We use a wood stove (Jøtul) for almost all of our heat in Maine - and I just love it! But no one tells you about all the things you have to spend money on after you spend all of your money on the house itself!

Indeed! The 1939 red-lining survey of the neighborhood they lived in celebrated it as “the wealthiest portion of one of the richest of the New York City Suburban towns" and that while Black people lived in a nearby street, there was "no apparent possibility of spreading.”

Also, it will surprise no one to learn that when his wife hired workers, she specified that they must be white.

In other words, we can't think about rigor in higher ed without thinking about how early standards were developed by self-proclaimed eugenicists.

It might be other places too, but Fox5 is streaming - www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Gp...

Relatedly, have you read The City We Became?

We'll pass, thanks.

Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Indeed! I hadn't thought about it before, but I think that one of the reasons that the critiques I looked at got so much traction was because there was already discourse on the economic relationship that politicians and political commentators could build on.

Julie Reed's Serving the Nation has some good citations on mission schools (and is overall a fantastic book) - www.oupress.com/978080615224...

Yes. And, some of us who teach in CS-like fields are *also* teaching kids not to use AI, because it turns out that you need a basic understanding of how computer languages work before you can "vibe code" effectively.