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I yell this at least twice a period, so they made me a gift

submitted 39 minutes ago • 1 comment

the whole "they're not reading" conversation is about a cultural problem, part of which is that there aren't enough arguments out there about what adolescents ought to be reading and why, beyond what publishers say

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

students did free writes about why they want to go to college, a lot of them earnestly want to learn, want to think more about what it means to live a good life and how to do and be good

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

"...corporations seek dominance of public education through standardized assessments and the promotion of tools that aid in test prep."

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

have been thinking a lot about the original AP committees these days, their plans were not especially complicated and aspects of them made a lot of sense, but it’s not really anyone’s job now to think about education like they did

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Imagine if I could get the funding I have wanted to hold precisely this professional development for high school teachers as part of my job running education at the Mark Twain House.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Imagine if we lived in a world where summer professional development was read Huck Finn and James and co-plan the ways in which the two books could be taught.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

People reallye ynto Gen AI summaryes seeme to thynke of bookes as annoyinge litel labyrinths whose onlye benefit ys that thei leade to a tastye magical glowing orb called "informacioun" that when consumed doth turne you into a man wyth a bow tie and the righte to talke over everyone else.

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

I sent what I’d thought was a near-final draft of this piece to a professor I met when I was 19 (I’m 41), he returned it to me 5 hours later with two pages of notes, a lot of tracked changes, and an offer to talk on the phone.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

a little unreal that “lost” is the right word here but i think that’s correct

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

my latest: Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting back up into two companies, just three years after its multibillion-dollar merger. it's a disaster entirely of David Zaslav's making—yet he gets to keep Warner and HBO for himself, in an arrangement that promises to be disastrous for American culture:

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

students asked for summer book club recommendations, examples of things they're interested in include on the road and kafka's metamorphosis, anything you loved at 16 or 17 that you'd recommend?

submitted 3 days ago • 91 comments

anyone have thoughts?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

it’s very strange to me still that for the sake of college credit or admissions, ap students are expected to give up on some fundamental enlightenment-y habits of mind

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

it’s very strange to me still that for the sake of college credit or admissions, ap students are expected to give up on some fundamental enlightenment-y habits of mind

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

one of the reasons i research and write about education is to try and orient myself as a teacher—i get a lot of directives and advertisements and it’s really hard to be the only adult in a room all day

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments