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Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 6h ago

My thought on "woke 1" is that to the extent it became about white guilt rather than about addressing the legitimate grievances of black and brown people it failed. All the stuff people mention...the grifters, the HR departments covering their asses, the censorious online shit stems from it.

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*nodding sagely* we must ditch phonics and start teaching three-cueing instead to increase incomes

John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 5d ago

New from me: Britain’s graduate earnings premium is falling, cue “too many go to university!” But non-university outcomes are also bad, cue “we must reform vocational routes!” Both miss the point: people used to think education drove economic outcomes, but the economy drives educational outcomes.

Universalisms are never merely the projections of empire. They are equally and sometimes simultaneously the aspirations of those on the peripheries of power and who counts as human. To cede the ground of universalism to empires is to forget the immense power of the imagination of peripheral people.

Oh my God! Reframing the “literacy crisis” as being driven (at least in part) by “journalism’s innumeracy crisis” is absolute perfection. 10/10. No notes.

Erin Vanderhoof@vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 2d ago

i have lots of thoughts on this that i will probably get into, but i want to start by observing that it makes a great case that our "national literacy crisis" is definitely being driven in part by journalism's innumeracy crisis, which is real jaredhenderson.substack.com/p/the-litera...

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Thierry Henry speaks to Zohran Mamdani about his love for NYC. "New York City is one of the best representations of how the world is. It reminds me of my neighborhood on a bigger scale. The song by Nas, NY State Of Mind... It *is* a state of mind. It is a way of living."

“[P]hilosophy, as a form of life or as that which determines the form and supplies the content of literary creation, is always a symptom of the rift between 'inside' and 'outside', a sign of the essential difference between the self and the world, the incongruence of soul and deed.” – György Lukács

And this problem extends into K-12 education as well. The choices of right wing "classical" education vs centrist "career readiness" both suck.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d ago

Red States: We're cutting the humanities at our public universities to spend more money on right-wing indoctrination Blue States: We're cutting the same programs, but to spend more money on AI and the business school.

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Red States: We're cutting the humanities at our public universities to spend more money on right-wing indoctrination Blue States: We're cutting the same programs, but to spend more money on AI and the business school.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 4d ago

Centrist Democrats hate humanities scholarship just as much as Republicans do - the difference is that Democrats think humanities teaching is important in the elite private institutions they aspire to send their kids to, but not the actual laborers.

As someone invested in the public humanities, I really appreciated this call from Gerry Canavan’s chapter of “The Future of Totality.” I also want to stress the fact that one can advocate for leveraging new media while still fighting to protect our existing institutions! It’s not binary.

This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.

Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership

The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.

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Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 3y ago

A fun fact about me is that I have a degree in telecommunication and will die on the hill that media—all of it—has never recovered from the deregulation and consolidation made possible by the Telecom Act of 1996. Don’t get me started on what it did to minority-owned radio and TV stations.

Say it with me now: The economy drives educational outcomes! One more time for the people in the back: THE ECONOMY DRIVES EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES!!!!

John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 5d ago

New from me: Britain’s graduate earnings premium is falling, cue “too many go to university!” But non-university outcomes are also bad, cue “we must reform vocational routes!” Both miss the point: people used to think education drove economic outcomes, but the economy drives educational outcomes.

Really enjoyed stretching some different writing muscles to compose this little piece of Odyssey criticism. Curious to hear what folks think! open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

An Odyssey of Hot Takes

My take on the adaptation that launched a thousand think pieces

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If you like the video, here are some sample resources if you want to learn more about unessays, including from my incredible new UMR colleague, @cjdenial.bsky.social: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Unessay Resources - August 2026 Teaching Minute

Unessay Resources - August 2026 Teaching Minute These resources and a sample unessay assignment have been shared by Jake Wright (Philosophy, UMN Rochester) to accompany the Teaching Minute video publi...

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While I still think long form writing has its place, this ⤵️ is a way better solution to “AI answer hacking” than blue book exams and high stakes tests. More of this, please! If you need examples/inspo/resources/research on incorporating new genres & mediums, I’ve got you! bit.ly/hackyourstack1

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Jake Wright@bcnjake.bsky.social · last wk.

"The most fun I've ever had in the classroom!" Earlier this summer, I talked to the University of Minnesota Center for Educational Innovation about how I use unessays in my classroom for their Teaching Minute video series. Here's the end result!

Books might be more/less capable of inviting particular lessons, meanings, or understandings but they are not deterministic of them. One can teach any book (even 1984 or Fahrenheit!) in ways that are dehumanizing or authoritarian. Stop assigning book lists and start supporting quality PD!!!

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays.bsky.social · last wk.

A) The state should not be in charge of dictating which texts are/are not worthy of study B) Discussing reading lists absent pedagogy is a form of textual fetishism that misunderstands teaching C) Cultural literacy cannot be disentangled from Hirsch’s belief in the primacy of authorial intent

A) The state should not be in charge of dictating which texts are/are not worthy of study B) Discussing reading lists absent pedagogy is a form of textual fetishism that misunderstands teaching C) Cultural literacy cannot be disentangled from Hirsch’s belief in the primacy of authorial intent

Annie Abrams@annieabrams.bsky.social · last wk.

I have a lot of thoughts www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Incredible thread on both the precarity and potential of scholarship undertaken by folks in para-academic spaces.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · last wk.

So, I really hope I get to tell this story in longer form in the near future, but it it’s burning a hole inside me. Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15. 1/16

Words to live by: "I want to be an honest man and a good writer." James A. Baldwin, born on this day in 1924

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A ‘lost generation’ of teachers left the classroom. Schools are still dealing with the consequences.

Veteran teachers left, principals cycled through too, and high-poverty schools likely faced the greatest strain. Here’s what years of churn did to classrooms.

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About to wrap up an absolutely incredible week with this NEH institute. It was the perfect bookend for a year where I’ve been researching, writing, podcasting, posting, etc. to try & spark more dialogue between English Ed, literary studies, literacy studies, & classroom Ts. goodreader.hcommons.org

Excited to share my conversation with Dr. Joseph Allen Boone about his latest book from @columbiaup.bsky.social, "The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts"! It was a great conversation about the enduring, creative legacy of Melville's work. trevoraleo.substack.com/p/dr-joseph-...

Dr. Joseph Allen Boone Talks The Melville Effect, Aesthetic Hybridity, & Renewing Literary Traditions

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Me: Okay, Trevor. You’re banned from buying more books until you get through your backlog. Also me: But Fred…

I need Christopher Nolan to keep adapting towering works of literature as a sort of Keynesian stimulus for literary culture.

Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay now it's getting real

“Closing the Writing Center and removing its leadership now sends a disturbing signal about how seriously Harvard actually takes [its] mission.” Closing a writing center or library or dept or program or university press—an attack on one is an attack on all. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.

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This feels particularly obscene considering that it’s happening mere months after their GPA hunger games announcement. I wish it only impacted people at Harvard, but it sets a precedent that other schools will likely follow. It seems not good that one of “top schools” sees learning as a bad ROI?

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is one of the most absurd decisions by higher ed administrators that I can recall in recent (or even longer) memory. This is an absolute, irrefutable signal that the leaders of Harvard puts no value in the student experience of LEARNING. It's a joke and should be seen as hugely discrediting.