Pinned
Freedom of Intelligence | The Point Magazine
In the name of progress, public education is now pressed into the service of agendas that align with corporate profit, workforce readiness, ideological reproduction and demand for quantifiable results...
thepointmag.com
I wrote about Plato, Huxley, and Dewey— thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
the thing is, there's always something new out there to create
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 AM
the thing is, there's always something new out there to create
Reposted by Annie Abrams
@annieabrams.bsky.social "In English class, teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care and pleasure, and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new." So grounded. So sane. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Freedom of Intelligence | The Point Magazine
In the name of progress, public education is now pressed into the service of agendas that align with corporate profit, workforce readiness, ideological reproduction and demand for quantifiable results...
thepointmag.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:43 PM
@annieabrams.bsky.social "In English class, teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care and pleasure, and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new." So grounded. So sane. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
there's an entire ecosystem of research and curricula all predicated on e.d. hirsch's theory and it's just been such a long, steady, patient march towards scripts
February 11, 2026 at 7:05 PM
there's an entire ecosystem of research and curricula all predicated on e.d. hirsch's theory and it's just been such a long, steady, patient march towards scripts
I wrote about Plato, Huxley, and Dewey— thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Freedom of Intelligence | The Point Magazine
In the name of progress, public education is now pressed into the service of agendas that align with corporate profit, workforce readiness, ideological reproduction and demand for quantifiable results...
thepointmag.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:42 PM
I wrote about Plato, Huxley, and Dewey— thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Reposted by Annie Abrams
CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
Reposted by Annie Abrams
I endorse this message
i know everybody on bluesky is way too smart to believe
thing is, if you don't believe, tinkerbell dies
it's on all of us
thing is, if you don't believe, tinkerbell dies
it's on all of us
aspirational america is unmeasurably important
not just here, but for the world
not just here, but for the world
February 9, 2026 at 1:13 PM
I endorse this message
Reposted by Annie Abrams
From the full report:
"Despite the regular comprehension HQIM use and focus...in 67% of the lessons, teachers and students engaged in work (i.e., instruction, engagement, and activity) that only facilitated students’ surface-level understanding of texts."
www.sri.com/wp-content/u...
"Despite the regular comprehension HQIM use and focus...in 67% of the lessons, teachers and students engaged in work (i.e., instruction, engagement, and activity) that only facilitated students’ surface-level understanding of texts."
www.sri.com/wp-content/u...
February 9, 2026 at 4:25 PM
From the full report:
"Despite the regular comprehension HQIM use and focus...in 67% of the lessons, teachers and students engaged in work (i.e., instruction, engagement, and activity) that only facilitated students’ surface-level understanding of texts."
www.sri.com/wp-content/u...
"Despite the regular comprehension HQIM use and focus...in 67% of the lessons, teachers and students engaged in work (i.e., instruction, engagement, and activity) that only facilitated students’ surface-level understanding of texts."
www.sri.com/wp-content/u...
Reposted by Annie Abrams
The dj on the MIT station just went on a gorgeous tangent about how this semester he’s taking all liberal arts classes, and instead of asking him to reproduce established knowledge (as in most MIT courses) they push him to think about how he thinks.
My Super Bowl MVP.
My Super Bowl MVP.
February 9, 2026 at 1:06 AM
The dj on the MIT station just went on a gorgeous tangent about how this semester he’s taking all liberal arts classes, and instead of asking him to reproduce established knowledge (as in most MIT courses) they push him to think about how he thinks.
My Super Bowl MVP.
My Super Bowl MVP.
Reposted by Annie Abrams
AI in education has never been just a commercial intrusion, but a scientific field-building business centred on well-funded technical innovations and "learning science". Its apparent "success" today builds on that, by adding value-generating platform subscriptions and contractual lock-ins.
February 7, 2026 at 11:38 PM
AI in education has never been just a commercial intrusion, but a scientific field-building business centred on well-funded technical innovations and "learning science". Its apparent "success" today builds on that, by adding value-generating platform subscriptions and contractual lock-ins.
Reposted by Annie Abrams
Hah currently writing about how a chapter leader here in NYC organized her chapter to wear “I read banned books” shirts since the principal refused to let middle school teachers teach books—conflicted with the curriculum they bought. Everything is bonkers.
February 7, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Hah currently writing about how a chapter leader here in NYC organized her chapter to wear “I read banned books” shirts since the principal refused to let middle school teachers teach books—conflicted with the curriculum they bought. Everything is bonkers.
Reposted by Annie Abrams
I love how defenders of the Western Tradition™️ completely omit the fact every Great Man in the Canon sneered at -- or even truly *despised* -- at least one other person on the Big Awesome List of Perfect People they were told were essential reading. As if Aristotle said, "Plato, you're 100% right!"
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 AM
I love how defenders of the Western Tradition™️ completely omit the fact every Great Man in the Canon sneered at -- or even truly *despised* -- at least one other person on the Big Awesome List of Perfect People they were told were essential reading. As if Aristotle said, "Plato, you're 100% right!"
Reposted by Annie Abrams
YA novels and snippets of books are the straw men they use for their culture war jive.
February 7, 2026 at 2:56 AM
YA novels and snippets of books are the straw men they use for their culture war jive.
Reposted by Annie Abrams
super thoughtful, well laid out essay about reading literature in schools and progressive ed
loved this part about a character in Brave New World reading Shakespeare on his own, and how, lacking a broader context where others have also read and discussed Shakespeare, the books don’t save him
loved this part about a character in Brave New World reading Shakespeare on his own, and how, lacking a broader context where others have also read and discussed Shakespeare, the books don’t save him
February 6, 2026 at 3:42 PM
super thoughtful, well laid out essay about reading literature in schools and progressive ed
loved this part about a character in Brave New World reading Shakespeare on his own, and how, lacking a broader context where others have also read and discussed Shakespeare, the books don’t save him
loved this part about a character in Brave New World reading Shakespeare on his own, and how, lacking a broader context where others have also read and discussed Shakespeare, the books don’t save him
Reposted by Annie Abrams
In my eighteenth year of teaching I have never yet met an occasion when it was necessary, relevant, or advantageous to describe a student's physical appearance.
February 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
In my eighteenth year of teaching I have never yet met an occasion when it was necessary, relevant, or advantageous to describe a student's physical appearance.
Reposted by Annie Abrams
Ah that feeling when you read something that says everything you're currently trying to write, but better. Love this piece on progressive education by @annieabrams.bsky.social: thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Freedom of Intelligence | The Point Magazine
In the name of progress, public education is now pressed into the service of agendas that align with corporate profit, workforce readiness, ideological reproduction and demand for quantifiable results...
thepointmag.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Ah that feeling when you read something that says everything you're currently trying to write, but better. Love this piece on progressive education by @annieabrams.bsky.social: thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Reposted by Annie Abrams
Ask them to talk about their own educations--to talk about the teachers they remember with the most gratitude, the assignments and discussions that contributed most to their development as persons.
February 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Ask them to talk about their own educations--to talk about the teachers they remember with the most gratitude, the assignments and discussions that contributed most to their development as persons.
Reposted by Annie Abrams
See also: college and university presidents and the purpose of higher education.
February 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM
See also: college and university presidents and the purpose of higher education.
Reposted by Annie Abrams
Smoke coming out of neoliberal ears
February 5, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Smoke coming out of neoliberal ears
Reposted by Annie Abrams
‘Many thousands of people in Minneapolis and St Paul have shown up to protect the vulnerable. Agents trying to grab people on the street have found knots of civilians documenting their actions.’
Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) on Minnesota’s resistance.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) on Minnesota’s resistance.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Stephanie Burt | Organised Opposition
‘Rule by sheer violence,’ Hannah Arendt wrote, ‘comes into play when power is being lost.’ She continued: ‘The...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 7:46 PM
‘Many thousands of people in Minneapolis and St Paul have shown up to protect the vulnerable. Agents trying to grab people on the street have found knots of civilians documenting their actions.’
Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) on Minnesota’s resistance.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) on Minnesota’s resistance.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Reposted by Annie Abrams
Annie always writes so well about why and how we teach literature:
"In English class, teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care and pleasure, and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new."
"In English class, teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care and pleasure, and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new."
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Annie always writes so well about why and how we teach literature:
"In English class, teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care and pleasure, and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new."
"In English class, teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care and pleasure, and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new."
Reposted by Annie Abrams
“never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence,” sure, but incompetence has a lot to answer for
February 5, 2026 at 12:12 AM
“never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence,” sure, but incompetence has a lot to answer for
Reposted by Annie Abrams
‘In balancing emotional and cognitive responses to art, attuning themselves to language and learning… students …cultivate their own distinct sensibilities, and … cultivate minds whose activity is an end in itself. This process … is always a kind of liberation.’
By @annieabrams.bsky.social
By @annieabrams.bsky.social
Freedom of Intelligence | The Point Magazine
In the name of progress, public education is now pressed into the service of agendas that align with corporate profit, workforce readiness, ideological reproduction and demand for quantifiable results...
thepointmag.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:29 PM
‘In balancing emotional and cognitive responses to art, attuning themselves to language and learning… students …cultivate their own distinct sensibilities, and … cultivate minds whose activity is an end in itself. This process … is always a kind of liberation.’
By @annieabrams.bsky.social
By @annieabrams.bsky.social
Reposted by Annie Abrams
High school teachers and college teachers unite!
I had a great conversation with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social on the what/why/how of close reading. There’s much to be gained by creating connective tissue between literary studies & secondary English, so I’m excited to share this episode!
open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
Drs. Dan Sinykin & Johanna Winant Talk Close Reading for the 21st Century
Show Notes
open.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:55 PM
High school teachers and college teachers unite!