I completely agree...I once heard a presenter (Myron Dueck maybe?) say that assignments follow "The Godfather Principle. Once it has a grade, the assignment is dead to them."

Why Teachers Should Grade Less Frequently Excessive grading stresses out kids and teachers, stifles innovative teaching, and fails to deliver as a true measurement of learning.

In my latest Edutopia article, Stanford prof. Denise Pope points out the glaring problem with grades:

“The first thing kids would do is go to the back of the paper, look at the grade, and never read my comments."

9 reasons why teachers should grade less:
www.edutopia.org/article/why-... #EduSky

Brilliant time today at @capitalcrime.bsky.social in central London. @louiseminchin.bsky.social interviewed Mark Billingham and @karinslaughter.com onstage discussing their quarter-century careers & new books. Hilarious and informative, both were also generous and lovely in the signings afterwards.

A sneak peek at the UK limited-edition Collector’s Edition of #WeAreAllGuiltyHere—featuring a beautiful foiled hardcase.

It’s yours if you order now from any UK retailer before June 19: smarturl.it/WAAGH-Collectors

All the credit that Tim Walz got as a VP candidate for good stuff that Minnesota has done? Melissa Hortman (and a bunch of other women) led the hard fight to get bills on his desk and make it politically safe for him to sign.

This is so cool!

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

I asked a BBC spokesperson to set out any examples of the corporation drawing up specific plans to secure the support of voters for other political parties in the UK, but they were unable to do so bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

It very much looks as though the Israeli government has hijacked a UK registered ship in international waters, and kidnapped its passengers and crew

I keep talking about this I know, but it does feel like “everything is just a bit dirty and expensive and nothing really works” is going to be electorally disastrous for Labour, and as this post says London is really an advertisement for that feeling.

Emma and Adrian are wonderful folks. I would recommend everyone take a listen to their podcast.

Terms to avoid or use with care - a list with accompanying explanations. Examples include “economically inactive”, “handouts” and “benefits culture.”

Good on @turn2us.org.uk for putting together a guide for journalists reporting on the benefits system. With the PIP vote coming up, there’s no excuse for the media to use inaccurate or stigmatising language.

For years people have warned Trump is on the way to fascism, and for years people have laughed.

Martial law Marines on the ground in major cities? Suspension of laws and rights? Rounding up political opponents? All normal. It's not fascist until he puts on jackboots and grows a little moustache

Rioters breaking into the Capitol to try to lynch the VP: "great patriots [in a] peaceful lovefest"

Citizens being shot with rubber bullets cos they protested ICE arrests: "insurrectionist, violent foreign terrorists [leading a] form of rebellion"

Place your bets on Martial Law being declared

I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

YouTube video by Jokerfilmproduction top secret! ballerini

To mark the release of BALLERINA: a short thread of ballet-related moments in films that are not about ballet.
First up, TOP SECRET! (1984)

Opinion - Kamala’s newest lie: Trump will send the army after you Vice President Kamala Harris has lied about Donald Trump's statements, claiming that he would consider using the military against his political opponents, when in reality he was talking about Election...

She warned us

So the starting point isn’t parties or policy platforms. It’s rebuilding epistemic foundations:

- Teaching critical thinking early, from K to 12

- Creating civic infrastructure that makes participation real

- Designing accountability systems people can actually trust

Just got off the phone with my son in LA. He spent 2 hours protesting ICE at the front lines. He was peacefully protesting, but was mortared and gassed anyway. He left unharmed, thankfully.

A father couldn’t be more proud of his son.

#ICE
#AmericanGestapo

This is Hilarious 🤣😂😅

YES!!!

Willem Dafoe in The Scream by Edvard Munch.

a twist on the scream by edvard munch: thread

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Prime Vidéo a annulé la série 𝙀𝙩𝙤𝙞𝙡𝙚 avec Luke Kirby et Charlotte Gainsbourg après une unique saison de 8 épisodes malgré la commande initiale de deux saisons en avril 2023.

_ollydobson a 1d Avoid women who "Tate Check" you. 99% of the time this question isn't a sign of them being curious & open. It's a test that shows she arbitrarily wants to categorise you based off the "right" or "wrong" answer. I don't support Tate but every woman l've met who asked this question was.. Lacking in nuanced thinking, ignorant of men's issues, blinkered by woke dogma.

Hadn’t heard of people doing a “Tate Check” before, but it seems like it’s working exactly as intended…

Have you called your Senators to ask them to vote no on the Big attack on America! #Resist

‘The first humble beginnings of an agitation’: the women’s suffrage petition of 7 June 1866 - The History of Parliament A. Dingsdale, '"Generous and lofty sympathies": the Kensington Society, the 1866 women's suffrage petition and the development of mid-Victorian feminism'

The women's suffrage petition of 1866 was presented to Parliament #OTD.

Dr Kathryn Rix explored the first mass petition in the campaign to secure the parliamentary vote for women:

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

Turn it off. Stop using it. Turn it off. Stop. Stop. Stop.

If every time I was wrong about something, a gallon of precious water was boiled into the sky, my neighbourhood got polluted and someone lost their job, people would stop asking me things.