Jenn Borgioli Binis

So Grammarly didn't just go full GenAI, it went full fuck the human editors. That sucks.

There are too many people like Jeffrey Epstein in American classrooms.

I've always been a fan of the phrase, "men are people, women are women" because it speaks to so many things. This sub-heading in an article makes me wonder if it works the other way ("people are men, women are women").

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A photograph of a press conference with 10 white men and the shoes of one one white woman.

I think this picture from a local press conference has more Eds than women (there is one - you can see her feet on the far left.)

My favorite part was when one of the other speakers thanked the Asssemblymen for coming. Which... technically, yes. The lone woman is a board member.

My hunch is there isn't going to be a smoking gun - he's offering his opinion on a sequence of events.

It's a reasonable claim for him to make but there's also likely a bit of storytelling. It's probably that it was A + B = C and more A happened at the same as B, thus C.

'Reading Rainbow' Was Canceled After 26 Years Due to This Sad Reason Why did 'Reading Rainbow' get canceled after a 26-year run? PBS just isn't the same without the LeVar Burton series. Keep reading for details.

There's also this but it's kinda click-baity.

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I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Ready to Learn grants and the shift in focus post-NCLB.

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Stupid excited to listen to this. Lincoln's Second Inaugural is one of the foundational texts for Braver Angels and I have recited lines from it at nearly every BA event I've moderated.

TOTALLY JUSTIFIED FEELINGS

"We therefore affirm the district court’s denial of qualified immunity to Principal Anderson, Superintendent Lockhart, and the Board members on that claim."

Oof.

A grown adult man blaming girls for his behavior.

'[The teacher] “acknowledged that he knew his conduct was generally inappropriate for a fifth grade class and that he would not have used certain terms or raised certain topics had fifth grade girls been present.”'

Segregation Policy In August 2022, at Superintendent Lockhart’s and Principal Anderson’s direction, TES implemented a policy to separate fifth-grade students based on their sex. Under this policy, TES would have two fifth-grade “homeroom” classes—one for boys and taught by a man, and one for girls and taught by a woman. App. Vol. I at 32. Homeroom teachers were responsible for teaching core subjects and supervising their students for most or all of each day.

From the intro:

The sex-segregation details of the case are the least bad. This poor kid.

It's absolutely heart-breaking.

We are looking for middle and high school History, Social Studies, and Ethnic Studies teachers throughout the country to participate in a collaborative local history project for the 2026-27 school year. Curriculum, instruction, and professional development will be supported throughout this program with funding from the Library of Congress. Stipend for completing the program: $2,500 INTERESTED? APPLY HERE(link is external) by April 17, 2026 TEACHER OPPORTUNITY - LEARN MORE Program Components - Teachers will: Participate in a 3-Day summer institute June 29-July 1, 2026. Participate in 3 Saturday planning workshops: 2026-2027 school year (dates tbd). Develop and teach an approximately two-week long collaborative local history unit or lesson set. Participate in planning sessions with your partner teacher as needed. Participate in 2 coaching sessions during the 2026-27 school year. Participate in one follow-up session to debrief and reflect upon work and plan for possible future collaboration. Overall estimated time commitment beyond classroom teaching: approximately 35-40 hours.

Social studies teachers (anywhere in the U.S.)! Want to participate in a Library of Congress workshop where you will create units on local history and get paid $2,500? APPLY HERE: iacp.berkeley.edu/node/67 #sschat #edusky

Update:

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Today marks 1 year since the first Ask Me Anything (AMA) for AskHistorians in our push to very actively recruit guests, and where are we now? Today is the 90th AMA in that effort, helping us cross the thresholds of 35k upvotes, 8k comments, and 15k link shares in that year (and ~10m views)!

I gotta stop retweeting Jen's absolutely bonkers documentation of wacky Arizona Education Savings Account spending, but it's so good/bad. $15k of taxpayer dollars that are going to Legos instead of children's education.

Freedom!

‪Lee Drutman‬ ‪@leedrutman.bsky.social‬ · 4m Having read A LOT of social science over the decades and having spent a lot of time with Claude recently, this feels absolutely right. Opus 4.6 is really powerful, and the models keep getting better. The standards of what counts as a "contribution" will have to change. They've had to for a while.

Justin Zimmerman‬ ‪@jztidecat.bsky.social‬ · 20m How I see it is AI will exacerbate bad and underdeveloped theory and conclusions, especially of marginalized groups. You can’t AI your way into understanding and properly researching Black politics, for example. What you can do is come up with harebrained ideas and potentially harmful conclusions.

‪Ros Taylor‬ ‪@rostaylor.bsky.social‬ · 47m Really? It can do ethnographic and qualitative research? It can talk to people who are hard to reach? It knows how to get in touch with them and interview them sensitively? Or is this not what is meant by social science research?

How do I put this — There are enough errors in this that I would *not* expect an LLM to make that I am skeptical of the claim that the writing was fully automated

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I was all set to read this piece and then scrolled the replies and noped out as fast as I could. And I'll now carry a grudge against the author.

We have so many choices about how to be in this world and this is what he chooses. What an incredibly cruel man.

This directive is for school districts, not just teacher prep.

If it cannot be a part of a course and it is currently part of a course, it has to be removed.

If they're in a school, they must be removed - or else, the school is out of compliance.

I love how over the top the ending of that movie is. Just goes for it in such a delightful way.

If a lawmaker passed a law saying science teachers currently teaching Ceolaf's theory of intelligent design can no longer do so and must get rid of any books containing Ceolaf's theory - yes. I would call that a ban.

Welp. 42 people in my town got a personal phone call from the town clerk to let them they were going to be hit with a late fee because their taxes were postmarked the day after they were due.

Guess the changes have taken effect.

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Kgan dissent Substantive due process has not been of late in the good graces of this Court—and especially of the Members of today’s majority. The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind. The relevant text bars a State only from depriving a person of “liberty” “without due process of law.” Members of the majority often have expressed skepticism—sometimes outright hostility—to understanding the “capacious” term “liberty” to enshrine specific rights. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...(2022). Substantive due process, one has stated, is a “particularly dangerous” “legal fiction” because it “invites judges” to “roa[m] at large in the constitutional field guided only by their personal views.” McDonald v. Chicago...(2010) (THOMAS , J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment); Obergefell v. Hodges, ...(2015) (THOMAS , J., dissenting). [see footnote 2] Another has pointed to the “judicial misuse of the so-called ‘substantive component’ of due process to dictate policy on matters that belonged to the people to decide.” Sessions v. Dimaya, ...(2018) (GORSUCH , J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). And yet a third, when defending the Court’s elimination of a 50-year-old right grounded in substantive due process, explained that the “Constitution does not grant the nine unelected Members of this Court the unilateral authority to rewrite the Constitution.” Dobbs, 597 U. S., at 340 (KAVANAUGH , J., concur- ring). There are many such statements to choose from in this Court’s recent substantive due process caselaw. Especially given the Court’s last venture into the field, today’s.. —————— Footnote 2 For that reason, JUSTICE THOMAS has called for overruling “all” of this Court’s “substantive due process precedents.” Dobbs...(concurring opinion). That invitation presumably extends to the precedents supporting both the District Court’s decision and today’s per curiam.

Elena Kagan from the top rope: "The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind..."
Then she throws the words of Thomas and Kavanaugh from Dobbs, and Gorsuch from another case, back in their faces www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

There are all sorts of ways to frame it. It remains, though, when the state says to teachers, "get rid of these books and do not utter these words"... that is a book ban and policing speech.