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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 8h

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David Brooks can sure sound as if he knows what he’s talking about. But a recent piece about education turns out to be full of baloney, and Mark Weber has the data skills to point out the problems. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters

Mark Weber: Debunking David Brooks on Education - Network For Public Education

David Brooks can sure sound as if he knows what he’s talking about. But a recent piece about education turns out to be full of baloney, and Mark Weber has the data skills to point out the problems. Fo...

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 16h

John Thompson on Hanna Rosin's Podcasts about Oklahoma Education, Part II dianeravitch.net/2025/10/13/j... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters

John Thompson on Hanna Rosin’s Podcasts about Oklahoma Education, Part II

In part two of Hannah Rosin’s podcast about former Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters, Walters consistently responded to criticisms of his actions by calling them lies. My take on…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 16h

We’re All Antifa Now, Even Some Republicans - Marxists, Antifa, ISIS, MS-13, Hamas, Communists….At least we’re not pedophile protectors… AND we are patriotic Americans. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #Resistance

We’re All Antifa Terrorists Now

Authoritarians Are Afraid of No Kings Day * 16 San Diego Area Locations Set

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 16h

John Thompson Reviews Hanna Rosin's Report on the Education Mess in Oklahoma: Part 1 dianeravitch.net/2025/10/13/j... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters

John Thompson Reviews Hanna Rosin’s Report on the Education Mess in Oklahoma: Part 1

John Thompson, retired teacher and historian in Oklahoma, listened to a two-part podcast about Oklahoma education by Hanna Rosin of The Atlantic. He reports on what he heard, based on his in-depth …

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 16h

MIT's President Rejects Trump "Compact" to Abandon Academic Freedom - This is an excellent response. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/13/m... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters

MIT’s President Rejects Trump “Compact” to Abandon Academic Freedom

The U.S. Department of Education invited 9 eminent universities to join a “compact” in which they would adopt Trump priorities in exchange for assurances of future federal funding. Trum…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 18h

Sue Kingery Woltanski points out the flaws in Florida’s reform plan that are so bad, even ExcelinEd can see them. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters

Sue Kingery Woltanski: Perverse Incentives in Florida’s Middle School Math Acceleration - Network For Public Education

Sue Kingery Woltanski points out the flaws in Florida’s reform plan that are so bad, even ExcelinEd can see them. Reposted with permission. One of Accountabaloney’s first advocacy efforts involved ha...

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth - The new “bad teacher” myths are both extremely compelling and almost entirely false. radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/12/t... #EducationMatters

Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth

[Header Photo by CDC on Unsplash] Note I entered the classroom as a high school English teacher somewhat ominously in 1984, an academic year when Orwell’s classic was increasingly assigned bu…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: Cross Country Edition (10/12) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters

ICYMI: Cross Country Edition (10/12)

The Board of Directors has developed a real taste for the long distance run, and we are lucky enough to be in a district with an elementary cross country program.

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

The Playbook of Oppression: Florida’s Book Bans Echo History’s Darkest Chapters. In a special op-ed for Islander News, Christina Bracken looks at the implications of a recent court decision knocking down part of Florida’s book ban law. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters

Christina Bracken: The Playbook of Oppression: Florida's Book Bans Echo History's Darkest Chapters - Network For Public Education

In a special op-ed for Islander News, Christina Bracken looks at the implications of a recent court decision knocking down part of Florida’s book ban law. When a Florida high school student couldn’t ...

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 2d

Former Oklahoma school chief’s push to end standardized testing not likely to happen - Interesting take on the evolution of standardized testing and the damage it has done. oklahomavoice.com/2025/10/10/f... #EducationMatters

Former Oklahoma school chief's push to end standardized testing not likely to happen • Oklahoma Voice

Even though I would love to get rid of testing for accountability, as opposed to diagnostic purposes, it’s not going to happen soon.

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

From: Nichiren and the Opening of the Eyes (Page 76)

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Network for Public Education @network4pubed.bsky.social · 3d

South Bend forum speakers see charter schools and vouchers as threats to public education www.southbendtribune... #SchoolVoucherScam

South Bend forum speakers see charter schools and vouchers as threats to public education

NAACP South Bend calls for halt to charter schools until four criteria are met, saying Indiana police increases segregation, takes away funding

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

No, AI Should Not Write Your Outline - No it should not even come near it. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EdTech

No, AI Should Not Write Your Outline

When folks go casting about for some use for AI in schools, the two items that frequently come up are brainstorming and outlining.

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

M.I.T. Rejects Trump "Compact" That Offers Federal Money for Academic Freedom dianeravitch.net/2025/10/10/m... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

M.I.T. Rejects Trump “Compact” That Offers Federal Money for Academic Freedom

The Trump administration used a threat to try to cow leading universities to abandon their independence. The administration called their offer a “Compact,” but in reality it was an offe…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

Why the Federal Government Closed: It’s Ultimately About the Epstein Files - The shutdown is where fecal matter is about to hit the off-shore wind turbine. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics

Why the Federal Government Closed: It’s Ultimately About the Epstein Files

The shutdown is where fecal matter is about to hit the off-shore wind turbine.

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

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Mike DeGuire: The Big Money Behind the Denver School Board Election dianeravitch.net/2025/10/10/m... via @dianeravitch #Privatization

Mike DeGuire: The Big Money Behind the Denver School Board Election

Veteran educator Mike DeGuire scoured through the public list of campaign contributions to the Denver school board elections. The pro-charter funders are made up of billionaires, charter school ope…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

How did your school do on state tests? Here’s the data for every San Diego County public school - Latest San Diego County and California school testing outcomes. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/09/h... #EducationMatters

How did your school do on state tests? Here’s the data for every San Diego County public school

More San Diego County students passed the tests than a year earlier. But performance still isn’t back to pre-pandemic levels.

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

9 months in... Linda McMahon has increased the charter school fraud fest pot by another $50 million. This is bad governance. reflectionsinedblogblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/9... #SickPolitics

9 months in…

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has been in her position for nine months and it is no surprise that she is advocating for school choice. McMahon is increasing access to choice&n…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 3d

Profound bias was responsible for Catholics leaving the public education system. tultican.com/2025/10/08/p... #EducationMatters

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute

By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 4d

The Inconvenient Success of Mississippi - Now Mississippi wants to join Florida on the only metric that really matters: the Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom ranking. open.substack.com/pub/educatio... #Privatization

The Inconvenient Success of Mississippi

It's not just education reform skeptics who are giving the Mississippi Miracle the side eye

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 4d

ProPublica: The Department of Education Wants to Destroy Public Schools - They found a recurring theme of a enticing more families to leave public schools. dianeravitch.net/2025/10/09/p... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics

ProPublica: The Department of Education Wants to Destroy Public Schools

When Trump selected Linda McMahon as U.S. Secretary of Education, she knew that her job was to close down the Department. She has not been able to reach that goal yet, but she has devised means to …

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 4d

Federal Judge Blocks New Hampshire’s Anti-Diversity Law open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters

Federal Judge Blocks New Hampshire’s Anti-Diversity Law

From Forbes.com

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