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Europe Burns: "France has already surpassed the worst previous year for the size of the area burned, with August, usually the hottest month, yet to come." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Getting my affairs in order like I'm dying tomorrow and not just visiting Australia for two weeks.

ACLU: SROs a Growing Problem in Iowa — "Black students in Iowa make up 7 percent of the population but account for 13 percent of referrals and 21 percent of arrests, even though national studies indicate that Black students do not actually misbehave or commit crimes in schools at a higher rate."

ACLU of Iowa Report Finds SROs a Growing Problem in Iowa - ACLU of IowaSROs impose harms upon students—especially Black students and students with disabilities—instead of keeping them truly safe.www.aclu-ia.org

America will sell pepper-ball drones to schools instead of regulating guns.

Huh: "Climate change may cost $38 trillion a year by 2049, study says...It is more than double the annual GDP of the entire European Union." epic.uchicago.edu/news/climate...

Climate change may cost $38 trillion a year by 2049, study saysClimate change through the middle of this century is likely to be far costlier than thought — to the tune of $38 trillion per year, a new study finds. Why it matters: The study finds the world economy...epic.uchicago.edu

Have we estimated the cost of >1M dead Americans and 100M COVID infections over a period of two years?

I get that the "factory model" analogy is overplayed and ahistorical and I avoid it as much as possible...that said...you can make no better case for the factory model analogy than the arguments made in the COVID-era about school as the building students go to produce testable academic outcomes.

If climate emergencies are increasingly going to lead to disruption and "learning loss" at school, we can be responsive to the climate, responsive to learning, or both. But we can't do *neither* and expect the outcome to lead to better learning or a livable planet.

I think it's a problem given our science standards that we don't actually help students identify the flora and fauna that live on their school grounds, let alone a one-mile radius of school and home.

"We think it’s important to recognize that many schools are underprepared to carry out their days in extreme heat, without the physical infrastructure or planning to keep students and educators comfortable and safe while in the classroom or outside on school grounds."

It’s getting hotter in classrooms and on playgrounds, and schools aren’t readyA rising number of school districts are beginning their new academic years in July or August, raising the likelihood that kids will encounter scorching days.www.washingtonpost.com

On Monday, the British Department for Education said it did not recommend school closures for the heat. “School attendance is the best way for pupils to learn and reach their potential,” the department said in a statement. “And hot weather can usually be managed safely.” 😅

And pair these again with the headlines in my previous post about peak COVID 2020-2022. We squandered the opportunity to meet the contingencies of COVID with creative approaches to learning, rushed back to business-as-usual, and fell ass-first into the climate crisis.

Interesting #pairedtexts on impact of climate crisis on business-as-usual schooling, 2026/2024:

"Without air conditioning, each 1°F increase in school year temperature reduces the amount learned that year by one percent. Our estimates imply that the benefits of school air conditioning likely outweigh the costs in most of the US, particularly given future predicted climate change."

Heat and LearningWe provide the first evidence that cumulative heat exposure inhibits cognitive skill development and that school air conditioning can mitigate this effect. Student fixed effects models using 10 millio...www.hks.harvard.edu

Re-reading (and re-living) the period of 2020-2022 is like a fever dream whose consequences we've forgotten, flattened, and displaced onto so many convenient scapegoats.

Stoked to join hundreds of other Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement members today for our annual convention in Des Moines. As a bonus, I got to talk a bit about the scam of private school vouchers. People power is how we win.

The biggest barrier being that spending more than 3 hours at the computer in a given day makes me want to die.