The Girl Scouts on campus got me, like they do every year
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The Girl Scouts on campus got me, like they do every year
It is /very/ cold in Philly. I will begrudgingly wear a hat
She literally denied a child a toy, at Christmas, because of a rainbow. The toy will get re-donated and hopefully actually reach a child this time
Homophobes see the gay agenda where nothing gay is happening.
A woman took a Frozen toy out of a toy drive and gave it to an adult (my husband) because it had a small rainbow on the packaging
NBC add reassuring me their news
Facts. Clarity. Calm. With a sunset in the background 🤣
An LA/Ktown walk: 5 Waymo’s, 4 people smoking crack, 72 degrees and sunny in December
My computer is once again begging for mercy as I force I force it to run dozens of do files all day and night
Fight On
Takes me out every time people use the elevator at the gym.
Except the guy with one leg, he gets an elevator pass
I know a bolon when I see one
Chef Rick Martinez, a James Beard award winner, helped an NPR host recreate a beloved Ecuadorian dish his family ate during Thanksgiving. Here's the recipe. n.pr/4pxSj3h
Vapes*
Sad how close we were to kicking nicotine, then came vaped
Not the messenger I expected but solid message
Tap-to-exit on the metro means playing door Russian roulette. Do I keep walking and they open because it’s not a tap or they stay shut and I slam into doors
Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
Imagine instead improving instruction in areas where each teacher is weakest without wasting time going over areas of strength.
While they emphasize what would happen replacing the bottom 5% of value-added teachers, I am particularly interested in applications to targeted teacher training since they show that “good” teachers are high value add on some item categories but not others.
Fun read showing how aggregate test scores leave gains on the table for decision makers.
Do Test Scores Misrepresent Test Results? An Item-by-Item Analysis www.nber.org/papers/w34484
Desperate housewives and Jane the Virgin are on the same wavelength
Most annoying part of a broken finger is when the splint gets wet 🤢🤢
Fresh off the presses today, new research on attendance from me and @npardo.bsky.social. We look at attendance by student group in NC and VA pre- and post-COVID, studying which groups saw the sharpest increases in absenteeism. We reach a few conclusions: www.aei.org/research-pro...
Food delivery robot fail
I proposed in my fourth grade notebook that recess should be shortened for more time for learning
My first policy proposal
My husband informed me I was shouting about “statistics” in my sleep earlier this week
Not quite sure what to make of this development
I want a methods rosetta stone
Something about JSTOR having ai based on its catalog feels icky
AERA proposal submitted straight to a table in Vegas
FYI: I've updated my list of Useful Data Resources, primarily with a bunch of (20-ish?) new links to state-specific public school datasets and data repositories.
go.illinois.edu/UsefulDataRe...
Suggestions/corrections are always welcome.
Death, taxes, and...