I actually took it so now I’m on their mailing list. 36 questions, the first four or five blatantly ideological, then random facts and court cases. I passed, but I see it as a dubious honor.😂
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I actually took it so now I’m on their mailing list. 36 questions, the first four or five blatantly ideological, then random facts and court cases. I passed, but I see it as a dubious honor.😂
My version is the teacher look; equally effective. If needed follow up with the teacher voice.
“The specific cuts [at University of Oregon] reflect a misunderstanding of the essential reasons for the existence of the university. Cuts in teaching & research should always be a last resort, after budgets for administration, athletics, & other nonacademic programs.” www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...
TRS-80 in 1984, senior year of HS. Learned BASIC. Graduated to an Apple IIE in college. Hubby is a programmer so we’ve always had computers in the house.
I taught and did my doctorate at the same time, albeit without kids. You’ll get into a rhythm which makes it easier. Summer courses are nice b/c you aren’t teaching. Hard part was transitioning from taking classes to diss research. You’ve got this! DM anytime to vent🙂
More of this . . .
He should check out a polar projection if he wants to be really shook.
I sat thru a lot of crappy pd during staff week. So glad I am out of secondary Ed after 21 yrs. Higher Ed can be bad, but nothing like this! Congrats on retirement!!
I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history" It is propaganda, pure and simple.
It is a never ending cycle just to keep up w/work in my own area, much less every ancillary thread. The realization is good; but knowing I’ll never catch up makes me sad. Even so I’m still reading and researching knowing it is a futile endeavor. I’ll die trying tho’!
Got most of my college dorm stuff using green stamps. Sheets, bedspread, appliances. There were a lot of stamps involved!
This makes perfect sense!
Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0
Oh man, I hope not…
Like red/wine or the burgundy. The burgundy would probably show less dirt.
I’m full time CC now and this definitely rings true!
Basically anyone running in the south is going to mention faith/religion regardless of the strength of said faith. It’s just expected.
This! Increasingly my institution treats faculty work as a traditional 40 hour work week. I plan on being strictly 8-5 this year; no weekend/evening work if I can avoid it. 5 more years to retirement.
Whatever we end up with is going to be awful; but this particular proposed map is ridiculous.
Some are calling for a boycott of CBS. But I think that’s a mistake. Colbert will still be on air for almost a year, so if anything, we want to triple his views! Instead of turning away, we should be asking how to amplify voices like his. www.instagram.com/reel/DMdY4XP...
Dem Party: We are spending $20M to figure out how to talk to male voters. Mamdani: Save your money. I have +45 favorability with male voters & +73 with men under 45. Endorse me. Dem Party: No way dude. Now—why is our favorability is -54? Let's spend $20M on wealthy consultants to figure it out!
Former ed professor here w/30 years in secondary classrooms.Yes, colleges of Ed have problems just like every other dept. But blaming them for all that is wrong in education oversimplifies the complex problems schools face.
We are a cat household. Every piece of furniture was chosen b/c it would hide cat hair. I also have all sorts of scratch covers on the places they like to claw; scratchers are always rejected in favor of furniture.
Medical debt shouldn’t ever be a thing in a developed country. No other Western industrialized nation has it.
That’s what sinks are for! We are in high peach season in Tx. Soooo good.
This event is going to be so cool! And the idea, cooked up with @noraslonimsky.bsky.social, is to do this format again in 2026. We're excited about it! And super grateful to this awesome line-up of scholars.
This ignores the fact that Austin is more than 2 hours away from Kerr County AND that Austin was also dealing with flooding as we’re Round Rock, Leander, Liberty Hill and others.
He’s a total asshat.
True, but voter suppression is alive and well thanks to Paxton
True, but the voter suppression is alive and well.
True, but I think I would rather have them just take concerns seriously! I’m on the campus wide AI committee so I keep pushing.
The comm college I work for has drunk the koolade big time. We had an AI certificate in place within a year. And any drawbacks/concerns of faculty are deemed the rankings of Luddites.
Only a about 6 mil out of ~30 mil. Many don’t vote, some due to said voter suppression, some b/c they don’t care or don’t think their vote is worth it.
Gerrymandering and voter suppression will do that.
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview. Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.
Here's a link to a short 2000-word open-source article about historical thinking I co-wrote with Carla L. Peck, James Miles, and Catherine Duquette. Historical thinking: Trends, critiques, and future directions doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
You know what works better than thoughts and prayers? A functioning government.
After a decade of drought flash floods are common even with just a little bit of rain. Alert systems were not up to snuff b/c $$. Add in NWS cuts and this was disaster waiting to happen. Multiple layers of blame on all levels.
The richest family in the United States, the Waltons, made money by not paying Walmart employees enough. This forced employees to seek government assistance for food and healthcare. Republicans’ response is to take away that assistance because the Waltons aren’t rich enough.
Given Texas’ leadership, this tracks. Abbott and crony’s will pass the buck and nothing will get done. Just like every other time we’ve experienced catastrophic flooding.
The massive government failure seen in Texas and the loss of life can be directly attributed to the ongoing mismanagement under Greg Abbott. This isn't the first time Texas has been failed and as long as they keep empowering ghouls, it won't be the last.
Yes DOGE cuts, but also atrocious leadership in Tx. They kowtow to oils and gas industry, neglect the grid, and ignore making needed changes to infrastructure and to address climate change. Signed a pissed off Texan
Texan here, and I endorse this conclusion.
