Roadtripping for the holidays, and the lack of toilet infrastructure for toddlers in this country is just wild.

Reviving this thread here: Higher Education Administrators: We are fully committed to the principles of DEI and believe our institution stands for social progress in society. Higher Education Faculty: Great! We'd like to form a union. Higher Education Administrators: No, not like that.

“To families of transgender youth in Virginia: you are not alone. You deserve respect, privacy, and the freedom to make informed health care decisions with providers you trust. Our Commonwealth stands with you.” bit.ly/GACJointLetter

What a way to tank one's academic career! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Though the negative effects are significant and persistent, the overall impact on MI's post-pandemic attendance is modest, mainly because few students were in districts with remote-only instruction for more than 3 months.

I'm a serious person who cares about serious things, but also why did they photoshop Kate Middleton's arm out of their Christmas card photo?

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

That Vanity Fair photo of that lady’s lips is like if Isaac Chotiner were a photographer.

Bless his heart. virginiabusiness.com/youngkin-uni...

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

A tough read for everybody who loves kids: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

I think this article follows on from questions about how schools are functioning in the current accountability environment. In a lot of schools, it seems like it's still 2005, and it's state test scores over just about everything else. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

The Bugeater has a substack, where we post the very best of our analysis of shared governance, academic, freedom and tenure in Nebraska. Here's an especially good one open.substack.com/pub/thebugea...

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An AI admissions counselor reading an AI-generated essay so admitted students can then use AI to write their papers, which will be graded by an AI faculty member. This does not make much sense to me.

"Limiting students’ access to colleges or courses because they are deemed underprepared does not seem to do them any favors. It actually just holds them back, at least in many contexts where this has been studied." –@mattbarnum.bsky.social www.chalkbeat.org/2025/12/09/w...

Homesickness content to the max.

I know there's a lot competing for your attention this Giving Tuesday, but it's also my birthday on Thursday, and I'm aiming to support Charlottesville's City of Promise. Can you help? cityofpromise.salsalabs.org/donationform...

In over 15 years of teaching kids and adults, I've found most people will need some type of accommodation in their academic lives. Rich people are just more likely to ask for them.

I know there's a lot competing for your attention this Giving Tuesday, but it's also my birthday on Thursday, and I'm aiming to support Charlottesville's City of Promise. Can you help? cityofpromise.salsalabs.org/donationform...

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

Look forward to Bari Weiss asking "has identity politics gone too far?" while studiously ignoring the most virulent identity politics driving American government

Today I’m grateful my family’s big meal is at 1pm so that now I’m napped, in jammies, and sitting on the couch with leftovers and Home Alone.

While it's refreshing to see folks admit when the conventional wisdom they've help established is wrong, the results about views on public health in this country are terrifying. www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-covid-...

I am so fun at parties. cardinalnews.org/2025/11/26/t...

this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...

The sanest take on declining test scores in the US and globally.

The disruption affects kids who are absent, kids who are there, and the poor teachers who, as always, are trying to hold it together when no one else will.

This is major. If you know anything about Shiloh/Erik's whereabouts for the last 13 years, please contact the Charlottesville Police Department. Sage's family deserves closure. Her beloved grandmother has died, and her aunt was murdered by a serial killer. Help this family get the answers they need

"Dismantling" gives them too much cover We have here the makings of a shadow agency inflicting 4 harms: 1. Depletion (of public funding) 2. Diversion (of funds to private schools) 3. Discrimination (of DEI, LGBTQ+) 4. Destabilization (of public ed to serve #1-3) Project 2025 goal: privatization

The further dismantling of the Department of Education is bad not only for impeding its Congressionally-approved functions but because of what it signals about how little we actually value education in this country.

I find it very interesting that at the same time we're getting some recognition the ed tech is, in fact, not all that and a bag of chips, many districts are going all in on AI.

When we focus on the "brilliance" of unaccountable perpetrators, we are forgoing the brilliance of the young people deterred from their fields bsky.app/profile/coho...

As they should!

Another student project, another day I need to post this

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I'm really grateful I got to share a few words about our dear friend Danny Moraguez here. I still can't believe he's gone.

Another option is that they themselves are racists but would rather blame that on “the median voter” than look inward.

This seems like a good idea given poor student outcomes.

Cville: our local immigrant bond fund is under strain. it’s critical we help our neighbors secure release so they can maintain their lives and families while the cases proceed. this is a meaningful way to fight this fascist bullshit—right here, right now. please join me in donating.

One reason legacy journalism is broken because too many legacy journalists don't understand what is and isn't news.

⏰Throwback Article Thursday⏰ This study identifies five dimensions of within-school differentiation—curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, grouping, and climate—and examines how they intersect to shape educational outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #TBT #SchoolDifferentiation

Congrats again, everyone

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

What did the New York Times know and when did they know it seems like a really relevant set of questions today.

Where does Dr. Claudine Gay go to get her apology?

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