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A pile of lumber is not a house.
Cookie dough is not cookies.
An acorn is not an oak tree.
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(((Ceolaf)))
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(((Ceolaf)))
@ceolaf
Educator & ed researcher. Currently focusing on how to develop better tests, for instruction and for democratic oversight of schools. https://t.co/NAfCcULcyy
انضم Şubat 2008
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@pegobry_en @mattyglesias @Noahpinion The New York City public school system has over 1 MILLION students.
You think that people who live in apartments can’t have children?
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One of the tweets I got dragged for the most was when I tweeted that "dense walkability" was code for "we don't want you to have kids" but I was, of course, totally correct.
(Both @mattyglesias and @Noahpinion had meltdowns.)
Apartments are antinatal: ifstudies.org/blog/more-crow…
Arpit Gupta@arpitrage
Another quietly subversive paper. Urbanists are often young and childless — this is a unique demographic most interested in city centers Even in Copenhagen, people move to the city when young, but move out to suburbs when they get married/have kids, and don't move back
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@rickhess99 And ELA teachers to discuss empathy and our common humanity, as those are dominant themes across literature.
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Look, schooling inevitably touches on values. I fully expect science teachers to address climate change and history teachers to discuss slavery. That will necessarily entail content-relevant, age-appropriate provocation.
But provocation should not be a goal in its own right. Teachers should approach these topics with deep knowledge and a clear sense of how to help students make sense of what they’re learning.
Classrooms are a place for responsible professionals, not self-indulgent activists eager to test drive each new cause du jour they find in a webinar or DEI training. That’s how schools got lured into the center of our culture clashes.
Refusing that temptation is how educators can opt out.
Frederick M. Hess@rickhess99
How to Resist the Destructive Self-Indulgence of Teachers on a Soapbox Four lessons to help educators conscientiously object to the culture wars. Me, at @EducationNext. educationnext.org/how-to-resist-…
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@GaryWinslett @mattyglesias Tracking has become a much broader term, over the years
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@GaryWinslett @mattyglesias It is interesting to me how there is confusion about the difference between ability grouping/differentiated instruction and tracking.
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I happened to talk to an elementary/middle school principal not too long ago and I gently made the case more tracking and I was kind of taken aback at how stridently he opposed tracking on “equity” grounds.
It’s kinda crazy how much that framing has come to dominate education thinking even though it’s not great for students and also not especially popular with parents.
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@oren_cass No, that actually is what mansplaining means. It’s not about gender; that’s to something that some men often do, especially to women. But both men and women can mansplain, and can be mansplained to.
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I think if you’re going to embarrass yourself with bloviating academic credentialism, it should at least be incumbent on you to inform yourself about the academic credentials of the people you’re bloviating about.
(Also, not what mansplaining means. At all. 🤷♂️)
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
Tfw when you're a liberal arts grad mansplaining to the Federal Reserve Chair
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@EmilyRPeck After announcing who he was.
Held on the ground and handcuffed.
At most, for interrupting the administration’s political theater with political theater.
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A United States senator was forcibly removed from a DHS press conference axios.com/2025/06/12/ale…
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Through May, Baltimore has recorded 54 homicides, the fewest through the first 5 months of a year on record. The previous low: 65 homicides, in 1977.
At this point in 2022, just three years ago, there had been 138 killings, and in 2017 there had been 146 people killed.
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@rickhess99 Did you read the honored piece before attacking it publicly?
Are you citing and characterizing works you’ve not read? If so, that really shoddy scholarship and shoddy journalism.
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One of the Education Writers Association’s big award winners this year “exposed the intersection of education and lax government regulations around truck driving.”
I’m not kidding.
Heck, it’s banal, ludicrous, and pro-regulation— nailing the EWA trifecta.
Frederick M. Hess@rickhess99
Anyone hoping to be regarded as a credible journalist should say, “Thanks, but no thanks!” to being “honored” by the Education Writers Association— which has beclowned itself by morphing into a laughably ideological advocacy organization. ewa.org/members-news/a…
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@charlesmurray @rickhess99 OK, I’ll bite. What is the share a federally funded research that fits this description?
Heck, how much of the research that Rick complains about is federally funded at all?
I’ve gone to sessions like that, read papers, and not seen federal grants mentioned.
