Ralph Pantozzi

Opinion | China may be preparing for nuclear war. The U.S. isn’t. Rather than aiming for nuclear deterrence, China appears to be building a stockpile to wage war.

Why is anyone still using the phrase “win a nuclear war”?

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A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? The focus on gender risked “contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.”

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Building improvements at an Indigenous languages archive in Alaska risked “promoting inclusion and diverse perspectives.” Renewal of a longstanding grant to digitize Black newspapers and add them to a historical database was “D.E.I.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Snail Sex Tape Snails do it, we watch.

They also make tiny arrows and stab each other with them...! radiolab.org/podcast/snai...

You're trapped in the last TV show you watched. Where are you?

Welcome to 1968

Importantly they are planning to hire these people on 2 year contracts so what actually happened is they fired everyone so they could rehire them with worse working conditions and an easy revolving door with industry 🫩 🔭

a cartoon bunny says may the chaos commence in front of fire ALT: a cartoon bunny says may the chaos commence in front of fire

Discussing memorizing multiplication tables on that other app #iTeachMath

... the efficient production of basic number combinations does not seem to be a cognitively trivial process
can readily be promoted by unsophisticated educational practices.

1985

...many educators still believe that learning the number combinations is essentially a straightforward, rote memory task that can be accomplished quickly.

"Accurate & automatic production of the basic number combinations is a major objective of elementary math education. Typically, it is not... easily and quickly attained. ...teachers regularly lament... how much difficulty children have in mastering the basic "number facts".

Correct answer

That would have been mine - but it was 1990

and "The bottom line is that very few American students demonstrate they can use their minds well"

In what year was it reported:

"On an average school day, for example, most 12 graders read 10 pages or less, at home and in school combined. Most 17-year-olds spend less than one hour a day on homework, and few parents discuss their children's homework with them."

“If we are lucky, the end of the 1990's will mark the end of spurious connections between educational ideas and political affiliations”

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What Was Happening in Education the Year You Began Teaching? Teachers, what was the big education story when you started teaching? Find out in our interactive timeline.

This was an interesting interactive from @edweek.org -----What Was Happening in Education the Year You Began Teaching? www.edweek.org/the-state-of...

Orange text: "ICE agents don’t get to pick and choose when the First Amendment applies." Orange text: "We have a right to record law enforcement in public." Orange ACLU logo. Black background.

When ICE agents are working, we have a right to film them in public. Period.

This Tuesday, a ‘blood moon’ will be followed by a rare sky spectacle The moon will turn red for 58 minutes as it’s plunged into the Earth’s shadow

This Tuesday, some will briefly see the sun rising and the totally-eclipsed moon setting on opposite horizons. That’s what the word selenelion means.
Given the sun, Earth and moon will be at syzygy — or in a straight line — the moon and sun will be exactly 180 degrees apart wapo.st/4u3iJgo

Bring On Defunct: The iPod Enthralls Young Music Listeners

If the choice is “1,000 songs in my pocket, or unlimited songs in my pocket and 1,000 notifications every hour,” people don’t want the latter
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...

How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

A huge study finds a link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later Researchers followed more than 400,000 teens until they were adults. It found that those who used marijuana were more likely to develop serious mental illness, as well as depression and anxiety.

Researchers followed more than 400,000 teens until they were adults. It found that those who used marijuana were more likely to develop serious mental illness, as well as depression and anxiety.

“Teachers who are alienated, passive, and unquestioning cannot make such initiations possible for those around. Nor can teachers who take the social reality surrounding them for granted and simply accede to them.

After nearly a decade of research and collaboration with Philadelphia schools, the team behind the Responsive Math Teaching (RMT) Project is releasing a book designed to transform math instruction far beyond the city. #iTeachMath

Iowa's party of “personal responsibility” has a dependency problem Nick Covington: There isn't a mild annoyance that the party of “personal responsibility” won’t call Big Government to step in and address.

New post by Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social: Like the busybodies on your neighborhood Facebook page, there isn’t a mild annoyance that the party of "personal responsibility" won’t call Big Government to step in to address.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/02/26/i...

“Knowledge & skills are acquired through scaffolded explanations/ demonstrations followed by the student processing it, using it, thinking about it. The teacher then checks their understanding and offers high quality feedback, reinforces, corrects, redirects or reconstructs.” 🤔

and yeah, 1947

"I am not against the inclusion of controversial material in textbooks when it is an integral part of the subject matter," said Mrs. Strong. "But if you're going to have facts. they must be facts."

and reasoned children might ask their parents what it meant, thus grain stirring up trouble.

also "slums and slum clearance".

• "What were the horse and buggy days?" The query was used in a textbook discussion of changing transportation modes, but Mrs. Strong remembered it "as a term of reproach by President Roosevelt against the Republicans,"