Loralyn Taylor

Using #changemanagement, #data & #analytics to help #highered improve #studentsuccess. #research to #implementation. Admitted #geek. #LoveYourData

[Loralyn Taylor @LoralynTaylor]

Because our @ohiou #students should have a hunger to #learn, NOT hunger or homelessness. #studentsuccess #RealCollege #basicneeds https://t.co/tfUgJDu5ll

[Dr. Lori Stewart Gonzalez @OHIO_President]

Dean Elizabeth Sayrs outlines a new initiative "Basic Needs OHIO" for the BOT on #DayOfService of inauguration week #OHIOprez21

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

Of the 10 states where men made up the biggest share of the legislatures, eight have strict abortion bans, and one outlaws it at around six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant. Five don’t allow exceptions for women who are raped. https://t.co/FRsRLt0c4S

[Loralyn Taylor @LoralynTaylor]

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[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

I want to talk about trust and attachment in young children. And there’s no video here for good reason.

Several of you have recently tagged me to ask my thoughts on trending videos depicting parents engaging in one appalling behavior or another - in pursuit, apparently, of social media likes.

In one trend, parents pretend to be FaceTiming with their child’s new kindergarten teacher and call their child over to meet her. When they get to the phone, the child comes face to face with a photo of a scary looking adult (which in some cases appear to be mugshots of women deep in the throes of drug addiction, if, in fact, they are real at all). The children are almost always alarmed. Often they cry.

During one of the biggest transitions in their young child’s life (the start of school), these parents have chosen to stoke anxiety rather than provide comfort.

Other recent trends have involved parents in throwing slices of American cheese at their toddlers - or, more recently, unexpectedly cracking a raw egg on their child’s forehead during a joint cooking activity.

Obviously I’m not going to uplift any examples here. But I do want to address the harm these kinds of behaviors create from a developmental perspective.

The years of early childhood are a time during which trust and attachment are (ideally) formed. With love, attention, and responsive caregiving, young children learn that their world is safe. They develop self worth and self esteem. These are prerequisites to both learning and healthy development.

But the key to developing trust is consistency.

And the behaviors in these videos - even if rare and anomalous - serve only to undermine healthy attachment between parent and child. They provide children with data points that suggest their parents can be unexpectedly and arbitrary cruel. They are a violation of hard earned trust.

Some will argue that these are just jokes in good fun. They aren’t. They are the deliberate infliction of trauma, however brief, for the amusement of strangers. It should go without saying that this isn’t good for children.

Please. Don’t. Just don’t.

[Charlotte Alter @CharlotteAlter]

In post-Dobbs America, some girls can travel hours to get an abortion; some can't. This is the story of one of them.

She was raped. The nearest abortion was nine hours away. Now, she's a mom. Soon, she'll start seventh grade.
https://t.co/VriSE3ygwf

[Jon Boeckenstedt @JonBoeckenstedt]

Your interesting educational attainment visual of the day (forcing an identical orange-->gray-->purple color scheme on both maps)

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Again: Don't be gaslit by those citing the work of scholars describing the skills of enslaved people to excuse the argument that Blk people benefited from slavery. No one is arguing enslaved people didn't have skills. The problem is pretending they needed slavery to acquire them.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

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[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

I was able to graduate from a great state school that only cost $50 a semester. It opened a million doors for me. But that same opportunity simply isn’t available today. Why? Because our government has hacked away at higher education funding and left students to pick up the bill.

[Loralyn Taylor @LoralynTaylor]

Unbelievable

[Hannah Dreier @hannahdreier]

A major child labor rollback goes into effect in Iowa this weekend.

14 year-olds are now allowed to work in meat coolers, 15 year-olds can join assembly lines and 16 year-olds can serve alcohol.

In a few weeks, similar rollbacks take effect in Arkansas. https://t.co/Dp1zvJggXV

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

“Race, and only race, is the thing the conservatives don’t want colleges and universities to look at. Because race is the card white people use that never gets declined. It is their most powerful characteristic, the one through which all else is possible.” https://t.co/LQ1Cnw74lJ

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Before you begin your thinkpiece, the Supreme Court DID NOT strike down Affirmative Action

Admission preferences for legacies, donors, employee families and special recommendations are still allowed

The Court struck down Affirmative Action For everyone except WHITE PEOPLE

[Society of Secret Library Friends @sslibfriends]

This true story came from this article from @BookRiot https://t.co/IQD5vCZrNr

[Society of Secret Library Friends @sslibfriends]

A 10-year-girl in Delaware picked up “It’s Perfectly Normal” while at the library with her mother. When they came home, she showed her mom the chapter on sexual abuse and said, “This is me.” She was being abused by her father, and it was the first time she’d spoken about it.

[Loralyn Taylor @LoralynTaylor]

@tressiemcphd My calendar concurs. 😣

[Jen Psaki @jrpsaki]

When leading Republicans argue “This is an attack on our country…and attack on our free and fair elections.” (Trump), “weaponization of our legal system” (DeSantis) and does “irreparable damage” to our country…that’s a projection of their own roles not a reflection of the facts

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Florida wants to ban young girls from talking about their periods in school.

Idaho blocked tampons in high schools.

So far, 24 states have enacted or are considering invasive and discrimatory pregnancy laws and choice-bans post- Dobbs.

It sounds like the GOP hates little girls and wants to hurt them, shame them, and silence them.

The GOP is a danger to our daughters.

Why are we tolerating this?

[Loralyn Taylor @LoralynTaylor]

@ErikaGSwain I texted you!