I'm of the mind that part of the feet dragging is related to changes to the Regents and waiting to see about changes to the state's ESSA plan. Coming up with a plan that needs to be revised immediately is no fun.

If you listened to our “Grapevine” podcast, about the fight to exalt Jesus and demonize LGBTQ people in a suburban school district, you might recall a right-wing board member bragging about having a list of “poison” teachers she was going after. Turns out the list was real and has now been released

A racist is going to vote in 25 days. Are you?

Still upset about that highly cited paper in Psych Science you consider deeply flawed? Now is your time to shine ✨

School people: We're about a month away from SCOTUS deliberations in St. Mary's v. Roy. It's a big deal: Private schools want to take public money but keep their "right" to discriminate against LGBTQ families. They built their case on a bogus history, so we filed a brief telling the real story:

"Around 70 percent of this year’s voucher recipients were already enrolled in private or home- school. Vouchers are costing the state about a billion dollars this year alone, and could ultimately end up costing $4.4 billion annually."

It is not worth a moment of your time!

And "cohabiting partners", I'm pretty sure are parenting in the same household. This is a wild interview before you get to what he's selling.

The expert again: "Our data can’t pinpoint the cause; we can only establish correlation. Two-parent homes seem to offer kids unique benefits." Let us revisit their definition of “nonintact households" which includes stepparents, who are, I'm pretty, sure married and parenting in the same house.

Results: "Kids in nonintact families were 13% less likely to earn A’s and B’s, 47% more likely to have their parents contacted ... and more than twice as likely to be depressed. In fact, family structure predicted these outcomes more strongly than race or poverty did."

Clicked out of curiosity. "We compared kids in “intact” families, where the biological or adoptive parents are married, with their peers in “nonintact households,” which includes being raised by stepparents, cohabiting partners, single parents, or foster/kinship care.

Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators.

It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.

Someone asked me if Braver Angels was a project by liberals to "infiltrate" Republican groups and I think I chuckled because the thought hadn't occurred to me. But also, Cox is involved in BA and I'm now wondering if he's using the group to support his goals. (Maybe I am? I don't think so?)

(Also, the essay is a very clear sign that Yglesias is very, very online. I've read publishing writings by self-identified progressive educators that make nearly all of the claims he writes about. But also, they're just that - essays by self-identified progressives with a particular agenda.)