📚 “I stand by my decision. I will not change my mind.”
RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about.
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Parents in Fairfield, CT just said no to Linda McMahon's unHistory antiCivics indoctrination tour.
Now they just need to get rid of the superintendent who agreed to have her in the first place.
A split-image composition featuring two panels side by side. On the left, a color photograph of author Judy Blume seated at a glass desk in a home library setting. She has short, curly brown hair, wears a deep purple long-sleeved shirt rolled up at the cuffs, a watch, and a bracelet. Smiling warmly at the camera, she holds a pen in her right hand as if signing a book, with an open notebook or book in front of her and wooden bookshelves filled with colorful spines visible in the background. On the right, the front cover of Judy Blume's classic children's book "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." The cover has a pink background with an illustration of a young girl with long blonde hair, wearing an orange patterned dress, standing outdoors in front of a house and garden. The title is in large white playful font, with the author's name "Judy Blume" below, and a small publisher's blurb at the top describing the book as a "Yearling Book" about Margaret Simon, "almost twelve and full of questions."
𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥? 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘔𝘦, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘵. by Judy Blume was first published #OTD in 1970.
The NYT selected it the Outstanding Book of the Year. TIME: "Blume turned millions of pre-teens into readers. She did it by asking the right questions—and avoiding pat, easy answers." #booksky #literature #litsky
Please join me in welcoming to the public domain such works as the 1930 Best Picture All Quiet on the Western Front, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, several Nancy Drew books, some songs you've heard of (Dream a Little Dream of Me; Georgia on My Mind), and more:
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What teachers get way too often, I think:
1️⃣ lots of resources without much, if any, agency
2️⃣ lots of agency without much, if any, resources
Maybe 2026 we can, you know, give teachers...both?
Remembering the Idaho teacher who was made to take down a classroom sign, "Everyone is welcome here."
Completely agree. Students are entering school without that rich foundational book-knowledge. And tech makes it much easier to avoid
Honestly I agree with you SO much. I find myself agreeing with liberal and conservative voices on a variety of issues in support of strong instruction, systems and public education models. It definitely crosses party lines!
The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today.
Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities.
Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.
Three states have anti-book ban bills on deck coming into 2026. Here's what those bills look like, how to get involved, and what the advocates behind the recently-passed freedom to read bill in Rhode Island learned through the process.
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Congratulations!!
The latest History of Education Quarterly has an incredible forum addressing the dismantling of the US Department of Education.
I'll post non-paywalled versions of all nine contributions here. Huge thanks to the amazing scholars who participated.
Calling for violence against members of Congress is unacceptable — from anyone. The President’s words matter, and this kind of rhetoric puts our entire country at risk.
All leaders and all Americans must condemn it.
Graphic resembling Texas highway sign, with the silhouette of the state of Texas containing "HB 900" crossed out with a red X
I've got some great news: It is thoroughly satisfying to share what I hope will be my last-ever update on the 2023 Texas book ban, a.k.a. House Bill 900, a.k.a. the READER Act, which is that a federal judge has stopped the law with a permanent injunction.
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
Can we get a "Hell Yeah" in the chat?
If they make it hard for you to vote, don't you realize the power your vote has.
This is truly grotesque. Teachers should not be using this stuff. If a school was pushing it on teachers who work with kids I care about, I'd make a big effing stink until they stopped. We have to not give into this.
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com
#PoemADayJuly intro for today's poem: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes
"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes, lines 1-24
"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes, lines 25-50
"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes, lines 51-86
"Let it be that great strong land of love / Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme" (7-8)
I would guess that most of us have read this poem. Some of us (*raises hand*) have brought it into our classrooms.
"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes
Let's read it again. #PoemADayJuly
The kickoff to building Roadmap 2030 was INCREDIBLE thanks to @kellcusmano.bsky.social Mishkat Al Moumin & @khmc.bsky.social ! View the recording at chttps://youtu.be/3kwed6Qthxk
Be sure to sign up for our next Town Hall July 14th at 7 pm et here: bit.ly/TownHall7-14 #EduSky @eduskyteam.com
@kellcusmano.bsky.social gets #celebratED for receiving a NASDTEC Forward Fund grant! We know she will make good use of this award in furthering her influence in public education, and we thank her for modeling leadership at every level! www.get-celebrated.com/post/kelly-c... #EduSky @eduskyteam.com
One week from tonight! Our first Town Hall beginning to build Roadmap 2030! Join @kellcusmano.bsky.social , Mishkat Al Moumin and @khmc.bsky.social and get in on the ground floor!
Sign up via Zoom to take part in this important work at bit.ly/TownHall6-30 #EduSky @eduskyteam.com
The most inspiring chapters in our nation's history came when Americans faced down some of our country's darkest demons.
Those moments, like our own, were difficult to live through but also brought the chance to bring out the best in us, with enduring consequences.
I am once again BEGGING school districts to hit pause on AI. Today, I uploaded my (redone for the 3rd?4th?) senior assignment to multiple sites and watched as it spit out an outline followed by, "Do you want me to create a draft you can use?"
We are allowing kids to outsource all thinking.
“Using AI to brainstorm” means students are sometimes writing about ideas they never had…
