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Alex Hyres
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Assistant Professor in the History of US Education at the U of Utah | AERA Division F Secretary: https://shorturl.at/NvyTG | Preorder my forthcoming book, Protest and Pedagogy: https://shorturl.at/8bDqN | Opinions my own.
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Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social · 14d
My book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School, will be published soon. To learn more about it, see the attached flyer. To pre-order the book, go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037530... #histed #edhist #history @ugapress.bsky.social
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School A timely exploration of the long history of how Black students and teachers shaped the Black freedom struggle Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle—or outright opponents—Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers’ pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools. ALEXANDER D. HYRES is an assistant professor in the history of U.S. education at the University of Utah. His career in education started as a secondary social studies and English teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in social foundations at the University of Virginia. He is a research affiliate for the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project at the University of Virginia. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received a 2024 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah.
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Losing our edge: Canada says it will fast-track immigration for US H-1B visa holders and spend $1 billion to attract researchers spurned by President Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w... #ThanksTrump
‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive
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December 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
hyres376.bsky.social
You don't claim credit for giving teachers a raise, when you tied that to stealing public money meant for public schools and giving it away to fund vouchers #utpol #uted #education #utah #utpol
benwinslow.bsky.social Ben Winslow @benwinslow.bsky.social · 7h
House Majority Whip Pierucci says there's an element of "humility," but she notes they are repealing the liability insurance component that was in the bill. She's going over the list of things the legislature has done for teachers, firefighters, etc.
December 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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It's compelling to revisit some of the arguments related to vocational education from the 20s and 30s - even the staunched advocates wanted to limit the number of hours students spent in vo-tech to ensure they got a full liberal arts education.
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
hyres376.bsky.social
I agree that this should be the purpose and goal of K-16. Companies can and should bear the costs of training and developing new employees.
marniekaplan.bsky.social Marnie Kaplan @marniekaplan.bsky.social · 11h
There’s always talk of “we are preparing children for 21st century jobs,” “we are preparing children for jobs that don’t exist yet.” How about if the job of K-college education is to produce good citizens who know how to read, write, think, learn and improve themselves.
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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My book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School, will be published soon. To learn more about it, see the attached flyer. To pre-order the book, go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037530... #histed #edhist #history @ugapress.bsky.social
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School A timely exploration of the long history of how Black students and teachers shaped the Black freedom struggle Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle—or outright opponents—Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers’ pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools. ALEXANDER D. HYRES is an assistant professor in the history of U.S. education at the University of Utah. His career in education started as a secondary social studies and English teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in social foundations at the University of Virginia. He is a research affiliate for the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project at the University of Virginia. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received a 2024 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Thanks! Yes, I'll email you shortly.
alexfreidus.bsky.social Alex Freidus @alexfreidus.bsky.social · 19h
Alex! Congratulations! And I'm teaching a relevant course next semester so I really want to know more. Can you email me at UConn?
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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hyres376.bsky.social Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social · 14d
My book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School, will be published soon. To learn more about it, see the attached flyer. To pre-order the book, go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037530... #histed #edhist #history @ugapress.bsky.social
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School A timely exploration of the long history of how Black students and teachers shaped the Black freedom struggle Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle—or outright opponents—Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers’ pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools. ALEXANDER D. HYRES is an assistant professor in the history of U.S. education at the University of Utah. His career in education started as a secondary social studies and English teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in social foundations at the University of Virginia. He is a research affiliate for the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project at the University of Virginia. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received a 2024 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah.
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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hyres376.bsky.social Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social · 14d
My book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School, will be published soon. To learn more about it, see the attached flyer. To pre-order the book, go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037530... #histed #edhist #history @ugapress.bsky.social
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School A timely exploration of the long history of how Black students and teachers shaped the Black freedom struggle Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle—or outright opponents—Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers’ pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools. ALEXANDER D. HYRES is an assistant professor in the history of U.S. education at the University of Utah. His career in education started as a secondary social studies and English teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in social foundations at the University of Virginia. He is a research affiliate for the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project at the University of Virginia. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received a 2024 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah.
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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#BlackHistory #histed #edhist #education #pedagogy #protest #pedagoy #protestandpedagogy #charlottesville @aeradivf-history.bsky.social @ssr-sig.bsky.social @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @oah.org @histedsocuk.bsky.social @network4pubed.bsky.social
lupdistribution.bsky.social Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 27d
📚 *New* from UGAP's Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South series, 'Protest and Pedagogy' reveals how Black teachers and students in Charlottesville turned classrooms into sites of resistance during the 20th-century freedom struggle.
#BlackHistory @ugapress.bsky.social
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December 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.

Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy Al users couldn't recall key points from what they'd "written, compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided. Neutral reviewers described the Al-assisted writing as "soulless, empty, lacking individuality." Most alarmingly, after four months of reliance on Chat GPT, participants wrote worse once it was removed than those who had never used it at all. The study warns that when writing is delegated to Al, the way people learn fundamentally changes.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
jeffsharlet.bsky.social Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 5d
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
hyres376.bsky.social
This framing makes it seem as though AI is inevitable. The lack of critical engagement about the limitations of AI in teaching and learning, not to mention the questions about ecological impact are really disappointing in this moment particularly from a labor leader #edtech #education #edsky
rweingarten.bsky.social Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 5d
AI is already in our schools, but teachers must help shape how it’s used. When screens pull kids’ attention in every direction, we can’t afford tools that make things worse. Glad to attend the @eduinternational.bsky.social Global Conference on AI to fight for educators’ voices to guide this work.
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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A group of teens have revived their lawsuit challenging Utah’s fossil fuel and energy policies, alleging they are harming the climate and their health: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
Accommodation Nation America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem. By Rose Horowitch
December 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Some of the greatest hits by the Utah GOP, all in one article:

1. Baseless fearmongering about Utah turning into California
2. A disdain for voters being able to choose for themselves.

Classic
“We cannot let unchecked initiatives turn Utah into California,” he added. During a periodic news conference on PBS Utah later Tuesday morning, Gov. Spencer Cox said he backs the endeavor, and clarified that he plans to call the special session himself. “I have deep, deep concerns about a state that is run by direct democracy,” Cox said, continuing, “We have representative democracy for a reason.”
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
hyres376.bsky.social
This is why we need Nate Blouin in Congress for Utah. I know he will work on real problems and offer real solutions. #utpol #utah
nateforutah.bsky.social Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 13d
In Congress, one of my top priorities will be securing substantial funding and regulatory changes that strengthen current efforts to save Great Salt Lake to actually meet the severity of the crisis. This is a multibillion dollar problem that we're not going to fix by ourselves.
sltrib.com The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 13d
The dust blowing from the dry bed of the Great Salt Lake is creating a serious public health threat, two environmental nonprofits warn, that policymakers and the scientific community aren’t taking seriously enough.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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My book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School, will be published soon. To learn more about it, see the attached flyer. To pre-order the book, go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037530... #histed #edhist #history @ugapress.bsky.social
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School A timely exploration of the long history of how Black students and teachers shaped the Black freedom struggle Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle—or outright opponents—Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers’ pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools. ALEXANDER D. HYRES is an assistant professor in the history of U.S. education at the University of Utah. His career in education started as a secondary social studies and English teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in social foundations at the University of Virginia. He is a research affiliate for the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project at the University of Virginia. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received a 2024 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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jackschneider.bsky.social Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 18d
The latest History of Education Quarterly is now online. In this thread, I'll post non-paywalled versions of the whole issue.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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jackschneider.bsky.social Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 18d
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.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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It's not enough to hold a supermajority in the state legislature, the governorship, or in the U.S. Congress. They want total power without any dissent. #utleg
desertwolf.bsky.social Desert Johnny Resists ✊ @desertwolf.bsky.social · 14d
Ain't no other way to say it: Republican utleg are a bunch of whiny, power hungry taint warts throwing tantrums.

Utahns deserve honest and fair representation. Republicans want to stay in power with their stranglehold on citizens at any cost and any means.
benwinslow.bsky.social Ben Winslow @benwinslow.bsky.social · 14d
BREAKING NEWS: "Judge Gibson gave us a gerrymandered map," Senate President J. Stuart Adams says, announcing the legislature's appeal to the Utah Supreme Court.

A special session planned for Dec. 9 to outline plans. A constitutional amendment for the 2026 ballot on citizen initiatives. #utpol #Utah
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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You know what to do!
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM