John McDonald
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An experienced communications professional working with reporters on issues that matter. @uclaseis communications. Baseball nut. Sean & Ryan's biggest fan.
Joined March 2012
“Politics and journalism, worse for you than heroin, and twice as hard to quit.” Hunter S. Thompson
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Important work on school discipline happening here with REACH network 1-27 - https://t.co/TA6PT8T3KI
@EdSource @educationweek @CalMatters @EdWriters check it out
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Former CA Senator Nancy Skinner to be honored for work on SB 274 The California Race, Education and Community Healing […]
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a very thoughtful piece - read and share https://t.co/RLZjTbNJtH
@EdWriters worth a look
ssir.org
Neoliberalism has set the agenda for US public education for decades, championing values of individual choice, standards, and competition—with disappointing results. Amid rising civic discord, is...
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A big thanks to Diana Lambert @edsource for her coverage of research on the cost of political attacks on schools. Conflict over race, LGBTQ issues cost schools more than $3 billion last school year https://t.co/6Lv2pIxURn via @edsource
edsource.org
Uncivil discourse and hostile rhetoric has divided school communities, disrupted school board meetings and cost districts a combined $3.2 billion last school year, according to recently released...
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Important event here for journalist interested in the future of civil rights and education. https://t.co/Spzpzurj0B
@edsource, @calmatters @EdWriters @hechingerreport @K12DiveNews
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UCLA Civil Rights Project Hosts Education Research & Policy Briefing The UCLA Civil Rights Project will introduce a new research […]
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A shout out to @uclaseis prof @craeduca & colleagues for this important piece re CA #communitycollege degrees. Myths hold back community college bachelor’s degree programs https://t.co/hckN8mY7un via @edsource
edsource.org
Given that these programs can improve access to bachelor’s degree programs and jobs, it is frustrating that the programs are not more widely available across the state’s 116 community college...
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Can community schools help California develop and support the #teachers it needs? Check out the research in the #UCLA Ed&IS magazine https://t.co/41I0LOR4NX
@aera @edwriters
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Grateful to chat w @BisforBerkshire, @Edu_Historian & their 10k listeners abt new research on costs of culturally divisive conflict characterized by threats, violent rhetoric & misinformation Esp great to be ft w @Rebec_Jacobsen & her team’s research on politics of disruption🤩
New @HaveYouHeardPod Our schools are in for more chaos and conflict, whatever Trump II brings. @ImRachelWhite and Rebecca Jacobsen on the costs of political disruption and how to prepare for what's ahead
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See the research here
Culture divides cost schools
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Tip of the cap to @carolynjones100 for an important piece on the threats schools face from a new Trump admin
calmatters.org
As Trump targets immigrants and trans students, California schools prepare to fight education policy changes.
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“There is no longer any excuse for failing to see what a second Trump Administration may bring,” David Remnick writes. “These are not the imaginings of a paranoiac. These are campaign promises announced from the podium.” https://t.co/08IK9ou4Wi
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.@SarahEMcBride on anti-trans ads: "I think those ads were part of a long term strategy by the far right wing in this country, which is a strategy to pick a small and vulnerable, misunderstood community to fear monger and scapegoat around in order to distract and divide..."
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Kudos to @markzbarabak for this new piece - loved the ending - quite fitting — The acerbic wit H.L. Mencken once said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
NEW: To quote @davidaxelrod, “Campaigns are like an MRI of the soul." The soul of America on this day of our Lord is a dark and foreboding place. A place where the better angels of our nature have been over-matched by the dark impulses of hatred and fear https://t.co/fhHP9Hs9vu
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Democracy in action- enough to make you have real hope
nytimes.com
Graceann Toberman has been counting the votes in her Wisconsin town of 734 people for decades. “I try not to be in a mad dash,” she says.
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A growing number of states are encouraging civic learning and acknowledging that students should be active participants in civic life. This report describes how 10 states are implementing policies to support a new approach to civics education.
learningpolicyinstitute.org
High-quality civics education supports students to be informed, active, and engaged citizens throughout their lives. In the face of declining civics knowledge in America, a growing number of states...
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Quote of the day: “It doesn't make you man to pick on trans or gay kids. It just makes you an asshole." @JohnFetterman to @DanaBashCNN
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Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how
desmoinesregister.com
The new Iowa Poll shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 3 points. Pollster J. Ann Selzer: “It’s hard for anybody to say they saw this coming.”
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Whether she wins #Iowa or not - trends here have big implications- watch out for flying Ketchup bottles - see & share the @DMRegister poll here - tip of the cap to Ann Selzer for important work -
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it would be an American tragedy if this kind, talented, smart woman does not win. Choose a better America, choose #HarrisWalz #Pennsylvania #Vote watch this and share
NEW >> Vice President Harris releases her closing 2-minute ad - “Brighter Future” Centers the American people, not herself WATCH:
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