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The national literacy pedagogy conversation right now

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Texas teachers! You’re not alone 💛

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Tarrant County Back to School Roundup to provide thousands of students with resources " data-image-caption=" Arlington resident A’riah Robinson, 4, checks out the supplies in her new backpack during the Back to School Kickoff event August 2, 2025, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. (Mary Abby Goss | Fort Worth Report) " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Goss-BacktoSchoolKickoff-06-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Goss-BacktoSchoolKickoff-06-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1" />More than 3,000 students are expected to attend the 19th annual Tarrant County Back to School Roundup to receive free supplies and services.

Tarrant County Back to School Roundup to provide thousands of students with resources

If you’re the admin requiring this, just make a card that says you don’t know how to recognized effective teaching and pass it out to the faculty. It has the exact same effect as the verbiage on the board and it’s more efficient

Yup. It might be a time to, idk, take your old course material off blackboard and canvas. Bc some universities are already training on it. And others will once it gets out. Students posting material to chegg and chatgpt has nothing on your employer wanting to pay less for instruction.

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Public schools are closing as Arizona’s school voucher program soars Arizona, with a marketplace of school options and universal vouchers, offers a window into the GOP vision for K-12 education

The impacts of school choice have been particularly clear in Arizona, offering an early picture of K-12 education under the Republican vision of maximum school choice.

Here, public schools are starting to close.

[bunch of guys who haven't read a piece of fiction in 20 years] my feeling is the kids don't read anymore

LA Times: "'It backfired,' said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash. .... 'Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.'

WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING

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My original opinion remains unchanged; but it is only an opinion.

Texas pastors poised to wield political power after IRS says churches can endorse candidates " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Goss-TrueTexasMeeting-42-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Goss-TrueTexasMeeting-42-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1" />Fort Worth-area faith leaders are ready for greater political involvement in their congregations after the IRS says churches can endorse political candidates.

Texas pastors poised to wield political power after IRS says churches can endorse candidates

The IRS Says Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates. That Could Give Texas Pastors More Power Than Ever. While the IRS move applies across the country, Texas — with more than 200 megachurches — will be the epicenter for pastors and congregations to test out their new influence, one expert said.

NEW: The IRS will allow churches across the country to endorse political candidates. Texas — with more than 200 megachurches — will be the epicenter for pastors and congregations to test out their new influence, one expert said.

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This interview is so clear & quietly devastating. Public media as we understand it is over.

This is not about the end of NPR & PBS. They might be able to find ways to continue to make programs. Instead of content, this is about the capacity to broadcast at all - antennae, transmitters, licenses. 🧵

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This is the direction we’re headed in

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

this is a disgrace and a national shame

Do consultants and administrators know that a fixation on posting learning objectives is so recognizable to teachers as “I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT PEDAGOGY” that it’s a cliche joke online? Literally, if you want to destroy your credibility with faculty at PD, lean real hard on that

passengers get sea-sick—grow quarrelsome—don't sleep of nights—do not enjoy themselves much, as a general thing

I’m jealous you’re getting to read it for the first time

I have packs of stickers in all my bags

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A lot of good ideas in this thread. For comp students I’ve been using Fridays as workshop days so the Friday reflections could pair well with that. Also I am making a course pack rather than putting readings on Bb so that students can annotate (they will not annotate digitally)

D.C. voted for an experiment to triple tipped wages in three years. D.C. also voted for representatives to change course if conditions shifted — with inflation or DOGE for example. It's not undemocratic to have economic policy made by the legislature not by ballot

Being an English teacher in a public school in Texas is an exercise in getting your heart broken over and over again.

With every headline like this, my time in education draws nearer to an end.

A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You

I would spit-laugh but these children don’t deserve this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

Hello, I’m a public school teacher in a movie. I don’t teach, I *inspire*, which you can tell from the heartfelt monologues I give instead of lessons. Teenagers gaze at me with grudging admiration after I win their respect by caring so hard. I just started this job yesterday