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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 5h

In all seriousness I wish every professor on here would post their reading lists each semester

Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 10h

It was a thrill when, after a Braver Angels debate I chaired on Flock cameras, someone ask if I was a Red or Blue and my opinion. The debate was over so I gladly told her. Don't think I would have done as good a job chairing if this story had come out sooner. www.wkbw.com/news/i-team/...

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Cheektowaga police officer, dispatchers suspended for alleged misuse of Flock cameras to track fellow employee

Cheektowaga police are investigating three of their own for misuse of Flock cameras, accused of tracking a fellow employee over the course of months.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10h

I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 14h

Kate Manne is an essential read when it comes to Cornell.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15h

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 17h

Someone absolutely needs to study the impact of staying on Twitter on those in education spaces. I just read an essay that was fairly eyebrow raising and sure enough, the author is an active user on X.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 18h

Why is it always "100 years old" with these guys? They've used the 100 years old since the 90s!

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This ad gives no quarter which is as it should be.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#PairedTexts 1. From NSTA's newsletter 2. From the article linked at "read more"

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Using AI to Deepen Students’ Use of Notice and Wonder with Phenomena
Generative AI can help students take their scientific thinking further. This NSTA blog explores how AI can deepen students’ use of Notice and Wonder by encouraging more precise observations, revealing hidden variables, refining questions, and strengthening investigations. Discover practical strategies for using AI as a thinking partner—not an answer machine—while keeping students at the center of scientific sensemaking. Learn how thoughtful AI integration can nurture curiosity, inquiry, and deeper science learning.

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this blog post are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is fabulous and is particularly perfect in every way.

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interesting stuff...

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In this same vein, there are scholars who have argued that one of the contributing factors to women leaving the classroom upon getting married in the 1800 was that they were no longer pure enough. It wasn't just the idea they couldn't teach and wife or that their husband could support her.

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alternate ending @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

my compliments to whomever grabbed Third Way by the head and turned it so they were actually looking out the window

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026

Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media

Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My "wanna do/write list" is utterly unmanageable but high on that list is a critical look at the "Did You Know? Shift Happens" video. It turns 20 this year and IMO, it's right up there with Robinson's "Creativity" video in terms of unintended negative consequences.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When world's collide! Braver Angels just released a bunch of white papers related to the concept of Courageous Citizenship. Delighted to see education historian @johannneem.bsky.social's contribution! www.beyondintractability.org/cic_document...

Johann N. Neem
How Americans Learned to Volunteer

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Am reminding myself that BlueSky is not Twitter and that I deliberately left behind a bunch of behaviors when I left Twitter. (Rather than leaving the reply I want to leave on many a skeet this am.)

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Kelli's 'You Know What That Is?' - Insecure

ALT: Kelli's 'You Know What That Is?' - Insecure

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MY KIDS ARE GAY WHY DO YOU WANT THEM HARMED, LINDA? AS A PARENT I AM VERY MUCH NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THAT

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love that we're all going to click for different reasons. Mine is to see who they count as an expert.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The central point of this thread is one of the many reasons I'm so adamant against the "factory model" myth. People use the myth to advocate for change blow past the actual reasons public education was started in this country and end up advocating for workplace training as good for students.

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Chicagoans for a Free Wales @transfem.my · 28/09/2026

Foofoo in a little bunny suit scooping up the field workers and BOPPING them on the head is the future liberals want

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The cost of districts in designing in-house exams with the level of quality control that the Regents have is EXORBITANT. Even if only NYC did it, it would be wild. (When NYS got rid the of LOTE Regents, test design consortiums popped up across the state. Lots of PD hours and $$ went into design.)

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Putting a marker down now: In 5 years, people will be saying/using "Louisa Moats" in the same way they're saying/using "Lucy Calkins" today. time.com/article/2026...

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The Woman Winning the Reading Wars

Louisa Moats’ teacher-training program is painstaking, pricey, and decades old. It’s also the hot new thing

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not mentioned in the article - NYSED's Guidance Document for Health Learning Standards is so old, the main document uses Comic Sans font. Meanwhile, the actual standards are so old, they're still using the original 1990s paper version.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Interesting piece from a Buffalo outlet on an NYS ACLU report on sex ed curriculum in the state. What's funny is that the best way to ensure consistency and accuracy at the local level is for the state to establish a sex ed Regents exam. investigativepost.org/2026/09/25/s...

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Sex-ed classes in New York include Hitler, Lady Gaga, inaccuracies

More than a third of New York's public school districts reviewed used medically inaccurate and misleading sex education curricula.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every day I become more convinced the BoR is going to take a mulligan in June.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I came across this beautiful (and timely) Maxine Greene quote in Kathy Schultz and Rachel Throop's new book, PRACTICE: KEY WORDS IN TEACHER EDUCATION. "What is meant by teaching as possibility in dark and constraining times?..." Teaching is, in the end, a profession of hope. #EduSky

What is meant by teaching as possibility in dark and constraining times? It is a matter of awakening and empowering today's young people to name, to reflect, to imagine, and to act with more and more concrete responsibility in an increasingly multifarious world. At once, it is a matter of enabling them to remain in touch with dread and desire, with the smell of lilacs and the taste of a peach. The light may be uncertain and flickering; but teachers in their lives and works have the remarkable capacity to make it shine in all sorts of corners and, perhaps, to move newcomers to join with others and transform."

