It's sort of wild how good the new Malcolm in the Middle is.

There's a real dearth of Catch-22 memes out there btw.

[volunteering for administrative roles to signal my unsuitability for them and thereby get out of them]

How Do You Identify a Good Manager?* Abstract. We introduce and validate a novel approach to identifying good managers. In a preregistered lab experiment, we causally identify managerial contr

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"people who self-select into management roles perform worse than randomly assigned managers. Managerial performance is strongly predicted by economic decision-making skill but not by demographic characteristics."

Teacher Effectiveness in Remote Instruction Abstract. The effect of remote learning on student performance has been a frequent topic of research and discussion in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet little is known about the impact of r...

Teacher Effectiveness in Remote Instruction direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

"We find evidence of increased variation in overall teacher effectiveness during remote instruction...Veteran teachers appear relatively more effective in virtual instruction than their less-experienced peers"

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Cultural Relevance at Scale: The Effects of an Ethnic Studies Expansion on Academic Outcomes journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

"enrollment increased overall grade-point average...and reduced course failure...benefits extended to all student groups"

Maddie Webber confirms return for second season at Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — One of the most impactful scorers on the Illinois women’s basketball team is running it back for a second season in Champaign. Maddie Webber announced her retur…

Maddie Webber confirms return for second season at Illinois

UTLA reaches tentative agreement with LAUSD, one step closer to averting strike Sunday's agreement brings LAUSD one step closer to averting a historic, three-union strike.

UTLA reaches tentative agreement with LAUSD, one step closer to averting strike edsource.org?page_id=755728

:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::

Step 1: Start a war with Iran
Step 2: Iran closes Strait
Step 3: Negotiate to get Strait reopened
Step 4: We enforce the closure of the Strait on Iran's behalf.
Step 5: ???
Step 6: Profit!

CPS CEO pushes back on May 1 school closure as confusion grows for parents The CEO of Chicago Public Schools says her position has not changed — that May 1 should remain an instructional day pushing back on efforts by the Chicago Teachers Union to cancel classes and calling on the school board to hold a formal public vote if they want to give students the day off.

CPS CEO pushes back on May 1 school closure as confusion grows for parents www.fox32chicago.com/news/cps-ceo...

Sorry, just getting caught up. We have looped all the way around to using Epstein to distract from the Iran debacle, I guess?

Ben Wikler had a long-term, successful plan to flip the court, but what really set the fire under WI Dem activists was the court nearly throwing out enough ballots to steal the state from Biden. One GOP swing vote prevented that.

There's a related upcoming webinar, too! Info here: www.nasdtec.net/events/Event...

Way to early top 25 had a local addition.

- I'm hearing most or all of the rotation will be back.
- PF Manu Alves (48th ESPN) and SG Erica Finney (47th 247) will join the team as freshmen after missing this season due to injury.
- 3 open roster spots as the portal opens tomorrow.

#WCBB #BigTen

It's that time of year when us multifamily condo/apartment dwellers transition from enjoying not having to shovel to enjoying not having to mow.

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

It's sort of like when people used potential cost savings as a motivation for moving to a 4-day school week. Like, OK, sure, you can turn off the lights more often and park the buses on Friday but...

Talking to more and more people about this in recent years, it's clearer to me that "closing a school" means different things to different people and it's not intuitive to everybody where the actual cost pressures are.

Enrollment at Illinois public K-12 schools is down 10% over the past decade. Will some schools have to close? ipmnewsroom.org/enrollment-a...

(Yes, though if you're not also prepared to offload the property & downsize the staff you're going to have big fights with relatively little to show for it.)

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Professional Staff Diversity and Student Outcomes: Extending Our Understanding of Race/Ethnicity-Matching Effects in Education journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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"between 2022 and 2024, the supply of new teachers in Washington exceeded demand for teachers in the aggregate, but demand for special education and science teachers considerably outpaced the supply of new endorsements in these areas." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Oh wow they made the final four? Good for them.

You shout PAUL they shout BRUNO.

The Finland myth, East Asia’s rise, and what makes education systems work with Montserrat Gomendio (Ep 68) Podcast Episode · Chalk & Talk · April 3 · 1h 9m

PISA: "The data are valuable, the advice sometimes misleading." podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Math Needs Its 'Science of Reading' Moment (Opinion) A psychologist explains how discovery-first math falls short.

Math Needs Its 'Science of Reading' Moment (Opinion): A psychologist explains how discovery-first math falls short.

Illinois Men’s Wheelchair Basketball team advances to Final Four - SPlog It’s a Final Four kind of year for University of Illinois athletics. Both the men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball teams have had a heck of a season, with the men’s team advancing to the Final ...

It’s a Final Four kind of year for University of Illinois athletics. 🔶 🔷

International students have a long history in the United States, and today, around 1 million are enrolled in higher ed institutions across the country. In a new chapter, Kevin Shih examines international student enrollment in higher ed.

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Nice.

Boston schools ramped up hiring administrator staff, yet many of its cuts are teachers’ posts - The Boston Globe A Globe analysis of staffing data found that Boston schools nearly doubled the size of its bureaucracy over the past decade.

Boston schools ramped up hiring administrator staff, yet many of its cuts are teachers’ posts www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/19/m...