Rachel Besharat Mann
@rbmann.bsky.social
I study the intersection of identity development + social media + #literacies at a university.
Big fan of critical thinking, civil discourse, silliness, and dismantling injustice. I also like my dog and paranormal stuff.
Big fan of critical thinking, civil discourse, silliness, and dismantling injustice. I also like my dog and paranormal stuff.
I recently published a paper with an elementary teacher about supporting young kids in their understanding of digital concepts off screen. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We talked about it on this local pod:
We talked about it on this local pod:
Ridgefield Tiger Talk 133: Preparing Students for The Digital World Article
Podcast Episode · Ridgefield Tiger Talk · 11/21/2025 · 16m
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November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I recently published a paper with an elementary teacher about supporting young kids in their understanding of digital concepts off screen. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We talked about it on this local pod:
We talked about it on this local pod:
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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Super exciting paper showing that high schools vary in their impacts on civic engagement. Schools that are better at improving academic outcomes are also better at creating voters.
Kirsten was a @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social postdoc when she began this work, so it's thrilling to see the result.
Kirsten was a @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social postdoc when she began this work, so it's thrilling to see the result.
Does where you go to high school affect whether you vote as an adult? My working paper estimating high school effects on civic engagement is now posted on Annenberg: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1260.
High School Effects on Civic Engagement
Preparing young people for the rights and responsibilities of citizenship is cited as a fundamental purpose of public education, yet little is known about whether or how K-12 schools impact civic enga...
edworkingpapers.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Super exciting paper showing that high schools vary in their impacts on civic engagement. Schools that are better at improving academic outcomes are also better at creating voters.
Kirsten was a @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social postdoc when she began this work, so it's thrilling to see the result.
Kirsten was a @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social postdoc when she began this work, so it's thrilling to see the result.
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Amen Book Wrangler! #TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #Booksky #Schoollibrarians #Educators #Books
What a book you remember being read to you? That book you could not wait until the next day to hear more?
What a book you remember being read to you? That book you could not wait until the next day to hear more?
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Amen Book Wrangler! #TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #Booksky #Schoollibrarians #Educators #Books
What a book you remember being read to you? That book you could not wait until the next day to hear more?
What a book you remember being read to you? That book you could not wait until the next day to hear more?
I’m sorry, but I will never ever ever call the Tappan Zee bridge anything other than the Tappan Zee bridge. Every time I see a Mario C*omo sign I want to scream and it’s been so many years.
August 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I’m sorry, but I will never ever ever call the Tappan Zee bridge anything other than the Tappan Zee bridge. Every time I see a Mario C*omo sign I want to scream and it’s been so many years.
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"Exciting news to announce! The robbers I let into the house have agreed to give back the money they stole!"
July 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Exciting news to announce! The robbers I let into the house have agreed to give back the money they stole!"
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People can have differing politics. You can oppose immigration, have views on limited taxes, be tough on crime, support an Israeli state - you can believe all of these things, but you also MUST have empathy and realize that your political views are not an excuse for intolerable cruelty.
July 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
People can have differing politics. You can oppose immigration, have views on limited taxes, be tough on crime, support an Israeli state - you can believe all of these things, but you also MUST have empathy and realize that your political views are not an excuse for intolerable cruelty.
Good news Wednesday! I have never submitted to #LRA, but I did this year, I was accepted to present my paper- “Navigating Digital Realities: Understanding Young People's Engagement with Social Media for News, Political Information, and Identity Formation” 🎉
July 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Good news Wednesday! I have never submitted to #LRA, but I did this year, I was accepted to present my paper- “Navigating Digital Realities: Understanding Young People's Engagement with Social Media for News, Political Information, and Identity Formation” 🎉
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The problem, of course, isn’t that NPR has a liberal bias, it’s that facts have a liberal bias and today’s GOP is almost unanimous in its opposition to facts.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR
The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The problem, of course, isn’t that NPR has a liberal bias, it’s that facts have a liberal bias and today’s GOP is almost unanimous in its opposition to facts.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Roosevelt understood that boredom, frustration, and social isolation could easily turn people (and especially young men*) toward violence, hate, and conspiracies.
"You can see that Roosevelt's [New Deal works programs for discontented young men] are immediately defusing rightwing threats, *which is what Roosevelt means them to do.*"
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I went back to this 2021 podcast w/ @rauchway.bsky.social It's so relevant. 1/
deepcast.fm/episode/...
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I went back to this 2021 podcast w/ @rauchway.bsky.social It's so relevant. 1/
deepcast.fm/episode/...
