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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If NYC can accommodate Chicago style pizza places. And Detroit style pizza places. It can accommodate at least one Massachusetts South Shore bar style pizza place. Maybe that's my retirement gig? UWS Spa Pizza where you get a massive shot of grease and no beers fancier than a Michelob.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I didn’t have parents and teachers object to purchase of repurposed sex bot as an assistant teacher on my 2026 bingo card, but in retrospect, I lacked imagination.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is an under discussed issue in 2026.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is a genuine nightmare. OCR is gutted already, down to 10% of staff. But moving OSERS to HHS? With THIS Secretary? This one has to be taken to Court -- Congress gave OSERS to the DOE and HHS has zero competency to do what it does. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

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Trump moves special education and civil rights oversight out of Education Department

President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

As the discourse entrenches the observation that the past decade has "erased" two decades of test measured learning gains in NAEP... ...it seems important to observe how deeply unimpressive those gains were. It's not that decline is fine and dandy. It's that it didn't have far to decline to.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Food for Thought: If your vote didn't matter then the Republican Party would not be spending so much time trying to block it, dilute it, throw it out, or just plain ignore it.

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The More You Know Shooting Star Meme

ALT: The More You Know Shooting Star Meme

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Like I said, not nothing, but pretty standard sausage making. He did not get the millionaire surcharge tax. And @governor.ny.gov swooped in to save himself from his threat to raise property taxes which probably would have killed his mayorality. I dislike the influencer treatment for basic stuff.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

They are also projecting 500 million in the new pied-a-terre tax although the comptroller is warning against over estimating it. I have not gone granular on every move used to reduce the projected deficit. He claimed to scrounge up roughly 7 billion in savings which included the pension move.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

4 billion infusion from the state (unclear as of yet how much of that is real money versus accounting gimmicks). 2.3 billion from deferring pension payments (aka - accounting gimmick). This isn't nothing but it also isn't a miracle of sound governance as some imply. Standard sausage making.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The worst part is looking back 100 to 120 years ago and realizing what people were allowed to just assert as ineffable truths and develop lasting and influential careers while being currently restrained by the APA manual.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

What would be the consequences if I just turned this into a #birding account?

A photograph of Astoria the Turkey in early morning sunlight at The Battery in NYC.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

#Astoriatheturkey walking past the Sea Glass Carousel at Battery Park in Manhattan.

A wild turkey named Astoria walking in front of the sea glass carousel at Battery Park in Manhattan

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Not going to lie. I have long pondered that our condition would be significantly better if many professional philanthropists had spent their wealth building real world versions of Mario Kart tracks.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

So incredibly proud of this kid who works tirelessly at her craft. In that vein, she's gone live with her first professional page where she is releasing her current project in serial version. Go follow you new favorite indy author: srkatzwriter.com

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Samantha Katz (author) homepage | Samantha Katz, writer

This is the homepage for Samantha Katz's website. She is an author and this is where you can go to learn more about her and her various writing projects. Futures Past, Soul Song, Trial of the Ghost.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Exciting news for our oldest: She is about to gain her second professional publication credit! The publisher of "Jewish Futures" put out a call for a new volume on themes of resistance and her story was selected! We don't have a publication date yet but the proofs are already being reviewed.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The new information economy: "News Based" Tik Tok Influencer: This special election in Virginia is the Democrats' worst election since Trump was re-elected. Me: "Oh my that sounds bad..." *Looks up the district* It's voted Republican since it was created in 1982. This is just exhausting.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"Nobody likes watching the sausage get made, but typically, they do not refuse the meal." - Me, repeatedly

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I've been arguing this in a related way about the SALT deduction. On paper, it looks like a give away to rich home owners. In reality, it is buy in from residents of states that tax enough to cover local expenses without needing as much federal assistance as states that don't.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is nearly 5% of our GDP. And a huge portion of it will be financed by borrowing. As a comparison, ALL spending - federal, state, and local - on K-12 education comes to about 3.11% of our GDP. Eisenhower would weep.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I will repeat what I said -- this production is worth the trip to Grove Street on the PATH! The production is well directed and produced, and the cast is just outstanding. If you went to the Stratford Festival in Ontario or the Oregon Festival in Ashland, and saw this it would fit right in!

