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How is wealth distributed among U.S. households? By household income? The top 10% of households by wealth had $7.2 million on average. As a group, they held 67.3% of total household wealth. The bottom 50% of households by wealth had $52,000 on average. As a group, they held 2.4% of total household wealth. The top 20% of households by income had $3.8 million in wealth on average. As a group, they held 71.1% of total household wealth. The bottom 20% of households by income had $160,000 in wealth on average. As a group, they held 3% of total household wealth.

According to the St Louis Fed, in Sept 2024 the top 10% of households by wealth held 67% of total household wealth, while the bottom 50% held just 2.4%.

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Via Barnhart @barchart.com 42% of mortgage refinance applications are being rejected, the highest rate in AT LEAST the last 12 years #EconSky

Poor future schoolkids.
Poor future students.
Poor future historians.

Imagine being a future person having to learn about and try and understand our present.

Make things a little easier for them, start keeping a diary.
A proper one, on paper.
Start soon.

Would love to see more of your Twitter content over here!

Great ad from Nike "So Win"

"The revolution about to be televised you picked the right time but the wrong guy"

KENDRICK 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

#superbowl

Lessons for the End of the World On Octavia Butler, the L.A. fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.

Big brained meditations on Octavia Butler, the LA fires, AI, grief, memory, all inspired by a photo of him and the late, great Nikki Giovanni, from Hanif Abdurraqib:

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The risks of universal vouchers are quickly coming to light. An initiative that was promoted for years as a civil-rights cause—helping poor kids in troubled schools—is threatening to become a nationwide money grab. Many private schools are raising tuition rates to take advantage of the new funding, and new schools are being founded to capitalize on it. With private schools urging all their students’ families to apply, the money is flowing mostly to parents who are already able to afford tuition and to kids who are already enrolled in private schools. When vouchers do draw

How Religious Schools Became a Billion-Dollar Drain on Public Education www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

So much more on point than the opening act with all the silver and color-changing lights at 8AM.

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but when people say that AI is their "thought partner" I wonder how to have a thought partner that cannot think (or feel, or communicate with intention). What appears to be thought is an illusion that only achieves meaning through the human interpreting it.

I love how certain chatgpt sounds when it just brazenly suggests a book as a notable source... but this book is nowhere to be found... not a trace of it...
And people share this sort of thing with me in discussions to prove me wrong...

Which reminds me...

I've got a book out!

It's about the Janowska camp in Lviv...the most important Holocaust site you've never heard of.

40% off below!

So far I only seem to be able to embrace biographical or auto-biographical audio books. My son loves fiction on long car trips and I really have to push myself to follow.

1. Realizing that everything I read did not have to have a deeper purpose related to being a social studies teacher
2. Libby. I often now have 4-5 books going based on mood & focus level as well as an audio book & can pick up whichever/wherever
3. App time limits = intentional consumption

A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.

Every academic right now

Shakir had joined the ranks of a large if hidden population: NFL players who journal. In locker rooms across the league, more than a dozen players recently shared their conviction in the benefits of journaling, a habit they use to confront the stress inherent to a profession that invites scrutiny while suppressing sensitivity.
It’s impossible to place a precise number on NFL players who journal, but “it’s definitely more than it seems,” Bills backup quarterback Shane Buechele said. Many players who said they do not keep a journal knew teammates who did, and some expressed either prior or current interest in starting one.

This could be helpful to share with students when discussing the value of writing——————Hut, hut, write: Why journaling is the NFL’s not-so-secret weapon www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...

Students who haven’t mastered foundational writing skills shouldn’t be using AI.

I guess those “teachers” haven’t watched a student AI their day away…
There *are* great ways to use it (study/review partner 👍🏻) but basic critical thinking skills must exist.
AI is being used by students to avoid thinking & they definitely aren’t reading it before turning in just what AI told them.

Fun trivia.

The people who wrote our Constitution weren't sure whether they were going to include a procedure for impeaching the President. Benjamin Franklin made the final argument to convince them.

Want to know how he changed their minds?

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Unless we’re working on maps! Then please make sure pencils with a plethora of erasers abound!!

And I am just as devastated about Jamboard’s death as I was when they eliminated Reader 10+ years ago.

The other alternatives I’ve tried thus far are not nearly as quick to get students into and working.

Hey ~ new kid in class here. 👋Looking forward to rebuilding community with fellow educators as well as democracy, science, and book enthusiasts. Now that I have arrived… It looks like transitioning to StoryGraph is the next thing on my to do list.