Ask yourself if you thought Biden’s speech tonight was “political” or even “too political,” what would you have taken out? And still made the theme that MAGA is threat to democracy?
The advocacy for voting Democratic in November by Biden is not solely a partisan move. Giving GOP House means ending #jan6th investigations, putting Covid officials on trial, etc. If GOP gets Senate too democracy gets gut punch.
Biden’s audience: There are indeed Republicans who will vote Biden in 2024 but vote party in 2022. In some districts peeling off them from voting for GOP election liars as SOS for example matters for the democracy.
And there is the Trump endorsed/supported candidates themselves. Some may be MAGA, some not. But gearing up for 2024, there is no difference. All will heel to him. Biden says it’s bad for democracy to elect those people.
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Hillsdale president Larry Arnn was caught calling education majors aka teachers lazy and stupid. So does Hillsdale have an education major? No, but it has its own k-12 campus and curriculum used in many states. Do people running that have Ed degrees? 1/x k12.hillsdale.edu/About/Our-Team/
First the link for the lazy and stupid (cuz I bring receipts): 2/x
Now on to the thread. The leader of Hillsdale’s k-12 empire has three degrees in politics and taught at the college and high school levels. Might be a great prof/teacher but pedagogy isn’t her expertise 3/x k12.hillsdale.edu/Profiles/K-12-…
A Georgia Senate Committee hearing on Senate Bill 377 - an "educational gag order" bill concerning "divisive concepts" in k-12 and #highered. I'll try to live tweet. You can watch here: 1/X vimeo.com/showcase/90764…
Sen. Bo Hatchett, its sponsor, said he is trying to prevent students being taught "divisive concepts" not US history. He reads and you can read bill here: legis.ga.gov/legislation/61…
By the way, he offers no proof that any of these concepts are being taught, were taught, are part of #CriticalRaceTheory
Up now and prominently displayed is a new Charlie Kirk @HumanEvents piece dripping with conspiracy hints. But as usual Kirk only asks (loaded) questions about Covid death rates 1/x humanevents.com/2022/01/21/why…
Kirk’s long used rhetorical strategy appears here: find some news boy and turn it into right-wing talking point. The news here: Indiana insurance giant talking deaths during Covid, originally appeared in @thecentersquare 3 weeks ago: 2/x thecentersquare.com/indiana/indian…
*news bit not boy. @dailykos picked it up a few days later and offered a left wing opinion: There are large areas of the United States under Republican control where COVID-19 deaths and COVID-19-related deaths are openly undercounted. 3/x dailykos.com/story/2022/1/5…
It's time to detail the laughable and sad response from the @BORUSG University System of Georgia to today's news concerning @AAUP report about #tenure. We are rolling toward a censure vote. #highered 1/x
The USG response is a Dec. 3 letter from the system chancellor to the AAUP after the AAUP sent the system a draft of the report that came out today. The report and quotes from the letter are available here 2/x aaup.org/report/academi…
As the report makes clear, the @BORUSG is redefining tenure and academic due process to justify what its oversees the Board of Regents did in gutting tenure. In short, gaslighting. 3/x
For last few years I have had first year students write an end-of-semester reflection on how their definitions of reading and writing have changed due to my course. Not once has a student - AP or not - said what they learned in high school was akin to what I teach. 1/x
Many students said they took an AP or even got credit. But all said that writing was taught to them with a formula or some easy way to follow. I'm not knocking HS teachers. They likely are doing as I do, but often are pressured by exams to force formulas more than freedom. 2/x
My students are a combination of dual enrollment and tier 3 applicants. Also from a state that has end of course HS exams with a writing assessment with an argument emphasis 3/x gadoe.org/Curriculum-Ins…
The death of tenure in Georgia will come next week during meeting of the @BORUSG Board of Regents. Let me walk thru the obfuscation on the issue by the university system leaders. They and the Regents on dead set on ruining the reputation of the state. #highered 1/x
The USG and BOR initially released a revision to due process for its Sept. 9 meeting that called for tenured professors to be fired for "reasons other than cause," wiping away tenure protections in one sentence. 2/x usg.edu/regents/assets…
The USG quickly revised this sentence by removing the causeless clause. They claimed it was "bad" and "unclear" writing. But they also claimed we as faculty were "misconstruing" the text and that the "intent" of these revisions was not to change tenure. 3/x