Asking Students to Use AI Responsibly When The Adults Aren't

Kids can't be expected to learn what adults haven't — or can't — learn

AI is Already Disempowering Workers Through Hype

Workers and students are being prepped for less power in the workplace

So Long Systems, Come on Conspiracies

MAGA campaign conspiracies are becoming federal and state policy

The MAHA Report's Missing Children

A weird and twisted document that depicts kids as pathologies

When Trump Demands Sacrifice, It Doesn't Go Well

A lesson from the pandemic for our tariffied times

Keep "Trump Take Egg" Rolling

The powerful meme is as versatile as the egg

Good for Cancer

The Trump Admin is taking actions that counter prevention and cure

Resisting AI Mania in Schools - Part III

AI threatens personalization & democratization of ed

School Vouchers and the Threat to Religious Freedom

Using school vouchers to weaken the wall between church and state

Trump Is Not Taking the State Out of Public Schools, He Is Putting Christianity In

In my latest piece for The Unpopulist, I wrote about how public education is being wrested by MAGA from local control, bringing Christianity into the public schools and breaking down barriers between church and state. Coming soon: a follow-up on vouchers, the second prong of this MAGA move against the

Musk & Co.'s Performance of Brutality

We are meant to watch and clap or quake

Resisting AI Mania in Schools - Part II

On behalf of students and the planet, more messages to push back on

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Resisting AI Mania in Schools - Part I

Here are the messages to push back on

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Burning Down the Schools

Do we still care about school closures?

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Singularly Resolved

Focus amidst the chaos in the new year

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Voters Ghosted the American Family

Leaving women and children behind for a fantasy

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Teachers are Dangerous to MAGA

But not for the reasons it claims

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Legacy Media Has Baby Fever

And is echoing far-right talking points

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Yes, What We Pay Teachers Matters

Paying teachers well is an essential part of a healthier public education system

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MAGA's Ever-Shrinking Definition of Who Counts as a 'Real' American

I was invited on today's The New Republic's Daily Blast podcast to talk to Greg Sargent about the following piece, which was published on The Unpopulist. Listen to the podcast. Read at The Unpopulist.

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"How Do I Know It's Real?"

On Bright Lights, Big City's 40th anniversary

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Education is a Winning Issue for Democrats

Dems' popular policies are winners up and down the ticket

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The Women Will Do It

A new book reveals how "women became America's safety net"

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In Praise of Paper

The tech that can get students reading and writing