Timothy K. Minella

26 states have laws allowing for taxpayer subsidies for the AP program.

The UK government flagged these books (among others) as potential signs of far-right extremism. List includes Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Hobbes' Leviathan, Milton's Paradise Lost. You may be an extremist if you've read these. What else would you add to the list?

“Grandpa, how did World War III start?” “Well, Johnny. There was this youth football coaching legend called Three Year Letterman who kept addressing Iran’s Supreme Leader as Khalessi on Twitter and telling him that he had zero SEC Championships and never lettered in shit . . . “

America turns 250 soon. The question is: are we preparing the next generation to preserve it? 🇺🇸 Goldwater just launched a $300,000 American Civics Initiative to support civics education, teachers, and Arizona students! 🔗goldwaterinstitute.org/goldwater-laun…

Crazy idea or long overdue initiative to rekindle a love of U.S. history in public K-12 students?: Giving every student a core textbook they’ll actually enjoy reading that doesn’t require staring at a screen + giving teachers content-based training & curricular resources to help teach students the story of this nation.

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@MindofTorres @sfmcguire79 26 states have laws allowing for subsidies for the AP program.

The College Board makes approximately $500 million per year solely via the AP program. That makes that part of their business more than double the size of the AFT teachers union. It’s time for an AP competitor. jamesgmartin.center/2026/02/advanc…

96 articles in American Studies’ flagship journal. Zero positive views of the U.S. That’s not academic balance—it’s a credibility crisis. This erosion of trust is exactly what the American Higher Education Restoration Act is designed to address: goldwaterinstitute.org/when-american-…

‘Feminist Collective’ took over political science journal, prioritized DEI: report | The College Fix thecollegefix.com/feminist-colle…

Watching the SC and Texas bb game. Can @RebeccaLobo and @RyanRuocco please call the game! Y’all are talking and not telling us what is happening!

I could convince myself that we should stop talking about "teaching kids to read" b/c we're reasonably successful at getting kids to "decode," which is what most people think reading is. The trouble is we're *not* good at teaching reading comprehension and unlikely to become good at it because we're reluctant to do what it would require: stop trying to teach reading comprehension as a discrete "skill" (or suite of skills) and embrace a fairly prescriptive, knowledge-rich curriculum across disciplines that accepts language proficiency for what it is, not what we wish it to be. E.D. Hirsch has been right all along: literate writers and speakers make assumptions about what readers and listeners know. That's how language works. You can't wish it away even if it's unfashionable or rubs the wrong way our ideas about "culturally responsive" education. The only way I can conceive to improve outcomes broadly is to see reading comprehension for what it is: not a skill to be taught but a condition to be created by ensuring that every student has access to the same store of knowledge and vocabulary.

Canada lost the Stanley Cup but it got Jason Stanley. Even Odysseus was punished less for offending the gods.

What did y’all think the Monroe Doctrine meant? vibes? papers? essays? Losers.

Sic semper tyrannis.

LISTEN: Goldwater Institute Senior Fellow Timothy K. Minella discusses his report “Peer Review Gone Wild" - AccessWdun ⁦@GoldwaterInst⁩ ⁦@TimMinella⁩ accesswdun.com/clips/listen-g…

I'm back! My heart" a little broken over the #Dawgs & so proud of the work & how they are taking it. A look at 2025 and 2026. You won't believe it. @ronaldhart joins. @TimMinella from @GoldwaterInst on peer review and why it matters. #gapol @access_wdun @WDUNRadio @WDUNTheMZS

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