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Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com

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To my colleagues at Columbia: if you were wondering where the rubber hits the road, this is where the rubber hits the road. I beseech you not to act like this is business as usual or it will indeed become business as usual.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

resharing with alt text. truly terrifying shit in addition to my fear, I feel fury both at the perpetrators and all the facilitators who greased the wheels

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

🚨New projections confirm: 87% of voucher recipients will be kids already in private schools. Meanwhile, rural communities face cuts and collapse. The TX Lege meets March 11 to hear comments, please read/share shannapeeples.medium.com/the-72-hour-... #Texas #Education #RuralAmerica

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Whelp ed research orgs had mass lay-offs yesterday Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem... MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t... NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga... RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%... Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat... WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

That quote. That’s a big quote. It’s not just the AI, it’s everything: the fear of class participation, the endless debate about workloads & accommodations. NOT just students, but families & faculty & admin, too. “Spiritual materialism” but make it education.

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“One begins to suspect that a great many students wanted this all along: to make it through college unaltered, unscathed. To be precisely the same person at graduation, and after, as they were on the first day they arrived on campus. As if the whole experience had never really happened at all.”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is ridiculous. Burdensome, unsafe, all-around backwards. There are eight offices in the entire state. I’m so angry for these parents.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

submitted 5 days ago • 162 comments

This is the kind of work I send to my students, stuff they place into their case studies, things we email back and forth about…and one of the people behind it is someone with whom I once got to enjoy the silliness of circus. I love following your work, @wcraft.bsky.social, even/esp. when it’s tough.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Hochschild (1983)

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I'm ashamed it took me two years to read this article. Not only are 1 in 3 black families in my community investigated by child services, but my state spends most of its child welfare money on foster care and adoption rather than direct assistance to families. www.propublica.org/article/for-...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I think about this a lot.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Watching my students THINK is one of the greatest joys I know 🥰 (Open the full diagram! It’s great)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The Onion Magazine: Acts Of Profound And Unspeakable Evil Get A Bad Rap: Do They Really Deserve It?

submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

Bummed about a paper rejection this morning, but getting a chuckle from two things: - I really do enjoy getting asked for "more" of everything. More explanation of my research questions/methods, more consideration covid's impact, more documentation from the school...I wish I could fit it all!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Wholeheartedly: same.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

9-week quarters make me so sad, I want to discuss this with my class SO much

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A. Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

There are over 3000 places in Chicago where two one-way local streets intersect each other. If we built curb extensions on just half of them (to prevent drivers from illegally parking within 30' of the stop sign, as shown below) we could depave over 3 million square feet of roadway.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Wtf they randomly just kidnapped a German tourist as she was entering the U.S. (instead of, I don't know, refusing entry) and now have held her much longer than she was planning to stay, because they were afraid she was going to do art while in the U.S.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

The central Illinois weather service apparently no longer has any techs to fix their radar system

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

I’m teaching a course this quarter pretty far outside of my actual area of expertise so I could relive this and man, it’s been amazing. Getting to nerd out hard with my students is such a gift.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It’s overwhelming to think about the impact of rollbacks in any one of these domains, let alone all four…however, that looks like where we’re heading. Thanks, @matthewborus.bsky.social, for this fantastic and important piece.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

submitted 13 days ago • 182 comments

From a student: “I truly think that the way in which this class is structured, and the work is incentivized (through personal connection to policy topics) is such an impactful way to teach. I appreciate the love and rage that you put in your lessons.” Thanks @jessiesinger.bsky.social - love & rage.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

ID is moving a radical child care bill that would eliminate all max child-to-adult ratios and instead have each individual provider set whatever ratio they deem "appropriate." Shockingly, the bill is being promoted by the child care tech co. Wonderschool. familyfrontier.substack.com/p/idaho-is-a...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

In the winter, I like to play “ride the temp.” Today was an unseasonable 52°, so I went for an irresponsible 52 miles. I’m glad I did.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Thanks to congestion pricing, lower Manhattan is safer & faster to access for drivers, safer for pedestrians. The subway is safer because ridership is up. And finally, dollars from cars help fund public transit for all. 🚊🚞🚊🚞🚊 Public policy for good, worth defending. abc7ny.com/amp/post/nyc...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Masterful work here 👇

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

For a few fleeting and beautiful hours: I am fully caught up on all of my grading, reviews, and recommendations. Time for a bike ride!

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Standing around on a train platform in the middle of a highway because I missed a train by 10 seconds, super glad we don’t give buses signal priority, no notes 🙃

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments