If you care about neurodiversity, linguistic diversity, cultural diversity, racial justice, disability justice you can't ignore the potential of any curriculum or curriculum policy to exclude and erase. Especially when curriculum is being used as a lever for reform.

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RT @sandylocks: We know now that what they're coming after is not one form of thinking. It's not Black history, it's not intersectionality,…

9/10 times I signed on here when it was the blue-🐦, it was to see what @jmhenner had to say about the world and bounce off to jon-inspired side quests. In celebration of the 43rd anniversary of his birth, I'm going to give #BlueskySocial a try. See you there or beyond.

Black women have saved democracy enough times to deserve more than cosmetic diversity. We deserve more than hope and change. We deserve recognition and power. Above all, we deserve better than a post at the head of a sinking ship that reveres the iceberg. nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opini…

"Holding Vigil" by Alison Luterman wp.me/pfVJnt-can via @rattlepoetry

Most of this spending went to kids who were already in private school before getting vouchers. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/…

The cost of distraction. $3.2bn

It's so depressing to watch tech evangelists their corporate ed reformer allies continue to push AI into public schools to further deprofessionalize educators dehumanize students in pursuit of control profit using the language of equity.

JD Vance recently said “the professors are the enemy.” A certain right-wing think tank is busy combing through hundreds of my employment records, including my personnel file—which is strong. They’re desperate for any way to discredit me or my book, The Privateers. There seems to be some special fixation they have with why, in 2020, I left the research center I founded at MSU in 2016. So I’ll tell you. What happened is that I could not keep up with the pace of a growing organization. During a reappointment process that would have committed me to 3 more years, I decided I couldn’t do it anymore, and stepped aside. We had an outstanding co-director and a managing director who deserved to run the center entirely, without me squatting on an honorary title. During the resulting leadership transition process, I continued to insist on having many things done my way, and in doing so made things harder for my team than they needed to be. Especially once the pandemic hit. I regret that. But eventually we settled on a resolution, I went back to my full-time faculty role, and everyone moved on. There you have it. I stand by the sum total of my career, and by The Privateers👇 hep.gse.harvard.edu/97816825…

After the HMH compliance walkthrough I was told there was a question as to why I included the word "block" in my vocabulary center. Reader, the word was included in the Into Reading lesson plan.

Teacher PD has needed an overhaul for a generation. And, it matters how we do it. Don't let it be the next frontier for $ flow w/o accountability. Don't let teachers be another kind of casualty of policy change. @LearningForward @ASCD @ILAToday @ncte @ncte_cel

Feels like we the turning point we clocked 6mos ago is rounding faster now. The new Clemens & Vaughn Article in TRLJ is another indication Watch how the loudest respond. Are they silent? Did they tell you so? Is that what they meant all along? Is the old news new again?

Kim Marshall and the Marshall Memo are a national treasure. marshallmemo.com/