EdReal

Teacher

[New York Times Education Pitchbot @GreyLadiesNYC]

I Was Firmly Against Online School and AI in Schools, But That Was Before Alpha School Showed Me What My Salary Would Be

I’m Pleased to Announce I’ll Be Joining Alpha School as a Learning Scientist

[Tom Loveless @tomloveless99]

I appreciate the talent Alpha has employed. But I remind people of the huge collection of talent behind progressive reforms in the 1920s, NSF reforms in the 1950-60s, state standards in the 1990s, NCLB in the 2000's, and Common Core in the 2010's. They all failed. I wish Alpha the best.

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

NO!!

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

@emilyfoxkaplan @alexanderrusso You can't. Basically, he's calling for parents to have the money to keep their kids away from other kids the parents think are stupid.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

@alexanderrusso "You shouldn't have to pay to move away from a district that has too many kids you think are stupid."

Yeah, that's an agenda all right.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

Annoys me how many people think MR has a tragic ending. I don't think Luhrmann really understood his movie, either. When I was listening to his commentary, he was talking about how he foreshadowed the tragic ending, how he based it off of all the operas. Dude, your movie had a beautiful and happy ending. You told us *at the beginning* she died, of a disease she had before the movie started.

So the suspense was not "can Christian save Satine" but "Will Christian and Satine stay true to the bargain they made--to love each other come what may". At least three times, the Duke asserted his power, Satine did what hookers do, and Christian remembered the vow.

You see Christian moving from lost despair to purposeful work to contentedly typing the end to his story in his apartment. He's taking care of her bird. He's ready to move on, having memorialized their story.

I'll try "Ed takes movie musicals too seriously for a 1000, Alex."

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

@BradleyKBusch Alpha is a private school for parents who can afford to pay money to brag that their kids are doing high school work in fifth grade.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

Apparently, ed journalist needs to be told that "results you don't want" != "undemocratic".

[Alexander Russo @alexanderrusso]

Now tell me how Democratic traditional public schools are, really.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

@alexanderrusso Well, the standards and requirements and funding are set by law that is created by politicians at the local, state, and federal level who are elected by voters.

The fact that not everyone likes the results is not evidence they aren't democratic.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

But girls who like boys stuff are not accused of being "mannish" or even tomboys. That's reserved for girls who *only* read boys stuff, who refuse to wear dresses, who have no female friends.

It's quite normal and has been for generations for girls to enjoy boy-like activities and books while still liking to wear dresses, want boyfriends, having kids, etc.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

@ChrisExpTheNews @Sideways440 I hope you are making that pull in respect and awe, because the reprise of "come what may" in Moulin Rouge is truly one of the finest and earned great moments in musical history.

[Mark Wallace @wallaceme]

The whole "if a much younger beautiful woman is interested in you, then the only possible reason is she is a spy" argument definitely applies for most blokes. I'm just not sure it's *completely* true if you have $200 billion.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

@alexanderrusso But Alexander, it's all speculation. No facts.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

I have never heard of this series! Great clip.

[E.Z Peterson @TheEZRider]

RIP Stacy Keach. Thank you for playing one of the most overlooked and hilarious TV Dad's ever. Ken Titus.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

Teachers and cops have a lot of power and a lot of vulnerability. When an accusation comes, the possibility that the accusation is false must be protected, and the best way to manage that is with strong job protections and a union.

On the pay aspect, they differ: cops get overtime and different levels of jobs that allow promotions, teachers can't get that for obvious reasons. That's why teacher union battles are almost always over pay and why they get attention.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

Girls liking books for boys has never historically been considered a signal for lesbianism, but a signal of a girl being really normal. Girls that *don't* like a single thing that boys liked are even today called "little princesses" and "really girly" in ways that were, well, not complimentary.

If a movie or book about a girl becomes popular with boys, it's because she's interesting and active.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

On the whole "girls reading boys stuff but boys don't read girls" issue: "Boys stuff" is vastly more interesting to girls because in general, it's much better. I probably know more about the entire genre of YA fiction going back decades than most, and this begins with the Hardy Boys being way WAY cooler than Nancy Drew.

I often wondered in Barbie if Greta Gerwig understood this. For example, it wasn't even remotely a problem to the Mattel business that Ken took over. The Mojo Dojo Casa Houses that the snotty (and really intolerable daughter who dragged the movie down in every scene) daughter thought was such a stupid name were flying off the shelves.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

@daydream42581 Because there are vastly more interesting and universal stories in boy fiction than girls.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

@ijbailey @OrinKerr @WSJ A point that is not even remotely established with two examples of Asian immigrant parents from one town in the Bay Area.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

@MuseZack @WildBillWellman It's been a tough month for losses.