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New paper! Real Talk: Designing Practice-Based Teacher Education for Family Communication www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...

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#AERA is such an intense conference. I always come back with so many ideas. This year, I'm also coming back with an award! So grateful to the Social Studies SIG and my co-authors for the Outstanding Paper recognition.

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School people, bad news from SCOTUS. This case is a big deal. Yes, LGBTQ rights, but much more: It threatens basic school functions: 1.) Children's right to get the best knowledge; 2.) Schools' ability to do basic administration. Here's an explainer thread: (1/) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

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Some great news!

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HERJ has a #CallForPapers on Shifting Practices in #HistoryEducation in Africa: Critical Perspectives and New Directions. For more information, including how to contribute, read the full call here: journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/25/ Articles will publish #OpenAccess and without APC

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A little louder for the people in the back! Sourcing, close reading, and questioning without robust historical knowledge is unlikely to generate robust demonstrations of historical thinking. @lightningjay.bsky.social directing us appropriately towards "skills, practice, AND knowledge".

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So smart of my alma mater to comply in advance with all the administration's demands. Can you just imagine what kind of capricious attacks on Penn's funding might have happened otherwise? whyy.org/articles/pen...

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Fun detail about writing in 2025. This article came out yesterday. The same day, I saw an AI slop version of my writing on a different website. An obvious "rewrite this article in worse language" prompt. Same pictures and everything. theconversation.com/why-history-...

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New Article! Better thinking about online information requires skills, practice, AND knowledge. I make the case that this new crisis highlights just how badly we need great history classes. theconversation.com/why-history-...

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Chess masters and physicists show how expertise, not innate talent, enables flexible thinking. For evaluating online info, that means knowing #history and civics. A scholar explains: buff.ly/gFAFTB3 @lightningjay.bsky.social, Binghamton University, SUNY #highered #psychology

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Dear Higher Ed: It won't help to take away faculty control of academic departments. It won't help to ban masks or empower campus cops. It won't help to overhaul admissions to favor white students. .... ... ...They were always going to shoot the puppy no matter what. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation @us.theconversation.com @lightningjay.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-history-...

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Young-earth creationism: social-studies edition. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

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Social studies teachers: Working on a research study about right wing movements in U.S. history. What historical figures or documents do you use related to that topic and 20th and 21st histories? #sschat #edusky

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Here’s the second op-ed!. www.newsweek.com/its-2025say-... “…today's rhetoric proposes that a substandard education is a small cost for maintaining racism, homophobia, trans violence, and antiblackness.”

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Trump's ed orders are a dumpster fire. But the real looming school-tastrophe is different: SCOTUS agreed to decide about a religious public school. It's confusing, so here's a weekend thread of explainers. First: @drprestongreen.bsky.social lays out the case: (1/4) today.uconn.edu/2025/01/make...

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New Paper! The first validated observation tool for social studies classroom discussions! Introducing the SSDI (social studies discourse instrument) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ETANM...

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I got a couple quotes in this Fortune piece. It's not easy being a young person today, but I'm not sure growing up has ever been easy. For the profs, employers, and parents, let's be generous. fortune.com/2025/01/23/g...

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Asking for all us history teachers: What do we tell US high-schoolers about Jan. 6? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/u...

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A special issue on Social Studies Teacher Education? I love to see it! We need more of this! Here's my contribution to issue, where I argue that we need to think more deeply about how social studies teachers learn. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JRARR...

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Exciting news! Binghamton's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities is going to be supporting my research into teaching about fascism and Nazi supporters in the United States. It happened here and we need to learn how to talk about it! Very grateful that the IASH is part of the effort.

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As we close the door on 2024, I want to bump this project. Free resources for Social Studies Teacher Educators. @socialstudies.org and @librarycongress.bsky.social were generous enough to support a few of us in thinking about deepening teaching practice. www.socialstudies.org/tps/teaching...

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As the semester wraps up, I'm watching videos of preservice teachers facilitating student-centered text-based discussions. In September, they all thought this was too hard, that their kids weren't ready, that it wasn't necessary. And now they're doing it!

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Really enjoying this article. I'd add the word "controversial" to other terms that I think deserve this kind of close scrutiny and thoughtful reconsideration.

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Well, on the one hand, Linda McMahon is completely unqualified to lead the Department of Education. On the other hand, unlike some others considered, she hasn't devoted her entire adult life to trying to dismantle and destroy public education, so she'll have to learn that part from scratch, too.

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Obligatory travel song for this year's conference? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BMv... @ncssnetwork.bsky.social @cufancss.bsky.social #CUFA2024

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Staunchly against AI for grading, but kind of open to emojis for grading. These essays are largely 👍 with a few 🥰 and hardly any 😱. Is that an edtech product? Can I patent that?

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Social studies education professor colleagues: Feel free to put this bar graph I created in your tenure and promotion file to explain why you don't get grants like your STEM colleagues do. 😉😂

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New Teacher Ed. Paper! How are we thinking about what social studies teachers need to know? www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JRARR...

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Thrilled to be included in TRSE's Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education collection. Some wonderful thinking about the work of preparing teachers, now open access! www.tandfonline.com/journals/utr...

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I got to talk with Parents Mag again! We can do to support reading, but let's not forget that "In many classrooms students are diligently working their way through tough texts and in many homes families are finding delight, meaning, and connection through books.” www.parents.com/why-kids-are...

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Teach the Conflicts: It’s natural—and right—to foster disagreement in the classroom

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