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Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Organization, & Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Former middle school science teacher in Oakland and Los Angeles. https://www.paul-bruno.com/ https://www.last.fm/user/pabruno
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John Cale - Mr Wilson youtu.be/pvQFSXyVqDk?...

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the zenith of comedy. the absolute zenith. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

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(Meme format takes on a new dimension with the Epstein file allegations, too 😬)

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Me not being convinced by your brownbag talk and/or claims to constitutional authority for your actions

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Unpacking California’s Continued School Enrollment Decline www.ppic.org/blog/unpacki...

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Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at 82.

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‘This issue isn’t going away’: Illinois lawmakers delay pension reform again www.news-gazette.com/news/this-is... (The reformed pension system may not be generous enough to satisfy federal requirements that Social Security replacements be at least as good as SS.)

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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on the scale of things that are both likely and concerning, I am way more worried about the destruction of american research and higher education than I am about military takeover

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Again, I think absences and vacancies are getting conflated in a lot of peoples' minds/the discourse and this could help to explain the gap between the shortage discourse (crisis!) and the shortage data (mostly fine).

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Gaining a better understanding of teacher absenteeism: How structural and organizational factors impact a teacher’s decision to be absent epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

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ICYMI

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I sort of thought the conventional wisdom had already mostly adjusted here, is that not the case?

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SMILE POLITELY: Champaign Whiskey Fest 2025’s Gala is set for August 9th Whiskey enthusiasts better jot down August 8th and 9th because those are the dates for Champaign Whiskey Fest 2025. A collab of Watson's Shack & Rail, Punch! Bar, and Big Grove, Champaign Whiskey Fest's main ...

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even having micro-influence gives me an occasional sense of how unbearable it would be to get to the stage where I am a significant character actor in people's heads

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Chilling and un-American

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I tried making this point less articulately with our math teachers prior to their curriculum review this spring. The goals of math instruction and how to measure them aren't agreed on, which leads to wildly different recommendations about how to better achieve those ill-defined goals.

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What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s? The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly) Why? Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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[reflects back on edu-journalism and the edu-commentariat]

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Why are we celebrating traitors that fired upon US soldiers in a bid to keep people enslaved?

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I know I'm late to this but The Residence is pretty fun for what amounts to eight episodes of Why You Should Always Insist that Your Lawyer Be Present.

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Every day the authoritarianism grows worse - Christopher Rufo calling for the Trump administration to "dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking" christopherrufo.com/p/trump-shou...

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As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

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Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

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Gov. Newsom ends at the 6:45 mark with an appeal to all Americans: “This is about all of us … Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=pXQQ...

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Delayed Bachelor’s Degree Graduates Have Lower Graduate School Enrollment Rates direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

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Should I Stay or Should I Go (Later)? Teacher Intentions and Turnover in Low-Performing Schools and Districts Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

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Pushing the Envelope: The Effects of Salary Negotiations www.nber.org/papers/w3390... "Women responded more strongly to both interventions, helping to narrow gender gaps....The model's equilibrium analysis indicates that policies encouraging negotiation can enhance both welfare and equity."

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One of my teaching jobs was at a school with a pretty extensive inclusion program that meant I did a lot of collaboration with the SPED faculty and staff and boy did they think and talk about science ed differently than my science teacher colleagues (and teacher prep).

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The Missing Middle? General and Special Educators’ Views of Effective Mathematics Instruction journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... "22 general & special education researchers describe their goals for mathematics education. Our data suggest...clear within-group themes & between-group distinctions."

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"pro-gun PACs increase contributions by 30.2% to candidates in districts with fatal school shootings...The temporal pattern reveals strategic behavior: contribution spikes emerge in the wake of fatal school shootings and in proximity to elections" www.nber.org/papers/w3390...

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I'm certainly open to identifying problems with teacher prep (and understand concerns about elementary teacher content knowledge) but I don't see the logic of this specific method given things like the prevalence of certification exams and graduate-level prep programs. edsource.org?page_id=734228

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New working paper from me and a great group of coauthors: The Effects of the Four-Day School Week on Teacher Recruitment and Retention caldercenter.org/publications... Read on to see what's different about this vs. some of my prior work 🧵⬇️

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"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Our Founding Fathers would have had a word for calling up a battalion of Marines for regular domestic law enforcement: tyranny.

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I understand why it doesn't work properly but not why it looks so dumb.

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I finally got the opportunity to go to the Magic Castle and I can report that it is very fun.

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Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Jenny McCarthy: Oprah was basically a one-woman Operation Paperclip for horrible grifters.

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This is what Roberts wrought. Trump is immune from criminal liability, and can preemptively pardon anyone below him. Local DAs can't charge federal actors in state court, and SCOTUS has shrouded all of them with immunity from civil liability. They can target anyone they dislike with with impunity.

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the convicted felon president wants to arrest our duly elected governor who has committed no crime. hail to the thief.

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