Gorgeous cover

I loved being a part of this conversation about archipelagic listening as an educational stance and uniquely Caribbean sensibility. Thank you to the wonderful participants, my co-author Dr. Charissa Granger and the fine folks at University of Illinois Press for getting our chat to print.

Cover of American Music, Volume 42, Issue 4, Winter 2024. Horizontal rectangles in a column on the right side of the cover in a gradient of blue shades on white textured background.

Roundtable in American Music 42.4, on @projectmuse.bsky.social : "Listening With and From Caribbean Bodies" with Jessica Swanston Baker, David Aarons ( @uncg.edu ), @danichar.bsky.social ( @universityofga.bsky.social ), Dominique Cyrille, Charissa Granger, Sean Samad muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

Introducing Middle School Students to "The Secret Ghost Workers of 'Artificial Intelligence'" — Civics of Technology Upcoming Book Clubs: We’re reading The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms our Kids’ Learning - And How to Help Them Thrive Again by Jared Cooney Horvath. Join us on Wednesday, Ap...

I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible.

Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:

On the importance of reading on the same topic across disciplines:

I am currently reading "Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" by Professor Premilla Nadasen (who is a historian).

Nadasen makes important points that echo the work of sociologist Dr. @jessicacalarco.com in "Holding It Together"

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

- Anaïs Nin

Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.

It’s an important thing to (re)call how you arrived at the understandings you now currently take for granted. Research talks, I find, help with this.

Our broken child care system can learn a lot from New Mexico - the state that is leading the way in guaranteeing free child care for all.

There is no better rate of return than investing in our children.

The rest of the country should follow New Mexico’s lead.

a couple uses of attention I see: 1. Distance-producing; 2. Closeness producing.

Some leverage our attention to alienate us from political life (through saturation, to leave it in the hands of “big-actors”) or draw us in (through intimacy, stories, shared place).

Both intentional & effective 2/2

Just back from my walk and thinking again about how central mastery of the attention economy is to the future of politics.

We are noticing a spectrum of strategy between the political left and right and their theory of attention’s affects in power:

Alienation <——> Intimacy

Proximity politics 1/2

Congratulations! Sounds like a stellar project!

On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.

How convenient.

hot grading tip: set a timer.

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another fave, ”first, make it exist, then make it good“.

The twilight zone continues…

I also appreciate the deference here to the voting body. This kind of fidelity to democratic process is a refreshing thing to rewatch and replay in this moment.

Her smirk :)

A New Era for NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is ready to work to make New York safe and affordable for all of its residents.

Transition2025.com

Solid mentorship: a smart thing to do for emerging scholars and to guide scholars to do as they enter the job market. that said, check these folks out!📯

Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.

These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).

And now onto the scholars... 👇

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!

Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:

"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"

The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.

A JMP 🧵 -->

Every state is purple.

A fence post at New York’s Bowling Green still showing the rough saw marks where, in July 1776, colonists cut off the crowns that used to adorn the tops.

Colonists also pulled down a statute of King George III that once stood where the fountain is today.

I regret to confirm, waking up early before your household is often really really productive and mind-clearing. Woke up early (before 5!) and decided to just get to the things on my mind that had me up before 5. Did well for my checklist :).

Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...

The fact that these conditions are made increasingly unsurvivable for so many, is actually the point.

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...