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Eric Turner Ed.D. @radicalteacher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I just said John Dewey is a weenie to my new superintendent. Told him I’m more a Bettina Love, Bill Ayers, Zach Casey guy.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The explicit bans on books & the implicit self-censoring of difficult curriculum leave our kids less prepared for the world outside of school...and create a gap in our children’s public education that is ready to be filled by social media influencers, misinformation, and propaganda."

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Eric Turner Ed.D. @radicalteacher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Schools will never have restorative cultures until they apologize for the harm done to students by the institution of schooling. And that will never happen because too many adults refuse to see the harm and would refuse to acknowledge the need to apologize.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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David Knuffke @davidknuffke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s the natural conclusion that follows from the mechanistic, cog.sci. version of “highly effective teaching”. If there is one (or a few) best practices, then all we need is to do those. And if they don’t work, the children are the issue, not the practices.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The main offerings at Alpha School are the impactful experiences Hendrick would argue are not scalable, and others in the science of learning advocacy crowd would argue don’t work and can’t work to help kids learn at all.

What’s remarkable is how Alpha School doesn’t lead with anything Hendrick so powerfully defends. While Hendrick uses the phrases throughout his case for Alpha School, there are no mentions of ‘science of learning,’ ‘learning science,’ ‘evidence-based,’ ‘research-based,’ or ‘cognitive science’ on Alpha’s homepage, program descriptions, or admissions pages.

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Gordon Wark 🤬💥😡🔥🕗🕕🕓🕖 @1stwark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For Election Tampering And Theft Of Private Data, Also Just For Being A Twat!

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026

Good news: he lost.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Increase in productivity since 1979: 93% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 34% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

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Eric Turner Ed.D. @radicalteacher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Am I wrong for thinking that teacher ego and unsound pedagogical hoops shouldn’t be the reason a kid doesn’t pass a class?

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Without sociology, what toolkit do you have for claims that fall within that domain, *especially* when those claims are about the values we embed in formal education, policy, and school as an institution? pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2026/08/edu-...

Science is never completely settled, but it is settled-enough on reading instruction for us to take action at scale, using public health prevention principles. However, knowledge translation is blocked by the “but, but, but” rhetoric of (for example) “every child is different”, “there’s still unanswered questions”, “there’s a range of ways of teaching a child to read” etc - so this favours a paralysis and inertia of indecision over drawing decisive lines in the sand, as we see in other disciplines like medicine, with clinical care pathways that create accountability guardrails without removing practitioner judgement, and iterative review as the evidence evolves.

Education academics whose work is embedded in postmodern sociology are focused on rhetorical activism, not on the basic scientific foundation of falsifiability. Findings they don’t like are cast into the moral wilderness with slurs like “positivism” or “neoliberal” - no more discussion needed. This is not academic rigour.

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 13/08/2026

Boston College Prison Education Program student, Gregory Coito, on How Recreation Helps People Survive Prison: "If the goal of prison is punishment alone then empty suffering may seem enough. But if the goal includes rehabilitation, order, and public safety, recreation is essential."

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How Recreation Helps People Survive Prison | Human Restoration Project

Inside a Massachusetts prison, card games, basketball, and hobbies mark time, build trust, and remind people they are still human.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

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Vampirium: 1997 on Steam

1997. Dracula is King of England. At his command, master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living enviro...

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Eric Turner Ed.D. @radicalteacher.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

One missing quiz from 7 weeks ago shouldn’t swing a grade enough to deny a kid a passing grade.

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Eric Turner Ed.D. @radicalteacher.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Few things frustrate me more than teacher policies that deny students credits based not on learning but on teacher convenience.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The most corrupt president in the history of our country.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

NAACP Calls on Black Athletes & Fans to Withhold Athletic and Financial Support of Public Schools in States Attacking Black Voting Rights

The NAACP today is launching the “Out of Bounds” campaign, a national call for Black athletes, families, fans, alumni, and consumers to withhold athletic and financial support from public universities in states that have moved to limit, weaken, or erase Black voting representation in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which gutted what was left of the Voting Rights Act The NAACP identified eight priority states — Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Georgia — and targeted flagship public athletic programs generating more than $100 million in annual revenue that continue to recruit Black athletes while their state governments dismantle the political power of Black communities.

What these states have done is not a policy disagreement. It is a sprint to erase Black political power,” said Derrick Johnson, National President & CEO, NAACP. “These actions happened in days, in some cases in hours, of a Supreme Court ruling that gives extremist lawmakers a playbook to erode Black representation. The NAACP will not watch the same institutions that depend on Black athletic prowess to fill their stadiums and their bank accounts remain silent while their states strip Black communities of their voice. Out of Bounds is our answer: we are naming the contradiction, and we are calling on Black athletes, families, fans, and consumers to act on it. The same power that built these programs can be redirected. And it will be.”

The economic stakes of the campaign are significant. The flagship universities in the eight targeted states collectively generate billions of dollars in annual athletic revenue.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This should, of course, be a sober reminder of what the "reopen the schools" crowd demanded with mass infection, now our kids are paying it back with interest.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It's definitely both/and. The emphasis on tech is the more popular narrative and (ironically?) more likely to push attention-grabbing headlines and bestsellers, while nobody has a #1 Amazon Bestseller about how schools need to be more responsive, understanding, & compassionate bc of long COVID...

cover of jared horvath's book The Digital Delusion featuring a gross infected apple leaking a digital chip from it

cover of jon haidt's the anxious generation with a girl looking at her phone

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This article seems like mostly bad faith ragebait from people who should know the difference between the oppressive corporatization and Fisher Price-ification of educational technology for schools and the legitimate value of digital tools. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

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Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is propaganda.

headline: gen z doesn't want your full-time job. They want several part-time roles, and it's reshaping the entire workforce.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It's actually remarkable the extent to which we're propagandized to perceive the performance of war as free of cost while counting pennies for everything else. A single tomahawk missile costs $3M and we used nearly one thousand of them in the first month of strikes on Iran.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Accountability is very important. Without it, the people who do bad things are just emboldened to do more bad things. You vote for a capitalist, and you'll never see accountability. If you vote for a capitalist from either party, all these criminals walk free. Divine justice is fake. It's up to us.

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Roll for ancient initiative.

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philipmartin77.bsky.social @philipmartin77.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

People in the US really don't know the only reason Iran has a religious theocracy is that the US overthrew the democratically elected gov't in Iran, and installed the brutal Shah, because they wanted to control their own oil ? Really ????

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

When the narrative shifts this fast, it’s not evidence of a conspiracy, it’s evidence of a lie struggling to keep up with itself. Lies trip you up when your story changes.👇

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"By contrast, social media time would account for a measly 2.4% in the variance in youth mental health, assuming that correlation isn’t just noise (which it may very well be)."

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Last year @humrespro.bsky.social hosted a session with an anti-extremism group out of the UK about how to recognize and combat the "manosphere" in classrooms: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ox...

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Combating the “Manosphere” in the Classroom

YouTube video by Human Restoration Project

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

CAMPAIGN UPDATE: 5 DAYS TO GO!!!! 💥 Abughamentum has turned into ABUGHAMANIA!!!! 💥 AIPAC is still terrified we’re gonna win — and they’re right! 💥 Last primary livestream with Ilana Glazer at 1230 CT!! 💥 Canvass and phonebanking shifts every single day!! 💥 Donate BEFORE tomorrow please!!!!

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Eric Turner Ed.D. @radicalteacher.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Not to be all Ted Lasso about curiosity, but when a 25 year veteran teacher with anEdD and years working with the most marginalized students in the building embraces and suggests a different approach to grades, maybe don’t respond with snark

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

If you have not read How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr I highly recommend it. Incredible how much Americans just don’t get taught about American history

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Eric Turner Ed.D. @radicalteacher.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Some of us in education live and work almost entirely in the realm of exceptions and special circumstances. Stop trying to make us fit your institutional norms.

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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

DISTRACTIONS DON’T WORK. COVERUPS WON’T WORK. NOT EVEN WAR. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

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Eric Turner Ed.D. @radicalteacher.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I’m currently pondering the harm done to education by the first teacher to give points for students taking notes.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 08/03/2026

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Unlike this administration, no Iranian in my lifetime has posed a threat to me and my friends and family. There is exactly one "very radical and wicked dictatorship" threatening America and our core national security interests, and it's headquartered at the White House.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

When elephants fight, the grass suffers.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

If you can say reading scores in one domain go up as a result of this intervention, and that's all that matters, then the other stuff doesn't even count. Reading scores are a separate outcome from the aim of having a popularly literate society.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Let's be clear, designing K-3 instruction around passing a reading test to determine 3rd grade retention is entirely different from designing school around the belief that literacy is active, enriching, and necessary. Are kids living literacy or just performing parts of it for the test?

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

"Each child is tested weekly, with scores posted in a green, yellow or red zone, indicating how likely it is that they will pass a big reading test in the spring..." My stars! A system oriented entirely around testing, tracking, and test prep does better on the test! 🤯

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

the fact the president of the united states is even thinking about asserting emergency powers to disrupt an election - just a few years after he incited an armed coup attempt - should be the top issue. but the media mostly shrugs and the opposition doesnt focus on it.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Weird they dragged in Hillary Clinton when there's another First Lady right there in the White House who actually knew Jeffrey Epstein.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/02/2026

Good. Also, fuck the Department of Education for attempting to pull this bullshit in the first place, and fuck this whole racist, shitty administration. And fuck ICE, while I'm at it, because that's just an evergreen at this point.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

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