It's no 100 year flood.
Of course they are part of the problem and certainly made things worse. Texas R govt has also failed to address known issues for years. We get these floods every few years and they are always catastrophic. Yet govt does nothing to mitigate the root causes(ie climate change).
Children do not deserve to die because of choices the adults in their lives made. Children should run through backyard sprinklers, get slobberz from a puppy, or make dandelion wishes. To say that their parents or families deserve to experience this profound loss is wrong & uncalled for.
This is not the first time catastrophic flooding has occurred in the Hill Country. This brings to mind the 1987 Comfort flood. Same scenario, kids rescued from trees, ten deaths. My SIL was a counselor and fortunately was evacuated.
I hate him with the white hot passion of a thousand suns.
The point here isn't to beat up on Jordan Lasker. It's to ask how the NYT called a white supremacist hack an "academic" when his only academic work of note was so awful that its ethical and scientific awfulness was a national scandal. No one even Googled. No one fact-checked this story AT ALL. 5/
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
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The USA is on the verge of becoming a *shit-hole* country, thanks to Donald J. Trump.
But…that’s exactly what you are doing
Jesus would NEVER cut food assistance programs for our neediest communities just to enrich our more most spoiled brats.
I despise simple syllabus.
Yes! They were not intuitive, and difficult to organize. It turned many kids into grade-grubbers who obsessively checked their grades online. And helicopter parents who freaked out over a B became intolerable.
Sorry, what?
Tapper writes this without acknowledging that Milk himself served in the US Navy during the Korean War, or that Milk was assassinated while serving honorably in public office
A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
Canva flagged one of my historical fiction slides about an upcoming book as “political.” If you don’t think the political climate is affecting art, you are deluded. Art has always been political. Creativity is resistance. When platforms label truth or Black history as risky, we must pay attention.
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
This one is always in my immigration section.
Exactly.
It def makes things worse at the federal level, but it has always played a role in state politics. The mid-decade redistricting after 2020 election has made it much easier for R to stay in power in lege. Gov/Lt. Gov not as much.
Just presented a paper on AI use to create curriculum which points to this exact limitation. It is a tool, but you have to know a lot to use effectively. And most people don’t have that background; especially students.
The push for AI everywhere on my campus is out of hand. No consideration of ethics, or the limitations of ai. Admin brushes off faculty concerns as us being luddites.
I read it and I am eternally grateful she called out the company. Women’s clothing sizes are a joke as your take.
Loved this. First half is well done. I found the whole Phil Collins section a bit much. But overall great book.
It’s not b/c he is liked; it’s b/c Tx is gerrymandered up the wazoo. As a Texan I hate him with every fiber of my being; along with Abbott, Patrick, Paxton.
I’ve done this as well. Always an interesting conversation.
Given everything teachers need to learn to be effective in the classroom, this is not surprising. My former institution made us cut back on # of required classes. Students got 1 class on ESL and it was part of content literacy.
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
This is true. It is a tool and only as effective as the users knowledge and expertise. Being selective in which engine you use, knowledge of its limitations, and understanding prompt engineering are vital. It isn’t appropriate for all uses.
The American Bar Association dropped a bomb lawsuit. To prevent passing the bucket, they sued everyone. The defendant list stretched 40 pages. Yup. This isn’t normal, and I’m here for it. 🍿🍫🥤
There are widespread reports of ICE agents abducting people while masked, without warrants or identification. Due to recent events, we strongly advise: do not open your door or car for anyone you don’t know. That’s the message. No need to elaborate.
They don’t believe in any gods and can’t read the Bible. How can they possibly do the morally correct thing?
The look on Trump’s face….good on Carney for shutting him down.
I agree somewhat. Notebook LM is different. It only pulls from the sources you upload or link to & Google swears it doesn’t use what you upload to train the LM. I see it as a a way to quickly get a sense of sources but agree that grappling w/sources is part of the process. It’s a tool & only a tool.
When mommy and daddy spend a fortune on your quinceañera and nobody from school shows up.
Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
Right fucking now. If a Republican Senator had been treated like this, the Democratic president would already have been impeached.
Do you want to help out an excellent doctoral student who is studying teachers and queer critical consciousness? Mia Palombo at Montclair State is looking for secondary history/social studies teachers to participate in her dissertation study. Use link to volunteer: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Mia is one of my former student teachers. So proud of the work she is doing!
Same. My high school got them in 1983 and we learned to program in BASIC.
It’s going to be an interesting (in the sense of living in interesting times way)academic year….
Including ICE agents!
To some extent that is changing. As an educator I have tried to teach my students all the things I didn’t learn in HS history. Now I work to help teacher’s to teach these topics.
That's why.
#MemorialDay 🇺🇸
Agreed. As local arrangements chair for NCSS 2018 and a reviewer for conference, I’ve seen so many sessions done by Ed companies get in; pushing out teachers’ sessions when the Ed co could just buy a booth.
This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10
Congrats! I hope to finish up today and start my summer sabbatical!
I don’t want to read about a former President’s mental decline because a journalist got a book deal. I want to read a report about the current President’s mental decline by a journalist brave enough to speak out now.
Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of? RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
I agree with Lisa. Looks are not pertinent to the critique.
Any amazing amount of idiocy on display
So true. Then again when we do get a seat at the table it is about being able to say teachers were involved. They won’t listen and frankly don’t care what we have to say.