"Decision making, or action, is important in part because a stated commitment to antiracist values alone—what Ahmed (2006) calls “nonperformativity”—is too often seen as sufficient action, even though a commitment to antiracism alone still enables racism to persist."

Pleased to share a new publication -- coauthored with @salemstate.bsky.social colleagues Drs. Jacy Ippolito and Megin Charner-Laird -- about the connection between adult development and antiracist educational leadership: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @ucea-leadership.bsky.social

Reading Lawrence Wright’s novel about Palestine and Israel (“The Human Scale”), I have to take breaks about every 15 pages. It’s brilliantly plotted and punctuated with paradoxes and history, but the weight of the story is just so heavy with sorrow.

Attention Boston Public School parents: it’s worth wading through the morass of slides on proposed changes to the exam school policy to offer feedback, especially in the interest of preserving the equity-focused policy goals. Here’s the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

View from Highland Park in Roxbury tonight @universalhub.com

The Shooter McGavin Jacket for Creative Golf Scoring The Golden Sash for Most Presidential Impeachments The Kevorkian Prize for Innovation in Self-Harm (for bleach-drinking as a response to respiratory illness) The Presidential Unfitness Award, sponsored by Diet Coke

I did *not* see this coming

The DOE decision yesterday is so disheartening, especially because I feel pretty sure it couldn’t have been accomplished through a normal open process. The public has a strong attachment to schools but we were cut out of this process completely. 🧵

1/2 Eleanor Duckworth's reminder: The more intensely interested a teacher is in a student’s thinking, the more interested the student becomes in his or her own thinking. Corollary: The more a teacher just wants to see right answers, the less interested students become in their (or any) thinking.

Critical reporting here. I’d like to see the @bostonglobe.com quoting that #MAedu stands not to receive $107,694,933 in federal funds allocated to it by Congress.

BIG = a massive expansion of the administrative deep state, especially covert & unaccountable arrests BEAUTIFUL = applies only to the ultra rich, who can spend stolen Medicaid money on another yacht BILL = as in, a $5,000,000,000 expansion of the national debt, paid for by our uninsured children

Jim Ryan is one of the most morally decent leaders I’ve known in higher education. What a loss for UVA. (I wish he’d made the Board fire him.)

What if the outcome is MCPS is constantly sending home opt-out letters instead of pulling books. I say do it

The #Mahmoud decision punctuates that for this Court—and government—the “religious development” of children is always elevated above the humanity of LGBTQ+ people

At least we can still see the stars in Maine

On this day set aside to celebrate the US Army, worth noting that the “Army clause” in the Constitution prohibits a standing army — no Congressional appropriation for supporting armies can last more than two years, it says. I’m surprised originalists don’t talk more about this.

I recently received a letter from 3rd graders at Horace Mann Laboratory School suggesting that #SalemMA honor Robert Morris. I was thrilled to visit those same 3rd graders today to announce that from this year onward, June 8th - Morris’ birthday - will be Robert Morris Day in the City of Salem!

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

Lindsay Burke wrote the Department of Education chapter in Project 2025.

Friends, I'm working on a teaching guide for this book, and I really want it to be useful for BOTH college classrooms and K12 PD. Thoughts I have so far: - discussion prompts - related resources (like podcasts and primary source docs) - outline classroom exercises using public data What else?

This seems like a good example of AI hallucinations in the wild

This is exactly how I was socialized to think of the Red Line to Dorchester or the Orange Line when I was an undergrad at BU.

Who was at the meme coin grift dinner last night. Cui bono?

Since this guy thinks he can speak for America, I guess I can too: we do in fact want Covid boosters. Here’s how to tell him: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Together We Thrive Boston’s “Ride For Our Republic” is now a monthly event!!! On the last Saturday of every month, join others at Paul Revere Park in Boston MA for a pro-democracy bike ride. Starting time is 10am! #Boston #Democracy #BostonEvent

This could’ve been different if three Democrat reps weren’t, you know, dead.

I just left a comment. If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.

I love lilacs. And I could smell this lilac bush from two blocks away. And this year’s lilac bloom is about 2-3 weeks earlier than usual.

Very proud of this work, led by @ashleyjcarey.bsky.social

Hello #AERA2025! If you’re in town and registered, hike up to the Terrace Level for a presentation on the discourses constraining teacher diversity, starting in 30 minutes! @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @aera-divk.bsky.social

What kind of order even is this?? It’s not an order, more like a strongly worded disapproval written by Susan Collins

This is a regime of the bullies, by the bigots, for the billionaires. All you need to know.

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.

Likelihood that a bunch of rich people bought low, mere minutes before stocks skyrocketed today: 100 percent. It is so ordinarily corrupt and utterly predictable.

Stock markets are so dumb

Pretty good syllabus here for understanding how we got to this moment—it’s the 381 books removed from the library at the US Naval Academy! static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

I feel like more news coverage should have Trump’s golf game juxtaposed with the stock market updates. And for Democrats, jeez, that’s like a softball right down the middle in terms of messaging.

A display at the Roxbury library—poetry of resilience with words by Toni Morrison: “This is precisely the time when artists get to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

Tufts University has now released a statement about Rumeysa Ozturk. It's a great statement & is well crafted. www.tufts.edu/president/sp... #academicsky #devpsyc

Closely inspecting the list of tariffs/countries posted by the White House, Trump did not put tariffs on Russia. Ukraine's tariff is 10%, the EU's is 20%, and every American ally is on the list. But not Russia.

This is a pretty helpful fact check. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Trans rights are human rights. #TransDayOfVisibility

“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” - Orwell

Although we often think that MA is a “blue island” insulated from the worst abuses of power, we need to consider that Logan Airport—in our backyards—is actually on the frontlines in this fight and need to stand up some visible and vocal resistance/protection in the terminals.