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Greg McVerry

Trump admin weighed targeting migrant families, speeding up deportation of children

Funny thing intead of targeting mothers who walked 800 miles carrying children @realdonaldtrump could run on the success of the drop in illegal crossings from migrants. Instead he decides children will make a great pawn in his racist game. The draft also shows officials wanted to specifically target parents in migrant families for increased prosecutions, con

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The problem with Finding the Main Idea

Another vapid non report from #edreform movement and a shame as I generally agree. Some points: This study is about reading assessment not instruction. It doesn't site one study that since the 80s finds moderate to high effect sizes for strategy instruction especially for struggling readers It doesn't cite any empirical research just a drive by citation of E

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The queen does not rule

Another great piece that has me thinking about ants and social networks Primarily, in a distributed process, there is never central control, while in division of labour there might be. A leader can tell one citizen to make candles and another to make shoes. In a distributed process this would happen through local interactions, for example with people who wan

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Morning Joe Charts: A Wall Won’t Fix the (Humanitarian) Crisis at the Border

the danger of women and children? A massive drop off in illegal crossings from migrants...where is the crisis.... How can race have nothing to do with this when the people complaining most about immigrants live in places without brown people? If terrorism was the reason we would build the wall in Canada not Mexico. The wall is a symbol of hate.

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Starting this book and thinking about the web and Flow...funny when I designed https://edu522.networkedlearningcollaborative I was unfamiliar with this work but that is what I wanted to go with when using "Flow" But I also meant it etymologically in the hiphop sense of someone's flow. Cool it works both ways to mean same thing.

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Children of the Sky

Vernor Vinge's third book in the Knowledge Zone series suffers problems of many third books in a trilogy but for those who love the tales s of Pham Nuwen, The Olisidot children, the group mind dog like creatures the tines the third book is worth the read. Part of the let down of third tale has to be the the overwhelming perfection in the first two books, "A

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