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From Classroom Drudgery to Joyful Enrichment: The Evolution of Summer School www.the74million.org/article/from...

Don’t spend too much time on whether you’re “deserving” when in fact you are WORTHY of celebration, rest and good things.

A mind bogglingly callous and adversarial notion. Especially considering it’s paired with a move to remove absenteeism from the states accountability report card.
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Student Absences Have Surged Since COVID. Some Lawmakers Say Parents Should be Jailed www.the74million.org/article/stud...

This was a good one.
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Mark Schneider: Blowing Up Ed Research is Easy. Rebuilding it is ‘What Matters’ www.the74million.org/article/mark...

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.

And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

Los Angeles peeps—spread the word about ICE.

We won’t know for sure until it happens, but better safe than sorry. Be prepared.

Education Dept. Gives Schools Two Weeks to Eliminate Race-Based Programs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

Canceling data collections could imperil efforts to improve U.S. education, a former Trump appointee warns | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Great piece on the important studies killed off at IES

Incredibly shortsighted behavior

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Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
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Black History Month Salutes: Gerry Johnson of Flint, Michigan, who in 1968 became the first person to modify “turkey” with “jive.” The colorful insult remained in circulation for 16 years, until it was used by the “breakdancing grandma” character in the Joe Piscipo vehicle “Layin’ It Down.”

We’re going to show up and show out this #bhm

An integrated society is a prosperous society. Integration put us on the moon. Integration brought untold innovation to the arts and sciences. Our diversity has put us at the forefront of almost every industry, and our denial of it has cost trillions of dollars. Segregation is suicide.

Today, the same as every other damn day, trans rights are human rights

New results from "The Nation's Report Card" just dropped and they are pretty bad. I got a sneak peek as a member of IES’s Standing Committee, so I had an extra day or so to ruminate about them. A few thoughts 👇
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What does the federal funding freeze mean for schools? There is A LOT of confusion. Here's what we know so far. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/01/28/t...

A bird flu pandemic is not inevitable. But a series of developments over the past few weeks indicates that the possibility is no longer remote.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

The #TuskeegeeAirmen .. the first black pilots in U.S. history didn’t just excel in combat—they also broke racial barriers - you can erase them from books and media all you want. They were real and their history can’t be erased!

New: In recent years, there has been huge growth of technology in schools—walk into a random American classroom and there's a good chance you'll see students on screens. But is this good learning?

I dig in with @wsj.com colleagues.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...