📣 Call for Proposals! The University of Toronto and the University of the West Indies will fund up to five one year joint research projects. Teams must include one Black-identifying Principal Investigator from each institution. 🗓 Apply by April 6: buff.ly/9B3vGAi

Just in time for CIES 2026 Europe and Central Asia SIG are happy to share our newsletter mailchi.mp/6937768bc932... Congratulations to Olga Mun, Gulzhanat Gafu, and Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar who are the 2026 Best Paper/Book Award Winners!

Milton Friedman argued parents, if given govt $ to spend on education, would invest in kids' human capital. His model excluded pets. Drawn from multiple ESA accounts, some of my favorite pet expenditures. Did you know they make wrinkle cream for bulldogs & frenchies? Or that dog DNA kits exist?

Coming up in a couple of weeks! Do not forget to register for our webinar on outsourced concerted cultivation in international schools in Mainland China and Hong Kong lnkd.in/eGuHgTcw

A collaboration between @glasgow.ac.uk @uogcfte.bsky.social and our colleagues at @educationscotland.bsky.social webinar info and sign up details can be found in this post!

Education Scotland, the Centre for Teaching Excellence and University of Glasgow will host a 3-part webinar series on parent engagement from policy, research, and practice perspectives. Join us for 3 great discussions on March 12 lnkd.in/eXGmY3Y4 Mar 19 lnkd.in/eZwjPqUp and Mar 26 lnkd.in/eTHMSEhZ

UPDATE! Join us for “Demystifying Academic Life: What No One Tells You”, now featuring a special moderator announcement: We’re thrilled to welcome Meghna Sabharwal as moderator, bringing her insight, generosity, and leadership to this conversation.

Have you read our recent Special Issue on 'Curricular justice and contemporary education: Policy learning from Australia and the UK'? Guest edited by @stewartriddle.com, Martin Mills and Glenda McGregor. Editorial and 10 new articles to read 👉 bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14693704...

A YEAR OF KITES is on sale at @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social February sale! @amberren.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/year-of-k...

What if academic life is carbon-coded? Mobility. Speed. Output. AI. Prestige. Growth. We question the fossil-fueled assumptions organizing scholarship itself. open.substack.com/pub/edforpla... @carkar.bsky.social

Do not miss our March 18 webinar Parenting Strategies of the Middle-Classes in China’s Greater Bay Area: Outsourced Concerted Cultivation and International Schooling with Dr Ewan Wright (The Education University of Hong Kong) and Dr Ying Ma (Fudan University) lnkd.in/eGuHgTcw

Great to share our #STEM and #parentengagement research on this international forum @maeveliston.bsky.social @eleanorwalsh2.bsky.social Thanks @maxanthony.bsky.social for facilitating.

If you missed our great Feb 18 webinar with Dr Sandra Ryan @sandra-ryan.bsky.social - Developing Partnership Competencies in Initial Teacher Education: Evidence from a STEM Field Experience, you can watch the video recording on our YouTube channel lnkd.in/egdt27Qz

If you missed our great Feb 18 webinar with Dr Sandra Ryan @sandra-ryan.bsky.social - Developing Partnership Competencies in Initial Teacher Education: Evidence from a STEM Field Experience, you can watch the video recording on our YouTube channel lnkd.in/egdt27Qz

Congrats to @coralinglingxu.bsky.social on winning the 2026 Best Book Award from the Higher Education SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society for THE TIME INHERITORS! A powerful study on time inheritance & inequality #HigherEd. #WinnerWednesday #ReadUP tinyurl.com/yc7k864x

The call for submissions for the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) conference in Glasgow on September 3-5, 2026 is now open baice.ac.uk/conferences/...

Over the moon to announce OVERINVESTED, my new book baby due January 20, 2026, with a starred Publishers Weekly review. “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting” press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Knowledge Under Siege Charting a Future for Universities uofrpress.ca/Books/K/Know...

Insightful report from WONDER Foundation on the importance of parent and family engagement in youth work lnkd.in/emsstW3k

Coming up next Wednesday (Feb 18) at 10AM ET/3PM GMT - Developing Partnership Competencies in Initial Teacher Education: Evidence from a STEM Field Experience uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A webinar co-organized by the Canadian Sociological Association's Sociology of Education Research Cluster (CSA) and the Canadian Association of Sociology of Education (CASE). February 26, 2026 @ 12:00 PM Eastern Time lnkd.in/eDS4Fs3q

Between the feds cutting student grants in half and Ontario - which makes up something like 60% of the non-Quebec Canada Student Financial Assistance Plan "zone" cutting them by 60-70%, I am pretty sure we will be talking a lot more about student debt in 2030 than we have at any time since 1998.

