Andrew Wiley

The “stabbed in the back” myth was a major driver of Nazi ideology. How can one be both superior and oppressed? Stabbed the back. Hero and victim. It’s toxic and powerful stuff.

We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

Why is @badar-kauffman.bsky.social the best conference for research in special education and related fields.

10 reasons why BKC is the best.

In no particular order:
(BKC Alums, feel free to chime in)

Projects have a time and a place, but PBL does not Project-based learning (PBL) enjoys widespread popularity in schools. There is an intuitive appeal to connecting classroom content to the “real world”, and we’re told projects are engaging and auth…

Teachers! @mrzachg.bsky.social nails it in his latest must read post, "Projects have a time and a place, but PBL does not": educationrickshaw.com/2025/03/30/p...

This is reality. And why we need the DOE.

Dark blue background with a graphic of a red and white megaphone. The text reads, "Action Alert: Preserve the Department of Education"

🚨The White House just issued an executive order to close the U.S. Department of Education. Eliminating ED or moving IDEA to another agency will be a step backward in serving those with disabilities.

Tell your representatives to protect ED: exceptionalchildren.org/lac?vvsrc=/C...

Stand Up for Reading Research Stand Up for Reading Research

Educators Kata Solow & @callielowenstein.bsky.social urge everyone in the Science of Reading movement to band together to defend IES & reading research and to protect our children’s education.

@standupforscience.bsky.social
@thereadingleague.org

www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/stand-r...

The IES Practice Guides and resources inform every single literacy course & training for pre-service & in-service teachers. Any literacy intervention that has evidence behind it has evidence because the studies were funded by IES, OSEP, or by NIH. Every $ spent on IES research saves tax payer $.

Check out these FREE lesson guides, problem sets, and vocabulary cards - all focused on helping students understand decimals. buff.ly/3QC8mgR

Evidence-Based Education Policy Research | Live Handbook Explore evidence-based education policy research at our digital hub. Access data-driven insights to improve learning outcomes and shape effective policies.

Objective, comprehensive, rigorous, timely, and useful:
A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research.

#EdResearch #EdPolicy

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Are you going to the CEC Convention in Baltimore? Come to our annual Division reception- Thursday, March 13th at 7:00pm. @DR is hosting with friends from @DLD, @DCDT, @TED, & @DEBH. food, drinks, and free access to the American Visionary Art Museum! 🍷🪩🎨

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POV: Accommodations Provided to Students with Disabilities Under 504 Plans Are Now Threatened Pending lawsuit, if successful, “would significantly restrict the civil rights and freedoms of people with disabilities”

Excellent piece by my colleague, Zach Rossetti on Section 504 and its importance for protecting the rights of students with disabilities in light of the current lawsuit attempting to limit its impact
www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Reminder of the SPARC Center Launch Event on March 11, 2025, featuring event speaker and SPARC Center Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Allison Gilmour.

@afgilmour.bsky.social will be speaking at the SPARC Center Launch Event on March 11, 2025!

Join us to hear her insights on quantitative research and its impact on special education, from data-driven strategies to leadership for change.

👉 Register now: tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

Reminder of SPARC Center Launch Event on March 11, 2025, featuring event speaker and SPARC Center Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Loretta Mason-Williams.

⏳ The #SPARCCenter Launch Event is almost here! ⏳

Join us on March 11, 2025, with @lmasonwms.bsky.social discussing leadership in #SpecialEducation.

Hear valuable insights on driving systemic change and supporting special educators.

👉 Register: tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

Reminder of SPARC Center Launch Event on March 11, 2025, featuring event speaker and SPARC Center Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Elizabeth Bettini.

🚨 Only TWO weeks left until the #SPARCCenter Launch Event! 🚨

Join us on March 11, 2025, with @lizbettini.bsky.social, who will share next steps for our mixed-methods research and how the results can drive positive change in #SpecialEducation.

👉 Register: tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

Reminder of SPARC Center Launch Event on March 11, 2025.

⏰ One week to go! ⏰

The #SPARCCenter Launch Event is on March 11, 2025, 1-2pm EST. Join us for an exciting discussion on the future of #SpecialEducation with presentations from our experts and leadership team.

👉 Register: tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

Are you going to CEC next week? Come check out these presentations on fraction arithmetic and word-problem solving! 😉

Register for TED CEC's Advocacy in Action webinar, tomorrow afternoon!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway. The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts...

NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court.

By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

Georgia Nonprofit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids Has Federal Contract Cut An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

We’ve all had that boss… We know what’s up.

Americans are clear: they do not support Elon Musk and these devastating cuts.

This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about looting the federal government, giving Elon Musk private contracts, and mining Americans’ data.

We will continue to fight back.

House Budget Committee Circulates New Detailed List of Budget Reconciliation Options Including Draconian Medicaid Cuts Within House Republican Caucus On Friday, January 17, Politico and other news outlets reported that the House Budget Committee distributed to the House Republican Caucus a new 50-page list of mandatory spending and tax proposals…

With House passage of its budget resolution and its requirement of at least $880b in #Medicaid cuts, here again is my writeup from January of all of the deeply damaging Medicaid proposals under consideration to meet that target amount of cuts: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/20/h...

"Vaccines have allowed us to live longer.

The only reason frankly that we now question them is because at some level vaccines have been a victim of their own success."

Watch Dr. Paul Offit in VIRULENT: THE VACCINE WAR this weekend!

watch.eventive.org/virulentmovi...

As Republicans move a budget resolution tonight, it’s important to understand this: they're working on tax breaks for billionaires while slashing health care, education and public safety and doing nothing about the really big problems most Americans are facing, like the rising costs of housing.

Every member of the House is back on your home turf for congressional recess. We’ve got events scheduled across the nation to get their attention — because fighting back against the Trump-Musk coup is going to take all of us: indivisible.org/muskorus

The extreme MAGA Republican budget will close hospitals, shut down nursing homes and deprive children of healthcare.

There are 215 Democrats in the House who actually want to love and cherish Medicaid, not destroy it.

We only need three House Republicans to join us.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."

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DLD Response to Recent Federal Changes in Education and Call to Action - Teaching LD Dear DLD Members and Community, We are reaching out to encourage you to engage in Calls to Action shared by our parent organization, CEC, earlier this week. Many of you already have, and continue to d...

🚨 Action Needed! 🚨 Students with disabilities are at risk. Proposed federal changes threaten IDEA, education research funding, and even Section 504. We must stand together to protect their rights!
📢 #Protect504 #DisabilityRights #Dyslexia
www.teachingld.org/dld-response...