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Mark Anderson
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Reading and writing about reading and writing, and thinking about teaching kids how to read and write, and the beautiful complexities of multilingualism and learning to read and write.
https://languageandliteracy.blog
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I press myself into a density of the withheld. I am dropping silently into the depths, leaving only a trail of screaming bubbles that burst somewhere distant unseen.

#CreativeWriting #PersonalNarrative #Poetry
I press myself into a density of the withheld. I am dropping silently into the depths, leaving only a trail of screaming bubbles that burst somewhere distant unseen.
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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“Twenty-one years prior to Nicolls's arrival [in 1643], a visiting Jesuit priest learned that eighteen languages were being spoken in the little town, and that at a time when the population wasn't much more than five hundred."

#history #NYC
July 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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"Sales of blue books this school year were up more than 30% at Texas A&M University and nearly 50% at the University of Florida." --Wall Street Journal

#AI
Sales of blue books this school year were up more than 30% at Texas A&M University and nearly 50% at the University of Florida. The improbable growth was even more impressive at the University of California, Berkeley. Over the past two academic years, blue-book sales at the Cal Student Store were up 80%. Demand for blue books is sud-denly booming again because they help solve a problem that didn't exist on campuses until now.
May 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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#nowreading
Chatter by Ethan Kross
May 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Speaks volumes
Headline of article in NY times: Angelou's Caged Bird is Out, But Hitler's Mein Kampf Stays: 381 Books are Banned from Naval Academy
April 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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The irony of an oil-and-gas executive using the analogy of a frog in a boiling pot . . . to describe being challenged by people who care about our planet.

#climatecrisis #Greenpeace #news
"We've just kind of been the frog in the boiling pot, and it's just gotten worse, and worse, t and worse," said Alan Arm-t strong, the chief executive of pipeline company Williams. "We've just kind of been the frog in the boiling pot, and it's just gotten worse, and worse, t and worse," said Alan Arm-t strong, the chief executive of pipeline company Williams.
March 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Recommended reading if you want to see more clearly the historical threads of racism and anti-democratic values that connect slavelords in the antebellum South to Trump and his followers.

#history
Picture of book cover, Union: The struggle to forge the story of the United States Nationhood by Colin Woodard
February 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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😒
December 29, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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NYC's grit and challenge is part of the allure, tho, right?

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December 14, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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What I'm reading
Book cover for American Nations by Colin Woodard
November 18, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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Just kicked off our new cohort of learning about structured literacy for linguistically diverse learners with school teams in the Bronx and Queens with the amazing Dr. Elsa Cardenas-Hagan at Hostos Community College in the Bronx!
November 13, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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Pictures of my birds today, taken by my kids
A white fronted parrot and his parakeet friend
October 26, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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A beautiful rainbow in Maine
August 22, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Orange fungi
Photo of orange fungi sprouting from the ground
August 10, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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"Without examining the role of stereotypes at the level of fine- grained interactions, we believe that it is impossible to make sense of crime and punishment in the United States."

#crime #stereotypes #reading
Shadows of Doubt by Brendan O'Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi
August 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Public service announcement: I have been riding multiple buses and subway trains across NYC nearly every single day since I moved here in 2009. Ignore the sensationalism and don't be afraid to be on public transit.

#NYC #subway #publictransit
March 15, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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"This paper’s insights also encourage education researchers to look to ecological restoration and other fields that theorize disaster recovery to imagine new possibilities for educational restoration in the COVID-19 era."

#turnaround #schools #education

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Figure for an Education Recovery Wheel, with four dimensions and subdimensions under community capacity, learner capacity, instructional capacity, and leadership capacity.
January 13, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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225th st
December 1, 2023 at 11:57 PM
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This is indeed surprisingly "creamy and bright, not bitter, with a subtle, tingling fruity sweetness" -- as advertised.

#chocolate #cacao
Photo of a chocolate bar on a counter, Raaka 100% cacao unroasted
November 28, 2023 at 2:04 AM
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I wrote this years ago and thought of it when I was near my old store in Queens this week. I'm re-posting for nostalgia's sake--and because it's a reminder of the importance of happiness for adults and children in schools.

Wishing you a happy Thanksgiving!

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Stylized graphic of a colorful Hawaiian shirt
November 23, 2023 at 12:47 PM
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Because the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead were thin, or something, I awoke at 3am this morning and was so awake that I decided to go for a run. I somehow got through the day, if a bit grumpier than usual, and now it's time for a Samhain cerveza. Skoal.
A Drowned Lands west coast style double IPA poured frothily into a tall glass.
October 31, 2023 at 10:16 PM
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"Part of the general puzzle of how we get from the mind to the world. A hundred billion synaptic events clicking away in the dark like blind ladies at their knitting."

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A Bing AI generated image for the McCarthy line from "Stella Maris": "A hundred billion synaptic events clicking away in the dark like blind ladies at their knitting."
October 29, 2023 at 1:48 PM
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RIP Botero
Rapto de Europa by Fernando Botero
September 16, 2023 at 10:46 PM
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Just got this Bard newsletter, and the first thing inquiring minds want to know is: how much of this is written by or with Bard?

#AI #Bard #LLM
A screenshot from a newsletter that begins with "Hi, we're the team behind Bard."
August 29, 2023 at 9:17 PM