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Alyssa Hadley Dunn

@alyssahadleydunn.bsky.social
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Prof/ Dir. of Teacher Education @ University of Connecticut. Author of “Teaching on Days After” (2021) & “Teachers Without Borders?” (2013). Views are my own.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
You can use this tool to find out just how much funding your local district (or any district in the country) will be losing in the new federal budget: "DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding." public.tableau.com/app/profile/... #EduSky #EdChat
HOW MUCH WILL YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT LOSE?
Federal budget cuts to public education will eliminate afterschool and summer programs, arts and technology classes, teachers, emergency preparedness, mental health services, and more.

Search for your state and school district to see how much your child’s education will be impacted.

DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding.
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“What becomes of the University if it succumbs to the demands of a political party or leader that cedes rights of free speech, free expression, and free inquiry? What becomes of our students [of any age] if they are only permitted to think, speak, and be in ways that follow the political winds? “
columbiaspectator.com
Trump threatens all education, not just universities
<i>Updated April 10 at 7:53 p.m.</i>
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Joining with TC colleagues to say, among other things, that elite universities need to see and hopefully act in solidarity with K-12 educators and school systems in this moment we are all under attack.
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Trump threatens all education, not just universities
On April 21, former interim University President Katrina Armstrong <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03/21/columbia-to-acquiesce-to-trump-administrations-demands-amid-federal-fundin...
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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Alyssa Hadley Dunn @alyssahadleydunn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Every single day.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Well look at this. Here's the head of a major university (Princeton!) taking a firm stand in favor of academic freedom and, you know, rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#edusky colleagues, higher ed or K-12, please share. We are at Columbia, but we know that this struggle matters for education across the lifespan. A Statement from Teachers College Faculty on the Attack on American Education docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Brownstone buildings at Teachers College looking west toward Riverside Church. 
Creative Commons photo by Bohao Zhao
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
If you're tracking the administration's claims to "end DEI" a quick thread with the docs. TL;DR: Admin swings way too wide. Careful readers point out the overreach & the illegality and/or lack of enforceability of their words. Some sue & get temp injunction. Admin rolls back, a bit. 🧵
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Educators: Are you engaging students in a critical reading of any of the recent Executive Orders and/or The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum? If so, write to let us know at zep@zinnedproject.org We'd love to hear your teaching stories (and with your permission) share them. #TeachOutsideTextbook
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Alyssa Hadley Dunn @alyssahadleydunn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Thanks @courtneykteachered.bsky.social for sharing this part of my work, as we live through so many days after right now. Solidarity!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”
nytimes.com
How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk
Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.
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@DrJenHo @drjenho.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
For anyone working in Higher Ed concerned about the anti-DEI Dear Colleague letter calling on colleges to rid themselves of DEI programs, please read this letter by law professors who KNOW THE LAW--it's a good rejoinder to the letter and over-reach of this admin. cdn.ymaws.com/www.copaa.or...
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Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Another good response to the Dear Colleague letter from the DOE #highered #education #uted #utpol www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
insidehighered.com
A Dear Colleague letter in defense of DEI, by Shaun Harper
Shaun Harper identifies 11 specific actions higher ed institutions can take to uphold their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Trump is using a vaguely defined DEI to lead a fascist takeover of higher education. Whether you personally like DEI or not the point is that any program, curriculum and research decisions should fall under the purview of faculty governance and not have to conform to partisan preferences.
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Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The Right is focused on education—banning books & history, & defunding schools. The Left hasn’t been as focused on education, but should because: 1) Students deserve to learn the truth & with it they can change the world 2) Educators are the most unionized workplace & can be a force for justice
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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A reminder that "Dear Colleague" letters do not carry the force of law. These are fundamental test cases for universities and other institutions to refuse to comply with the unjust demands of the current administration.
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Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Here's @penamerica.bsky.social's statement condemning last night's "Dear Colleague" letter from the Department of Education, threatening to withhold federal funds from educational institutions that engage in DEI programming, training, or other activities. pen.org/press-releas...
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PEN America Condemns Education Department's Threat to Defund Colleges and Universities Over DEI Programs - PEN America
PEN America Denounces Department of Education Letter That Would Ban Ideas About Race
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Alyssa Hadley Dunn @alyssahadleydunn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is abhorrent. It also grossly misrepresents just about everything in higher education today. Full letter: www.ed.gov/media/docume...
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This website shows you how many jobs NIH funding creates for your state along with the overall economic activity generated. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"Teachers have every reason to be guarded about what they say & do within state-surveilled school spaces. But teachers’ selfhoods do not end at the door of the classroom. Teachers are friends, neighbors, beloveds- & they are amazing organizers" ~@eveewing.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
inthesetimes.com
Trump’s Reign of Terror on Schools—and How We Fight Back
It’s not enough to be afraid of the laws and rules we don’t want to see in schools. We have to clarify our visions of what we are fighting for.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
if you aren’t underway archiving *.gov material relevant to your field, this is probably your last chance
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Dr. Crystal E. Garcia @crystalegarcia.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
💖💖💖🌈🌈🌈 Sending love to every trans person right now. You are beautiful and perfect in exactly who you are. You matter and you may not know them all, but there are so many people in community and solidarity with you right now. Trans rights are human rights. 💖💖💖🌈🌈🌈
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Robert Lurie @oneteacherusa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Educators are teaching in perilous times. We face a white supremacist backlash — funded by billionaires. . . . Billionaires no longer just fund reactionary policies; they are merging corporate power with government repression to cement their dominance. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/teachin...
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Teaching in Perilous Times
Educators are teaching in perilous times. We face a white supremacist backlash — funded by billionaires — against the 2020 uprising for Black lives, when tens of millions built a multiracial movement ...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.
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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al.
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe...
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 16/12/2024
The days immediately following school shootings are the very worst to be a teacher in this country.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
witness it 🕯️
A World Without Children

           for the victims of every school shooting

There's no one running in the museums.
And that's just the beginning. There's no one
beautifully out of tune in the church choir, 
no one spinning on the thing that spins
in the park. See? It doesn't even have a name,
because children have to name a thing like that.
No one breathes on the window of a school
the week before winter break, writing their name
in the mist. What's a school now anyway? A place
to keep the dead. That's all. History knows that. 
It stands a mother before a ditch
and it hands her her child, and she has 
three seconds, three seconds
to say to him all she would have said in their life.
Everyone knows 
when the guns come
the children go first, as saplings bow 
to the first snows of a winter, and
silence did this. We did this. We're winter.
Come, let's walk awhile through the ruins. 
You can still hear their voices, 
in the coldness: there, in the places
they hid in—a safe-room, dark barn, a cellar, 
a closet at the back of a classroom—
wondering what sound that is, what power,
wondering where all the grownups are.

—Joseph Fasano
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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Trump can't eliminate the ED without the votes of 60 Senators. He doesn't have that. But he can nominate a clown as Secretary.
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We are almost at capacity in this starter pack! Everyone now left to be added will be added to Education Scholars Part II! If I didn’t add you to first one & you want to be added reply to to post! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/H3QkVDR
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Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
⬇️ go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ
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