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James Noonan
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associate professor at Salem State University in Salem, MA | studying leadership, learning, unlearning, equity | Boston dad interested in public education & politics | more at https://jamesnoonan.scholar.st | he/him | I support 🏳️‍⚧️ folx
Another one, with high exposure, from Roxbury. @universalhub.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Faint view of the aurora from Roxbury’s Highland Park. @universalhub.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Reading Lawrence Wright’s novel about Palestine and Israel (“The Human Scale”), I have to take breaks about every 15 pages. It’s brilliantly plotted and punctuated with paradoxes and history, but the weight of the story is just so heavy with sorrow.
September 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
View from Highland Park in Roxbury tonight @universalhub.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
At least we can still see the stars in Maine
June 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This could’ve been different if three Democrat reps weren’t, you know, dead.
May 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I love lilacs. And I could smell this lilac bush from two blocks away.

And this year’s lilac bloom is about 2-3 weeks earlier than usual.
May 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Hello #AERA2025! If you’re in town and registered, hike up to the Terrace Level for a presentation on the discourses constraining teacher diversity, starting in 30 minutes! @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @aera-divk.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What kind of order even is this??

It’s not an order, more like a strongly worded disapproval written by Susan Collins
April 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
A display at the Roxbury library—poetry of resilience with words by Toni Morrison: “This is precisely the time when artists get to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
April 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is a pretty helpful fact check.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
April 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Even in a world where so much is falling apart, there is still the first forsythia of the season. @arnoldarboretum.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
For the #IdesOfTrump, a postcard in the mail. There’s few things tyrants hate more than being ridiculed. So that’s what I’m going for…
March 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
#TeslaTakedown Dedham, MA as a family @teslatakedown.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What is with the "likely" here, @nytimes.com?? There's no doubt--at all--that Congress needs to weigh in on the dismantling of a cabinet-level department. Who benefits from this kind of equivocation?
March 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
March 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
As someone who really valued your perspective on previous WaPo news and has tried to support its reporting in spite of its editorship, I too was deeply uncomfortable with this news. Which is why, albeit reluctantly, I canceled my subscription today.
February 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Very proud to work at a university standing up for all of its students
February 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Every time I read about these DOGE thugs, I think about how “doge” referred for centuries to the powerful plutocrat ruler of Venice. The OED says it’s a historical term, but I’m not so sure.
February 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This helps explain why desegregation is seen as a political threat. www.nber.org/system/files...
January 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Q: Hmm, why aren’t we getting our @bostonglobe.com?

A: It’s being tossed on top of an 8-10 foot hedge each morning.
January 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
From the Hawthorne Youth and Community Center in Roxbury
December 21, 2024 at 2:24 AM
I've had @matthewakraft.bsky.social's & Melissa Lyon's article on the teaching profession in my browser for months. It's astonishing in its ambition & scope, and it's devastating in its conclusions, which are intuitive for anyone who's spent time among teachers. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XB5JE...
December 18, 2024 at 1:13 AM
We have a December tradition, blending my lapsed Catholicism with my wife’s lifelong atheism, where each night we light candles & read a poem, with four weekly themes: lightness & darkness, love, peace (with justice), & hope.

We could use some new poems to choose from, if you’ve got any to share.
December 3, 2024 at 11:46 PM
This book is maybe the best climate fiction I’ve read since “Ministry for the Future”
November 30, 2024 at 2:11 AM