Daniel Katz, Ph.D.
@professordankatz.bsky.social
Teacher Educator, Department of Educational Studies.
Existing at the intersection of anxiety, mentoring, and content literacy.
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Existing at the intersection of anxiety, mentoring, and content literacy.
Views are my own. Nobody would pay me for this anyway.
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it's hard to read the chart in the screenshot but what this moron is actually complaining about isn't "DEI" staff, it's special education teachers. these ghouls are coming for people with disabilities and they aren't even shy about it.
I cannot even tell what reset year this mess we are in aims at:
1975 (before IDEA)?
1953 (before Brown v. Board)?
1916 (Before Smith-Hughes Act)?
1861 (Before the Morrill Land Grant Acts)?
1646 (Before the Old Deluder Satan Law)?
The sky really seems like the limit.
1975 (before IDEA)?
1953 (before Brown v. Board)?
1916 (Before Smith-Hughes Act)?
1861 (Before the Morrill Land Grant Acts)?
1646 (Before the Old Deluder Satan Law)?
The sky really seems like the limit.
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...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...
Opinion | Democrats, This Is Why You Haven’t Fixed Schools Yet
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...
Oof.
Eli Stark-Elster — School Is Way Worse for Kids than Social Media
The post is an essay by Eli Stark-Elster from his Substack. Here's a link to the original. His argument is that -- although there's a lot of talk now about the damage that social media are doing to children and major efforts to ban…
The post is an essay by Eli Stark-Elster from his Substack. Here's a link to the original. His argument is that -- although there's a lot of talk now about the damage that social media are doing to children and major efforts to ban…
Eli Stark-Elster — School Is Way Worse for Kids than Social Media
The post is an essay by Eli Stark-Elster from his Substack. Here's a link to the original. His argument is that -- although there's a lot of talk now about the damage that social media are doing to children and major efforts to ban social media use for anyone under 16 -- there's a bigger threat to the life and health of young people: attending school.
davidlabaree.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Oof.
Reposted by Daniel Katz, Ph.D.
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...
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...
nancyebailey.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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...
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.
January 31, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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.
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.
basically a collection of weiss's friends and pet projects
The new CBS contributors:
Elliot Ackerman, Peter Attia, Masih Alinejad, Arthur Brooks, Caroline Chambers, Clare de Boer, Niall Ferguson, Roland Fryer Jr., Andrew Huberman, Coleman Hughes, Mark Hyman, Janna Levin, Casey Lewis, HR McMaster, Patrick McGee, Reihan Salam, Lauren Sherman, Derek Thompson
Elliot Ackerman, Peter Attia, Masih Alinejad, Arthur Brooks, Caroline Chambers, Clare de Boer, Niall Ferguson, Roland Fryer Jr., Andrew Huberman, Coleman Hughes, Mark Hyman, Janna Levin, Casey Lewis, HR McMaster, Patrick McGee, Reihan Salam, Lauren Sherman, Derek Thompson
January 27, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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.
Reposted by Daniel Katz, Ph.D.
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.
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.
November 17, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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.
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.
I am proud our family are members at BJ. Rabbi Felicia Sol navigated every difficult turn in this Yom Kippur Sermon beautifully. We don't have to run away from hard things. In fact, we just shouldn't.
youtu.be/H32_aWTHoUo?...
youtu.be/H32_aWTHoUo?...
Rabbi Felicia Sol | Yom Kippur Morning Sermon 5786
YouTube video by B'nai Jeshurun
youtu.be
October 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I am proud our family are members at BJ. Rabbi Felicia Sol navigated every difficult turn in this Yom Kippur Sermon beautifully. We don't have to run away from hard things. In fact, we just shouldn't.
youtu.be/H32_aWTHoUo?...
youtu.be/H32_aWTHoUo?...
Maybe I can't save the world but I can save this little oven bird who bounced off of a building window.
September 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Maybe I can't save the world but I can save this little oven bird who bounced off of a building window.
Made this back in 2017. Feels evergreen:
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Made this back in 2017. Feels evergreen:
Texas Professor Fired After Accusations of Teaching ‘Gender Ideology’
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Current Mood:
a child is laying on the floor in a playground with a merry go round
Alt: a child is laying on the floor in a playground with a merry go round being dragged in a circle passively
media.tenor.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Current Mood:
Our daughter is getting a double room in a suite after spending two weeks in a "forced triple" room. So Friday morning I hit the road super early to bring her remaining stuff and set it up before her pm shift in the scenery construction shop.
