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In 1935 the FTC found that the electric utilities were a major cause of the Great Depression and tried to break them up with a big federal bill called PUHCA. The oligarchs of that time and conservatives since have stayed so mad that they fought its full repeal until they won in 2005.

The decision to deploy troops comes as the president has been slamming America’s cities as places where crime is out of control, despite two years of declines that have brought homicide levels in many major cities to their lowest levels in decades. wapo.st/4owUXqk

“I ask": Teacher leads with Socratic questions about an example
• "You figure it out": Students work the example without the teacher explaining
• "You do": Successive problems immediately follow increasing in complexity (see file for authors)

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Have you seen the “Archimedes Standards”

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Bringing back the rigor!

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Gardens of Branching Paths: Discovering Possible Worlds of Research at the Library of Congress | Teaching with the Library An Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow (2024/25) reflects on his fellowship at the Library of Congress.

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Gardens of Branching Paths: Discovering Possible Worlds of Research at the Library of Congress

my latest post at the Library of Congress: what do you notice? What do you wonder? #iTeachMath

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At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

Earlier this year, a 17-year-old high school student named Hannah Cairo solved a 40-year-old mystery about how waves behave, surprising and exciting mathematicians. @kevinhartnett.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

“Kids can think. And they are brilliant.” #iTeachMath

There are different kinds of times tests for sure.

Just a few thoughts: Most parents are happy for schools to spend on PE and athletics, art and music, a wide array of languages, libraries, counselors and psychologists, highly educated faculty, modern, safe, & healthy facilities & tech, and more—whether they help scores or not. Kids are not scores.

Just trying to reassert 1619 society, ma’am

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Who knew the thing we were missing in the United States education system was an emphasis on semantic retrieval and a focus on test scores. It's "The Science of Learning"!

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It ain't even been 24 hours but when I tell you this means the world to me...you have no idea. The long nights. The doubts. The apprehension. I'm not a big fish but this makes me feel my truth is reciprocated.

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Relevance is often found simply in what inspires curiosity

How to Help Students See the Relevance of Math with @mathillustrated.bsky.social is new @edweek.org post www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Curb Cuts - 99% Invisible If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it’s easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the sidewalk and the street. Today, these curb cuts are e...

📻Worth a read/listen: This 99% Invisible episode shares Ed Roberts’ story and the disability rights movement that led to curb cuts—small ramps that changed city streets for wheelchair users.

It’s about activism, independence, and the ongoing fight for inclusion. ✊💚

EPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research Office On Monday, some employees at ORD, the largest office in the agency, began receiving emails saying they’d been assigned new positions within the EPA. “There is no action you need to take to accept the ...

@wired.com reporters continues to crush it, here with their coverage of Trump’s dismantling of a critical EPA science office.

Employees are left in the dark as essential research and jobs face cuts, threatening public health and environmental protection. #SaveEPA #ScienceMatters

How Trump Killed Cancer Research Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.

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We all know someone—or have been personally affected—by cancer. This @wired.com piece shows how Trump’s federal cuts are gutting cancer research, undoing years of progress and threatening the future of the Cancer Moonshot. #CancerResearch #PublicHealth

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The right yells about the destruction of Western civ and culture, but aren't really interested in cultural preservation. If they were, they'd support funding for public broadcasting, the arts and humanities.

Excited to share that I have been awarded the 2023 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching! This was a long and rigorous process that was also immensely gratifying! Thank you to @secaurphysics.bsky.social for nominating and all the support!

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