Michael Pershan
@mpershan.bsky.social
math teacher, writer
teaching blog: pershmail.substack.com
reading/writing blog: michaelpershan.substack.com
website with links to publications etc: michaelpershan.com
teaching blog: pershmail.substack.com
reading/writing blog: michaelpershan.substack.com
website with links to publications etc: michaelpershan.com
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Michael Pershan
@mpershan.bsky.social
· Aug 27
Really grateful to the crew at @hexliterary.bsky.social for giving this weird story a home. I can't say enough nice things about hex! I love what they're doing.
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For reasons unknown to me I am keeping at it with this short blogging. michaelpershan.substack.com/p/the-barony...
The Barony of Mahhery Boy
11/24/25
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November 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
For reasons unknown to me I am keeping at it with this short blogging. michaelpershan.substack.com/p/the-barony...
For reasons unknown to me I am keeping at it with this short blogging. michaelpershan.substack.com/p/the-barony...
The Barony of Mahhery Boy
11/24/25
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November 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
For reasons unknown to me I am keeping at it with this short blogging. michaelpershan.substack.com/p/the-barony...
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This is really good look at trends in student performance data. No jumping to conclusions or analysis - just good ol' fashioned curiosity and humility.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is really good look at trends in student performance data. No jumping to conclusions or analysis - just good ol' fashioned curiosity and humility.
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Perhaps complicated issues may not have simple explanations
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Perhaps complicated issues may not have simple explanations
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This is a rational, well written response to some public discourse about the “state of education.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is a rational, well written response to some public discourse about the “state of education.”
Yikes I wrote about education policy. pershmail.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...
I Don't Know What to Think About America's Declining Test Scores and Neither Should You
The case for confusion
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November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Yikes I wrote about education policy. pershmail.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...
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heyyyyyy my book made it onto @electricliterature.com's list of favorite short story collections of the year! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
Electric Lit’s Best Short Story Collections of 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Marie-Helene Bertino, Torrey Peters, and Samanta Schweblin are among our favorites of the year
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November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
heyyyyyy my book made it onto @electricliterature.com's list of favorite short story collections of the year! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
Needed a job
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Needed a job
Teachers: do you think that standards have been lowered for K-8 students in the past 10 years?
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Teachers: do you think that standards have been lowered for K-8 students in the past 10 years?
Doing my part. michaelpershan.substack.com/p/nursery-of...
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Doing my part. michaelpershan.substack.com/p/nursery-of...
Speeeeeeed blogging. michaelpershan.substack.com/p/nursery-of...
Nursery of New Stars
11/21/25
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November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Speeeeeeed blogging. michaelpershan.substack.com/p/nursery-of...
File this under very short mysterious Icelandic fairy tale that drifts in and out of a dark story about a woman with Down syndrome saved from a shipwreck.
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
File this under very short mysterious Icelandic fairy tale that drifts in and out of a dark story about a woman with Down syndrome saved from a shipwreck.
I feel like people (my kids) don't realize how good I am at parenting.
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I feel like people (my kids) don't realize how good I am at parenting.
If you feel jealous of other people just remember that they're better than you.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If you feel jealous of other people just remember that they're better than you.
Frankly I also don't want to bang on a drum all day.
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Frankly I also don't want to bang on a drum all day.
Don't tell me what to read to my kids
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Don't tell me what to read to my kids
I'm reading some history and it's pretty wild that for most of human history when you had a child you'd go "oh thank god for this child because we really need the money."
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I'm reading some history and it's pretty wild that for most of human history when you had a child you'd go "oh thank god for this child because we really need the money."
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It would be hard to overstate what an achievement Richard Rhodes’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb is. Utterly engrossing, and it makes the physics and science as clear as possible and treats the ethical questions and the historical conditions seriously.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb is one of the best books ever written.
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It would be hard to overstate what an achievement Richard Rhodes’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb is. Utterly engrossing, and it makes the physics and science as clear as possible and treats the ethical questions and the historical conditions seriously.
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Prealgebra
Algebra 1
Algebra 2
Linear Algebra
Abstract Algebra
Algebraic Geometry
Algebraic Number Theory
Algebraic Topology
Algebra
Algebraic Etymology
Algebraic Ontology
Algebraic Entomology
Algebraic Oenology
Algebraic Otology
Algebraic Philology
Algebraic Astrology
Postalgebra
Algebra 1
Algebra 2
Linear Algebra
Abstract Algebra
Algebraic Geometry
Algebraic Number Theory
Algebraic Topology
Algebra
Algebraic Etymology
Algebraic Ontology
Algebraic Entomology
Algebraic Oenology
Algebraic Otology
Algebraic Philology
Algebraic Astrology
Postalgebra
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Prealgebra
Algebra 1
Algebra 2
Linear Algebra
Abstract Algebra
Algebraic Geometry
Algebraic Number Theory
Algebraic Topology
Algebra
Algebraic Etymology
Algebraic Ontology
Algebraic Entomology
Algebraic Oenology
Algebraic Otology
Algebraic Philology
Algebraic Astrology
Postalgebra
Algebra 1
Algebra 2
Linear Algebra
Abstract Algebra
Algebraic Geometry
Algebraic Number Theory
Algebraic Topology
Algebra
Algebraic Etymology
Algebraic Ontology
Algebraic Entomology
Algebraic Oenology
Algebraic Otology
Algebraic Philology
Algebraic Astrology
Postalgebra
I continue to ask the important questions like "what if I did some very quick blogging while cooking the kids dinner" michaelpershan.substack.com/p/giraffes-h...
Giraffes hum to each other all night
11/19/25
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November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I continue to ask the important questions like "what if I did some very quick blogging while cooking the kids dinner" michaelpershan.substack.com/p/giraffes-h...
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New flash out with Hex Literary about the horror of childhood and the allure of finally finding an escape! I’m proud of this one!
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
Out by Lillie E. Franks
Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day. One time on the playground behind the swings, Eli told me that he hates his mom, a...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New flash out with Hex Literary about the horror of childhood and the allure of finally finding an escape! I’m proud of this one!
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
Let the body keep the score,
let the body keep the score,
let the body keep the
let the body keep the score,
let the body keep the
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Let the body keep the score,
let the body keep the score,
let the body keep the
let the body keep the score,
let the body keep the
What if I blogged more often? What would it look like? Maybe this. michaelpershan.substack.com/p/regret-in-...
Regret in Flight
11/17/25
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November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
What if I blogged more often? What would it look like? Maybe this. michaelpershan.substack.com/p/regret-in-...
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I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened!
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened!