Being a professor is just giving yourself homework for the rest of your life.

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.

70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.

30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.

7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
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I am once again being forced, against my will, to read my own writing in rough draft form.

Texas can require Ten Commandments in classrooms, court says The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state can enforce its 2025 law requiring public schools to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments.

The posters must go up in Texas classrooms only if donated by someone. The law does not specify what would happen if school leaders choose not to comply. Paxton threatened legal action if schools do not comply and sued three districts for alleged noncompliance. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/20/t...

Trump administration targets DACA recipients for deportation Immigrants with DACA were protected from deportation, but since Trump’s return, the government has arrested nearly 300 DACA recipients, including 75 in Texas.

DACA recipients “trusted the federal government when they came forward under DACA, passed background checks, and followed every rule DHS asked of them. Now, ICE is targeting the very young people who did everything right. That is appalling.”

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The people banning books are never the same people who actually read books.

The Untapped Potential of Organized Mainline American Protestantism Around the country, mainline Protestant churches are stepping up to help organize the resistance to ICE's incursions into their communities.

“After ICE's recent assault on the city, her congregants need less convincing. One of the church's custodians was taken by ICE on church property as he arrived for services. He's still in custody. ‘They all know someone who was taken,’ she says somberly.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-untapped...

Los Angeles becomes the first major school district to require screen time limits The resolution followed pressure from parents who said their children developed unhealthy habits after schools required them to use iPads and laptops every day.

The Los Angeles school board votes to limit screen time, following pressure from parents who said their children developed unhealthy habits after schools required them to use iPads and laptops every day.

Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.

"The internet has kind of taken over the younger generations, and I've noticed them kind of lose focus easier," says Alexios, 18, who doesn't want his younger siblings to use digital tools in school as much as his generation did.

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Meet Leon Smith: The 2026 National Teacher of the Year! YouTube video by Google for Education

Leon Smith, 2026 National Teacher of the Year, teaches students "how to hope and dream about becoming future leaders themselves." Honored to serve on the committee that selected him. 🎉 #NTOY2026

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Today we remember the horrific tragedy of the Columbine shooting. 27 years later, it is a disgrace that gun violence is still the leading cause of death for children in America.

During the peak of COVID, a number of parents learned or re-learned that teaching is difficult. But this has had no lasting impact. Hasn't translated to calls to increase teacher pay, for example.

The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.

Dan Patrick says GOP will have “tough time” holding Texas House The lieutenant governor’s remarks are the latest sign that Republicans are worried about the fall midterms. The GOP has controlled the state House since 2003 and currently has an 88-62 advantage.

If the Texas GOP loses its grip on the legislature there'll be lots of reasons. But a big & underappreciated one is school vouchers -- deeply unpopular w/ Dems and many conservatives. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/08/t...

“Sin justicia social, la libertad es una palabra vacía”.
Claudia Sheinbaum
Presidenta de México

I went to the library to get a book on Pavlov's dog and Schrodinger's cat.

The librarian said that she thought it rang a bell but wasn't sure if it was there or not!

"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV

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Reminder to self and anyone who may need it:

The Pride flag is a symbol. Neither the flag nor its absence changes who I am or the work that I do.

AND AND AND

I will not capitulate out of fear.

Serial Failure Sal Khan Wants to Take Over Higher Education And anyone who cares about human-centered education should hope he fails.

Sal Khan is spinning up an alternative post-secondary credential in concert with the largest tech companies in the world. Anyone who cares about human-centered education should wish it nothing but failure. Thankfully, Khan has practice at that. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The Productivity Software Way of Thinking I was supposed to give a 20-minute presentation this morning, but alas, it is 2026 and our household, once again, has COVID. So I’m skipping the part where I read this piece of writing aloud to a Zoom...

A history lesson from Audrey Watters on "productivity" software, edtech, and why we shouldn't "have to reframe our thinking, reframe our epistemology, to fill some software-shaped hole that the tech industry has told us we all have – in our brains, in our lives."

I have a doctorate and have never mistaken myself for a doctor.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

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NEW Just a few years ago Sal Khan was predicting that AI was poised to revolutionize education. But his experience launching an AI-powered tutor, Khanmigo, has been sobering, he says.

The hope that it would quickly become a super-tutor still seems a long way off.
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How Child Care & Coffee Helped My Small Rural District Improve Staff Retention Superintendent's View: Small districts can't compete with larger ones on salary. But they can create a warmer, more welcoming school culture.

Opinion: How child care and coffee helped my small rural district improve staff retention

Students express frustration between how schools talk about meeting the needs of diverse learners and the one-size-fits-all reality. Students don't feel that they get to be their best selves at school because their spiky profiles don't fit into narrow, timed curriculum boxes, with a huge exception:

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC.

"All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."

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Go science! Go art! #steam #stem

Hi all, its your friendly neighborhood retired therapist here to remind you that the horrors persist and so do we!

Have you:
-had a glass of water or something liquid that is not caffeinated recently?
-used any calming or grounding techniques you like?
-eaten a food?

If not, do that now. 💜