Morgan Polikoff

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VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!

New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!

edopportunity.org/segregation/

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1. Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet

2. The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering. (Graph showing steady rise over time with noticeable jump from 2025 to Feb 2026)

Today in "Marginal income, wealth, & capital gains taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to American democracy."

Voucher supporters say Empowerment Scholarship fraud is 1%. New records peg misspending closer to 20%. 12News obtained Education Department records showing that one in five ESA purchases—such as cellphones, TVs, and diamond rings—were on the "unallowable" list.

I discussed new Arizona ESA data with Arizona 12 News’ Craig Harris. 20% of transactions deemed unallowable.

Imagine letting public schools spend taxpayer dollars with this little oversight or auditing. We wouldn’t. Release the data, and let the public see what it’s funding.

You can't buy a rotisserie chicken for humans with SNAP $, but you can buy rotisserie chicken-flavored cat and dog toothpaste (last line) with Arizona ESA $.

I always joke that Indy is constantly judging me but apparently …

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

Roses are red
Measles is back
Your “personal choice”
Is a public attack

Roses are red
Measles is hot
“Just my decision”
Oh hell no, it’s not

Roses are red
Measles will spread
Your “health freedom”
Won’t raise kids from the dead

#eduvalentines

He asked me to coffee and I said I didn’t drink coffee, so we had sushi instead. I now drink coffee.

Our second date we watched Airplane!

Steven Miller and Chris Rufo will FOIA will your chat.

A word we should all know right now:

pelf (n): money, especially when gained in a dishonest or dishonorable way

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

“History shows that wars can be lost [quickly] if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle.”

Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education 🎁 🔗
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met

it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever

I’m sorry wtf is joined italics; we are adding MORE forms of print writing to the curriculum!? Cuneiform next.

Google’s work in schools aims to create a ‘pipeline of future users,’ internal documents say A major lawsuit revealed details of Google's business motivations to get its products into schools. A Google spokesperson said the documents "mischaracterize our work."

"Pipeline of future users" is like something you would have heard on Breaking Bad. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

My first book, THE SCIENCE OF SECOND CHANCES, comes out in two weeks! 🎉🎉🎉

Many of you have asked what you can do to support the book. The best things you can do are (1) pre-order it, wherever you buy books, and (2) tell your friends about it.

Thank you!!🙏

Amazing how often new research is relevant when you're writing a book about bad ideas in education and how they harm kids.

Duke’s Center for Advanced Hindsight run by Professor of Business Dan Ariely is set to close, Provost Alec Gallimore’s office announced Thursday. The timing comes just one week after Ariely was named hundreds of times in connection with Jeffrey Epstein in the documents released last Friday through the Epstein Files Transparency Act. However, Duke has said the two are unrelated.

In hindsight, Duke probably should have closed the Center for Advanced Hindsight just a bit sooner.

dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

The high wouldn’t last. Seahawks safety Julian Love soon intercepted a throw from New England quarterback Drake Maye, and the Patriots never recovered. In the end, Kane lost a bit less than $100,000 in bets that favored the Patriots. “What are you gonna do about it? You get very numb to these kinds of numbers,” said Kane, who works out of his one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.

In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint

www.wsj.com/business/med...

Wish there was a gay Jews line

Good morning to everyone except the bird who keeps tapping on my office window. What a jerk.

An incredible turn of events here. 10/10, no notes. 😂

Is Immigration Good for Health? The Effect of Immigration on Older Adult Mortality in the United States Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

"admitting 1,000 new immigrants would lead to 142 new foreign healthcare workers ... a 25% increase in the steady state flow of immigrants to the US would result in 5,000 fewer deaths nationwide ... reduced use of nursing homes as a key mechanism driving this result." www.nber.org/papers/w3479...

New employment idea: sabbatical, but forever

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

This www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Opinion | These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling

You can’t have it both ways: report scores “adjusted for demographics” (which includes poverty), rank MS #1, and claim skeptics said “nothing can be done until poverty is addressed” The regression adjustment already addressed it.

(Also, tell me who said “nothing can be done.” Nobody, ever.)

in conclusion, statehood for dc and pr