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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5h

Culture might seem a less consequential right than free assembly+ its infringement makes less spectacular news than repressive violence. But the repeal of the right to culture is grave.

honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today!

hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

How to Protect Your Right to Culture

The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.

hyperallergic.com

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 20h

Valuing criticism and aesthetic judgement as a form of expertise is one way to resist the ai-ification of everything

Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 20h

“The humans won hands down when it came to notes, which require actual analysis rather than just distillation. The AI programs were ‘an almost total fail across the board.’”

Nice to know I wouldn’t have been so easily replaced at my old job by an A.I.

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Hollywood Script Readers Fear They Could be Replaced by AI. They Set Up a Test to See Who Gives Better Feedback

Fearing they could be replaced, Hollywood script readers face off against AI programs to see who gives better feedback.

variety.com

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 21h

grim

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20h

“There are about a dozen companies that specialize in school surveillance…That monitoring reaches into students’ lives beyond school hours, with all but two of those companies monitoring students around the clock.”

What Do We Know About the Edtech Services That Watch Students? - EdSurge News

After talking with teens lobbying against the dark sides of AI, EdSurge asks: “What’s known about the companies that schools use to monitor students?” ...

www.edsurge.com

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 1d

And from @annaeclark.bsky.social, on the urgency of coordinating across higher and secondary education to train students in the skills they really need to succeed as readers, writers, and thinkers:

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 1d

These are all fantastic pieces, and I'm grateful for the hard work our contributors put into them. Please read--and if you ever have an idea for an essay, book review, interview, or forum on higher ed, please get in touch with me. dennis dot m dot hogan at gmail dot com. I'm always reading pitches!

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, Public Books published a roundtable that we put together on higher ed under Trump. Six contributors, six essays, six ideas for what those of us in higher education can do now to make the world a little better, a little saner, and a little safer. Read the series here (my intro below):

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 4d

“Taken together, our roundtable contributors present a suite of ideas that, if enacted, just might make higher education more livable for us all.”
The full series “Higher Ed Under Trump” is live at Public Books. Read all the contributions here:

Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed - Public Books

The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.

www.publicbooks.org

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

exceedingly rare mainstream coverage of real college

Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 1d

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

He was a homeless college student. He found hope in a parking lot.

Long Beach City College reserves 15 spots in a parking lot for homeless students. For Edgar Rosales Jr., the program has been a lifeline.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 2d

These are labor-intensive forms of teaching, requiring expertise and also relatively small classes. They emphatically do not work with the idea of a de-skilled professorate and complicated the very notion of "student-led"—helpful to keep in mind when admin suggests "flipped" = less work or whatever

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about "flipped classrooms"is that the practice is not actually new at all. Seminars could be called flipped classrooms. Ditto labs. Ed is full classes where students take in ideas/information/concepts on their own and then work through them together ...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 5d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 4d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 4d

New at PB: As part of a series exploring higher ed under Trump, curated by @dennismhogan.bsky.social, @annaeclark.bsky.social discusses the way the Common Core failed us—and opened doors for Trump’s direct attack on academic freedom and funding sources.

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 5d

Must-read!!

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s as though the modes of thinking intrinsic to the liberal arts have been fracked: excavated from their pedagogical bedrock; processed into generic, blandly adaptable ‘skills’; and then injected back into our curricula and institutions, albeit in a barely recognizable state”

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 4d

“Today, when the failures of K-12 education are tallied, what tends to get mentioned is not the diminishment of opportunities for rich thought and intellectual exploration at the high school level.”

This is, ironically, the failure that harms the vast majority of kids—great, necessary essay.

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, Joel!

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 4d

Sign me up for whatever group wants to talk through these problems, particularly if we can use articles like this to help our thinking.

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 5d

"Most college professors I know would place skills such as comfort with nuance, complex language, and abstract thinking far above comprehending informational texts in a list of desirable college-bound student traits. The Common Core, however, begs to differ."

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 5d

let’s have a conference

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 7d

I asked but lizard declined to be named. Still bitter about the cat, I think

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 7d

update: I have a house lizard now. We’re friends, I think?

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 7d

I’ll just never sleep again I guess it’s totally fine

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 7d

My cat brought a lizard into the house and then it escaped her maw and now I can’t find it and I guess this is just my life now: roommate to two sworn enemies, both of which may climb into my bed while I slumber at any moment but whatever it’s fine

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