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Puzzling Over Declining Academic Achievement Many are concerned about the large decline in K-12 student achievement since 2019. And rightly so, given what it signals about student learning and later life outcomes. Less noted is the pre-pandemic ...

It's good to see a thoughtful discussion! Some additional research to consider: Wyckoff's Puzzling Over Declining Academic Achievement edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1197 and Figlio et al.'s Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S.-Born Students www.nber.org/papers/w28596

BASH: The president said very clearly this week he doesn't want Somali immigrants in America. He called them 'garbage.' Is that the real reason this operation is happening?

HOMAN: No. I think President Trump is referring to public safety threats & natl security threats

BASH: He didn't say that

I mean, it’s literally in the constitution, so it should be the easiest thing they’ve ever ruled on.

But yeah, they’ll probably get rid of it.

Powerful to rally today with several hundred teachers, families, and community members in support of West Contra County teachers!

Our community supports the strike and will be out in the streets every day until teachers get a fair contract.

More of this !!

Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

This is an excellent read. The more you know. #Science 🧪

“… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”

Not young.

OMG another one. A national leader of Turning Point USA, which purports to be a student org, posted this pic of their pro-gerrymandering rally in Indiana yesterday with these words: "These young conservatives..."

Thou Shalt Not Give Yourself A Peace Prize Whilst Committing Crimes Against Humanity This is evil.

Headline of the Day: Thou Shalt Not Give Yourself A Peace Prize Whilst Committing Crimes Against Humanity www.thegodpodcast.com/p/thou-shalt...

Hahahhahaaha

We share our homesite with many wild turkeys.

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

What Democrats Must Pledge to America Ten ways to make America more affordable

10 ideas that could jumpstart the American economy and make life better for pretty much everyone. Listening, Democrats? robertreich.substack.com/p/what-democ...

Dingus of the week: Sean Duffy | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz Get more from Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz on Patreon

'In response, many travelers are donning their worst attire, to honor Duffy’s bold, new foray into dingusry. As comedian Michelle Wolfe said, “We are dressing for the air travel we have, not the air travel we want.”' www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

OK: That Anti-Trans Essay and OSU's Shame Samantha Fulnecky tried to bullshit her way through an assignment and got called out on it.

Curth is trans. We will probably never know if Fulnecky was simply trying to bait Curth in order to create a narrative abt evil college professors oppressing poor christianists. But Fulnecky immediately looped in Turning Point USA. Gov Stitt & Ryan Walters curmudgucation.substack.com/p/ok-that-an...

Trump supporters climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol

Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life — We will always refute it & combat it"

Unless you’re J6 insurrectionist who attacks the capitol — then you receive a pardon & get called a patriot…

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools But media pundits and reporters ignore it, and Republicans are trying to kill it.

Early results of efforts to measure the impact of community school initiatives have been impressive so far. progressive.org/public-schoo...

RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.

Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...

ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:

"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."

wow -- John Berman demolished Tom Cotton in this interview

This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.

📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.

#GVerse #Veterans
US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.

Slotkin: "If there's an idea that we're gonna go start a land war against Venezuela -- and just remember, the military of Venezuela is not comparable to the military of the US -- if we're gonna do that, then that should come to Congress."

Young Americans Want a Reboot: Can They Build a Majority Big Enough to Overrule Big Money? Expect a fight for healthcare access, debt relief, affordable housing, and a living wage that doesn’t require two full-time jobs…

Trickle down: Instead of a more general prosperity, we’ve now ended up w/ the greatest wealth & income inequality in the developed world; over $50 trillion was transferred over 44 years from the bottom 90% to the top 1%, where it remains to this day. hartmannreport.com/p/young-amer...

Sue Kingery Woltanski: Relationships First: A Skeptic’s Look at AI in Schools - Network For Public Education Sue Kingery Woltanski questions the push for getting AI into classrooms. The excitement surrounding AI in education confuses me. We are just emerging from a nationwide experiment in virtual learning —...

Mini-conference speakers encouraged us to advocate for state & fed funding for data centers needed to support the “AI revolution.” At one point, we were asked to brainstorm what budget cuts could fund these tools. Fewer books? Larger class sizes? networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content...

Capitol bombing suspect arrested today has not been pardoned by Trump…yet! The far reaches of the wingnut-o-sphere have spent the late afternoon and early evening attempting to tie a 30-year-old man who lived with his mother in a four-bedroom Colonial in the suburbs of Washi...

It looks like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Jean Pirro, and Dan Bongino have arrested the guy who bought enough components to put together galvanized pipe, wires, steel wool and kitchen timers and produced two elaborate duds. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/capitol-bo...

Youth. For Christ. At School?

Can Youth for Christ recruit members in a public school? Even in this conservative town, parents say--- nah. flanagann.substack.com/p/youth-for-...

War Is Peace, the Dozing Don Edition The outcry grows over Trump's undeclared war in the Caribbean.

Is there a point at which the contradiction between his self-image and what we will see is simply too great to be sustained? With a President pushing eighty, the difference between Trump’s reality and reality-reality is only going to get wider. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...