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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 8h

They're only thinking about themselves and what they want, not what's best for America's kids and the diversity they bring to the classroom.
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 14h

It's nice to simply take a deep breath and enjoy what's around you in October.

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midwest-voter.bsky.social @midwest-voter.bsky.social · 18h

@AbigailSpanberger.bsky.social
is a skilled public servant who has been a CIA case officer and U.S. Representative for Virginia, CD 7

Her focus as Governor of Virginia is to protect Virginians and get things done

#LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 1d

PICTURE BOOKS teach many skills effortlessly, and children like them, especially if they get to choose their favorites. nancyebailey.com/2023/09/27/h...

How PICTURE Books Help TEACH Comprehension and Phonics! - Nancy Bailey's Education Website

When he looks at the pictures, he'll get so excited he'll want to draw one of his own. He'll ask for paper and crayons. ~Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond. If You Give A Mouse a Cookie...

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Kris Stern @goldenzgirl.bsky.social · 3d

This is actually her final interview, recorded in September by Wall Street Journal podcast. More once point without the nonsense. May she rest in peace and may her legacy endure: youtu.be/4oshFOK9-sk?...

JANE GOODALL'S LAST INTERVIEW Recorded on 9/23/25

YouTube video by dreamlion

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Ed Fuller @edfuller.bsky.social · 2d

NURSE SHORTAGE: Raise pay, invest in recruiting, invest in colleges of nursing

TEACHER SHORTAGE: Ignore pay, ignore/close/go around colleges of education, hire unqualified ppl to fill positions

#AcademicSky #EduSky

a man in a suit and tie says that doesn 't make sense

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says that doesn 't make sense

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Alexandra W. Logue @lexalogue.bsky.social · 3d

Many colleges have food pantries to help food insecure students. Bluegrass Community & Technical College takes it a step further, using an on-campus roof to grow food that is then available in the college's food pantry: buff.ly/ZJfcswx #AcademicSky #highered

College garden nourishes students beyond the classroom

Flowers, fresh fruits and vegetables are being grown by students and staff at Bluegrass Community Technical College.

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Michele Bogart @urbaninsideout.bsky.social · 3d

If you care about #NewDeal #art, socially conscious art, #BenShahn, or federal #architecture #history, read this story. A flood of complaints, on the record, can’t hurt. #Academicsky
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The New Deal Masterpieces Threatened by Trump’s D.C. Downsizing

Your great-grandparents paid Ben Shahn and Philip Guston to create gorgeous public murals. Next year they could be rubble.

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Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · 4d

"Attacks on academia are fundamentally about remaking the labor practices that define higher education."

Deepa Das Acevedo, author of The War on Tenure (out now), in Time Magazine

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#HigherEd #AcademicSky #PoliSci 🗺️ 🗃️

The Real History of Tenure

If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

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Noel Dickover @noeldickover.bsky.social · 5d

"Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion"

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it...The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher ed."
#AcademicSky

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d

This is absolutely right on every point and everyone who sits on a governing board or serves as president or provost or similar should please make the time to read it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 5d

NIH Directors Fired Months After Being Put on Administrative Leave https://bit.ly/3VJXZuh

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

A pedestrian walks by a glass facade that says “National Institutes of Health."

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ScienceLover58 @lovescience58.bsky.social · 5d

Letter by U of AZ faculty chair slamming the dirty demand by the WH and urging the university president to reject this. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky 🧪

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 6d

Universities MUST say NO to this dictatorial maneuver!

Kathy Roberts Forde @krforde.bsky.social · 6d

We are organizing to resist The Compact. Faculty and staff at all US higher ed institutions: stand with us. It's free. www.standtogetherhighered.org #academicsky #highered www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 7d

We need students to choose Career and Technical preparation, but worrisome shortages exist in university prepared careers, like physicians, teachers, engineers, attorneys, managers, accountants, and more.

Georgetown CEW @georgetowncew.bsky.social · 7d

The largest projected skills shortage through 2032 will be in management positions. This projected shortage (2.9M through 2032) is concerning because managers play a crucial role in leading teams, driving business growth, and ensuring success. bit.ly/4oHclst

#AcademicSky #Managers

Falling Behind: How Skills Shortages Threaten Future Jobs - CEW Georgetown

The report explores the causes and magnitude of anticipated skills shortages through at least 2032. It also examines potential strategies to address impending skills shortages and mitigate their econo...

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 7d

A great explanation of how billionaires & politicians, knowing little about children & how they learn, took over our public school system. Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda tultican.com/2025/09/29/b...

Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda

By Thomas Ultican 9/29/2025 September 9th, propaganda rag, ‘The 74’, published a classic example of anti-public education flummery, “COVID Worsened Long Decline in 12th-Graders’ Reading”. That long…

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 13d

What if Americans had supported a truly great public school system that brought those with differences together? That focused on compassion and understanding instead of separateness? Where would we be today?

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Breaking Up Public Schools Dangerously Divided the Nation! - Nancy Bailey's Education Website

No one is born hating another person. People have to learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. ~Nelson Mandela Free public schools for America's children should unite u...

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 7d

A great explanation of how billionaires & politicians, knowing little about children & how they learn, took over our public school system. Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda tultican.com/2025/09/29/b...

Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda

By Thomas Ultican 9/29/2025 September 9th, propaganda rag, ‘The 74’, published a classic example of anti-public education flummery, “COVID Worsened Long Decline in 12th-Graders’ Reading”. That long…

tultican.com

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 16d

What the National Reading Panel Report Actually Says About Phonics
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What the National Reading Panel Report Actually Says About Phonics

On the cover of the National Reading Panel Report, it says, “An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction”.

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USDemocracy @usdemocracy.bsky.social · 9d

America 250 Civics Education Coalition dismantles #USDemocracy. Backed by billionaires w/conflicts of interest, it aims to replace evidence-based education w/ propaganda, democratic governance with oligarchic control, inclusion w/ indoctrination.
#Voices4Victory
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America 250: The Billionaire War on Public Education

A dark-money campaign to defund schools, silence teachers, and replace democracy with indoctrination.

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 9d

Rest in Peace David C. Berliner and thank you. The Manufactured Crisis and other books are still as relevant today as ever. He help shaped the ideas of many educators who care deeply about public education. nepc.colorado.edu/author/berli...

David C. Berliner

David C. Berliner was Regents’ Professor of Education Emeritus at Arizona State University. He had also taught at the Universities of Arizona and Massachusetts, at Teachers College and Stanford Univer...

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 10d

ICYMI: Reunion Edition (9/28) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters

ICYMI: Reunion Edition (9/28)

It’s my high school graduating class’s 50th reunion this weekend, and a class reunion is always something.

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 12d

Education unions at all levels: are you concerned about these developments? You should be!

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12d

OpenAI's rapid rush into education has been achieved by habituating users through training programs, institutional lock-ins, strategic marketing partnerships, and third party integrations that together are helping it become infrastructural to teaching and learning. It's going to be hard to get out.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11d

I complain frequently about the state of education research because i think there’s a lot of problems with it. But I still think that like, there should *be* an education department, like that’s a totally valid field of study.

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NPR @npr.org · 12d

Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.

What schools stand to lose in the battle over the next federal education budget

Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.

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