigate IRBs, language, & systems to do liberatory work in hostile contexts. Especially seeking BIPOC voices. DM if you’re interested! 💌

I wrote about these cases in my book.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time.

This is absurd. @nytimes.com needs to find a better way to convey to readers what it knows to be true: These "findings" are not actual "findings" in any sense that most people would understand the word. The casual reader comes away with zero sense of the deep rot of bad faith at play here.

Warnock: A budget is not just a fiscal document. A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who doesn't. And if this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe” Frederick Douglas, on the 24th anniversary of Emancipation

New from Dani Marrero Hi: "As we celebrate Pride Month, I am struck by the contrast of what I know to be true about this region & what the popular narratives may be—behind the curtain of these filters imposed by outsiders, the Valley boasts an abundance of creative, powerful, & joyful communities."

Toni Morrison is one of the greatest writers to ever live. What many don’t know, is that she was also the first Black woman to become a senior editor at Random House. I wrote about a new book that discusses how she edited by day, wrote by night, and ushered in a new generation of Black writers.