Support teacher Aiat Oraby. As a Jewish former teacher and now professor of education leadership, I feel less safe when Zionists repress reasonable critiques of injustice in Israel. actionnetwork.org/petitions/we...

GO GET THIS BOOK IT IS VERY GOOD www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

“Adults don’t look up”

I’ve sometimes wondered what Marxism is supposed to do with the fact that our understanding of material conditions is a feature of consciousness, which is supposed to be formed by material conditions. Great essay! salvage.zone/beyond-folk-...

It’s hard to identify anything functional about Trumpian stupidity, which is less a form of organizational inertia than a slash-and-burn assault on the very things—universities, public health, market data—that help make the world intelligible. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Another way of looking at this same picture: The euro zone is a system that use the leverage of a central bank outside the control of national governments to force deep austerity on countries like Spain, which sent them into deep depressions that created fiscal deficits that didn't previously exist.

We should just replace these markets w/ direct federal grants. @wbmosler.bsky.social @schooldaves.bsky.social #MMT

"What would it mean to democratize school resources? What would it mean to have truly public schools, down to the very means of resource creation and distribution that fuels them...? What will it take to make schools as public as possible?" @schooldaves.bsky.social

Super honored to be presenting at the National Association for Family, School, and Engagement's assembly today online at 11am EST. I'll be talking about my recent work to help communities and movements analyze and advocate for healthy school finance. www.engagementassembly.org/event/1aec8e...

Setting aside the philosophical questions about the relationship between higher ed and democracy, accepting this compact is to accept lies about the history of higher education. I wrote a whole book about it. adamhsays.substack.com/p/a-raw-new-...

Here's that thread on governance reforms in state public higher ed systems in the neoliberal era:

First, we need a bit of background. Between ~1920 and ~1970, higher ed exploded, largely because of the growth of public unis. Legislatures were overwhelmed. They built bureaucracies to plan sectorwide

I’m not sure the left is that good and speaking to the larger terrain, but we’re getting better at it. Riley argues here that breaking the university essentially breaks the leash on the left viz. wider society. One can hope and try! newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Popular consensus is that we're at the beginning of a 50-year Kondratiev wave, with AI powering the next boom. But it's just as likely we're at the end of a 50-year Pérez wave, where AI is a speculative, relatively arcane investment that we've settled on after the other growth opportunities dried up

For anyone wondering why Zohran would be bringing up gifted and talented programs, the NYT reports that it was a response to a question in their own questionnaire that prompted them to write about it. It’s not like the campaign woke up today and said they wanted to discuss this.

This is happening tonight! I'm basically going to do an ask me anything about your particularly budget situation, as well as provide some resources to do your own analysis.

“Get out of our pension funds,” Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jackson Potter said to a crowd assembled outside of an apartment building owned by a Valor-backed company in August. ​“We’re not going to invest in busting our own unions.” inthesetimes.com/article/fina...

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

USC got this letter. It is in the middle of $400m in cuts and a thousand layoffs. I don’t see them agreeing to 10s of millions in lost revenue via a 25% reduction in the number of intl students AND a tuition freeze, but I also don’t see them fighting back.

As a parent and educator I'm excited about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's plan for Gifted and Talented programs in NYC. Here's why:

"Wages for Students" anonymous pamphlet from 1975 www.commonnotions.org/wages-for-st...

Yup www.google.com/books/editio...

“If we don’t talk honestly now when we face an authoritarian onslaught destroying our rights as citizens, residents, human beings, when will we?”

futureschools.substack.com/p/can-we-tal...

The gumment is shutdown!

How does this impact money for schools?!

Come to our trading this Friday! debtcollective.org/event/school...

There's actually a whole universe here of public finance initiative work on racial equity that's notable www.publicfinanceinitiative.com/framework