TikTok has roughly 170 million U.S. users, and its cult-like following has prompted politicians to use the app themselves to spread their messages and connect with younger voters (even politicians who believe TikTok is a national security threat).

There’s no companion measure in the Senate, which will be the next big hurdle if the bill passes the House this week.

Some prominent voices in GOP circles are holding firm on the bill.

Trump’s opposition to the bill could be a litmus test of his sway on a party that he’s largely recast in his image, if supporters begin to peel off and force a showdown with the Republicans driving the bill.

Will this fire up young voters?

What about the Senate?

Does TikTok have other defenders?

How serious is Trump?

Suddenly, the most pressing question in the policy world is an issue barely on the radar a week ago: What happens to TikTok?

Trump beat Biden in a head-to-head matchup in all four of the major polls out this weekend — but by only a few points.

Head-to-head

The top issue for voters in the Wall Street Journal poll was immigration: 20 percent picked it when asked for the issue that most comes to mind for their 2024 presidential vote, more than the economy (14 percent) or a

Immigration

Despite months of good economic news and a long-shot “soft landing” from post-pandemic inflation, Americans can’t seem to shake the f

The economy

Voters continue to be troubled by Biden’s age and perceived acuity. Forty-five percent of those who responded in the New York Times/Siena poll said that Biden’s age “is such a problem that he is not capable of handling the

Age and physical/mental capacity

The bad polls for President Joe Biden came one after the other this weekend.

10. Lynyrd Skynyrd

1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Classic rock will always live on as a genre. The big, buzzing, riff-heavy music that brought giant speakers to stadiums and let six-string players wail with booming drummers and banshee vocalists will live on the radio and in the hearts of music lovers for the rest of time.

1. Winger Don’t, under any circumstances, be this guy.

10. Tesla

Look, the ’80s are back in style in every way, and that’s totally cool. It means pop music is more bearable than it’s been in a long time.

Key Takeaways:

1. Green Day

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And the gains in the insured population don’t yet reflect the more than 17 million people who, according to health research group KFF, states have removed from their Medicaid rolls over the last year after Biden ended a pandemic-era requirement that states keep people continuously covered in Medicaid. The data is not yet clear on how many of those people have transitioned to other health plans, like employer-sponsored insurance or Obamacare plans, and how many are now uninsured.

Uninsured rates

Trust in public health

Drug prices

Drug overdoses

He set a goal of getting 70 percent of the country vaccinated by July 4, 2021, while amping up non-pharmaceutical interventions like a nationwide mask requirement on public transit.

Covid-19

The takeaway

While the original 2016 moonshot focused on making a decade of scientific progress on cancer prevention and treatment in five years, Moonshot 2.0 has broader aims.

Cancer

He began efforts to shore up abortion rights as soon as he was elected.

Partial Success

The objective

Abortion access

Voters can expect President Joe Biden to play up his success in ending the pandemic, fighting for abortion rights and lowering drug prices in his State of the Union address this week.

Abortion accessPartial SuccessCancerJury's OutCovid-19Partial SuccessDrug overdosesMostly FailedDrug pricesJury's OutTrust in public healthMostly FailedUninsured ratesPartial Success

Such ideas are now being repeated by influential pundits. Christopher Rufo, who works at the Manhattan Institute, a think-tank, last year fanned the flames of alleged race-based indoctrination in schools; in new Twitter threads, he has cast schools as a major locus for sexual abuse. Analysts at more-moderate think-tanks are now beginning to entertain similar critiques.

6. Emergent nonprofit groups are fueling the flames.

5. Bills about transgender students are being coupled with aggressive new rhetoric—and are heightening advocates’ concerns.

4. States have historically not given schools much guidance, and public attitudes about LGBTQ issues in schools are complex.

3. The issues may be old, but the political tools are new.

2. The parents-rights framing has a long history.

1. Lawmakers introducing these bills echo older fears about LGBTQ people.

A raft of legislation in the statehouses taking aim at LGBTQ students this year draws from the newly ascendent discourse about parents’ rights, curriculum transparency, and schools purportedly indoctrinating students via critical race theory and other ideas.

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as an attempt to please others, which we will discuss later. Freeze This is an effective technique when fight or flight are not an option (d’Andrea et al., 2013).

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Hypersexualization. People pleasing.

Over-sharing. Over-explaining. Trauma dumping. Hyper-independence.

But, I think it [would help] a lot if ... the professorswould tell you before each paper what exactly [they wanted]

these students are inexperienced in writing for the academic audience. They struggle to envision the person to whom theyare writing their papers and cannot make the subtle adjustments inaudience that different disciplines require.

I was really getting frustrated with just feeling that every one ofmy papers was the same, in a way. I just had to focus on all thatwe had been studying and choose some very small minutething to focus on and to try to prove that everything we'd everlooked at fit into the theory or idea

We who teach need to know how our gradingpractices affect our students and how our students interpret the gradeswe give them.

Many teachers currently use grades to rank order students' writing performance in comparison with others'

None of these students mentioned grades as a useful tool for assessment

A perspective would be the moral landscape of abortion. My voice isthe person writing this. The point of view is the place where you standand look, where you're coming from, your preconceptions-whetherI'm a born-again Christian, a Catholic .... ''\-'hat I'm going to say aboutit, that's my thesis.

"It depends on whom you're speaking to. You can speak to a group of historians and use one voice. Ifyou'respeaking to a group of students you might use another." In other words,"voice" may indeed be a construct shaped in part by the demands of therhetorical situation,

Take someone like Frost.

Are we training our students for the academy or for the workplace? Rarely do we consider theoption of doing both.

