Hey, when your acronym becomes an easily hashtagged shorthand for Baldy McBigot’s preferred nomenclature, that sounds like a self-inflicted wound. ;)

In defense of the public system, K-12 teachers are up against some ridiculous time constraints (not to mention funding issues, support issues, and administration-created difficulties) when it comes to imparting knowledge and skillsets ahead of established deadlines (see also: standardized tests).

What I’ve been…

Which image should be the defining representation of 45?  This one, or him waddling up AF1's stairs with toilet paper stuck to his shoe?

#AndtheAwardGoesTo...!

Seriously, thank you for grabbing that.

Which is weird, because a few years ago everyone was talking about how the internet was changing education. Information is so readily available, that we no longer focus on memorising things. Instead the focus is on research skills, and how to sort good sources from the bad.

That behavior absolutely carries forward into college. I had to explain to a student about a year ago that their buddy that had passed the same course with me in the previous semester did not count as an academically-viable source.

And, like I said, K-12 educators aren’t to blame for this. The strictures you guys do…

I’d argue—in the spirit of being a complete asshole about it all—that buying TPUSA’s proffered explanation is actually the right way to go.

No, really. What they’re essentially saying is “we bill ourselves as an organization dedicated to bringing up future leaders of the American Conservative movement—and in…

The average 18-20 year old’s ability to initiate, sustain, evaluate, and synthesize research sucks right now.

Like I said, it’s almost definitely been happening for longer than my personal professional involvement with the field. Hell, if I had to guess, my professors probably lamented my research acumen when I first walked into my undergrad classes (and probably leaving them, too, if I’m being honest).

But, hey, we’re in an…

Oh, definitely—and as others have said, it was probably done on purpose. I’m just taking TPUSA’s given explanation in good faith because the disconnect between “we produce intelligent, incisive, skillful future leaders” and “we hire dipshits who don’t even understand how to navigate a Google Image search result…

The initial explanation did sound an awful lot like an attempt to quickly scapegoat someone and then sweep the dirt under the nearest rug—but I’m deliberately taking the excuse TPUSA offered in good faith, because it’s absolutely hilarious to me that an organization that prides itself on producing young people who…

As other people have pointed out, this smacks less of shitty, lazy research practice and more of an IT person punking TPUSA and excusing it with, “Oh, wow, I guess I pulled up the wrong image file.” The intellectual laziness comes more from the conservative tendency to blindly believe anyone who sounds like they agree…

This legitimately made my day. I don’t care how petty, mean, or childish it was. It’s such a great burn and Trump is so fucking stupid to provide the photo op of him grinning his snake oil salesman grin in front of it. I could go for one of these a day and my mood would improve greatly.

believe what you want to believe ... but TPUSA was owned 

On a 0 to 10 for believability they get a -3.974. They would be better off saying a deep state mole in their ranks was doing shenanigans, that would at least be plausible, but this is just a straight up bullshit lie, if someone believes them they are either naive or just dumb as a rock.

This may be the briefest post I’ve ever made on an education-related matter: The research skills of incoming college freshmen have been deteriorating, year-on-year, at least since I began teaching fifteen years ago—and likely long before that.

The average 18-20 year old’s ability to initiate, sustain, evaluate, and…

Now I think you’re supposed to malign Green Party voters (perhaps endorse their lynching?) even though Gary “What’s Aleppo” Johnson got third place and 3 million more votes than Jill Stein.

Tonight I sketched a drawing of a Versailles party hosted by Louis XVI attended by Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Axel von Fersen and other aristocrats. In the old days it would’ve been a benign big-shot brag. No more. It was viciously mobbed by anti-monarchists and royalists. I destroyed it. All…

Endless legal and administrative attacks on affordable healthcare at the federal level and in half the states; 40-years stagnation in national average wages; mass domestic migration of employment from manufacturing sector to the service sector and the gig free range; civil rights protections stripped away at the…