1. Large-scale balloting by mail goes back to the Civil War, when it was implemented to allow U.S. soldiers to participate in elections.
2. This plan violates a principle of non-interference in mail content that dates to 1792 in U.S. law.
In theory, "advanced placement" course in high schools are meant to give students a head start on college-level work, but in practice these courses serve as *replacements* for that college-level work, and very poor ones at that.
Kevin M. Kruse
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Kind of interesting essay with a bad title, but IDK how you talk about problems in historical education today without even saying the words "advanced placement."
UPDATE: The journalist explained and apologized, and I’m genuinely impressed. Here are his three Threads posts and my reply to them.
Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country’s schools, universities, and political institutions have stopped trying to tell it at all.
Use what tools make organizing information and retrieving it most useful for you; maybe don't use tools that claim do those things FOR you.
I know the discourse is over and I already weighed in elsewhere but it is actually important to me that y’all know that Zotero isn’t AI. It just isn’t, even under an expansive definition.
Running an independent podcast like @bfworld.bsky.social with @lizcovart.bsky.social is always intellectually stimulating but also undeniably challenging. Yes, that's a preface to asking for money as we begin our annual campaign with a goal of 50 new donors and $5,000. #podcasts #VastEarlyAmerica
