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Alex Hyres
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Assistant Professor in the History of US Education at the U of Utah | AERA Division F Secretary: https://shorturl.at/NvyTG | Preorder my forthcoming book, Protest and Pedagogy: https://shorturl.at/8bDqN | Opinions my own.
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Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social · 2d
My book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School, will be published soon. To learn more about it, see the attached flyer. To pre-order the book, go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037530... #histed #edhist #history @ugapress.bsky.social
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School A timely exploration of the long history of how Black students and teachers shaped the Black freedom struggle Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle—or outright opponents—Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers’ pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools. ALEXANDER D. HYRES is an assistant professor in the history of U.S. education at the University of Utah. His career in education started as a secondary social studies and English teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in social foundations at the University of Virginia. He is a research affiliate for the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project at the University of Virginia. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received a 2024 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah.
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alerigolon.bsky.social
Some of the greatest hits by the Utah GOP, all in one article:

1. Baseless fearmongering about Utah turning into California
2. A disdain for voters being able to choose for themselves.

Classic
“We cannot let unchecked initiatives turn Utah into California,” he added. During a periodic news conference on PBS Utah later Tuesday morning, Gov. Spencer Cox said he backs the endeavor, and clarified that he plans to call the special session himself. “I have deep, deep concerns about a state that is run by direct democracy,” Cox said, continuing, “We have representative democracy for a reason.”
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
hyres376.bsky.social
This is why we need Nate Blouin in Congress for Utah. I know he will work on real problems and offer real solutions. #utpol #utah
nateforutah.bsky.social Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 1d
In Congress, one of my top priorities will be securing substantial funding and regulatory changes that strengthen current efforts to save Great Salt Lake to actually meet the severity of the crisis. This is a multibillion dollar problem that we're not going to fix by ourselves.
sltrib.com The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 1d
The dust blowing from the dry bed of the Great Salt Lake is creating a serious public health threat, two environmental nonprofits warn, that policymakers and the scientific community aren’t taking seriously enough.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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johannawinant.bsky.social
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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hyres376.bsky.social
My book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School, will be published soon. To learn more about it, see the attached flyer. To pre-order the book, go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037530... #histed #edhist #history @ugapress.bsky.social
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School A timely exploration of the long history of how Black students and teachers shaped the Black freedom struggle Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle—or outright opponents—Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers’ pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools. ALEXANDER D. HYRES is an assistant professor in the history of U.S. education at the University of Utah. His career in education started as a secondary social studies and English teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in social foundations at the University of Virginia. He is a research affiliate for the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project at the University of Virginia. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received a 2024 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
hyres376.bsky.social
My book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School, will be published soon. To learn more about it, see the attached flyer. To pre-order the book, go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037530... #histed #edhist #history @ugapress.bsky.social
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School A timely exploration of the long history of how Black students and teachers shaped the Black freedom struggle Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle—or outright opponents—Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers’ pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools. ALEXANDER D. HYRES is an assistant professor in the history of U.S. education at the University of Utah. His career in education started as a secondary social studies and English teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in social foundations at the University of Virginia. He is a research affiliate for the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project at the University of Virginia. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received a 2024 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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attn: @histedsocuk.bsky.social @aeradivf-history.bsky.social @ische-news.bsky.social @activehist.bsky.social
jackschneider.bsky.social Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 6d
The latest History of Education Quarterly is now online. In this thread, I'll post non-paywalled versions of the whole issue.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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attn: @histedsocuk.bsky.social @aeradivf-history.bsky.social @ische-news.bsky.social @activehist.bsky.social @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @aefpweb.bsky.social
jackschneider.bsky.social Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 6d
The latest History of Education Quarterly has an incredible forum addressing the dismantling of the US Department of Education.

I'll post non-paywalled versions of all nine contributions here. Huge thanks to the amazing scholars who participated.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
hyres376.bsky.social
It's not enough to hold a supermajority in the state legislature, the governorship, or in the U.S. Congress. They want total power without any dissent. #utleg
desertwolf.bsky.social Desert Johnny Resists ✊ @desertwolf.bsky.social · 2d
Ain't no other way to say it: Republican utleg are a bunch of whiny, power hungry taint warts throwing tantrums.

Utahns deserve honest and fair representation. Republicans want to stay in power with their stranglehold on citizens at any cost and any means.
benwinslow.bsky.social Ben Winslow @benwinslow.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING NEWS: "Judge Gibson gave us a gerrymandered map," Senate President J. Stuart Adams says, announcing the legislature's appeal to the Utah Supreme Court.

A special session planned for Dec. 9 to outline plans. A constitutional amendment for the 2026 ballot on citizen initiatives. #utpol #Utah
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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devawo.bsky.social
You know what to do!
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
"Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. (...) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios."
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12d
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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adamlaats.bsky.social
It's a big deal. Florida has swallowed whole the Bill-Bennett-warmed-over school principles of the Heritage Foundation.

But here's the thing: The "Phoenix Declaration" wants to ban climate-change science, but its wording leaves plenty of room to ban denialism.
www.fldoe.org/newsroom/lat...
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
bubbaprog.xyz Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12d
normal things happening
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13d
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
A photo of Texas A&M University’s logo
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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jamellebouie.net
the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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kleinman.bsky.social
As @jamellebouie.net often points out about the right wingers ruining UVA they want a worse school in exchange for it being whiter.
daniellecgw.bsky.social Danielle Graves Williamson @daniellecgw.bsky.social · 15d
3️⃣ We find white children exposed to academies fared worse as adults.

📉 Human capital index ↓ 0.04 SD
📉 Economic self-sufficiency ↓ 0.06 SD

This evidence suggests White families may have sacrificed educational quality to maintain racial segregation.

11/12
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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adamlaats.bsky.social
Nnnnnnnnnope.

No conservative intellectual can say they just didn't think to distance themselves from their violent and racist right wing.

Since Buckley, that has been their whole thing.
[gift link:]
In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
hyres376.bsky.social
It's such a great project! I'm excited to see this work out in the world and for scholars in education, history, and econ to learn from it #histed #edhist @aeradivf-history.bsky.social @aeraedresearch.bsky.social
daniellecgw.bsky.social Danielle Graves Williamson @daniellecgw.bsky.social · 14d
Absolutely! My work would not have been possible without them and benefitted from reading their work. Bruckman, Stern, Orfield, and Lassiter, just to name a few… Amberly Sheffield is a history doctoral student at Ole Miss who also does great work in this area and @hyres376.bsky.social gave advice!
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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bookshop.org
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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johnedwinmason.bsky.social
This UVA rally — which is sponsored by student, faculty, & staff groups — will protest the Trump regime's efforts to take over American universities & demand that UVA not cooperate, as it did this summer.
Friday, noon, at the Rotunda. C-ville community members are encouraged to attend.
October 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
October 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED
Screenshot from link that reads: The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
October 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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bordergroves.bsky.social
Ai companies want to use our electricity? Ok. They can pay triple rates offset all our bills.

Ai companies want to use our water? Ok. They can subsidize infrastructure construction and maintenance.

Ai companies want to use our land? Ok. They can pay taxes high enough to fund affordable housing.
October 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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srtoliver.bsky.social
🔵 FACULTY POSITION 🔵

U of Illinois is hiring a Secondary Literacy professor (open rank, tenure-track)!

💰 $78K-$130K (rank dependent)
📅 Start 9/2026
⏰ Deadline: 10/20/25

For more info: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

#AcademicJobs #LiteracyEducation #HigherEd #Literacies

Please boost! 🚀
College of Education: Professor (Open-Rank) – Secondary Literacy
Duties and Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM