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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 4h

A racist is going to vote in 25 days. Are you?

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 07/10/2026

Still upset about that highly cited paper in Psych Science you consider deeply flawed? Now is your time to shine ✨

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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

School people: We're about a month away from SCOTUS deliberations in St. Mary's v. Roy. It's a big deal: Private schools want to take public money but keep their "right" to discriminate against LGBTQ families. They built their case on a bogus history, so we filed a brief telling the real story:

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Around 70 percent of this year’s voucher recipients were already enrolled in private or home- school. Vouchers are costing the state about a billion dollars this year alone, and could ultimately end up costing $4.4 billion annually."

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Except Callahan dramatically overestimated the impact of Cubberley's writing and Taylor's impact - this is a good essay on it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is not worth a moment of your time!

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And "cohabiting partners", I'm pretty sure are parenting in the same household. This is a wild interview before you get to what he's selling.

Ian: Students who don’t have the privilege of growing up in a two-parent household aren’t destined for failure. In decades of working with young people, I’ve seen many who broke the cycle of poverty, and I’ve found that they tend to share a sense of agency, a belief that they can shape their own lives. But that doesn’t come from simply pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. It’s built on what I call the four FREE pillars: family, religion, education, and entrepreneurship. This summer, we released the “Agency Curriculum” to help students build that agency. Over the past year, our AEI team worked with public, private, and parochial educators to develop and pilot 30 lessons for teachers, homeschoolers, parents, clergy, and community leaders.

Rick: You run Vertex Partnership Academies in the Bronx, where the school motto is, “There are no victims in our school, only architects of their own lives.” Why that message?

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The expert again: "Our data can’t pinpoint the cause; we can only establish correlation. Two-parent homes seem to offer kids unique benefits." Let us revisit their definition of “nonintact households" which includes stepparents, who are, I'm pretty, sure married and parenting in the same house.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Results: "Kids in nonintact families were 13% less likely to earn A’s and B’s, 47% more likely to have their parents contacted ... and more than twice as likely to be depressed. In fact, family structure predicted these outcomes more strongly than race or poverty did."

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Clicked out of curiosity. "We compared kids in “intact” families, where the biological or adoptive parents are married, with their peers in “nonintact households,” which includes being raised by stepparents, cohabiting partners, single parents, or foster/kinship care.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Someone asked me if Braver Angels was a project by liberals to "infiltrate" Republican groups and I think I chuckled because the thought hadn't occurred to me. But also, Cox is involved in BA and I'm now wondering if he's using the group to support his goals. (Maybe I am? I don't think so?)

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#PairedTexts 1. Why Schools Need a Phonics-Style Reckoning for Math by Matt Yglesias, not a math teacher. (www.the74million.org/article/why-...) 2. Emily Hanford's Story Was Basically Wrong by Michael Pershan, a math teacher. (pershmail.substack.com/p/emily-hanf...)

At this point, everyone who cares about education policy at all has probably listened to Emily Hanford’s “Sold a Story” podcast series, or pretends to have, and is aware that there is a correct way to teach children to read and also a different way that dominated education schools for a generation. There are now many state- and city-level pushes to institute correct instructional practices grounded in “the science of reading,” and the main question is about how declarative policies relate to actual practice rather than what the practice should look like.

The Story is Systems, Not Ideas
Hanford’s series assigns a tremendous amount of power to a specific idea. If only!

If there was just one core belief shaping bad teaching, there would be such an easy, obvious path forward. You’d have to change people’s minds. You could mandate trainings. You could ban antiquated beliefs from education schools. You could pass laws requiring teachers to go through good-belief training.

But, alas, none of that will work.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(Also, the essay is a very clear sign that Yglesias is very, very online. I've read publishing writings by self-identified progressive educators that make nearly all of the claims he writes about. But also, they're just that - essays by self-identified progressives with a particular agenda.)

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cruise line video was removed by YouTube over truly the dumbest copyright strike. Obviously fighting it, it’ll be back up in a few weeks like nothing happened. This is not an ad for Nebula, but it is still available on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/linds...

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't know what Mass is like but I had to go three levels of approval at NYSED and the NYS Secretary of State just to start an LLC with the word "School" in it. (And not even School! Schoolmarm!)

