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james earl jones gives voice to frederick douglass' brilliant speech exposing the hypocrisy of the US' foundational myth, its false claim to universal liberty which it denied the most marginalized and oppressed, by answering the question: "what to the slave is the 4th of july?"

Happy first days of school to all who celebrate.

Back to school night. English 9. These are good questions.

This is probably my favorite resource on Generative AI right now. cognitiveresonance.net/EducationHazar… Seriously. It's short. And worth your time. Take a look.

Kids these days. And the previous days. And all the days. (Language changes. Fast. Media helps.)

As usual, Dan is doing the class’s homework. Thoughtfully. Worth your time. open.substack.com/pub/danmeyer/p…

Tonight’s poem, by Lucille Clifton Sunday Morning 9/16/01 poets.org/poem/sunday-mo…

I can’t get over the beauty of a group of government scientists that commissioned a poem to send to Europa. And a poet laureate who delivered. loc.gov/programs/poetr…

I very much enjoyed learning with CAMLE today. Thank you for the opportunity to learn together!

Debate rules. Complicated.

“Thank you for explaining the legal process” is quite the sentence.

“Pumpkin patch, is there anything I can do to get you to go to the movies for eight hours?” A good Election Day to all.

“I don’t really like using AI for the feedback. I’d rather have a real person,” said Juliana Gutierrez, a junior in Spanish Language Arts 3. “If you don’t understand something, you can ask [the teacher] to explain it in another way . . .” chalkbeat.org/colorado/2024/…

Happy belated new year, world. I hope you’re finding your way out of the dark. poets.org/poem/calling-s…

At the top of my reading pile.

“Common People,” _Black Mirror_’s season opener, is peak sci-fi. Watch it. Maybe twice. Think about it. Talk to folks about it. I’d teach it if I had a classroom right now.

We are reminded of the sacred work of education by Eve L. Ewing used to go by wikipedia brown in the intro to her new book, _Original Sins_. Reading this in Boston while exploring our national histories with my children is powerful.

“The question is how do you show the presence of absence?” Sajet said at the time. “How do we actually signal that there are a whole lot of people and voices and opinions missing?” I think about that lots. nytimes.com/2025/05/30/art…