Jen Jennings

Tensions in Minneapolis

amazing that Tensions can deploy tear gas and abduct 5 year olds.

the new york times is undefeated.

that's just another day in nyc

One of the hardest things for me to remember as a researcher, a parent, and a citizen is that "schools" are not monolithic, more than one thing can be true at the same time, and that it's important to look for patterns that contradict your initial observations and experiences. In both directions.

Very well put.

The clergy who did the assigned reading have entered the chat

All I'm asking for is one real snow day for kids each year, untouched by Zoom. Remote the rest, but don't be a grinch.

I like this! I need to think of objects/exper that don't sort social background/race/ethnicity/geo. I tried once based on songs nominated for class playlist, but abandoned after realizing I largely reproduced social categories. Hope you are well & let us know how you are doing! We miss you up here.

I like this a lot. So many choices re. how to group them!

Ideas needed: What do you do in your college lecture - think large >100 - to create a sense of community?

The dream: they get to know 5-10 people they wouldn't have intersected otherwise, talk to each other before/after class rather than texting, sit with new people (we do turn & talk 1x/class)

stay true 2u dartmouth 🤣

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Again, I’m reminded of a quote by Patricia Graham:

‘In America, when a problem is too hard for adults, we pass it on to schools.’

I’m just Jen

Every 90s kid is confused that we went from FBI federal crime warnings before The Little Mermaid to “it’s just publicly available text” corporate theft in a minute.

Is Mark Carney the dark horse Sexiest Man Alive of 2026, and what does it mean that I’m wondering?

I’m in awe of what schools are doing daily to hold kids & families up when other institutions won’t.

A lesson for ed research so committed to “schools as oppression machines” that it can’t see them as sites of care, protection, and dignity.

I hate that your department has to do it but so much respect for your dept.

there's a special confidence required to be the iceberg and insist you're the boat.

there's a special confidence required to be the iceberg and insist you're the boat.

oh my, good Lord

For the reasons you noted, I worry. I do like idea of a) some shared corpus, b) asserting that kids in all schs & tracks can read challenging wk. Unintended gains: fastest way to get teens to read more out of sch is to give them a list of largely white men & tell them adults are edging them out.

giant artisanal marshmallows, eaten before 10am, won't stop fascism. but they do take the edge off.

Why Keeping Score Isn’t Fun Anymore

If your students need a reading on purpose - especially purpose beyond the metrics school rewards - I'd highly recommend C. Thi Nguyen's, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game.

@add-hawk.bsky.social, thank you for this gift of a book. Radiant and animated by joy.

A data q for you: what do we know about the teaching load distribution at research universities? Curious as to the 25th, 50th, 75th percentiles

“Education is the civil rights issue of our time” aged accurately. More than half of US kids now live in states where K12 discrimination is explicit and publicly financed.

The fact that educated people vote for Democrats shows just how biased our educational system has become.

Al Gore, who Americans thought was boring, is now booing people at Davos dinners. Not on my Bingo card.

If Trump is “derived from Europe,” as he said this morning, I have some questions about the second derivative.

Opinion | The Heritage Foundation Wants to Send American Women Back Half a Century

Heritage, cosplaying as the Children's Defense Fund: "the default in American culture today is to put the desires of adults over the needs of children." Strange line in a country that still lets kids grow up in poverty.

@jessgrose.bsky.social does an excellent job of unpacking the report here.

Federal immigration enforcement near schools disrupts attendance, traumatizes students and damages their academic performance While federal immigrant agents need to produce a judicial warrant to enter a classroom, they can freely operate in public spaces at and around schools.

Great insights by @csattinbajaj.bsky.social on how schools can support immigrant students, parents, and the teachers who care about them.