Thinking about Fritz Kaegi's election loss today as another round of property taxes is due in Cook County.
I looked back on this piece I wrote for @placesjournal.bsky.social in 2018. Historian @tracylsteffes.bsky.social already told us all this was gonna happen. placesjournal.org/article/chic...
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This is a vital intervention by @arstechnica.com.
We must fight. Fight not just to protect universities as places of learning for all. Fight not just to save our own jobs. But fight for the guiding role of knowledge and reason itself.
Let us not go gently into that dark night. tinyurl.com/33v3bvc5
Educators, neighbors, everyone. We at Teachers College are doing what we can to stand against Trump's attack on education, not just on our campus but beyond.
Please read our statement and share.
It's a great book! Learn about how Puerto Rican students & families experienced - and changed - Chicago schools. 🗃️ #edusky
Thanks Joanna!
We're up to serious business at Brown for 2026.
In addition to the 3 yr postdoc coordinator for #Brown2026 listed below:
1 year research postdocs in the period of the American Rev broadly (vastly?) construed. Opens 2.29 apply.interfolio.com/139959
Expecting to appt 2 per year for 3 years.🗃️
So excited to get Matt Kelly's (mgardnerkelly.bsky.social) excellent new book, Dividing the Public. Anyone interested in school finance, history of education, or education inequality should check it out. It's also really important for urban and metropolitan inequality, past and present.