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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 12h

Sadly yes.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 15h

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

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

we share many of the same pet peeves!

Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

My father served in the National Guard, so I'm aware that >40% are parents. If he’d been sent to “police” Portland or Chicago, my brothers and I would have been confused and heartbroken. If "pro-family" means anything, it isn't deploying parents for a GI Joe fantasy, w kids as collateral damage.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

What a terrible ordeal, Ed. I’m so glad you are okay.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for sharing this news!!!!

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

good thing your midterm's not cancelled

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

We invented graduated drivers licenses for teens. They worked. But we leave 80-year-olds to “see how it goes.” Every family suffers on their own. But this is a shared social problem, not a personal one. We need conditional licenses for older drivers. Daylight. Local. Annual medical check-ins.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

I, for one, really appreciate hearing this good news about a fantastic piece of work. Congrats!

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

New Andrew Ho paper just dropped🥳@andrewdeanho.bsky.social

Abstract excerpt, Andrew Ho TCR 2025 paper

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

Without who did what to whom, it’s stenography, not journalism.

Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 2d

I am once again begging the @nytimes.com to consider using active voice.

New York Times headline: Partisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails

Subhead: The out-of-office responses from the accounts of employees on furlough cast blame for the shutdown on Democrats.

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Conor P. Williams @conorpwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

This is heinous, unforgivable behavior. This is systemic child abuse. This is flagrant disregard for children's humanity and fundamental rights. It is a policy that reveals the thoroughgoing moral depravity of its authors.

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 5d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 4d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 4d

University of Chicago sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is brilliant, kind, and courageous. Please spread the word about her detention.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 4d

I haven't seen any evaluations of the impact of these changes, so give me a pointer if I have missed things.

Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 5d

Schools will respond with within grade or within classroom ability grouping and/or people will exit. The ratio of political capital spent to actual change in kids’ exposure and experiences is super unfavorable, so agree this is an unfortunate move and giveaway to Cuomo.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 6d

Each time it feels like the floor, it drops lower: reports of children zip-tied by ICE in a Chicago raid.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 6d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 6d

Before IDEA, most kids with disabilities were excluded from public education.

EdSource @edsource.org · 6d

OPINION: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is under threat, and parents, educators and policymakers must take action to protect the rights and opportunities of the 7.6 million students it serves.

edsource.org/2025/idea-fu...

COMMENTARY: Uncertain future of IDEA law puts students with disabilities at risk

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is under threat, and parents, educators and policymakers must take action to protect the rights and opportunities of the 7.6 million students it ...

edsource.org

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