Carly Berwick
@cberwick.bsky.social
I write about schools, cities, books, and books about schools and cities. I also teach in a school in a city. Jersey City is home. Doctorate in teacher education; fiction writer. Recent writing at carlyberwick.com.
New article by Musoke, Frohwirth, & Gould details how to do social media surveillance/social listening as public health strategy, with methods implications for education and other fields. (It also cites one of my articles as a novel method of data collection). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Cutting a proposal to get it under word count; someone says, just use AI, and I say, but this is one of the few things I am good at, and then realized that maybe soon being a writer and editor will be like a blacksmith or candle maker—a quaint skill trotted out as spectacle or bespoke service.
"They open the StudySync software program, which shows them each a series of questions tailored to their weaknesses. Their faces look like they’re being marched to the guillotine." www.wired.com/story/missis...
Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
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Never forget when comparing salaries, teachers' wages are depressed 27 percent relative to other college graduates, let alone masters' holders as 3 states require. (Some of us even have doctorates.) In NJ, it's only a 12.7 percent penalty, the second least bad in the US. www.epi.org/publication/...
The teacher pay penalty reached a record high in 2024: Three decades of leaving public school teachers behind
Over the past three decades, stagnant weekly wages of public school teachers have fallen further and further behind those of college graduates who chose other careers, resulting in an ever increasing ...
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When teachers use AI in the classroom, engagement and trust go down. This study looked at 4500 grade 6-12 students and used a control group of no AI-tool or training. Students rated AI-assisted classrooms as "less enjoyable, less interesting, and less important." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Generative AI Can Harm Teaching
Teachers are rapidly adopting generative AI, yet there is little causal evidence on whether AI-assisted teaching improves or harms student outcomes. We conducte
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As if Susan Choi wrote this—flashlights even feature, despite the publication of the 2023 escape itself being too late to be the inspiration for her 2025 novel, Flashlight: A Family’s Daring Escape From North Korea ‘to Live and Stand Tall’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...
A Family’s Daring Escape From North Korea (Gift Article)
Their resolve for freedom hardened during the pandemic, when they lived through a crippling food shortage and were forced to witness frequent public executions.
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This is why NJ school budgets are a mess this year. Healthcare costs soaring due in part to federal gutting of ACA, reimbursement of brand name GLPs and bad state policy Op-Ed: NJ is capable of fixing public workforce health benefits crisis www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/05/op-e...
Op-Ed: NJ is capable of fixing public workforce health benefits crisis | NJ Spotlight News
Employees and taxpayers are paying ever more, and our schools and hospitals will collapse if we fail to enact reform
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All verklempt to have a story in this issue of @kenyonreview.bsky.social alongside so many tremendous writers
Kenyon Review@kenyonreview.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe new issue of The Kenyon Review is here! Follow the link to read: Jessie Cato’s remarkable piece on the nonlinearity of grief, “Through the Mirror,” the winning entry of the 2025 Kenyon Review Nonfiction Contest judged by Lucy Ives. This cover features Launch Pads (2021) by Ivan David Ng.
Comments section in here a real mess. NYT readers have thoughts about the superior choices afforded by white flight and the welcome "right-sizing" of teaching staff in schools w/ fewer immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...
U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops
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The end of Hacks, episode 4, season 5 was great. To avoid spoilers, let me just leave this here, and we can join the abolitionist impulse: www.nationalbailout.org/giftguide
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What is a good or effective school? Research by @owasow.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social suggests the "veiled capacity" of educators to teach through oppressive systems can remake society.
Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 4mo agoSo did these schools strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? We find results consistent with Walker's research. Counties with more Rosenwald Schools show significantly more civil rights activity. And we find it's not just Black enrollment or pre-existing community organization (funding), it's teachers. 6/
Great op-ed on the STEM teacher pipeline and the importance of opportunities to connect with colleagues, by Montclair State student Kira Paul www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/03/op-e...
