At least when Reagan and Clinton were saying this dumb ish we still had a semblance of a safety net.

I remember a clip circa 2021 of a like 7 year old white girl when asked about whether learning about racism made her feel bad and she said "I don't know why you would feel bad unless you still wanted thind to be that way."

That was rough

50?? Of each??

In any case this is very exciting news for @blackjew.bsky.social

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It reminds me of one of my favorite lines from Sports Night, "and because we have soccer highlights, the sheet pointlessness of a 0-0 tie."

Did Hearst get to them?

This is how you get poltergeists

I also just got an ad that they're honoring in state tuition for MA students. They're going hard.

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.

In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”

And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

You will definitely not find me defending RTTT, and it's important, I think, to situate it in 40 years of bipartisan Ed policy laser focused on the overwrought predictions of Nation at Risk.

It's absolutely wild how so many people in charge think that the point is the tests. Like, how did the measuring tape get to be in charge?