The Nikole Hannah Jones article has invoked a lot conversation on race, school choice for Black families. I’ve been researching how black folks choose schools for 17 years, I have a lot of nuanced thoughts. Long thread. 1/

Adding a recommendation for Karen Hao's Empire of AI, which was incredibly illuminating for understanding the work these companies outsource and the mental toll some of the tasks can take on workers. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569...

Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657522 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • A New York Times Bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian, Scientific American,...

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Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · last mo.

Julián Posada, a professor at Yale University, speaks about AI data work that is outsourced to Venezuela. The workers, some of whom are paid as little as 50 cents per hour, “would not know who the employers were or what even the AI they were helping develop is.”

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Dear Connecticut - THIS is absurd: ctmirror.org/2026/08/24/k-1 She has NO BUSINESS ADVISING ON STATE SCHOOL FINANCE POLICY - see: schoolfinance101.com/2026/06/16/m...

Friction emerges as K-12 education commission weighs solutions

CT's Blue Ribbon Commission on K-12 Education Funding must report recommendations by January. An expert presentation Thursday drew pushback.

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Read Richard Lofton Jr. and Joshua Schuschke’s new article, “Passed By, Late, and Unsafe: Experiences with Public Transportation and Student Status within a Racial Quarantine” in the #HarvardEdReview’s Summer 2026 issue: https://bit.ly/4x9mEth

New- American higher education is designed so that the academically and financially rich get richer through a well-funded education. The startling scope of this unequal structure is documented in a new study by @zbleemer.bsky.social and @jrothst.bsky.social. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/08/18/s...

This is actually what chatgpt is for.

Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT, Which Will Churn Out Anti-Evolution Curriculums With No Pushback

Homeschooling was already a fraught practice, even before parents began turning to ChatGPT to plan out their lessons.

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Over the last couple years reading, and especially collective modes of reading, have come to mean ever more to me. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s challenge from earlier this week helped me see why. I’m going to double down on building community around books. I hope you will too.

Neuroplasticity As A Praxis

We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy

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Absolutely maddening

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)

The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT @derekgottliebphd.com and I are doing a podcast where we take requests and yap about your school budget kerfuffles. It's called "Budget Committee!" and we're dropping episodes soon. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1lzV...

Budget Committee!

Education Podcast · Getting (Closer) to the Bottom of Your District's Finances

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School people: ICYMI, I just figured out I had a *gift link* to this article! Trump's private-school subsidy is coming January 1. The history is grim:

Financial Hell Is About to Break Loose in American Schools

School funding is about to drop off a fiscal cliff. Costs will stay the same. What then?

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Great conversation between @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @aaup.org member and associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware and AFT Wisconsin President Jon Shelton at the higher education breakfast this morning. Read all about it here. www.aft.org/news/practic...

The practice of hope in higher education

Attendees at the Higher Education breakfast were treated to an inspiring conversation with Dominique J. Baker, associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware and memb...

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What a tremendous interview with former FTC Commissioner Becca Slaughter and the Yale Daily News. President McInnis and the trustees come off very, very poorly. An administration that will live in infamy. yaledailynews.com/articles/alu...

If you study the politics of education (or, honestly, the politics of anything else in the U.S.), this is worth a read Jefferson helps clarify some of the issues I've been struggling with as I write a book on the causes and consequences of rising partisan conflict in K-12 education

Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Here are remarks I gave at the Keeping the Republic Conference at Notre Dame. If you’ve followed me over the past decade or so, my skepticism toward the field’s fixation on polarization likely won’t come as much of a surprise. But here they are, for what they’re worth. substack.com/home/post/p-...

New elite just dropped.

twunktrapped by a 👻@twunktrap.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"You’re going to get left behind if you don’t use AI.” Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without needing AI summaries.

the clear takeaway here is that the administration wants to unlawfully seize the smithsonian and make it a temple for white supremacist “history” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

Curating in the Cross Hairs: Is This the Smithsonian Chief’s Last Show?

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Also for Miss Patti's birthday: The only version of the Alphabet to make you get the Holy Ghost. (Ernie gets struck like an old Black church lady in this clip.) youtu.be/G0hYxuDav0g

Sesame Street: Patti Labelle Sings The Alphabet

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...

Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Thrilled to see this *finally* in the world and hope it provides inspiration and entry points for social studies scholars interested in taking up spatial justice in their research. As always, a pleasure to work with @timmonreal.bsky.social and Kaitlin Popielarz 💛 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The possibilities and potentials of spatial justice and social studies education research: An invitation to space

Grounded in the assumption that our worlds are inherently spatial, this conceptual article offers an invitation to meaningful dialog about how critical approaches to, and understandings of, space i...

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Happy this paper at Journal of Urban Affairs is finally out :) Planey AM, Taylor NL, Kumar AD, Cross RI, Neally S, Lewis JA, Luben TJ, Martin CL. "Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas"

Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas

Historical manifestations of structural racism and discrimination (SRD; e.g. 1930s redlining) have been linked to current adverse health outcomes, yet less is known about linkages to present-day ne...

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Adding Hexxus to this discussion www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVzY...

Ferngully Toxic Love HQ

YouTube video by Razor Candy

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Crockett Houghton@crocketthoughton.com · 6mo ago

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

Wilhoit’s law remains undefeated. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Pete Hegseth says the suspension of the Army pilots who flew near Kid Rock’s house has been lifted. “No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots. 🇺🇸”

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

404media.co

ICYMI - Great coverage of our working paper "U.S. Schools’ Proximity to Environmental Hazard Sites" in @edweek.org Full paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1384 www.edweek.org/leadership/m...

Millions of Students Attend Schools Near Toxic Sites, a New Study Shows

The study explores schools' proximity to hazardous sites and students' exposure to pollutants.

edweek.org

I replicated and extended @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social and @schoolfinance101.bsky.social's study on funding adequacy and school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their original study did not incorporate measures of local partisanship. I found... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Deadline approaching! Apply for a postdoc role studying the politics of education policy at Stanford GSE: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

Great to see this paper finally in print (with my excellent co-author, Alyssa Barone)! tl;dr: When high-profile partisan officials engage in ed policy debates, the chief consequence is increased polarization among the public along partisan lines (surprising, I know) direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

How the Engagement of High-Profile Partisan Officials Affects Education Politics, Public Opinion, and Polarization

Abstract. What happens to public opinion when prominent partisan officials intervene in education policy debates? We analyzed the results of eighteen survey experiments conducted between 2009 and 2021...

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After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area

Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.

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I keep thinking about how AI-in-classrooms would exacerbate inequity. Upper-middle/elite parents won't stand for their kids not having human interaction/feedback in K-16 classrooms. See e.g.: parents' growing tech resistance (h/t @ksinclair04.bsky.social) www.instagram.com/reel/DSTOhxj...

Nicki Petrossi of the Scrolling 2 Death Podcast on Instagram: "I just interviewed Julie Frumin @healthier.tech. She had a very startling experience with her children’s school-issued devices - and thro...

A mother's shocking experience with A.I. chatbots on her child's school device raises awareness about the potential dangers of these tools in education. Learn how to identify and demand the removal of...

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Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 10mo ago

Some specific points: The document says "When appropriate, educators and school systems can use technology to create and grade assessments, saving time and allowing immediate feedback." No. No one wants to be or deserves to be graded by "A.i."