Know Your Enemy: UNLOCKED: Why the New Deal Matters (w/ Eric Rauchway) on DeepCast
Historian Eric Rauchway elucidates how the New Deal, driven by Roosevelt's anti-fascist impulse and vision for a rejuvenated democracy, fundamentally shaped American society while grappling with the compromises necessitated by its racial politics, ultimately establishing an enduring legacy that continues to inspire contemporary initiatives.
deepcast.fm
July 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Roosevelt understood that boredom, frustration, and social isolation could easily turn people (and especially young men*) toward violence, hate, and conspiracies.
Ma’am. I feel like she should have been a little more frightened, but I’m glad she wasn’t. When I passed, she was still hanging.
July 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Ma’am. I feel like she should have been a little more frightened, but I’m glad she wasn’t. When I passed, she was still hanging.
Woah. If you need me, I’ll be contemplating my existence for the foreseeable future.
July 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Woah. If you need me, I’ll be contemplating my existence for the foreseeable future.
Baby elephants are my new hyper fixation
July 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Baby elephants are my new hyper fixation
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It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
July 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
I feel like we all need this ♥️
July 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I feel like we all need this ♥️
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I don’t care what you call it- investment in education, communities, and children will always have positive reverberations.
Mayor Brandon Scott has reduced crime in Baltimore by 62%, and now has the lowest homicide rate in Baltimore history.
How did he do it?
NOT be spending more on police. He did it by MAJOR investment in afterschool and literacy programs.
Socialism works
How did he do it?
NOT be spending more on police. He did it by MAJOR investment in afterschool and literacy programs.
Socialism works
July 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I don’t care what you call it- investment in education, communities, and children will always have positive reverberations.
For anyone on the lookout....
Thread of Positions in Education in Blue States. Please skeet out to your network.
Vice President of Programs
HERS (Higher Education Resource Services)
wiareport.com/wiajobs/hers...
Vice President of Programs
HERS (Higher Education Resource Services)
wiareport.com/wiajobs/hers...
Vice President of Programs - Women In Academia Report
The HERS Vice President of Programs will lead the Programs Team in the design, implementation, management, supervision, and evaluation of programs consistent with the HERS mission, vision, values, and...
wiareport.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
For anyone on the lookout....
Make America compassionate and empathetic (for once, not again)
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Make America compassionate and empathetic (for once, not again)
Let media literacy and truth prevail in your honor.
NPR's Scott Simon remembers the astonishing career of former White House press secretary and long-time public broadcasting journalist Bill Moyers, who died this week at the age of 91.
Opinion: Remembering Bill Moyers
NPR's Scott Simon remembers the astonishing career of former White House press secretary and long-time public broadcasting journalist Bill Moyers, who died this week at the age of 91.
n.pr
June 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Let media literacy and truth prevail in your honor.
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I ran a literary salon with brilliant youth literary scholars! Check out that work in this new article in Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ)! Youth reveal powerful links between literary interpretation & social justice education! #literacies, #edusky, #iteachenglish, #literacy doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library
Disciplinary literacy explores knowledge-producing communities, but less often considers youth as scholars in their own right, particularly as related to English language arts. Drawing on theories of...
doi.org
June 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I ran a literary salon with brilliant youth literary scholars! Check out that work in this new article in Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ)! Youth reveal powerful links between literary interpretation & social justice education! #literacies, #edusky, #iteachenglish, #literacy doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
Every time a congressperson speaks lately, it feels like “thoughts and prayers”.
This is only the most recent unconstitutional thing. If I read another congressional statement “condemning” these actions, I’m going to SCREAM. Congress we are BEGGING you to put down your official social media letterhead and ACT. Blood is on all of your hands. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
My statement on Donald Trump’s unilateral military action in Iran.
June 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Every time a congressperson speaks lately, it feels like “thoughts and prayers”.
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For World Refugee Day, we'd like to highlight this recent #OpenAccess title in the #CriticalHumanRightsStudies series, published with @hrc-sas.bsky.social & @icws-sas.bsky.social: #Refugee Reception in Southern Africa by @nicholasmaple.bsky.social.
Available here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...
Available here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...
June 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
For World Refugee Day, we'd like to highlight this recent #OpenAccess title in the #CriticalHumanRightsStudies series, published with @hrc-sas.bsky.social & @icws-sas.bsky.social: #Refugee Reception in Southern Africa by @nicholasmaple.bsky.social.
Available here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...
Available here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...
Please get it together.
New York City's mayoral race has the potential to be an epically disastrous four-car electoral pileup. | @esotericcd.bsky.social
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I Love the New York City Mayoral Race | National Review
Only a longtime Chicago resident could fully appreciate the chaos and hopelessness of this contest.
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June 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Please get it together.