Jenn Borgioli Binis
@jennbinis.bsky.social
Freelance editor, researcher, and/or fact-checker for education and academic authors. Writing a book about teachers. This is my personal/professional account. Luddite. Newsletter: https://dissertate.jennbbinis.com/. r/Askhistorians moderator.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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New: I look at the surprisingly difficult question of how to rank different states' schools (inspired by @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social).
I also take a look at a new project summarizing education research on various topics.
And more in this Ideas roundup
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/chalkbeat-...
I also take a look at a new project summarizing education research on various topics.
And more in this Ideas roundup
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/chalkbeat-...
State rankings critiqued, more on the Southern surge, and education research for dummies
A Chalkbeat Ideas round up
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
New: I look at the surprisingly difficult question of how to rank different states' schools (inspired by @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social).
I also take a look at a new project summarizing education research on various topics.
And more in this Ideas roundup
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/chalkbeat-...
I also take a look at a new project summarizing education research on various topics.
And more in this Ideas roundup
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/chalkbeat-...
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You will never see a better, more vindictive shit-eating grin than the final second of this video
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
You will never see a better, more vindictive shit-eating grin than the final second of this video
This is an INCREDIBLY in-depth thread about the SS standards revision process in Texas. @drwhit.bsky.social is updating it on the regular and it's worth spending some time with if you're interested in the state's standards revision process. (Thanks @ryanabt.bsky.social for sharing it!)
Good morning! Texas is revising its K-12 social studies standards (TEKS) for 5.5 million kids, & the State Board of Education (SBOE) is meeting today to discuss their progress today. I will be live-tweeting (posting?) about anything that concerns social studies. Follow this thread for updates!
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is an INCREDIBLY in-depth thread about the SS standards revision process in Texas. @drwhit.bsky.social is updating it on the regular and it's worth spending some time with if you're interested in the state's standards revision process. (Thanks @ryanabt.bsky.social for sharing it!)
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Just a reminder that as a speaker, you can ask who the other speakers are and not participate if there are no women
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Just a reminder that as a speaker, you can ask who the other speakers are and not participate if there are no women
There is something absolutely incredible about seeing a list of names associated with an education project, clocking male-presenting names save on and then seeing the one woman is a student. Which seems, extra special... I don't know... condescending.
The Secretary of Education just appointed five new members to the powerful National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI)--the organization that approves accreditors. Expect NACIQI to play a major role over the next several years.
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
There is something absolutely incredible about seeing a list of names associated with an education project, clocking male-presenting names save on and then seeing the one woman is a student. Which seems, extra special... I don't know... condescending.
Ha. You think this is bad? This one time, a high school English department had a meeting about maybe replacing To Kill A Mockingbird in their curriculum. The Secretary of State doesn't have anything on those censorship-crazed teachers!
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ha. You think this is bad? This one time, a high school English department had a meeting about maybe replacing To Kill A Mockingbird in their curriculum. The Secretary of State doesn't have anything on those censorship-crazed teachers!
Great write up of the indy author day at @buffalolibrary.bsky.social from Buffalo State's student paper.
buffstaterecord.com/21654/recent...
buffstaterecord.com/21654/recent...
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Great write up of the indy author day at @buffalolibrary.bsky.social from Buffalo State's student paper.
buffstaterecord.com/21654/recent...
buffstaterecord.com/21654/recent...
In case it's relevant to your interests, the @f1tv.bsky.social Peloton scenic ride dropped this morning and it's objectively very cool! (I recommend the Chill station for the full vibe.)
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
In case it's relevant to your interests, the @f1tv.bsky.social Peloton scenic ride dropped this morning and it's objectively very cool! (I recommend the Chill station for the full vibe.)
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More reps should do clips like this, featuring the messages we're leaving, because almost everyone I know is calling on the regular.
Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
More reps should do clips like this, featuring the messages we're leaving, because almost everyone I know is calling on the regular.
By my count, this is the third major piece in the last week with the same general vibe. Can't say I'm a fan.
I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next.
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
By my count, this is the third major piece in the last week with the same general vibe. Can't say I'm a fan.
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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IT’S HERE!!
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November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
IT’S HERE!!
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
I appreciate this reframing and context.
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I appreciate this reframing and context.
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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this trump administration is bent on turning high school assistant principals into John Brown
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
this trump administration is bent on turning high school assistant principals into John Brown
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This account is truly amazing. The sort of thing that makes you say “oh, THIS is why the Internet exists.”
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This account is truly amazing. The sort of thing that makes you say “oh, THIS is why the Internet exists.”
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Every one of these essays, and in truth, the entire collection rebukes the sentiment that the closure of the Department of Ed is NBD. It is a BD.
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.
I'll post non-paywalled versions of all nine contributions here. Huge thanks to the amazing scholars who participated.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Every one of these essays, and in truth, the entire collection rebukes the sentiment that the closure of the Department of Ed is NBD. It is a BD.
The same can absolutely be said about K-12.
I was talking to my students yesterday about how much we lose when we simply think of college as something to be got through.
Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The same can absolutely be said about K-12.
#PairedTexts
1. From a Moms for Liberty post-election day email (ends with a donation request)
2. "Moms for Liberty Shut Out Nationwide with Every Candidate Losing in 2025 Elections" (uomod.com/moms-for-lib...)
1. From a Moms for Liberty post-election day email (ends with a donation request)
2. "Moms for Liberty Shut Out Nationwide with Every Candidate Losing in 2025 Elections" (uomod.com/moms-for-lib...)
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
#PairedTexts
1. From a Moms for Liberty post-election day email (ends with a donation request)
2. "Moms for Liberty Shut Out Nationwide with Every Candidate Losing in 2025 Elections" (uomod.com/moms-for-lib...)
1. From a Moms for Liberty post-election day email (ends with a donation request)
2. "Moms for Liberty Shut Out Nationwide with Every Candidate Losing in 2025 Elections" (uomod.com/moms-for-lib...)
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I just…
WTF is wrong with this society?
WTF is wrong with this society?
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I just…
WTF is wrong with this society?
WTF is wrong with this society?
Inspired by @ladyofsardines.bsky.social's wonderful AI zine, I've added a variation of this language to my client contracts and have started sharing it in slide decks when I do talks.
To quote Courtney Radsch and others, we should all be Luddites.
To quote Courtney Radsch and others, we should all be Luddites.
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Inspired by @ladyofsardines.bsky.social's wonderful AI zine, I've added a variation of this language to my client contracts and have started sharing it in slide decks when I do talks.
To quote Courtney Radsch and others, we should all be Luddites.
To quote Courtney Radsch and others, we should all be Luddites.