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I wanted to make pancakes but didn't have buttermilk. I found these greek yogurt lemon poppy pancakes and they came out delicious! I also didn't have whole milk so used half half and half and half oat milk. Serve as suggested with yogurt and jam instead of syrup. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1241...

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The state has a clear and compelling interest in ensuring kids receive an education. If only voucher states applied the same level of oversight.

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Doing sports things with @joelalanhart.bsky.social!

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My friend made a Maine-inspired “Yeah, I’m here. See you in court” shirt to benefit trans rights. www.customink.com/fundraising/...

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First LAFC game of the season! New fashion: I’m up a size in jerseys (💪) and so had to borrow one of Joel’s, and I’m wearing high socks because that’s what the young people seem to be wearing these days.

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Now can we get any congressional republicans on board? 🧐

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Best post of the week

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If only the US had some sort of agency that could invest in breakthrough like this on behalf of the American people. If we did, surely we wouldn't just defund it.

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I'm trying to square this paragraph from an email blast I got with the President's words and actions toward Maine today and ... yeah, it's not squaring.

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This is why every Democratic governor should’ve walked out en masse. You don’t let people take beatings alone and you do things to grab headlines.

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This would be a very good time to poach extremely talented educational researchers from think tanks if universities weren’t also totally petrified and budget-strapped.

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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Some thoughts in The74 (w/ Ashley, @rbnlake.bsky.social, & Andy) about the "shock and awe" at IES, the IES mission, and how we move forward more constructively. www.the74million.org/article/mend...

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Great resource here to counter the message that we don’t need the Department of Education.

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NAEP maintains its "gold standard" through a network of contracts and data sources. Protecting NAEP means protecting all of these, or there will be further cuts and delays, and we will be further in the dark.

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The thing I hate most about students turning in obviously AI-generated writing is that it's such an insult to my intelligence. I'm not stupid, I know how humans write because I've been teaching them for 15 years, and I don't appreciate someone trying to pull a fast one on me.

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A really helpful analysis of the Dear Colleague Letter from EdCounsel: www.nelsonmullins.com/storage/AyMa...

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Omggggggg I’m sitting behind Jennifer Coolidge on my flight home to Los Angeles screams in gay

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Totally foreseeable, despite their assurances otherwise. Increasingly clear that we will not be able to rely on federal data collection and research efforts under this administration--it's going to be all up to the states.

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We’re here, we’re queer … at least until they round us up.

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Trump and Musk’s needless cuts to the RELs will leave children behind all across the nation, including in communities like yours // “[The REL] helped us develop resources that our teachers could use, that our leaders could use … I can’t say enough about how important they were.”

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Rufo's posts sharing training materials developed with Department of Education money earned a ‼️ from Musk. Within a day, millions in grants had been terminated. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/20/c...

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Normalize using lawful procedures to just remove public officials from office for serious misconduct. Weird how hard a time the US system has with that.

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Won't be trying this again...

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They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

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Abortion bans cause high-achieving female students to avoid applying for colleges in the affected states edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1126

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Adolescents spend nearly a quarter of the school day using their smart phones, and average over 5 hours of total phone time per day. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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"Instead of figuring out how to improve reading or math literacy, increase school safety, or make college more affordable, people who spent little time in public school...are trying to tear down the system responsible for supporting edu opportunity in our communities." www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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They were ready. They knew this was coming. More institutions need to anticipate and prepare challenges ahead of time.

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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...

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Wow, listen to this guy. He served as chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, former senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and serves as board member @upjohninstitute.bsky.social & the Society of Labor Economists, & is generally a great labor economist. ⬇️

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This is quite a first-person account from a student who moved to Washington to accept a job offer from the federal government...which was then revoked on January 23.

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Also an excellent idea!

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Was going to teach about school finance to my freshmen tomorrow, but sorta feels like we should just agree by unanimous consent that money matters (they'll have read @kirabojackson.bsky.social) and then spend class talking about that Dear Colleague Letter and its disastrous effects.

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Friends at Mathematica telling me they just received notice that there will be layoffs and furloughs because of this bullshit. So, on top of it being wasteful and damaging, it's now directly harming hardworking researchers who have built careers working to improve education.

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The cancellation of these contracts wastes taxpayer money, harms students and teachers, and worsens the American economy now and in the future.

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Some highlights from our conversation about our forthcoming book "Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism" hep.gse.harvard.edu/978168253961... @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social on the main takeaways: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ws... Me on recommendations for policy and practice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKmf...

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In a bleak federal funding landscape, this new opportunity from Gates and Digital Promise is worth a look if you’re interested in math education: digitalpromise.org/initiative/a...

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No one understands how universities work, so it’s good to have clear explanations like this of why simple-sounding ideas don’t actually make sense.

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Had to visit Mike before I gave my talk at LSU!

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Here are my thoughts on the administration's latest actions (interview conducted while driving on I-10 between New Orleans and Baton Rouge). www.audacy.com/podcast/kcbs...

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I almost never turn down a media interview, but you better believe I’m not going to turn down one where I can explain to people directly how the administration’s divisive education policies (e.g., that dear colleague letter) will harm students themselves and our nation’s economic competitiveness.

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