And I have to say goodbye again. Give me strength.
And I have to say goodbye again. Give me strength.
September 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Our daughter is getting a double room in a suite after spending two weeks in a "forced triple" room. So Friday morning I hit the road super early to bring her remaining stuff and set it up before her pm shift in the scenery construction shop.
And I have to say goodbye again. Give me strength.
And I have to say goodbye again. Give me strength.
Not entirely sure that the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog soundtrack is getting me in the right mood for a long teaching block...But I am not changing the music.
a man in a superhero costume says a man 's gotta do what a man 's gotta do '
Alt: Captain Hammer from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog says a man 's gotta do what a man 's gotta do '
media.tenor.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Not entirely sure that the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog soundtrack is getting me in the right mood for a long teaching block...But I am not changing the music.
It isn't the biggest issue we face as a nation, but every time I see the current state of the Oval Office I want to head down to D.C. with a putty knife and a ladder and get to work fixing it.
August 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It isn't the biggest issue we face as a nation, but every time I see the current state of the Oval Office I want to head down to D.C. with a putty knife and a ladder and get to work fixing it.
What do you mean I am just supposed to wake up every morning and our daughter is not here?
#parentofacollegekid
#parentofacollegekid
August 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
What do you mean I am just supposed to wake up every morning and our daughter is not here?
#parentofacollegekid
#parentofacollegekid
American Chattel Slavery was:
Permanent
Inheritable
Imposed entirely on the basis of race
Subject to virtually zero standards whatsoever and enforceable by total brutality
In the history of the world that makes the "peculiar institution" in the United States especially heinous.
Permanent
Inheritable
Imposed entirely on the basis of race
Subject to virtually zero standards whatsoever and enforceable by total brutality
In the history of the world that makes the "peculiar institution" in the United States especially heinous.
August 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
American Chattel Slavery was:
Permanent
Inheritable
Imposed entirely on the basis of race
Subject to virtually zero standards whatsoever and enforceable by total brutality
In the history of the world that makes the "peculiar institution" in the United States especially heinous.
Permanent
Inheritable
Imposed entirely on the basis of race
Subject to virtually zero standards whatsoever and enforceable by total brutality
In the history of the world that makes the "peculiar institution" in the United States especially heinous.
I’m terribly afraid that I have misled our daughter about the overall organizational skills of most of the professoriate.
August 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I’m terribly afraid that I have misled our daughter about the overall organizational skills of most of the professoriate.
Reposted by Daniel Katz, Ph.D.
The gap between higher- and lower-spending education states is growing. www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/revisit...
Revisiting the Great Divergence in State Education Spending
The gap between higher- and lower-spending education states is growing.
www.shankerinstitute.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The gap between higher- and lower-spending education states is growing. www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/revisit...
Watching someone you love trying to figure out how to make Apple OS do things locally is painful.
August 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Watching someone you love trying to figure out how to make Apple OS do things locally is painful.
I held a very minor but elected position for 4 years. I did get the opportunity to rub a few elbows with careerist, and while the people I met were earnest and wanted to do good, the compulsion to be IN office always baffled me.
August 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I held a very minor but elected position for 4 years. I did get the opportunity to rub a few elbows with careerist, and while the people I met were earnest and wanted to do good, the compulsion to be IN office always baffled me.
Our eldest has been on a Falsettos obsession lately, so I handed her "And the Band Played On" for context. She is both grateful and angry at me which is about the right reaction I think for someone really learning what happened and who refused to care.
July 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Our eldest has been on a Falsettos obsession lately, so I handed her "And the Band Played On" for context. She is both grateful and angry at me which is about the right reaction I think for someone really learning what happened and who refused to care.
I sometimes wonder if generative AI experts and commentators who assert that they are able to "sense" the artificiality in writing created by LLMs are falling into a reverse "Eliza effect" by attributing artificiality to writing because they know AI was involved rather than by objective standards.
July 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I sometimes wonder if generative AI experts and commentators who assert that they are able to "sense" the artificiality in writing created by LLMs are falling into a reverse "Eliza effect" by attributing artificiality to writing because they know AI was involved rather than by objective standards.
This is not why I became a teacher educator.
July 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is not why I became a teacher educator.