Ralph Pantozzi

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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as a cognitive scientist, I can confirm we don't know how humans think

I want to seek out when these kinds of things first appeared

Who, US? Never. 😳🫣 everything in the past was wonderful

“Because if you look across the board, there is a pattern.”#iTeachMath

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Column | Why this one area of cities is usually the poorest Research reveals industrial pollution’s historical link to urban poverty, with eastern parts of cities often more impoverished because of prevailing winds.

Research reveals industrial pollution’s historical link to urban poverty, with eastern parts of cities often more impoverished because of prevailing winds. #iTeachMath

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The desire to be away from the “unwashed masses” is well-established in our country

Time for a nerdy timeline palate cleanser: 🧬

This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi for discoveries about regulatory T cells and the Foxp3 gene -- the immune system’s built-in “brakes.”

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

The Washington Post officially adopts “Democracy Dies in Darkness” as a mission statement.

Fannie Lou Hamer Was Born On This Day – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources It’s Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday! You might be interested in FANNIE LOU HAMER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1917 – HERE ARE RELATED TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES.

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Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

“When I’d be away from the farm and something was wrong, my workers would send a photo of the cow,” Mr. Louters said. “Now they send a picture of the graphs”

There are other references in other articles for those things. More to come. But yes, I think perhaps the first references in newspapers around the issue of the “gifted” may be in the school expansion era.

SELECTIVE SYSTEM FOR STUDENTS URGED; Prof. Thorndike of Teachers College Deplores Passion for Equalization of Education. HOLDS DISTRIBUTION WRONG Says Laws Should Bar Parents From Preventing Schooling...

“We need laws to prevent greedy or perverse parents from depriving gifted children of schooling-not laws to force them to keep in school children who have neither the ability nor the interest to profit thereby.”

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“But what are we doing for the intellectually gifted student? … action must be taken to aid those definitely above the average in mental ability. Are we going to be content to hold them down to the average? (1931)

"The failure to identify and adequately educate America's children of genius, constituting as it does the squandering of the most precious of our national resources, is a major indictment of our educational system, and deserves to be regarded as a national scandal." (1937)

“But we can’t measure it” 🤪

Historical newspapers are a hobby 😀

I will consult my sources. Fairly certain that all of these things have pre-war origins.

Forget Cowbells. Cows Wear High-Tech Collars Now.

teams of farmworkers and scientists catering to their every data point
#iTeachMath

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Which one?

Perennial vibes: the war against gifted students, K-12 has never prepared anyone for college math, Americans are behind other foreign powers who are about to take over…

Forget Cowbells. Cows Wear High-Tech Collars Now.

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What do you notice? What do you wonder? #iTeachMath

Repubs. Maybe others too

I mean they don’t like colleges in general

I’ve never seen a 55 feet high and 300 year old gardener 😜