Swinging for the bleachers this morning, my friends, asking my students to reconsider the game they are playing (GPA and CV values) and reclaim what they came here to grow. I made a list of one-minute moves to practice these goods below - would love your suggestions ⬇️

New episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social, featuring research by @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, @emilykpenner.bsky.social, and Andrew Penner.

A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Fascinating work by Deven Carlson, @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, James Carter, @rachelmarisa.bsky.social, Vitali Radsky, and Andrew McEachin on both the potential of school choice for the purpose of desegregation and the disappointing reality that most school choice systems tend to exacerbate segregation

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Not feeding into the Bluesky debate but I would love to see more academics sharing papers on here. Revive the ‘ol “here’s a thread about this paper” thing. I think it’s good for the information ecosystem.

Shout out to Chase Strangio who did his level best and should have fucking won. What a beast of an attorney and an amazing advocate. This is heartbreaking. #Skrmetti

Breaking: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's effort to shutter much of the Education Department. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

art blakey for all your friday needs youtu.be/fsJ3JjpZyoA?...

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Saunders is so good on the weaponization of "DEI." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name. Pope Peanut M&Ms XIII

To many, atmospheric rivers are a West Coast phenomenon. But they’re also responsible for devastating storms that can hit the Central and Eastern U.S. There's one in the forecast this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...

Finally. My fellow Fulbright Scholar Rumeysa Ozturk has been freed. My country jailed her for over a month as—let’s be perfectly frank—a political prisoner. Why? Because she wrote a mild oped that criticised Israel in her student newspaper. I've thought of her every day.

I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think what makes writing attractive is when you get something unexpected. The connection you didn't anticipate, the logical thread getting built in new ways, the marvelous inductive/deductive Jenga towers that a terrific undergrad will create. 1/6

“In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.” -Maxine Hong Kingston (from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)

Six months after Election Day, a federal judge ordered the North Carolina Board of Elections to certify Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs as the winner of the fiercely contested race for her seat on the state Supreme Court. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

I don't have an Ivy League education, but I'm struggling to understand this Administration's BIZARRE Rules of Capitalization.

It's gonna be a hot Amtrak summer

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie Perfect Weeks

Trump Argues Toy Shortages Easily Overcome By Making Servants Dance

This is the day every young voter should remember. For several years running, young people said they needed mental health counselors more than anything—while legislators fawned over vouchers. Washington finally listened in 2022. Trump just cut the program.

Excited for this special issue! Send us your best work! Focus is Prek-16 and expansive to broadly construe "Civil Rights". So higher Ed folks, law and Ed, history of Ed, sociology of Ed, econ of Ed, and policy folks - all welcome!

I, like Mohsen Mahdawi, "have the hope that this country will fulfill its promise." www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...

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Peak Canada

Hey, some good news, ERIC lives!

A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

Is EdWeek's state school voucher program the most comprehensive such resource out there? www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

I feel seen.

"When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it." I see a lot of this energy these days. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

🧵 But since Head Start's inception, there have been disagreements about whether or not the program "works." So let's review what we know from rigorous research on Head Start's effectiveness, and let's start with what it means for the program to work. 🧵 1/n

In the latest issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social, my article with Jonne Kamphorst in which we propose that educationally homogeneous social networks contribute to the stabilization of political conflict on the cultural dimension. A short thread on the main findings: Link: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

The presidents of 200 US colleges declare: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Good! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Where is Ricardo Prada? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

NAGB just voted (reluctantly) to kill several NAEP exams over the next 10 yrs. Cuts: 1) No Long-Term Trend NAEP at all until 2033. 2) No 4th grade science in 2028 and no 12th grade science in 2032. 3) Writing scrapped altogether. 4) No 12th grade history in 2030 (1/3)

Another tiny, obscure corner of the Education Department is scheduled to lose funding this week. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

New paper with @alexfreidus.bsky.social l + @ericaoturner.bsky.social : “Weighing Risks: How Families of Disabled Children Made School Choices During the Pandemic.” edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1171 (1/4)

From my 14-year-old

Laying down a marker: The alternative to Trumpism is freedom, rights, mutual respect, and equality under the law. That means for all, trans people very much included. The alternative to Trumpism is not let's agree to treat some people as second class to placate the bigots. On that, I'm a hard no.

I once spent a good chunk of a lazy afternoon at the community pool watching a girl – maybe 6, 7 years old – work up the courage to jump off the diving board. She spent what felt like hours; toes off the end of the board, knees bent, eyes closed and head shaking. Her fear was palpable.

FERPA www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...