Cammy Rowley
@cjrowley.bsky.social
Educator, Grammy and work for betterment of the common good.
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My new blog post - "Education for What?" - offers a series of questions for probing and refining our views on the goals of schooling. When we ignore this topic, I argue, we end up by default with crude credentialism: www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/purpose
Education for What?
August 25, 2025 Education for What? By Alfie Kohn To talk about curriculum (what to teach) or pedagogy (how to teach) is to bump up against the question of why to teach. What is the…
www.alfiekohn.org
August 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My new blog post - "Education for What?" - offers a series of questions for probing and refining our views on the goals of schooling. When we ignore this topic, I argue, we end up by default with crude credentialism: www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/purpose
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Hardly surprising this is what the Republican budget does but I guess it needs to be repeated over and over again because there's tens of millions of people out there who just do not get it.
New from CBO: the Republican budget reconciliation plan would hurt the poorest Americans while helping the richest Americans
May 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Hardly surprising this is what the Republican budget does but I guess it needs to be repeated over and over again because there's tens of millions of people out there who just do not get it.
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Notice how attentive and tender she is. It’s just beautiful.
In time her play will begin shifting toward more and more fantasy. But for now, that’s one well-attended “baby.”
In time her play will begin shifting toward more and more fantasy. But for now, that’s one well-attended “baby.”
March 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Notice how attentive and tender she is. It’s just beautiful.
In time her play will begin shifting toward more and more fantasy. But for now, that’s one well-attended “baby.”
In time her play will begin shifting toward more and more fantasy. But for now, that’s one well-attended “baby.”
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Here’s your chance to do something. Click here and send the link to all your friends, and urge them to come out too.
Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
handsoff2025.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Here’s your chance to do something. Click here and send the link to all your friends, and urge them to come out too.
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Over $1.75 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market today. Trump owns all of this.
March 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Over $1.75 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market today. Trump owns all of this.
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I'm not trying to scare you. What is happening right now to this nation should scare you enough. I'm trying to wake you up and ask you to see if your heart is still beating, and then to do something worthy of that gift.
Whatever hill is worth dying on for you in this life, take it now.
Whatever hill is worth dying on for you in this life, take it now.
March 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I'm not trying to scare you. What is happening right now to this nation should scare you enough. I'm trying to wake you up and ask you to see if your heart is still beating, and then to do something worthy of that gift.
Whatever hill is worth dying on for you in this life, take it now.
Whatever hill is worth dying on for you in this life, take it now.
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I’ve been feeling a particular affinity for the French these days … not just because I’ve watched Casablanca so many times lately that I know the words to the first verse of La Marseillaise forward and backward
March 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I’ve been feeling a particular affinity for the French these days … not just because I’ve watched Casablanca so many times lately that I know the words to the first verse of La Marseillaise forward and backward
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AP: “.. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.”
@apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸
apnews.com/article/doge...
@apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸
apnews.com/article/doge...
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money,...
apnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
AP: “.. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.”
@apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸
apnews.com/article/doge...
@apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸
apnews.com/article/doge...
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Pathetic. Shameful. Cowardly. Disgusting. Trump and JD Vance showed the world they will enthusiastically reward the aggression of dictators and don't think freedom is worth fighting for.
They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."
They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."
February 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Pathetic. Shameful. Cowardly. Disgusting. Trump and JD Vance showed the world they will enthusiastically reward the aggression of dictators and don't think freedom is worth fighting for.
They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."
They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."
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Serious diplomacy about hard matters takes place behind closed doors and not on social media platforms.
February 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Serious diplomacy about hard matters takes place behind closed doors and not on social media platforms.
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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason."
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
February 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason."
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
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NEW REPORT: Bruce Baker and David Knight review the evidence on whether, how, and how much K-12 funding affects student outcomes, with special focus on studies published over the past 10-12 years. www.shankerinstitute.org/resource/doe...
Does Money Matter in Education? (Third Edition)
A comprehensive review of the research about the effect of K-12 school funding on student outcomes.
www.shankerinstitute.org
February 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
NEW REPORT: Bruce Baker and David Knight review the evidence on whether, how, and how much K-12 funding affects student outcomes, with special focus on studies published over the past 10-12 years. www.shankerinstitute.org/resource/doe...