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debrawexler.bsky.social
Comms maven. I live in Brooklyn and am passionate about improving education, NYC, and connecting with people working to make my city and our country more livable for all. Obligatory: opinions mine.
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I have never strapped a clay crocodile to my forehead but I absolutely understand how people came to believe that drilling a small hole in one’s skull could provide desperately needed relief.

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My 5 bullet to-do list for next week -sell naming rights to all U.S. interstate highways -invade Costa Rica -Dissolve USPS, sell undelivered mail in bulk to highest bidder -arrange televised to-death cage match between loaned Chinese pandas and American grizzlies (and/or eagles?) -expense reports

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

Just so awful

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The NAEP 2024 -2025 Long Term Trend Age 17 assessment will not be administered in the upcoming weeks Unbroken testing series since early 1970s Nothing like ignorance to keep our country moving forward

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Anyone who thinks the NYC subways are scary does not ride the NYC subways. Or perhaps hasn't since the 1980s (and even then it wasn't as bad as people claimed).

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 3 days ago • 205 comments

English learners do quite a bit better in Texas K–12 schools than they do in California K–12 schools. Why? tcf.org/content/repo...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I cannot imagine this is the whole list, but here are office numbers for five known electeds attending the meeting with Hochul tomorrow: Hakeem Jeffries: 202-225-5936 Carl Heastie: 518-455-3791 Adrienne Adams: 212-482-6731 Brad Lander: (212) 669-3916 Donovan Richards: 718-286-3000 #nyc

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It's Black History Month, so I'm going to share the story of an unsung hero who deserves to be much more widely known, certainly among New Yorkers. (And it's President's Day, so I will throw in a cameo involving one of our least-known presidents to boot). /1

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

‼️‼️‼️ #nyc

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“Among the cancellations was an 11-year study of youths with disabilities … to identify which programs were effective ... More than 1,000 youths with disabilities were supposed to receive special instruction and support in 2025 and 2026 through this study, which has now been terminated.”

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

Today!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Heads up, New Yorkers.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Forcing buildings in NYC to keep trash cans like in the suburbs, but for without suburban yards to store them in and a thrice-weekly pickup schedule, seems to be leading a lot of them to just leave the bins out on the sidewalk semi-permanently

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

If I could wave a magic wand and improve one thing in education it would be teacher prep. This is heartbreaking and infuriating.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great resource for examining the geographic variation in academic recovery: educationrecoveryscorecard.org

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

If you or someone you know has had a particular research project suspended by recent actions at IES, please get in touch either by DM or by replying here. There are journalists who'd like to report on this.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Education scholar friends: People don’t necessarily understand the value of education research in the same intuitive way they understand the value of research into cancer, etc. Drop examples of high-impact edu research in the thread below. #edusky apple.news/Atlzcr6jARYG...

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does. Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does: (1/14)

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BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 60 comments

IES is the best federal research program I know. They strategically invest in the whole pipeline of research from description, to intervention design, to piloting & eval of promising designs, to scale up & eval of promising pilots, then dissemination & commercialization.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts. WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments