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Dr. Travis Crowder

@teachermantrav.bsky.social
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Reader. Writer. Learner. Philosopher. Author of Reflective Readers. Doctor of Education. he/him

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Walks In Camera 🇺🇦🌳 @walksincamera.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Tree silhouette last #trees #woodland #treeclub
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/11/2025
The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977. www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
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Tom Stoppard, Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos
From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
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Dr. Travis Crowder @teachermantrav.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Recently finished King’s THE SHINING. Such an exceptional read. Now, I’m thinking back to my undergrad years, when an entire department refused to advise my writing of a thesis related to King’s work. There’s a literary quality here—a clear brilliance. #teacherman #teaching #writing #write
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/11/2025
Breaking News: The Supreme Court denied a request to consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. nyti.ms/3Ju2Ayd
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Subscribe to our newsletters: You can choose between #media newsletter with news from the Memorial and #education newsletter with updates on our educational programs. Subscribe here: t.co/qVB4wq3qUb Amplify our voice. We remember together.
Railroad tracks and the entrance gate of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. COntemporary photo of the Memorial site.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory, I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s human to become an agent of the angel of death. Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
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Dr. Travis Crowder @teachermantrav.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Since leaving the Twitter-verse, I haven’t found a comparable community of educators. I don’t regret leaving—yet I miss the discussions and professional learning. Calling out to my fellow educators. Definitely miss you and look forward to learning here. #teaching #EnglishTeacher #teacherman
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/10/2025
Ever since Donald Trump was first elected President, in 2016, a slew of books have attempted to reckon with the growing divide between urban and rural populations in the U.S. Few do so as deftly as Beth Macy’s new book, “Paper Girl,” Grace Byron writes.
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The Muscular Compassion of “Paper Girl”
In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as a ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hey MAGA people, having any buyer’s remorse yet? 🤣🤣🤣
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Shanna Peeples 🏳️‍🌈 @shannapeeples.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“An authentically popular American fascism would be pious, antiblack, and, since September 11, 2001, anti-Islamic as well.” Chilling, brilliant essay by @michaelharriot.bsky.social www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-threat...
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The 'Threat to Democracy' Is Over
It's time to admit that the fascism we feared is already here.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 01/02/2025
“It is called ‘school choice,’ but the schools choose, not the students or families.” —an interview with @dianeravitch.bsky.social
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The Campaign to Destroy Public Schools | Diane Ravitch
“It is called ‘school choice,’ but the schools choose, not the students or families.”
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Dr. Travis Crowder @teachermantrav.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Moving towards the end of my dissertation. #amwriting #doctoralcandidate #criticalreflection
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Dr. Travis Crowder @teachermantrav.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Thrilled to be part of this year’s conference!
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Dr. Travis Crowder @teachermantrav.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 19/01/2025
“One rationale for public schools has long been that students benefit from learning alongside classmates from different backgrounds,” writes Diane Ravitch. “But this is precisely what the parents’ rights movement rejects.”
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‘Their Kind of Indoctrination’ | Diane Ravitch
Donald Trump and his supporters have hardly been shy about his ambitions for education. They can be found laid out concisely in three documents: the
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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” — Isaac Asimov
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Dr. Travis Crowder @teachermantrav.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Interesting.
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Dr. Travis Crowder @teachermantrav.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Roth’s work is masterful—yes, requiring interrogation, but his narratives and characters are exquisitely crafted, his ideas incisive and critical. After reading several of his novels, I listened to the biography by Blake Bailey. I continue to be intrigued, and want to read more of Roth’s novels.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/01/2025
'The air, as dusk came, grew yellow, like the fog in Prufrock that licks its tongue into the corners of the evening.' Colm Tóibín writes from Los Angeles, online early from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Colm Tóibín · In LA
A new fire started in Hollywood. It might have looked as though we were now surrounded on three sides by fires, but it...
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Dr. Travis Crowder @teachermantrav.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Dr. Travis Crowder @teachermantrav.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Dr. Travis Crowder @teachermantrav.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I love this passage from Salman Rushdie’s memoir, KNIFE.
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Dr. Travis Crowder @teachermantrav.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thinking about the reading-writing connection this morning and its benefits—both as a teacher and doctoral candidate. Baldwin’s philosophy nudges me to even deeper layers of reflection. #amwriting #Baldwin #dissertation #criticalreflection
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