By Kelsey Trumble We hand students dystopian novels—1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Hunger Games—as warnings about what happens when fear becomes normal, when truth bends, when cruelty turns quiet. But somewhere along the way, the fiction blurred. Now, when another teacher bleeds in a classroom, the outrage burns through feeds faster than facts can catch up. […]
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Under His Eye: Teaching Under Trump’s Policy
I teach twelfth-grade English at an urban school. The poverty rate here is high. Violent crime is a common occurrence. I’ve devoted my career to serving this population. The work is often difficult, but it’s the most-important work in the world, and I’m all in. When I returned to the classroom in September, to begin […]
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Dystopian Teacher Tales #7: The educational advocate and her clients
In this scenario, Donald Trump has been elected to a third term, which is something he’s often mentioned during the first portion of his second term. With the complete closure of the federal DOE, something that both Trump and Secretary McMahon have noted as a priority, many Title protections have been returned to states. Similar […]
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Chronic Absenteeism: The Silent Killer
As a former Texas Master Teacher, I thought I knew everything there was to know about education, as it related to data and metrics. I knew how to tier my students based on their academic needs. I understood the necessity for grouping my students by various demographic markers. I effectively delivered the Texas Essential Knowledge […]
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Around the World in 80 Lessons: Warnings in Genocide to the US from Armenia
This summer, I was invited to study at the Genocide Museum in Yerevan, Armenia as a teacher fellow with the Genocide Education Project. I walked the museum with Regina Galustyan, the museum’s biographer and researcher. I sat in on lectures from professors like Dr. Dikran Kaligian and visited cultural sites and monasteries. I watched Armenian […]
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Ryan Walters steps down after turbulent tenure as Oklahoma state superintendent
Ryan Walters, the state school superintendent who implemented Bibles in all public classrooms in the state, will resign from his position effective the end of this month. Elected in 2022, Walters spent his tenure as head of schools routinely injecting religion into the States’ public schools, and he will join the Teacher Freedom Alliance, a […]
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Department of Education to partner with conservative groups for civics curriculum
On Wednesday, the Education Department announced a partnership with conservative groups to provide educational programming on patriotism, liberty, and what it calls American values, in recognition of the nation’s 250th anniversary next year. Announced on Constitution Day, the Department of Education, alongside the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), Turning Point USA, Hillsdale College, and more […]
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Florida to stop all childhood vaccine mandates
In a partnership with Ron DeSantis and the Department of Health, the state of Florida will begin working to repeal all childhood vaccines. Florida’s governor said on Wednesday, he’d ask the state legislature to repeal a statute that currently requires all children to receive mandatory vaccinations for polio, diphtheria, measles, and mumps before entering school. […]