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Heidi Lyn Hadley

@heidihadley.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. of English Education, researching stuff like teacher identities, religion and education, and effective literacy instruction. Reader/writer/mom

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Alliance For Higher Education @alliancehighered.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The administration’s new rules threaten the tax exempt status of schools that aid minority students. It’s the latest effort to keep working class Americans and people of color from college and a better life. Read: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Matthew D. Taylor @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The New Apostolic Reformation has been staging Christian nationalist events on the National Mall since 2000. Today they finally got one organized & sponsored by the White House – the culmination of 25 years of work. My new piece explains what it means to them: open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
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Rededicate 250 Is the NAR's Crowning Achievement
A guide to the movement behind today's White House-sponsored Christian nationalist festival on the National Mall
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The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
@conorpwilliams.bsky.social: Dismantling the Office of English Language Acquisition is the latest attempt to hobble the education of the country’s 5.3 million English learners www.the74million.org/article/as-t...
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 02/05/2026
There’s no teaching strategy good enough to fix weak instructional design and materials. Turn and talks won’t save us from poorly written and poorly aligned curriculum. #EduSky
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 15/04/2026
The Office of English Language Acquisition was decimated by layoffs last year. Now its work supporting the nation’s 5 million English learners will be absorbed by other offices.
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The federal office that helps schools help students learn English is going away
The Office of English Language Acquisition was decimated by layoffs last year. Now its work supporting the nation’s 5 million English learners will be absorbed by other offices.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 18/03/2026
Women and girls should be safe in movement work. Holding gratitude and grief for Dolores Huerta’s dedication and bravery. Wishing she didn’t have to be so goddamned committed and brave.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just White Christian nationalism influencing foreign policy. 👎🏼
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Come research with us! We would love to find a middle/high school teacher who a) wants to do a PhD full-time (fully funded at a competitive level), b) is interested in secondary literacy, and c) is interested in joining our research project with 9th grade readers at a rural high school in Alabama.
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Love this write up (with photos and videos!) of our 9th grade class at Beauregard HS. This model of a university-school partnership has been compelling for me as a teacher, researcher, and literacy scholar. Look at the amazing 9th graders & undergraduate students that Dr. Hinman and I work with!
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Auburn College of Education literacy initiative at Beauregard High School builds confidence, community and future educators
Like many students his age, Ke'Zerrious Powell often let anxiety keep him from speaking up in class. Through a new literacy partnership between Auburn University’s College of Education and Beauregard ...
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I do think that there are very few factors pushing on public education as much and as persistently as Christian nationalism, so I appreciated the opportunity to write with Kevin Burke about the issue. I do ALSO appreciate the really great support and editorial work from the NEPC team.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025
I had a judge presiding over one of my cases ask me if I had been a defendant in one of his cases because he recognized me. I was like nope. I'm counsel. I was dressed impeccably in a vintage Calvin Klein suit that I'd paid way too much money for. It happened in 2005ish and I still think about it.
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James McEnaney @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Filling classrooms with computers didn't have the huge and positive impact on learning that was promised. Filling them with tablets hasn't done it either. I know this might sound absurd to many (especially politicians) but what if we filled them with highly skilled and properly supported educators?
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Godawful.
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David Fahrenthold @fahrenthold.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
NEW TONIGHT: The IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit, carving out an exemption to the decades-old ban on politicking by nonprofits. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
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I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Schools are taking a hit in every state--including the ones where most voters supported President Trump: -Florida: $398M -Ohio: $203M -Louisiana: $120M -Indiana: $107M -Alabama: $100M -Kentucky: $96M -South Carolina: $94M -Missouri: $93M -Oklahoma: $78M -Mississippi: $72M -Arkansas: $64M
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Andrew Ujifusa @andrewujifusa.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
“Local school districts can’t afford to wait out lengthy court proceedings to get the federal funding they’re owed — nor can they make up the shortfall, especially not at the drop of a pin.” www.chalkbeat.org/2025/07/01/t...
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Trump administration throws a $7 billion wrench into school budgets
The Education Department is holding back funding previously approved by Congress for teacher training, English learners, migrant education, and after-school programming. Advocates worry the Trump admi...
