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Gwen P
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Educator-Researcher-Writer-Creative-Progressive-Mom. #Houston #astros #jazz #edusky #literacy #ela
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I’m thinking about him today. I hope he’d be proud of me. I hope my sense of citizenship has lived up to his.

Happy Fourth.

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Full essay here for easier sharing: charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-mr-ra...
What Mr. Ramirez Taught Me
July Fourth means community.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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📚TEXAS: “We’re not removing filth… Books like Romeo & Juliet, Lonesome Dove, Catcher in the Rye will be removed from school libraries because these definitions are overly broad.”

@jamestalarico dismantles a Republican bill like the one already doing damage in Tennessee.
June 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM

www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Fifth Ward may be the hardest-hit neighborhood in all of Texas by SNAP cuts
This Houston neighborhood may be hardest hit in all of Texas by SNAP cuts
Houston’s Fifth Ward is the only area in the state currently without an elected member of Congress to fight the proposed GOP SNAP cuts.
www.houstonchronicle.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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ERIC is also an archive of educational thought and research running back decades. Think of it as blowing up a library, which authoritarians do to consolidate their power.
April 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
My new book is out!
It’s finally here!
open.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
April 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
#texas #edusky #vouchers

Hold the line. It’s not over yet.
April 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
God I love this place!!! #astros #BuiltForThis
March 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

canada.ca/en/public-he...
February 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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hello! just putting this here. please share in your signal groups and slacks.

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February 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Pass it along far & wide! #Teachers, make sure you & your students know their rights. Have them share with their friends & family. #StrongerTogether #NoHumanIsIllegal
February 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In my latest post, I discuss a need for changed beliefs about adolescent comprehension--especially relevant in light of the latest NAEP results. I hope you will read, comment, and share.

open.substack.com/pub/pauloski...
#edusky #instruction #comprehension #NAEP #secondary #literacy
To change teen literacy outcomes, we need to free our minds
Our thinking about students' comprehension is getting in the way of progress
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January 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
What a beautiful essay about Brooks’ faith journey—it resonated deeply. Thank you, @nytimes.com, thank you, David Brooks, and thank you, God.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/o...
Opinion | The Shock of Faith: It’s Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be (Gift Article)
The word “faith” implies the possession of something, whereas I experience faith as a yearning for something beautiful that I can sense but not fully grasp.
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December 23, 2024 at 4:55 AM
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December 21, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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Research has shown that fear of a family member being deported has substantial negative impact on student academic achievement and mental health————How many millions of American kids might see their parents deported by Trump? wapo.st/3ZqDyUE
December 9, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Beautiful article for teachers and anyone else who may be at low ebb, from Adrian Neibauer

Pit of Despair
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Pit of Despair
Crawling out of December with help from Austin Kleon
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December 9, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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ADVENT BEGINS
They are making their way to us.
December 1, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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Some of my older columns for The Washington Post are no longer on their site, so I've been reprinting them on my blog. Teacher might or might not find them some of them useful. Here's one:

Bribing students: Another ‘magical solution’ that doesn’t work larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2024/09/18/b...
Bribing students: Another ‘magical solution’ that doesn’t work
I’m republishing about fifteen-or-twenty columns/articles I wrote for various publications like ASCD and The Washington Post over twelve years ago, but which are no longer available on their …
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
December 1, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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A thread devoted to groundbreaking photographer, writer & filmmaker Gordon Parks, who was born on this day in 1912
November 30, 2024 at 3:33 PM
A beautiful story of Thanksgiving generosity and solidarity behind bars.
November 29, 2024 at 4:23 PM