Erin Vanderhoof

It's so scary!!!

i actually taught this LITERAL lesson in 2013, and there was a whole "engage the student" day with background on the book/time period (One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia, actually pretty good) before you send them home to read the first chapter by themselves. Reviewing it is this second lesson

yep, Connecticut 2013!

It's cheaper to keep them new! and if you're not trying to teach them anything with intrinsic value, just "skills," it's actually worse to have someone who knows what they're doing. then they might demand a curriculum that makes sense

not particularly fun! it definitely makes classroom management much easier to assert in the beginning because the students are trained to respond to this stuff as maximally engaging. but there's very little intrinsic interest left when you're drilling into everything like this.

I did my summer training at an Uncommon Schools site, and we had to spend so much time working on these insane lesson plans

College grads with little experience in education!!! wooo Teach for America!!!

“Ricki don’t lose that number”

I agree, but i think it is notable that their ideas about the future are totally unrealistic and symptomatically deranged. Visions of a future so dumb that they might as well not actually be having a vision at all

though about halfway through Bowling Alone he does just kinda admit "it's TV" and that goes a long way towards making up for the pages he spent talking about the decline of bridge

i am obsessed with making this point about the Putnam and want to write about it at some point because it feels very important

really depressing that this is going to just keep happening, and in a about 8 to 10 years, there's going to be a huge spike of these deaths. the anti-vax movement is such a curse on our society

I know this is defeatist, but it really does seem like people with money and power have totally given up on the future. That's a bummer!

Honestly, progressives have pretty much given up on the idea that education or cultural transmission of any kind is actually valuable as a political project. and I don't blame them(/us) for it after the last 30 years, either, though it is depressing

Problem Child | Eli Cugini Pixar isn’t just dithering about diversity—it has become visibly scared of children themselves.

very excited for this to be out in the world: i wrote about repressed queerness in Elio, child surveillance in Inside Out 2, the post-Lasseter crisis, and the figure of the child in Pixar for The Baffler

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Seeing all the adverts for young sherlock on the buses and trying to come to terms with the fact we are probably only one hype cycle away from Teen Marple.

this is just such a weird thing to be a right wing meme! at least it's a sign that they are going to move on eventually

glad that my insane year corresponding with LVH has been elevated into beautiful prose here

this book also confirmed what i could have guessed, which is that John Brown College in northwest Arkansas was NOT named for the one you've heard of, but rather for some random unrelated evangelist who converted a rich guy

The lines that are being drawn here are around a binary in which the future of education is either:

a.) Christian nationalist indoctrination with books

or

b.) Christian nationalist indoctrination with chatbots

There is no third way coming from the conservatives or establishment liberals.

I think this exact story happening thousands of times over during the last 50 years is the real reason why ~Christianity has declined~ in America

honestly Prop 8 and realizing that there just wasn't really a middle ground on the issue of gay marriage or an "agree to disagree" to be found. I went back after my denomination had a schism and started marrying same-sex couples

At the point in my career where I am constantly getting invited to cool parties in Paris, where I am not, but never in New York, where I am

DOLLS Beyond Purity Culture for Every Child. Let’s stop pretending children are dolls. They are made of fire, truth, and power. What they need is justice. What they need is our allyship.

"While purity culture claims to 'protect' kids, it has a long history of looking away from real abuse. Epstein thrived in a world that polices girls’ clothing more than men’s violence."

ahhh i see

hmmm wonder why cornel west decided he wanted to be involved with this???

Looking forward to key parties and bell bottoms

I've been reading To Serve God and Walmart by Bethany Moreton and while it is a great work of scholarship, it also has the concisest, sassiest dispelling of this nostalgia I have seen. People "left because the farm failed, not because they yearned for the bright lights of the big city."

Maybe we should be clearer. Jobs aren’t at risk from AI. They’re at risk from amoral shitbag short term spec capitalists using AI against a weakly unionised workforce and broken government.

Omg Teyana Taylor has a little MTA voiceover announcement at the station near my church. Queen!