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White Affirmative Action: The Classic Learning Test Gains Traction
Today on AOTA Shorts: In what we can only think of as some new wave, reverse reverse racism nonsense, the Classic Standardized Test is gaining ground…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
USC Doubles Down on Legacy and Donor Admits, Violating New CA Law
Today on AOTA Shorts: Haters call them the “University of Spoiled Children” but USC isn’t doing themselves any favors these days with a brazen violat…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Dumber by Design: Faculty Prepare for An Exodus from the South
This Week: As the right wing war on higher education continues a climate of “fear and hopelessness” sets in among the ranks of college faculty across…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Amidst the Chilling Effect: Educator Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Weaponization of a Killing w/Gerardo Muñoz
This Week: Educators across the country are facing investigations, professional sanctions, doxing, and being placed on public lists in states across …
8 months ago
Normalizing the Not Normal: Vaccine Denial, Dismantling Public Ed, and Armed Drones in Schools
This Week: Jeff got a letter published in EdWeek this month, challenging the publication of right wing opinion pieces that are racist, and overtly ho…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Mpls School Shooting, Ten Commandments in TX Schools, and the Fallout from Mahmoud Begins
This Week: Here we are again. Another tragic school shooting, and the tone deaf, empty gestures of thoughts and prayers is all we’re left with from t…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The BOY Episode - Starting the School Year with Resilience and Trepidation w/Genevieve DeBose
This Week: As the school year begins across many parts of America, we welcome back our long time friend of the show and middle school literacy coach …
9 months, 1 week ago
The War on Ethnic Studies Continues, and Takes a Detour Through Palestine
This Week: Despite deep “blue” California being poised to implement the first-in-the-nation, state-wide ethnic studies graduation requirement, the in…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Adulting 101, and do Experienced Teachers Continue to Get Better?
This Week: Sometimes research tells us something new, and sometimes it confirms what we thought we already knew. A new study from the Fordham Institu…
10 months, 1 week ago
Happy Fascist Friday!
This Week: Holy $#!&. Normally we don’t curse around these parts, but damn. It’s an abject mess of theocracy, authoritarianism, and outright attacks …
10 months, 3 weeks ago