Young writers think that difficult ideas must be expressed ina difficult way. They seem to think it's almost a necessity.

In our lab we have seen research papers that amount to nothing more than a string of quotations from barely read sources.

we would be tying students' writing to their cognitive development.

heteroglossia

it would be dif-ficult to argue that one perspective is right and theothers wrong. One perspective does not necessarilyrepresent greater efficacy in writing.

17. Writing needs tobe free of errorsin conventions ormechanics.

17. Writing needs tobe free of errorsin conventions ormechanics.

17. Writing needs tobe free of errorsin conventions ormechanics

1. A good paper has a strong, logical overall organization that is clear to the reader, so the reader knows what toexpect.2. I personally like when a writer adds something to their writing which shows some personality (humor, wit, ideals,values). I guess it depends on the piece, but I have read various types of writing that include some of the author’svoice.3. Good writing is clear and easy to understand. Readers don’t have to struggle to get what the author is saying.4. A lot of students write exactly how they talk and it doesn’t make any sense—writers need to be able to useappropriate verb tenses and other proper grammar.5. Good writing shows a sense of audience. To effectively communicate your message, you need to know whoyou’re writing for.6. A lot of juicy verbs help make writing good.7. Good writing stays focused on the main idea/topic throughout.8. Good writing is concise, using an economy of words. It avoids repetition and redundancy.9. Good writing has a strong introduction that states the topic and a strong conclusion that sums up or reiteratesthe important points.10. The paper should have a flow. If the paper jumps from one idea to another, it makes it hard to read, just like apiece of music that doesn’t transition well and then loses the melody.11. Good writers avoid clichés.12. Writers shouldn’t try to write about too big of a topic—they need to choose little moments to describe orspecific topics to write about.13. A variety of sentence types engages the reader (simple, complex, dependent clauses)—you want to avoid toomany short choppy sentences.14. Adjectives tend to clutter up a text—good writers use very few adjectives.15. Some kids’ writing is too chatty for formal reports and research papers—voice in writing has to be appropriate tothe purpose for writing.16. Writing that is too structured (like a five-paragraph essay) tends to be boring.17. Writing needs to be free of errors in conventions or mechanics—punctuation, grammar, and spelling affect thepiece overall.18. A good writer surprises the reader with unexpected moves. This can be accomplished by using metaphors/similes, unusual vocabulary, mixing different modes of discourse (from the vernacular to the academic), varyingsentence structures, employing humor.19. Really, it all depends on the type of writing—every type of writing requires different things to be good.20. Good writing contains details, elaboration, support, whether narrative or expository, enough elaboration to helpthe reader paint a picture in their mind or (for expository) provide sufficient support to explain ideas.21. I think writing needs to have complete sentences to be considered good.22. Writing is good when you can see critical thinking on the part of the writer.23. Good writing is like good thinking—fresh, clear, and honest. It artfully invites the reader into an idea or imagewith a quiet authority that cannot be resisted.24. You need to have a point! Don’t write just to fill up a page.25. You don’t see a lot of adverbs in good writing—adverbs are a sign the verbs are weak.26. Good writing must conform to a genre, be that fiction or nonfiction; be it a memoir, historical fiction, an e-mail,an essay, a poem, an article, and so on.27. Good writing shows instead of tells.28. Good writing is descriptive, with figurative language, and compels the reader to make vivid mental images.29. Good writing gives you the impression that time was spent crafting the piece.30. It’s good when the writer is obviously knowledgeable about the subject.31. Accurate word choice is key—the words have to be chosen precisely to convey the author’s meaning.

This type of lan-guage obscures the inevitable role of subjectivity inwriting assessment. In fact, what one person thinks isgood writing is not necessarily what another persondoes

Literacy teachers have long understood that readingcomprehension relies on the reader’s constructionof meaning

teachersfeel uncertain about assessing and grading studentwork

In school, many students learn to fear grades,develop low self-esteem, dislike learning, and resist authority.

place all people in competition with each other,undermining their ability to trust, so threats to such teaching comefrom grade-addicted students, from peers insecure about change, fromparents who want their children to "win" the race to the top

defined negative bias as "objective

Gradesare curved, for example, when too many succeed, or points are subtracted from a hundred, a so-called "perfect score" that bears littlerelation to the sum of what may be learned.

n thetwenty years since I started developing this approach, I can count onone hand the writers who did not respond and ended up getting lessthan a quality grade.

traditional grading, whichachieves "objectivity" by isolating traits, holding them constant, andassessing all the same way,

Unlike preventive/ corrective teaching and assessment, which identify what anentire age group should know and then "cover" all of it whether or notstudents retain it

The problems writers cansolve and remember how to solve are the problems they can spot ontheir own or recognize once they've been pointed out.

ncouraging them to comment first onstrengths (to build confidence), to ask nonjudgmental questions afterthat (to learn where to add information or to clarify unclear parts), andfinally, near the end of the discussion, to offer one or two specific suggestions for improvement, framing their comments constructively andtrusting the writer herself to decide which suggestions to use andwhich to ignore.

Theystart by noting grammatically and mechanically correct passage

They look at effort, quality of writing, and progress made,and they offer suggestions for improvement at the point of need.

Because those "objective" dataconvinced me that most students can't write well, I did not see howthe grades I assigned forced capable learners to fail.

. It isalso exclusionary, pitting students against each other in such a waythat all but a few will eventually lose, and it sorts them into tracks thatlimit access to advanced study for all but a few

Deficiency-focused testing leads to teaching that is reductive, preventive/corrective, lockstep, and structuredto cover content for everyone at the same time, at the same speed

I hadlittle impact on the lives of others, whose continued poor writingwould limit them to entry-level jobs.