Celebrating 10 years of powerful work at Learning Policy Institute as Barbara Chow honors leaders Linda Darling-Hammond and Elena Silva.

Andrea McChristian of @justequations.bsky.social testifying to the DC Board of education about equity in high school math redesign.

Math should open doors — not close them. 🧮 EdTrust’s new blog series highlights how equity & civil rights orgs are breaking down barriers in math education for Black, Latino & low-income students. Learn more: edtru.st/45n3Z23 #Math #Education #EdEquity

Protesters Fill Streets Across U.S. to Oppose Trump Policies.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Update: site is loading again, but not functioning well at all. The page about ED investigating state of MD for FERPA violation will not load.

Looks like the ed.gov home page is no more?? Subsidiary links seem to still be working. At least for now. @dtkung.bsky.social
@deniseforte.bsky.social
@edtrust.bsky.social @edtrustny.bsky.social
@justequations.bsky.social

You guys, this scandal is so bad it made Pete Buttigieg, America’s calmest, most composed human, swear on the internet.

The CSU Northridge math department already does fantastic work – and with our help they can do even more. (Also, many in the department were hard hit by the recent fires.)

I donated - please consider joining me!
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Trump yesterday, repeating something he’s been saying for years (re: tariffs, which he said would make the US “rich’): “it’s going to stop us from being a laughingstock all over the world because we have been taken advantage of like no country has been taken advantage of.” Let’s unpack this a bit./1

This NYT sleight-of-hand is part of why Trump’s insane racism flourishes. The implication is that it’s possible to “attack diversity” WITHOUT a “racist undercurrent.”

And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.

Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

“The meaning behind Trump’s words was clear, that diversity equals incompetence. And for many historians, civil rights leaders, scholars and citizens, it was an unmistakable message of racism in plain sight at the highest levels of American government.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

We are not powerless.
Re Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Xitter.
"The robber barons of old built railroads and monopolies; today’s tech barons shape reality itself. If we fail to hold them accountable, the price will be not just economic inequality, but the very fabric of democracy" - Joel Westheimer

Where is the investigative reporting on these extremely disturbing stories, particularly about Musk’s malign activity?

USAID removes its anti-corruption policy document, which set forth U.S. objectives for institutionalizing anti-corruption as a core priority. Truth in advertising, I guess.

In a functioning democracy, a President who pardoned a mob that assaulted the Capitol while trying to overturn the election, and who then fired the prosecutors who put them behind bars, would be removed from power.

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

In March 1948, shortly after Truman’s civil rights address, a coalition of Republicans and Southern conservatives succeeded in fighting provisions that would have banned certain appropriations to institutions that practiced segregation.