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After NCTE I’m leaving this place. I think I’ll be here!

Call for Papers: Issue #55: Beyond the ‘Crisis:’ Challenging the Politics and Practices of the Science of Reading radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/19/cal… via Paul Thomas

There's an element of care that's needed in this profession that can't be taught or transferred from teacher to teacher. I'm not talking about loving students. I'm talking about being attentive, aware, watchful, protective. You either have that instinct or you don't.

Invaluable convo if you're trying to understand the contours and contradictions of Trumpism. Because a hostility to public education unites all of the different forces we need many more people who understand this stuff...

“You hear this awkward silence? A few of ya’ll might be emailing me in a few days to ask about rounding grades… now, that sounds like a favor… and you know it’s really easy to do favors for?… Kids who rescue me from awkward silences…” *A sea of hands shoots up.*

Rahm here is representing the education reform wing of the Democratic party, arguing that the path forward is to get tough on schools and teachers (unions) again. But this agenda is even less popular now than it was during the Obama era

Also just a shocking lack of awareness from Rahm and the *bring back the DLC crowd* that the Dems' insistence on seeing all economic problems as education problems is a big part of what got them into this mess

Tonight, the Senate finally corrects a fifty-year mistake by passing the Social Security Fairness Act. Millions of retired teachers and firefighters and letter carriers and state and local workers have waited decades for this moment. No longer will public retirees see their

Chuck Schumer Thank you thank you aft.org/press-release/…

The Department of Defense runs one of the most successful school systems around. Sue Kingery Woltanski wonders if that’s too woke for the Secretary of Defense nominee, Will Hegseth. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/s… #EducationMatters

What's ironic re Vivek's screed vs mediocrity is that it's basically stock Democratic/centrist stuff of the past 3 decades: the schools are failing, you're failing, your kids aren't as smart as you think they are. Here's the thing: people HATE this, which is why it keeps flopping

We’re launching Season 5 of Street Data Pod with re-release of our episode with Dr. Gloria Larson-Billings, creator of the theory of culturally relevant pedagogy. Tune in Thursday! And subscribe to streetdata.podbean.com

NAEP Serves Manufactured Education Crisis, Not Teaching and Learning radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/02/nae… via Paul Thomas

Mississippi’s miracle reading results are an example of looking for data to sell your ideology. It is a phony claim. tultican.com/2025/03/21/que… #Reading

*The state’s legislature on Tuesday is set to debate a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts* cnn.com/2025/03/25/bus…

Was supposed to keynote this morning at a state reading conference but was canceled because it appears advocating for teacher autonomy is too controversial. Here’s the presentation furman.box.com/s/to2r5p6xkry5…

If you are a teacher, and your partner or spouse can’t understand why you don’t want to answer a single question when you get home—show them this. This is why I, and many educators, have difficulty answering the simplest questions after a school day.

A deficit story in motion: How marginalized youngsters are defined out of the educational game before they enter school spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Just a reminder that the GOP tucked that controversial voucher provision into the budget bill in order to get around Trump's own voters

If you don’t have a current teacher in the room, you don’t have an expert on current classroom *anything* in the room. It’s easy for me to say now, but I pray I’ll have the humility to still say it when I move on.