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 22/06/2025
‘I became a teacher so I can read scripted lessons written by folks who haven’t taught in a decade in order to prepare students to take a standardized test written above their grade level!’ Said no teacher ever
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 12/06/2025
Sounds like she is deliberately ignoring the will of the people of Los Angeles and California, who duly elected their mayor, governor, and senators. Sounds like authoritarianism to me.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
My recent GYN appointment in the Deep South included a) praise music in the waiting room, and b) a very sweet and somehow apologetic lecture on the benefits of reading smut for menopausal libido loss (all while in stirrups). Obsessed, obviously.
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Jill Barshay @jillbarshay.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
My daughter has been home from college for less than a month. She has four younger brothers. She has recently started spamming the family group chat with pictures of the toilet seat being left up in her bathroom. Daily. Nearly hourly, honestly.
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
It turns out that oversight for public funds for education matters. A lot.
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Alabama Political Reporter @alreporter.com · 23/05/2025
The SPLC identifies 1,371 extremist organizations nationally in 2024, noting a 25 percent increase in Alabama and mainstream infiltration of far-right ideologies.
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Southern Poverty Law Center releases 2024 "Year in Hate and Extremism" Report
The SPLC identifies 1,371 extremist organizations nationally in 2024, noting a 25 percent increase in Alabama and mainstream infiltration of far-right ideologies.
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Willi Morris @williesha.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"Try as we might, we cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamians’ voting strength and evade the unambiguous requirements of court orders standing in the way."
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Some of this has to be attributed to the standardization and high stakes assessment culture; if students have only been told that everything they are learning "will be on the end of level test"
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Some of the books they are banning baffle me. Like, this book is almost 20 years old? And there are way wackier (by their standards) books out there that it seems they would want to ban before this one. But sure, we're all safe from the revolutionary ideas in Water for Elephants now. 🙄
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 16/04/2025
This this this! When high-needs schools can’t pay for teachers, they’ll outsource learning to machines and our most vulnerable students will simply get test-prep curriculum.
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I say pretty regularly that it worries me that so many of our young teachers grew up under NCLB legislation and have thus very little ability to imagine curricula that is actually, genuinely responsive to the students they teach.
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Willi Morris @williesha.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Confirmed $19 million in HBCU funding for 2025 is suspended pending review from the USDA for this year's 1890 Scholars. Affects 2 Alabama schools. My latest for @al.com. www.al.com/news/2025/02...
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$19 million in HBCU funding suspended after Trump diversity ban: ‘Not looking too good’
19 schools are recipients of this scholarship program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This article about white Christian nationalist rhetorical practices in public education has been out for a minute now, but I just got the email with the 50 free reprints, so if anyone wants them, here's the link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SPBJZ...
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Ungrievable: Theorizing white Christian nationalist rhetorical practices in education
The religiopolitical movement of White Christian nationalism has increasingly impacted policy and practice in public education in the United States. This theoretical paper examines how White Christ...
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Arianna Prothero @ariannaprothero.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The grants support: - Partnerships b/t districts and nonprofits or higher ed to expand teacher prep & recruitment - Hands-on classroom training for teacher candidates - In-service PD for teachers and principals - Alternative programs for entering the profession www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
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Trump Administration Slashes Millions in Teacher-Training Grants
Citing "divisive ideology," the U.S. Department of Education cut two programs supporting teacher prep and PD.
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Heidi Lyn Hadley @heidihadley.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
I will work with Stephanie any day on any project because she's amazing, but I really, really love this article, which insists that we consider what it really means to welcome students into ELA classrooms and consider the commitments that are implicit in canonical book choices.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/11/2023
If you want to understand where a very large swathe of "AI" is, today, then you very seriously need to engage w/ religious studies & mythology — & understand I don't mean "mythology" in the pejorative sense of "falseness" or "fantasy;" I mean "animating beliefs," or "fundamental guiding narrative."
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Mandie Dunn @mandiedunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
CW: Miscarriage . . I'm looking for participants for this study that is very important to me. I want to be able to advocate for supports for teachers. Please consider responding to the survey or sharing with others who might wish to. Thank you! usf.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
I’d say this banned-books story horrifies me because I’m queer, but honestly I don’t think I’d be less horrified if I were straight. It’s the kind of insanity that should worry anyone who cares about a) living in a free society or b) other people. popular.info/p/florida-sc...
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Florida school district orders librarians to purge all books with LGBTQ characters
Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries...
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