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Susan Engel’s straightforward take on middle class education culture is spot on. It speaks to many of the overlapping problems in public ed right now, like the rise of privatized “choice” schools that discriminate along lines of race and class while systematically excluding kids with disabilities

“We kind of have disregard for everybody's children, but our own … as long as my kid is getting a nice education, my kid is getting a good test score, my kid is having a good lunch, screw everybody else. There isn't a genuine concern for the experience of children.” Susan Engel

Social studies teachers, check this out!

Stalling White Time: Racialized Temporalities, Classroom Management, and White Supremacy This article explores the ways that dominant professional norms surrounding classroom management and instructional pacing create racially unequal temporal conditions. Thinking alongside a qualitati...

The pace of teaching can be relentless. This not only makes teaching difficult but is antithetical to pursuits for justice. The professional norms that push teachers to be maximally time efficient from ‘bell-to-bell’ reinforce a racist social choreography. New research explores this dynamic. #EduSky

Thank you, Alice Wong, for all that you taught us. And thank you for demanding a better world. You will be deeply missed.

Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

Stalling White Time: Racialized Temporalities, Classroom Management, and White Supremacy This article explores the ways that dominant professional norms surrounding classroom management and instructional pacing create racially unequal temporal conditions. Thinking alongside a qualitati...

The pace of teaching can be relentless. This not only makes teaching difficult but is antithetical to pursuits for justice. The professional norms that push teachers to be maximally time efficient from ‘bell-to-bell’ reinforce a racist social choreography. New research explores this dynamic. #EduSky

This is an example of why we wrote this-Trying to trace the incredible harms that are being committed against children, not to suggest we should be doing these things to adults, but to name the unique traumas and the longlasting harm it is creating in children's lives www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Redefining the Halloween canon : All Songs Considered Who’s the Mariah Carey of Halloween? Labels and artists are trying to capitalize on spooky season, but these are the songs that belong in the canon, from the truly terrifying to autumnal and nostalgic...

Somehow @idislikestephen.bsky.social and @robinpr.bsky.social were able to discuss the “Halloween canon” without mentioning the Misfits. Revise and resubmit please.

I think we’ll start seeing a version of this in schools. Districts contracting with AI companies to “help” teachers who are then blamed when test scores (or whatever metric) dont improve. Teachers and students bearing the consequences of predatory financial incursions into education

For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities.

Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.

Despite all the handwringing about “intellectual diversity” the reality is that higher ed exposes young people to a vastly different array of people and experiences than almost anything else you can do.

Rethinking Schools magazine. Title: Hands Off Our Students. Features: Social Justice Unionism v. Fascism, Teaching about Deportations, and Eve L. Ewing Interview. Cover art by Ewan White shows a group of multiracial children sitting in a circle laughing and talking in a classroom with the shadow of a looming hand descending on them.

Finally, please read (& subscribe) to the magazine that has been my writing home for many years now. There are not many of us — national educational justice orgs & publishers — left. We are not to the fascists' liking.

The summer issue just arrived in my mailbox. rethinkingschools.org/magazine/

I also worry that the Mahmoud decision just opened the door for a follow-up supreme court case that would extend this argument and suggest parents have the religious right to not have their students taught by LGBTQ+ teachers, further forcing Queer teachers out of the profession.

Happy Disability Pride Month! I encourage you to celebrate by learning about why Black folks & others may not claim disability pride, but still belong in disability community. Check out my free, open access book #BlackDisabiltyPolitics from @dukepress.bsky.social!

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The Implications of Federal SNAP Spending Cuts on Individuals with Medicaid, Medicare and Other Health Coverage | KFF Proposed changes in eligibility rules in both SNAP and Medicaid may jeopardize some people’s access to both adequate food and health care if various provisions of the bill take effect, in part…

Proposed cuts to SNAP could increase the number of people experiencing food insecurity and worsen affordability challenges for those struggling to access food, as well as for those at risk of losing health insurance due to other changes in the legislation.

Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to ensure safety and order in American

Also. I don’t think it is a stretch to suggest that a goal of these policies and supreme court decisions are to literally change how teachers and admin interact and care for students. Repression is the goal. Don’t forget this EO aimed at doubling down on racist discipline practices.

There’s a through line between the Mahmoud decision and the new segregationist Tr*mp policies, which similarly establish positions where any substantive presence or recognition of a member of a marginalized community is an affront to whiteness. (Go back and re-read @drsubini.bsky.social & Stovall)

I can’t get passed this… proposed funding for ICE detention will be greater than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.

Alito's decision here is rooted in a normative claim that Queer people should not exist--apparently the mere existence of Queer people is "burdensome" and "coercive" to the religiously conservative. This is cruel.

Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.

Alito's decision here is rooted in a normative claim that Queer people should not exist--apparently the mere existence of Queer people is "burdensome" and "coercive" to the religiously conservative. This is cruel.

Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.

Also for gods sake 330m in the context of an >8b budget isn’t a BOOST. Its barely keeping pace with inflation

Parcel 3 times the size of Manhattan returned to Northern Calif. tribe The area is a culturally sacred and ecologically critical watershed.

More than 47,000 acres of land along Northern California’s Klamath River was recently returned to the Yurok Tribe in the state’s largest land back deal to date.

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Ive got to imagine Graeber would be so bummed about his work being used like this
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Opinion: To fix school funding, Chicago must rethink pension investing Tapping public pensions to invest in local infrastructure could ease Chicago’s education funding crisis and reduce dependence on Wall Street.

I wrote a thing about the Chicago school finance crisis www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chic...

Menomonee Falls, rated among the top ten safest communities in Wisconsin, is planning on reallocating $300,000 from its library to its police department.

Because Menomonee Falls is just that rampant with crime, right? Who needs a library?

Why do public entities have to pay interest on loans when they lend to each other? Like why should a school district have to pay interest on a loan from its own state govt? I get that accounting rules say you have to and maybe it’s in law, but like why can’t we change those?

I'm not teaching this term, so rather than working this out with my students I will subject you to it. My read of this (tentative) pronouncement on AI in K-12.

1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co.
2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require.
&
3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵

Congrats!!