Op-Ed: The STEM teachers pipeline is waning. We can rebuild it | NJ Spotlight News
Often isolated, math and science instructors flourish in collaborative community settings like those at Montclair State University
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#tdih 1969, SCOTUS ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate" in Tinker v. Des Moines -- students (age 8-17) suspended b/c they wore armbands to school to protest Vietnam war. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...
Feb. 24, 1969: Tinker v. Des Moines Case Wins Free Speech Rights for Students
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
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**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss "Get Over Here!": Gaming, Literacy, and the Victories in Between!
This is the plot of Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes. Fiction writers see the patterns and possibility first.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5mo agoThe man discovered “that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries.”
5 women authors I’ve read at least 5 books by: Toni Morrison Agatha Christie Deborah Levy NK Jemisin Jane Austen
k’eguro@keguro.blacksky.app · 5mo ago5 women authors I've read at least 5 books by: Audre Lorde Dionne Brand Harryette Mullen June Jordan Lucille Clifton
I'm listening to a talk by expert in rhetoric Jennifer Sano-Franchini ( @jsanofranchini.bsky.social ) about refusing generative AI in writing studies. She shared a resource for refusing genAI that might be helpful for other folks in academia: #academia #genAI refusal.blog
Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
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Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
New paper on AI as carceral in schools: Tanksley and Cabral "consider how the proliferation of AI technologies into K-12 schools has worked to hide, speed up, and automate educational inequities for Black students, giving rise to a techno-educational carceral apparatus": www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/6/...
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Report: In Some Urban Districts, Science of Reading Limits ‘Robust Comprehension’ www.the74million.org/article/repo...
Report: In Some Urban Districts, Science of Reading Limits ‘Robust Comprehension’
Rather than promoting deeper literacy skills, the phonics-based approach 'may unintentionally encourage teachers to focus on surface-level goals.'
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**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss Navigating the #literacies Job Market: Sustaining Practices for Academics
Funded social science and education PhDs at University of Vienna, deadline 3/2/26. Great opportunity to get paid to do research in another country. #edusky #teaching www.researchgate.net/job/1034778_...
SOCIAL SCIENCES, EDUCATION & SOCIAL RESEARCH – DOCTORAL POSITIONS (SSH CALL 2026) at University of Vienna in Vienna, AUSTRIA
Jan 19, 2026 | Job description:The University of Vienna is a community of almost 11,000 individuals, including approximately 7,700 academic staff members, who... | NEW JOB
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Librarians not only improve learning but also help students with media literacy—a critical skill today. In their absence, this skill falls to the English teacher already pressed to help kids read fluently and write across disciplines. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...
Less than 15% of NYC schools have a librarian. Is your child’s school one of them?
Advocates say librarians are essential for students, but NYC schools don’t have enough librarians.
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This graphic reminds me of artist Marc Lombardi's mapping of Bush-era entanglements; Trump's grift has exponentially magnified what were once "webs of scandal": curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/...
Mark Lombardi: Global Networks - Exhibitions - Independent Curators International
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Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe grifters. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Honored to be nominated for a Pushcart by @terrainorg.bsky.social for my story “Sea Minks” www.terrain.org/2025/fiction...
Sea Minks - Terrain.org
"Something more than we anticipated is coming with the melt. What I know about it, what Len knows, starts with the minks," writes Carly Berwick in this terrific story that is "Sea Minks."
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Terrain.org@terrainorg.bsky.social · 7mo agoAnnouncing our 2026 Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net nominations, a rich mix of poetry, fiction, nonfiction & artwork. Please join us in congratulating these contributors! https://www.terrain.org/2025/news/2025-pushcart-best-of-the-net/ #poetry #fiction #nonfiction
Did annual cocoa house reading with students—everyone reads an excerpt from their work while I make hot cocoa or tea. Students said it felt weird and disrespectful . . . to have the teacher serve them. So they took tea&cocoa orders and mixed the cocoa for their peers. (I manned boiling water fwiw.)
OMG this again. Most of the teachers interviewed actually say they ARE reading novels with students. Prepackaged curricula are a problem. So don't use them, like teachers quoted here. Where is the "rarely" coming from (other than self-selecting survey responders)? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
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