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I disagree, the best cure for ideological bias is asking people to walk through the mechanics of their argument. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23620547/

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Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is rad, but I hate to inform folks that Zach Bryan is pretty terrible to women historically. We run into this all the time on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. @margaret.bsky.social will get to the last page of research on an otherwise heroic figure and then find out he treated women like shit.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have been forced to use Facebook for reasons that sound silly when I say them aloud, but it means I see all sorts of things I would never seek out. Things like this. Which was posted fairly recently by a reading advocacy group and .... what on earth is the point of this.

Rumor has it Lucy Calkins was spotted at a Reading League conference a few months ago. We’re hoping she was there to genuinely learn about the Science of Reading — not just hunt for a phonics patch to slap onto her Balanced Literacy program.
We welcome anyone willing to learn. Was anybody in the room with her? Did she ask good questions? Fingers crossed. 🤞

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today's insight: progressives can't even agree on a definition for "public education" - which makes the vision part even harder.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can confirm. This, for example, was at the top of my “for you” feed when I logged in to find an old post the other day.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My memory is telling me that it contained a surprisingly complex take on the concept of virginity. But that could be me looking back with rose colored glasses.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 03/10/2026

I remind everyone, again, that they tried year-round daylight saving time and stopped it because it got bunch of kids got killed in just a few weeks

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Baseboard painted! No closer to squaring the circle!

Same photo as above except the baseboard is now white and a switch plate is red.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gotcha! I think part of it is that, when it comes to education, a lot of progressives are pretty firmly in the "burn it down" camp. It's hard to find common ground when one person wants to wield and a sledgehammer and the another is trying to build scaffolding.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"“Classrooms are not ventilated, and we can barely open the windows,” Issam Makhloufi, 15, a student at Rosa Parks High School in St.-Denis, told The New York Times." What an incredible sentence.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sorry! Not sure what you're referring to?

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And I'm not sure yet if that's a bad or terrible thing. Going to finish painting a baseboard and ponder. Can't remember if I shared this amazing mural I got for a weird wall in our house but check out this amazing mural!

Map of Canada where the name of each province and territory takes its shape.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had one in-person and a text conversation about this and am becoming increasingly jaded about the possibility of progressives actually articulating a common vision for K-12 public education.

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Nic 🍉 @nml-dc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We have always had to fight, it's important to know our shared histories and the shoulders we stand on. 🧵

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This was only a matter of time. In a very real way, the net effect of networked license plate readers is more like putting a GPS device on a car than it is like driving past individual security cameras. And if police wanted to track you over time w/ GPS device or your phone---they'd need a warrant.

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Though it is well-funded enough to afford a $1.5 million ad campaign, its leaders won’t identify most of the people bankrolling this effort.” #MAEdu

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

welp another thing to worry about if you're a source worried about AI. read the whole thread:

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It could have been an interesting conversation!! I really want to know if they think a progressive vision for k-12 requires the elimination of private schools and homeschooling.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think I have an inking as to why progressives/the left has trouble articulating a vision for k-12 public education. Or perhaps I am just an incurious, know-nothing fool. Or so I've been told.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well. I suppose that's one way to engage with strangers on the Internet. Have a good evening.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Private education is still education. Homeschooling is still education. Etc. As far as I know, this is no conservative writing on the purpose of k-12 education that advocates for denying some children an education.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm fairly confident no American conservatives disagree with that.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I see why we might be talking past each other - I'm thinking about K-12 education.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OK. So what words describe a progressive ideology?

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I adore the episode "Teacher's Beau" - it's a great snapshot of public perception around married teachers. (The "I'll let her" at minute 13 is fabulous.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM-W...

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Me, personally. I agree. But. The entire issue that Jennifer Berkshire and Audrey Watters are writing about is that we don't have the words. And because we don't, we've failed to convince people. Ideology isn't the problem.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sure. The challenge becomes at certain point, articulating a progressive argument for public education that doesn't sound like The Heritage Foundation becomes a wordsmithing challenge and no high price consultant is going to fix that.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To be clear here, I'm not endorsing. I thought Annie was proposing language and the phrase she used reminded me of something. That said, I'm sure we'd agree that there's a certain tension if we say, as progressives, we don't think education is for human flourishing.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apologies! I thought I saw you use the phrase "human flourishing" but I hear ya.

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