Show me I’m wrong.
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Fellow Americans, you have no idea what a big proportion of federally funded research on important sectors (e.g. education, health) is spent on absolute bullshit. Just because it sounds like it should be useful doesn’t mean it is.
Frederick M. Hess@rickhess99
I’ve heard a *lot* of late about why taxpayers should fund education research. In theory, I’m sympathetic. In reality? Here’s what the American Ed Research Assoc is focused on (when it’s not busy hiring the former head of U. Mich’s now-shuttered DEI debacle as its next chief).
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@BenjySarlin @mattyglesias But what if you give him money AND a shiny new toy?
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They already came up with a branded digital asset with no intrinsic value that foreigners can use to directly pay the president with some class and discretion, there’s just no need for this
Jonathan Karl@jonkarl
ABC EXCLUSIVE: President Trump is poised to accept a luxury jet as a gift from Qatar. It’s to be used as Air Force One and then transferred to the Trump library by January 2029. Perhaps the biggest foreign gift ever. DOJ insists it’s legal, not bribery, not violation of emoluments clause. w/ @KFaulders
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@JaredWalczak Around 15 years ago, I heard an expert say that surveys have a 5% error rate on the mechanical level. That is, 5% of respondents offered reported a sex/gender that did not match good records.
In more recent years, I have wondered if that was simply about trans respondents.
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The Black Plague has a 9% approval rating among Americans, so I guess 9% is basically the floor in public opinion.
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@KJWinEducation @rickhess99 It’s hard to interpret this because formerly American Values (eg pluralism, strong public schools, respect for the rule of law) are partisan issues.
As are values we had moved past (eg lesser rights/opportunities for women, blatantly racism immigration barrier).
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Yesterday, a former student called about daughter's new teacher:
"Mr Weaver, I had you 2 years; we did government, civics, history, and I STILL don't know if you're a Republican or Democrat. This teacher's there 1 day, and we know everything. She's 7, what are you doing?"
1/2
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@mattyglesias @JohnHCochrane @paulkrugman This really seems to be the key point when evaluating Kevin Hassett, doesn’t it?
Gotta do better than him as someone who illustrates the other view among economists of tariffs
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@johnmarknewman There are so many important policy ideas that would improve lives for millions of people that will not address the particular cluster of problems you are talking about.
That does not make them bad ideas or any less worth talking about.
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This is the main street of the small town where I grew up in Iowa. It's dealing with a lot of issues. Many of those issues are common in rural communities. None of them have anything to do with zoning ordinances or building-construction red tape.
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@econJaredB @mattyglesias Maybe they could offer labor and environmental concessions to equalize costs?
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Just read the below from Goldman Sachs research update on tariff rates, making an underappreciated point. A lot of countries that were allegedly "pillaging" us actually had "very low" tariffs, so they don't have much room to negotiate down.
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@SiegelMicha @LauraEWeiss16 @RepLaLota The argument—which I don’t buy—is that housing costs, property taxes and income taxes in the northeast are far higher than others realize. “Middle class” people get hard paying all those taxes.
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@LauraEWeiss16 @RepLaLota Low ball?! 25k would mean 15k of property tax and a married family making 280k. What world is this man living in?!
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NEW: SALT Republicans making clear $25K cap won’t fly
“I expect for some of my colleagues to low ball us, but $25K would be downright insulting and would break the good faith we’ve built on SALT over the last few months,” @RepLaLota tells me
Garbarino, Kim, Lawler also opposing
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@PMtalking @LauraEWeiss16 @RepLaLota It’s not super strong but it DOES exist.
* Why should you pay taxes on money you don’t get? Yeah, tax you on YOUR money, but not on the money you pay in taxes.
* if you can deduct charitable donations, why not taxes paid?
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@LauraEWeiss16 @RepLaLota Can anyone explain to me the moral case for the SALT exemption?
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@DavidAstinWalsh Why do you think context is not part of what is considered when discussing an idea’s merits?
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"Discussing ideas on their merits" is libertarian-coded precisely because it dismisses the importance of context.
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz
"If a rightwing person supports any of your movement's policy proposals, then its entire agenda must be inegalitarian" has become a popular critique of abundance liberalism on parts of the anti-monopoly left. imo, better to simply judge ideas on their merits
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