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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 12h

Since you are in a demography paradise, you could formally test this at the population level, using an exogenous shock like the pill, Roe, availability of medical abortion, or Dobbs to see how partner and job quality changed. Or comp. sex ed, per @nickdemark.bsky.social's paper.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 13h

Very exciting and congrats!

Advocating for a chapter on how virtual schools are consistently low-performing. And now expanding in all of these ESA states.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 15h

Conclusion seeks p-values: "We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 17h

The 2025 version of “carry my books” is “do my homework." Perhaps chivalry isn't dead. It's just automated.

Great papers to be written on reproduction of regressive gender norms in AI "romantic relationships."

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21h

Just one of the disturbing findings in the survey I post yesterday and will repost below:

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

www.npr.org

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Reposted by Jen Jennings

Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 18h

Plyler v. Doe provides some formal protection against such ICE raids and intimidation at schools to the extent it denies access to school for undocumented children. Long overdue to press the issue in court.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 19h

Can’t wait to read this, Preston! Can we get you a circulation list?

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 22h

Protesting in an Eagles jersey/swag is the best & Phillyest thing ever 💚

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like the right time for Elmo to check in

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

…the state is reducing equalization aid bc of new voucher costs, and that’s disproportionately affecting low-income schools. I may have missed something, but i didn’t think that had happened yet

@sosarizona.org can you help me understand what I’m missing here?
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

most confusing to me is this part: most kids using vouchers are affluent and in affluent districts. That is at odds with this: “vouchers are draining desperately needed funds from low-income schools and forcing school closures, while lining the pockets of the rich.” This could be true if…
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

I’d like to see more evidence before concluding it’s because of vouchers, because enrollment is down nationally and states without vouchers are facing similar hard choices around closures.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Justice for Candy Corns

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

You are wrong.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IF-AT) Forms

Immediate Feedback Assessment Forms (IF-AT) allows educators to conduct individual and team readiness tests with immediate feedback in physical setting.

www.cognalearn.com

Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Two of my favorite formats - scratch-offs and Scantrons - got married and produced this test baby, destined to delight nerds across the globe

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

I brought back in-class exams because of AI. Now I need AI to read their handwriting.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

We’re all running on fumes. Nobody’s got the gas in the tank for Dolly to kick it right now. Lord.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly yes.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

I’m giving my first ever in-class midterm tomorrow and thought you got a commemorative hat or some erstwhile swag for the occasion. Welcome to my Midterm Era.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

We call it the NoFly Prize in our natural-social science intermarriage

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

Pulled from yesterday's exit ticket questions: "I'm curious as to why desegregation orders were largely ended if they were so effective."

Share Black in Majority White Schools, 1945-2021

Rucker Johnson findings on desegregation

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

Policies teach. Enable simultaneous enrollments, and students hear "attendance doesn’t matter." Make class attendance optional, and don’t be surprised when administrators hand your lectern and your job over to AI.

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

www.nytimes.com

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 3d

Mock, block, move on is the new stop, drop, and roll.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 3d

Went through considering this last week and this was my preferred option. but then a colleague raised the q was about measurement error, i.e. it could go okay for those 30 minutes, and then we are stuck w that professional recommendation. any thoughts welcome, bc we are still in this quagmire.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 3d

In my ongoing series, "You can buy *that* with Arizona ESA funds?"

Small animal ultrasound, $779.99

Taxpayers are subsidizing pet pregnancy care while public schools scrape for basics.

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