ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

Dad. Warrior-nerd. Fugitive pedagogue. Urban cyclist. Video game, HipHop polymath. ATLien. Bringing pens to swordfights since 1978.

@MisterMinor joins our flipped keynote lineup for our Conference to #RestoreHumanity, July 24-27, 2023: https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference #satchat #education

There are only 14 counties in the world that offer full legal rights to women. The US is not one of them.

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/only-14-countries-have-full-equal-rights-for-women

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn’t necessary. If they’re absent, praise won’t help.

• if you need an abortion (or had one) in a state where it’s illegal, don’t discuss it on social media at all, but ESPECIALLY not on Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp)
• if you need abortion pills, DO NOT search for them on Google. It sucks anyway. Use DuckDuckGo or another search engine.
• if you buy abortion pills, do it through a trusted third party who lives in a blue state.
https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2

One cool thing about #JonStewart going viral again for another basic, research-grounded interview with a genuinely malice-driven "traditional-values" neo-Nazi cretin is that it gives 98% of journalists another 101 lesson in the actual good work they could do if they didn't have to worry about "losing access" to disingenuous shitsacks they 100% know to be lying in order to make America a shittier, more violent reactionary cesspit than it already is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCuIxIJBfCY

Probably one of the kindest things you can do for your community is internalize the idea that things can be true for other people without being even legible to you, and that those epistemological differences can be accepted.

Two good essays in Teen Vogue, which I confess is not a publication I ordinarily read: one in 2020 about teachers ditching grades (https://is.gd/T6HzcQ), the other reminding us that, despite the widely accepted "cancel culture" narrative, U.S. universities actually skew rightward in the ways that count (https://is.gd/sfzKsB)

“One of the most popular conceptual models in #Western #education was built on the wisdom and sophistication of a First Nations society, which was then made completely invisible in the literature. “

#Maslow #MindBlowing #History #Indigenous

https://shanesafir.com/2020/12/before-maslows-hierarchy-the-whitewashing-of-indigenous-knowledge/

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#academia #academicmastodon #academic #AcademicCareer @academicchatter

Encouraging all supporters of #highered to take a stand against authoritarians dictating who can teach at public universities and what they can teach. Please consider signing this joint statement by the American Association of University Professors, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Coalition Against Censorship:
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/florida-bill-would-destroy-higher-education-as-we-know-it/

#StopHB999 #academia @academicchatter @academicsunite

Child labor violations in the U.S. have more than tripled since 2015 after declining for years, according to government data. https://t.co/Aw7WLqLmlk

California’s community colleges do not employ enough full-time faculty and in some cases districts are misspending state funds allocated for those faculty instead on too many part-time adjuncts, finds state auditor.

https://edsource.org/2023/california-community-colleges-rely-too-much-on-part-time-faculty-and-misspend-funds-audit-finds/686030?utm_id=88145&sfmc_id=1854575

#CommunityColleges #HigherEd #ContingentLabor #NoSurprise

@ZingerLearns I really don't know. I know historically segregation made for radical regional differences in politics and policies, but I don't know how to trace out the comparison. Though reading Adam Harris suggests that lots of what we are left with now comes from the white supremacy that was baked into the whole endeavor from the outset.

Florida will become the place where public #higherEd goes to die https://www.rawstory.com/florida-education-goes-to-die/

@ZingerLearns yes, completely true. And beyond the actual bans, there’s the effect of self censorship and a zeitgeist that communicates it’s OK to limit free inquiry, let alone suggest that certain people and lifestyles are “vaguely criminal.” Lots of organizing to do, particularly at the level of parents and school board elections.

The larger numbers, though, might suggest to state level politicians who see this as a winning strategy that they won’t derive the bump they’re hoping for.

You can draw a straight line from the Black Codes, which punished enslaved Black people who dared to read, educate themselves, and challenge the notion that they were inferior, to Desantis and the GOP's crusade to erase Black history, and prevent Black people from gaining access to educational and employment opportunities.

Recent polling data on book bans shows support from Republicans, not from Independents and Democrats. The headline may over play the data, but there’s some encouraging news.

https://www.businessinsider.com/book-banning-in-america-losing-issue-for-republicans-2023-2