We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

This work is super important! These great scholars’ suggestions for rural schools would also help protect Indian Education in BIE schools by association, which account for approximately 10% of all Native students & are under attack by a 2025 E.O. intent on introducing vouchers for BIE students.

On this Remembrance Day, please also remember the tens of thousands of children and families who survived the Mormon Indian Student Placement Program which only ended a quarter century ago. Nearly 1/12 of the entire Navajo Nation was impacted by this boarding-school-like program. #HistEd

Met w/ a student who asked me to be on their dissertation committee today and I’m so exited for the work they’re going to do and to help be part of the process. This kind of mentoring & collaborative work is really exciting.

Importantly, I don’t want to “cancel“ Ezra Klein I want him to voluntarily shut the fuck up while he works on being less incompetent

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Coates has said it all so well here:

The latest play in a very old and long game to privatize and profitize the whole project of public school.

I wrote a paper about how white supremacy leads to people being more illogical, even in science … right wingers really didn’t like it but thanks to them it was one of the most read academic papers of 2020

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

Asked this on Twitter/X and got no bites or responses. Let’s try Bluesky: Re: AERA reviews I read one proposal that I am convinced was either entirely or mostly completed using AI. It didn’t address conference theme, had no citations, and didn’t follow typical proposal formatting whatsoever. You?

Avoided cold sores my whole life until I used my kid’s chapstick yesterday. Big mistake. Caught me slipping 🫠

Great group of scholars! This looks to be a great event.

Anyone watching The Paper on Peacock/NBC? I am three episodes in and enjoying it!

Delivered a guest lecture to 140 undergraduate and graduate students today at UIUC on the historical connections between and contemporary implications and iterations of colonization and racialization in schooling. A tremendous privilege, & one I’m grateful for. Students had great questions, too!

SCOTUS: don’t consider race in college admissions but absolutely go ahead and consider race in the streets to detain people.

Listening to some local jazz while drinking a locally brewed beverage while sitting on a rock just off the Lake Tahoe shore while the kids play in the water and collect rocks. This is the life.

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much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.

Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. “They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.

Ms. Rachel, the children's content creator, has taken more action and has been more outspoken about Gaza than almost any U.S. political leader. That tells you all you need to know about how spineless those who represent us are, and for their cowardice, they deserve to be primaried and voted out.

The Trump admin is moving from denying climate change to rewriting it. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a longtime oil industry executive, announced plans to “update” past National Climate Assessments, the gold-standard, peer-reviewed reports that lay out the risks of the climate crisis in detail.

I need folks to stop saying that what's happening in Israel and Palestine has nothing to do with Black USians. Black USians have long been invested in Israel and Palestine, many feeling it was directly intertwined with their experiences, particularly related to self-determination and oppression. 🧵/1

Reminder: The students at Columbia protesting against the War in Gaza, Israel's war crimes in Gaza, US support for Israel in Gaza, and for the rights of the Palestinian people were actually on the right side of the issue. Seems to be getting lost in all these stories.

I know it’s a troll. I also know that this is an official government account sharing art that was designed to propagate Indigenous dispossession, cultural destruction, and conquest, and that whoever shared this surely knew it. It is right there in the painting.

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Professors need to do something. I feel like I’m going insane. I fear it is way too late

Colossal news & a great step for the wrongly disenrolled everywhere

Columbia functionally returning to its original name King’s College

Hoping to tap into collective thinking from the #EduSky brain trust: What activities do you use or in what ways have you built rapport with students in online-only courses?

I’m sure MLB andNFL (& probably NCAA tbh) wil be more than happy to oblige the dear leader’s command. 😒

Superman is the best comic book movie I’ve seen in ages. The film honors the original Shuster and Siegel vision of Superman as an anti-fascist hero who believes in the power of humanity. It also reminds us that justice is a team effort, and we can joint that team anytime. The choice is ours.

Did you do well in high school here in Illinois? You're getting into our public universities automatically. We're making it easier to go to college and easier to pay for it now.

I’m excited to share this work with my network here. In the article, I historicize some of the agents and forces that produced the generationally impactful Parents Involved SCOTUS case (2007). #histed #edusky

Look, obviously it is contradictory for DHS to be celebrating literal "new" immigrants as the nation's "heritage" in order to justify deporting immigrants. But, this is some seriously mask-off white supremacist settler shit right here.

A federal grant freeze could disrupt over $24 billion to Native American communities and undermine US obligations to Tribes. www.brookings.edu/articles/a-f...

Why #histed matters!

Gone are the days of maintaining the illusion that approximating equal opportunity is a goal—let alone THE goal—of education. SCOTUS working diligently to decimate civil rights in K12, make higher edu inaccessible, & force (re: track) youth to accept low-wage labor to sustain the ruling class.

So… two weeks to get AERA proposals submitted, then two weeks to finish syllabi. Oh, and move across the country 😅 🙃

"Questioning is the way of learning," Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.

This is exactly what the right wants. If there is a “labor crisis” (re: severe staffing shortage), it will be easier to privatize what’s left of public edu. Not to mention that they’d be positioned to convince the public of the necessity of & politically enact an AI-shift in education more broadly.

NIL is like Obamacare. Sure it beats the crap out of what came before it, but it helps so few people that it needs to be nuked from space. Pay the players, ALL OF THEM. Not just the stars.

As the secretary of @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Division F, I have created a Blusky account. If you are interested in history of education or related topics, then give us a follow @aeradivf-history.bsky.social #histed #edhist

I'm really asking everyone to please stop using Alligator Alcatraz. This is not a descriptor that makes sense. These are concentration camps.

The conditions that necessitated this are messed up, but major props to these folks. This is a very cool and nerdy way to protest and I love it. 😎

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'