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's a #PairedTexts Boston Globe homepage today.

Boston Globe article:
Metco is an experiment that’s an undeniable success. So why hasn’t a single suburb been added in decades?
Launched in 1966, Metco hasn’t expanded in decades, despite longstanding inequities between schools in Boston and its wealthier suburbs

An image of a Black teen girl boarding a school bus.

Boston Globe article:
‘I’m not your neighbor’: In Southie, a few blocks away is a world apart
Income segregation in Greater Boston is among the highest in the country, MassINC report shows

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're not sure there's a better profession to ask hyper-specific, niche questions of tbh

Why are such hyper-specific, niche interest questions being asked on a Historians subreddit?

Like, sorry if this goes against the rules here, but some of the questions that get asked are just mind boggling in their specificity. Who can even answer this?

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is such a lovely piece about a woman who wrote an incredible book about American women. It completely shifted my understanding of power in early America.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron

Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One thing is for sure: Nikole Hannah-Jones' writing starts conversations. So many responses out there! Some not so good because they're using her words to belittle her or schools. The good ones, IMO, wrestle with the tensions she names (or implies) in her essay.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22/09/2026

Stacey Pelika, one of the main conference organizers, in dialogue with Fridley Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Brenda Lewis. None of what DHS did on our school property involved proper warrants and coordination. It wasn't enforcement activity. It aimed to create terror among our families.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm struck by 2 things re: this essay: 1. It's a reminder that being a politically progressive advocate for public schools means that sometimes you're on the same page as a conservative 2. He wrote this for the New York Post. The change to his writing style is wild. www.aei.org/commentary/h...

Members decided that with the class of 2028, New York’s students will no longer have to pass Regents exams to receive a high-school diploma.

The exams themselves will remain, but the state will sever the link between passing them and graduating — the very thing that gave the Regents exams their meaning and consequence for generations.

Regent Felicia Thomas-Williams captured the philosophical change: “You don’t assess a fish on climbing a tree because fish can’t climb trees,” she said.

Children aren’t fish, and reading isn’t tree-climbing.

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My kid has launched a petition to change his high school’s handbook policy on AI use. He’s pissed. (He really hates AI)

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This is a petition to change the BHS Al policy from this, which was copy & pasted directly from the student Handbook google document on Monday, September 21st of 2026.
BHS Al Policy
Unauthorized use of generative Al tools to substantially complete an assignment is not permitted.
This petition to change the Al policy would like to change the following:
• Remove the word substantially from the policy all together
a. The usage of the word substantially is ambiguous at best, and disingenuous at worst. For example, who is it that decides when Al was used substantially, who decides what substantially means, and why is any amount permitted
when the use itself is unauthorized?
Require a more descriptive decision on how Al is and is not permitted in assignments and projects
a. If students do not know what is permitted, how do they know what is not
b. If Al is used in 100% of the creation process except for editing, would that count as substantial usage? Most would probably argue yes, but it is possible for an argument to be posed of the opposite, that the baseline was made with Al but the final product was made by humans. That argument could be made,
and could be accepted., even if it goes against what the policy means.
c. If Al is used for the basis of the brainstorming of talking points, but nothing
else, would that count as substantial usage? Most would probably argue no,

but again, it is possible to argue the opposite. It could be argued that because the baseline of the passage was Al generated, everything else built on that foundation does not count as real work.
Have a more active description of why Al is prohibited
a. Why is Al prohibited? Is it because you just don't like it? Is it because it harms the environment? Is it because it harms the learning capabilities of people no matter the age or gender? Specifics are important.
• Expand restrictions on Al and what possible punishments might be
a. What happens when you break the rules? Nothing? Suspension? A grade drop? Or should it be decided by the teacher?
b. What specifically is not permitted when using Al? Is image generation allowed? Probably not in art. Is source generation allowed? Who knows, not
us.
c. Are teachers allowed to use Al? Why or why not? It sends mixed messages when teachers use Al in their classroom slides and then turn around and say
"No! This technology is really bad and horrible and don't use it?"
• Require a more expansive curriculum on Al and its problems
a. Anything would be helpful. Even an assembly would be helpful because people do not know anything about what Al does to them, or the environment. This is a BARE MINIMUM.
Each request will be signed on individually in this petition. Each change would be requested individually and discussed with those who have the power to change it individually.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Would love to hear from any educators who are thinking ahead about teaching if the midterms and transfer of power do not proceed peacefully and legally.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm pretty sure both of them are involved in Braver Angels, which is why he's doing this. Which is super frustrating.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#PairedTexts 1. "Can we still govern?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-system... 2. Rick Hess "In Search of Common Sense" (Note: the article linked to "Democrats" goes to an article from the NEA.)

Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.

Take the debate over dismantling the Department of Education. It often devolves into aggressively dumb arguments that are more symbolic than substantive. Democrats bizarrely insist that shuttering a building with 4,000 bureaucrats will devastate student achievement and well-being, while Republicans bizarrely promise that doing so (while barely touching the Congressionally funded programs) will radically shrink the federal role and turbocharge learning.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The TV pool networks won't provide coverage today: "Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President. This follows the White House's position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place."

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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Seeing a bunch of criticism of NH-J on here this morning, so would like to signal boost Julie's accurate point.

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