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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is fun. I can open a private school with unlicensed teachers, no curriculum requirements, and no background checks in 9 states @propublica.org : projects.propublica.org/private-scho...

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Quiz: Where Could You Open a Private School? — ProPublica

Private school requirements vary wildly across states. Take our quiz to find out just how easy starting one can be.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NYT interviewed academics who said don't allow teachers to choose their curriculum materials. But the actual research shows curriculum choice and teacher autonomy can increase student engagement. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts (Gift Article)

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

100 percent. Institutions that allow them are complicit.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It’s performatively offer to clear teacher wish list season. Teacher wish lists aren’t necessary in well funded districts with empowered principals who make sure to ask teachers what they need in the spring.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/08/2026

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New article by Musoke, Frohwirth, & Gould details how to do social media surveillance/social listening as public health strategy, with methods implications for education and other fields. (It also cites one of my articles as a novel method of data collection). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Cutting a proposal to get it under word count; someone says, just use AI, and I say, but this is one of the few things I am good at, and then realized that maybe soon being a writer and editor will be like a blacksmith or candle maker—a quaint skill trotted out as spectacle or bespoke service.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"They open the StudySync software program, which shows them each a series of questions tailored to their weaknesses. Their faces look like they’re being marched to the guillotine." www.wired.com/story/missis...

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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read

Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Definitely could be related to the idea of human effort--in which case would any tool suffice?

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Never forget when comparing salaries, teachers' wages are depressed 27 percent relative to other college graduates, let alone masters' holders as 3 states require. (Some of us even have doctorates.) In NJ, it's only a 12.7 percent penalty, the second least bad in the US. www.epi.org/publication/...

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The teacher pay penalty reached a record high in 2024: Three decades of leaving public school teachers behind

Over the past three decades, stagnant weekly wages of public school teachers have fallen further and further behind those of college graduates who chose other careers, resulting in an ever increasing ...

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

When teachers use AI in the classroom, engagement and trust go down. This study looked at 4500 grade 6-12 students and used a control group of no AI-tool or training. Students rated AI-assisted classrooms as "less enjoyable, less interesting, and less important." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Generative AI Can Harm Teaching

Teachers are rapidly adopting generative AI, yet there is little causal evidence on whether AI-assisted teaching improves or harms student outcomes. We conducte

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

As if Susan Choi wrote this—flashlights even feature, despite the publication of the 2023 escape itself being too late to be the inspiration for her 2025 novel, Flashlight: A Family’s Daring Escape From North Korea ‘to Live and Stand Tall’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...

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A Family’s Daring Escape From North Korea (Gift Article)

Their resolve for freedom hardened during the pandemic, when they lived through a crippling food shortage and were forced to witness frequent public executions.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This is why NJ school budgets are a mess this year. Healthcare costs soaring due in part to federal gutting of ACA, reimbursement of brand name GLPs and bad state policy Op-Ed: NJ is capable of fixing public workforce health benefits crisis www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/05/op-e...

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Op-Ed: NJ is capable of fixing public workforce health benefits crisis | NJ Spotlight News

Employees and taxpayers are paying ever more, and our schools and hospitals will collapse if we fail to enact reform

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

All verklempt to have a story in this issue of @kenyonreview.bsky.social alongside so many tremendous writers

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

What story? Not The Great Silence? We’ve got that on tap for next week.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Comments section in here a real mess. NYT readers have thoughts about the superior choices afforded by white flight and the welcome "right-sizing" of teaching staff in schools w/ fewer immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

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U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

What is a good or effective school? Research by @owasow.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social suggests the "veiled capacity" of educators to teach through oppressive systems can remake society.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

#tdih 1969, SCOTUS ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate" in Tinker v. Des Moines -- students (age 8-17) suspended b/c they wore armbands to school to protest Vietnam war. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...

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Feb. 24, 1969: Tinker v. Des Moines Case Wins Free Speech Rights for Students

The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss "Get Over Here!": Gaming, Literacy, and the Victories in Between!

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

An interesting take too on how teaching *can* help one continually affirm a vision of solidarity, particularly in relation to power, for teachers who are invested in supporting and strengthening student voice. Once someone is no longer doing that, do they just forget?

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This is the plot of Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes. Fiction writers see the patterns and possibility first.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

5 women authors I’ve read at least 5 books by: Toni Morrison Agatha Christie Deborah Levy NK Jemisin Jane Austen

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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I'm listening to a talk by expert in rhetoric Jennifer Sano-Franchini ( @jsanofranchini.bsky.social ) about refusing generative AI in writing studies. She shared a resource for refusing genAI that might be helpful for other folks in academia: #academia #genAI refusal.blog

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Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies

Visit the post for more.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Just ~8 years out from Black Mirror, Metalhead episode

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

New paper on AI as carceral in schools: Tanksley and Cabral "consider how the proliferation of AI technologies into K-12 schools has worked to hide, speed up, and automate educational inequities for Black students, giving rise to a techno-educational carceral apparatus": www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/6/...

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss Navigating the #literacies Job Market: Sustaining Practices for Academics

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I like this a lot but feel my middle school students don’t have enough emotional awareness of when they might veer right instead of left. They might need to practice identifying affective response to work in class before as scaffolding. But I should try it with them before I speak for them :)

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

They get a choice of which articles to bring in but they have to be reported by newspapers or magazines that fact check. Some bring in culture pieces; some go right there. I try to just provide context if needed without commenting.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Yes they are in both history and ELA in my school

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Librarians not only improve learning but also help students with media literacy—a critical skill today. In their absence, this skill falls to the English teacher already pressed to help kids read fluently and write across disciplines. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

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Less than 15% of NYC schools have a librarian. Is your child’s school one of them?

Advocates say librarians are essential for students, but NYC schools don’t have enough librarians.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Maybe then Language & Literature (what IB calls it in HS)? ELA is def middle school—the arts part feels like a feint, when district focus (for us at least) is on testing and HS placement. But in the abstract ideal, language arts could also work.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

This graphic reminds me of artist Marc Lombardi's mapping of Bush-era entanglements; Trump's grift has exponentially magnified what were once "webs of scandal": curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/...

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Mark Lombardi: Global Networks - Exhibitions - Independent Curators International

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I think English for no real reason than an aversion to the Orwellian tinge of ELA but wish there were a better alternative since it uses the name of a language for a set of practices. Maybe we could replace English/ELA entirely with literacies or liteature or language and culture.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Ok thanks! I guess I thought the scholarly and self aware practice communities were already on board with literacies and multi literacies. It seems like this maybe is about addressing gaps in classroom practices?

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I’m interested but don’t understand the fundamental distinction being made so don’t understand the call. Is that the point? Or is literacy being strictly construed as “learning how to read”? Or?

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Did annual cocoa house reading with students—everyone reads an excerpt from their work while I make hot cocoa or tea. Students said it felt weird and disrespectful . . . to have the teacher serve them. So they took tea&cocoa orders and mixed the cocoa for their peers. (I manned boiling water fwiw.)

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

There is a sampling bias in this article. They put out a survey and those who responded were more likely to be those who feel there are not enough full texts. Still most of the teachers interviewed say they do in fact assign full novels just as you do.

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Carly Berwick @cberwick.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

OMG this again. Most of the teachers interviewed actually say they ARE reading novels with students. Prepackaged curricula are a problem. So don't use them, like teachers quoted here. Where is the "rarely" coming from (other than self-selecting survey responders)? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

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Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.

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