Peter C. Cook

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Peter C. Cook

@petercook

Unapologetic Education Reformer • New Orleanian • Progressive (unwilling to let crazies define it) • Democrat • DMs open • #FreeUkraine

New Orleans, Louisiana انضم Mart 2008

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Cassy Horton@Cassy_Horton·1d

I’m not in the weeds these days. What’s up here? LAUSD schools have more money and better staffing ratios and less kids to serve than ever before. Like WAY more.

Los Angeles Times@latimes

Families, union workers bracing for a crippling, historic LAUSD strike in exactly one week latimes.com/california/sto…

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Alexei Arora@AlexeiArora·1d

If 10 years ago you told someone that 1) a Jewish comedian who depicted himself on live TV playing a piano with his wiener 2) And a former Syrian Al Qaeda commander Would 1) lead their respective nations 2) hug it out openly as allies They’d consider you schizophrenic

Open Source Intel@Osint613

Jolani gave Zelenskyy the full royal treatment in Damascus.

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Chad Aldeman@ChadAldeman·1d

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Anna Stokke@rastokke

If students struggle with fraction arithmetic, algebra is inaccessible. If they struggle with basic number operations (including times tables), fractions are inaccessible. Math is hierarchical & gaps compound. There's no way around it. We have to get math right in primary.

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Sam Karlin@samkarlin·1d

New Orleans politicians financially benefitted from an estate after an elected judge steered a lucrative assignment running it to her friend, a city constable. He then hired two allies, including a state rep. From @rjamesfinn

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skooks@skooks·1d

There's a long story on nola.com about a family accusing Ed Shorty, Delisha Boyd, and Jennifer Medley of bilking them out of their inheritance. Anyway perhaps your eyes glazed over before you got to the fun background info. #tncms-source=featured-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nola.com/news/politics/…

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Chad Aldeman@ChadAldeman·26 Mar

{new} *Some* kids are flourishing. They're taking AP courses. Playing sports. Volunteering. All the things. But lots of other kids are doing none of those things. They don't have (or do) homework. They don't have jobs. They're not in sports.

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Charles Barone@CharlesBarone·26 Mar

Commentators from across the political spectrum opine that Democrats lack a credible, evidence-aligned education policy agenda. I agree. But we need a plan for getting from where we are to where we need to be. Here are 5 ideas. Would love to hear yours.

Charles Barone@CharlesBarone

How Democrats Lost the Plot on Schools—and How to Get It Back

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion·26 Mar

Americans really, really do not like progressive ideology. They liked liberal ideology. When liberalism gave way to progressivism, Americans started to walk away.

The Missing Data Depot@data_depot

New YouGov report on American partisanship between 2007 and 2025 shows that with the one exception of college educated white men, every major demographic group in the US has become more Republican on balance over the last 20 years.

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Peter C. Cook@petercook·17 Mar

“There’s this paradox of New York, where it’s run by progressive politicians, it’s a very democratic state, but it’s the most segregated.” Actually that’s not really paradoxical, that’s par for the course… #edreform

The 74@The74

Many school attendance zones in New York City, upstate New York, Westchester and Long Island are similar to 1930 redlining maps, the report shows buff.ly/NYULztA

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Farrah Yvette@farrah_yvette·12 Mar

There's been 6 water breaks since Jan. 31st across New Orleans. Here is a map of all the incidents.

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WBRZ News@WBRZ·12 Mar

The original Louisiana Purchase document that doubled the size of the United States of America at the start of the 19th century will be on display at the Old State Capitol in downtown Baton Rouge starting in April. wbrz.com/news/original-…

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OSINTdefender@sentdefender·13 Mar

The gunman, who rammed his truck into a Reform Jewish Synagogue in Bloomfield, Michigan, has been tentatively identified as 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali of Lebanon, per CNN.

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Dale Chu@Dale_Chu·12 Mar

Only 14% of schools have returned to pre-COVID reading and math levels. Pandemic recovery remains sluggish. Grade inflation isn’t helping.

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Robert Pondiscio@rpondiscio·12 Mar

At some point do we stop framing chronic absenteeism as an after-effect of Covid? Perhaps inconsistent attendance signals a fundamental shift in the relationship between parents, students, and schools? the74million.org/article/progre…

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Sam Karlin@samkarlin·12 Mar

My story on how Louisiana's tax break for data centers will likely be worth billions of dollars in the coming years nola.com/news/data-cent…

PBS News@NewsHour

Amid a growing national pushback on data centers, Virginia senators have voted to end a projected $1.6 billion annual tax break, requiring the industry to resume paying a minimum 5.3% sales tax. to.pbs.org/4sHadlL

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Vladimir Kogan@vkoganpolisci·12 Mar

Must read, especially certain people that run certain university "teaching" centers that train university faculty and encourage them to complete certain "teaching certificates."

Robert Pondiscio@rpondiscio

The estimable @New_Old_Paul permitted me to repost his excellent "Instructional Illusions" piece on my Substack today. Don't miss it. "Education is especially vulnerable to illusion," Paul observes, "because learning is largely hidden from view." thenext30years.substack.com/p/paul-kirschn…

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Dale Chu@Dale_Chu·13 Mar

State tests often report far more students as “proficient” than NAEP shows. The new @BPC_Bipartisan workforce blueprint urges states to close that “honesty gap.”

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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma·13 Mar

a housing bill that effectively kills nearly 10% of new housing produced is so fucking perverse, but hey, glad @SenWarren gets to stick it Wall Street. pounding your chest against private equity surely is worth the cost of screwing over tens of thousands of renters, right? 🙃

Igor Bobic@igorbobic

Warren says the housing bill does *not* have a drafting error, as Schatz said today Rare Dem leadership split “The policy is to block private equity from taking over the single family home, and that is quite deliberate. There are some folks in private equity who don't like that, but it's a very deliberate choice that is supported on a bipartisan basis by 90 senators.”

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Thomas van Linge@ThomasVLinge·7 Mar

Cuba 🇨🇺 BREAKING: nighttime protests have erupted in the capital Havana. After more then 60 hours without any electricity people have had enough. Protests against thr communist regime are now being reported in several neighborhoods across the capital.

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Karen Vaites@karenvaites·6 Mar

Are you exhaused by the Mississippi mistrust doom loop? Louisiana offers a counterweight. The Bayou State deserves more attention for its own smart model, anyway. Written in December, and relevant still:

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