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

When people say that teacher unions "protect their members and not kids" I hear them saying they think their kids' educations would be well served by teachers who can be fired on a whim, who struggle to keep up with the cost of living, and who are one health scare away from bankruptcy.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It's also bad history. Both Himmler and Goring were captured alive and committed suicide rather than face judgement.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

We went last night because our good friend Frederick Secrease is in the cast. Genuinely blown away by how good this cast and production are. This would be entirely at home at the Stratford Festival in Ontario or the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Go, go, go.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I modeled my last term as chair on Kermit the frog and at least I convinced myself that I was beloved and iconic.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My counterpoint: Fuentes is a raging male chauvinist and clearly advocates for a society dominated by white men exerting power over everyone else. In that framework, both Stalin AND Hitler match the hypermasculine dominance theme are consistent as avatars of that dominating entire continents.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

His point: Nick Fuentes is dangerous but not really to the political order because he is mostly an edge lord troll without a clear ideology. His evidence? Fuentes claims to admire both Hitler and Stalin and there is no coherence to that.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I actually got our 16 year old to concede a point in a political discussion, and I feel like I haven't accomplished an intellectual feat that significant since my dissertation defense.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I'm not moderate so much as incremental and by training unable to not see interconnections in policy.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Repeated observation: That wave of overwhelming relief you feel when something that should not have been difficult to resolve is resolved is a trauma response.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

1985 was 15 years ago and I will die on this hill. Probably of peripheral artery disease, but ON THIS HILL.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Students are returning from Spring Break and perhaps this mood check slide is identifying myself as just a touch too online?

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

While acting like the entire tenure of both the Bush and Obama administrations were not guided exactly by their preferred policies. We've been locked in a policy cycle focused on accountability since 1983 yet it is treated as a "new" idea.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Part of me feels like I am reading a draft of a policy memo from Arne Duncan and the other part feels like a bad AI summary of Chubb and Moe. Neither experience is pleasant.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It genuinely amazes me that after decades of making teachers' working conditions and students' learning conditions vastly worse that DFER types still show their faces in public and get rewarded for knowing absolutely nothing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...

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Opinion | Democrats, This Is Why You Haven’t Fixed Schools Yet

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Never ceases to amaze me how many still believe retention works. Like children will suddenly become motivated to learn to read if they flunk a grade and watch their friends move on. Especially when they were pushed to read in kindergarten before they were ready. nancyebailey.com/2017/10/09/f...

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FORCE & FLUNK: Destroying a Child’s Love of Reading—and Their Life - Nancy Bailey's Education Website

We are now in the dangerous era of FORCE & FLUNK when it comes to children and reading. Here’s how it works. FORCE A frenzy surrounding reading is caused by school reformers and the media, claiming ch...

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, prepares you for the stage of life when your kids still need you, you are supposed to have peak responsibilities at work, and your parents become frail.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

It will never stop being weird to me that Bari Weiss has managed a successful and seemingly lucrative career based on mistaking being unlikable with being bravely iconoclastic.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I have on La Damnation de Faust which is probably an inapt choice.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Reviving this thread here: Higher Education Administrators: We are fully committed to the principles of DEI and believe our institution stands for social progress in society. Higher Education Faculty: Great! We'd like to form a union. Higher Education Administrators: No, not like that.

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Daniel Katz, Ph.D. @professordankatz.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Not only is he unqualified, emotionally immature, and regressive -- He also doesn't understand even a little bit what killed station wagons. As a class of vehicle, they have better fuel economy and handling than SUVs, but trucks are more macho than wagons and minivans. Men killed station wagons.

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