Coming up next Wednesday (Feb 18) at 10AM ET/3PM GMT - Developing Partnership Competencies in Initial Teacher Education: Evidence from a STEM Field Experience uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Grades have been criticised for as long as they have existed, yet little has changed. Perhaps it is time for new approaches? Our new paper on post-critical approaches to grading with @margaretbea.bsky.social, Rola Ajjawi and David Boud is out in Higher Education! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What is translanguaging? Here's my one-minute hot take, which I hope serves as a springboard for discussion with educators and those working with multilingual populations <3 www.youtube.com/shorts/aq_W3...

Great article by Trevor Tsz-lok Lee and Miron Kumar Bhowmi - Relational agency for inclusion: how a Hong Kong school and families co-construct collaborative strategies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Would you like to know how preservice teachers can improve their readiness for parent engagement during their field experience? Register for our Feb 18 webinar with Dr. Sandra Ryan @sandra-ryan.bsky.social who will speak about how it's done in Ireland tinyurl.com/3d5rhu5e @centcs.bsky.social

The video of the launch of Max's edited book is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1B68-... Please do have a look The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement - From inequality to social justice in education #parentanegagement @max-antony-newman.bsky.social

If you missed our book launch for The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement: From Inequality to Social Justice in Education, here is the video recording of the presentation lnkd.in/eTcb6eEP and the link to the book lnkd.in/eEMuDZ6H

Our next online seminar, presented by #CenTCS international affiliate Tyrone Howard (UCLA). Equity Now. Preparing Educators During Turbulent Times Thursday 5th February 2026 16:00-17:00 (UK Time) Online forms.office.com/pages/respon... www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...

Calling all researchers and practitioners in multilingual education. RJME would love to see your work! Check out Rjme.org to see the range of pieces we're interested in (we accept a variety of formats). Feel free to reach out to me or the other co-editors with questions! @rjme-journal.bsky.social

Do not miss the Feb 5 webinar hosted by @centcs.bsky.social. Join Professor Tyrone Howard for his talk - Equity Now. Preparing Educators During Turbulent Times. Registration lnkd.in/eyBmVmum More details lnkd.in/eftWKzeY

During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, I taught three, online courses for journalists on basics of epidemiology Course recordings and slides are still available as a free resource on my teaching website www.teachepi.org/courses/epid...

Are you planning to attend CIES - Comparative & International Education Society 2026 annual conference in San Francisco? The program is available online convention2.allacademic.com/one/cies/cie...

My piece in @uk.theconversation.com has just been published! Enjoy! 😊 @sunypress.bsky.social @durhameducation.bsky.social @durhamchina.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @rilleraaper.bsky.social @solgamsu.bsky.social @chenchenzhang.net theconversation.com/another-kind...

Our book launch of The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement: From Inequality to Social Justice in Education is coming up this Friday (Jan 30, 10AM ET/3PM GMT). Do not forget to register bit.ly/4qrzpfu

#parentalengagement It's worth noting that having more than one language increases one's concepts of the world as there are things one can say in one language that just don't translate to others. Many of us in education have only one or two languages - many parents have more.

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Global Family, School, and Community Engagement Rubrics Tool developed by The Brookings Institution is a useful instrument that can help educators reflect on their parent engagement practices www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...

Just published - our edited collection on innovation in critical policy analysis.

#parentalengagement Just as learning looks a little bit different for every young person, so does parental engagement. If you concentrate on getting parents into school, parents helping the school, you may be *widening* the divide, not helping to close it.

#parentalengagement Watch your language. 'Parents and professionals'? A lot of parents *are* professionals. (Look to the work of Horby and Lafaele among many others). 'Parents and educators'? What do you think parents have been doing since day one? It may not be meant to devalue, but it does.

Join us for the 13th annual Decolonizing Conference as we confront colonialism and imagine liberatory futures. Theme: Colonial Ruptures — unmasking ongoing coloniality and fostering resistance. 📅 March 12–14, 2026 | 📍 OISE 🎟️ Reserve your spot today: www.eventbrite.ca/e/colonial-r...

Welcome to the Jan 30 (10am ET/3pm GMT) online book launch of our volume The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement: From Inequality to Social Justice in Education. Register here bit.ly/4qrzpfu University of Glasgow Centre for Transformative Change in Schools

An entirely intermittent series of ideas about #parentalengagement. First, and importantly, it's *not* about getting parents into school. The impactful bits of PE happen at home.

To sum up, the overarching goal of our volume is to shift parent engagement from the source of inequality to opportunities for social justice link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Do not miss our Jan 30 online book launch bit.ly/4qrzpfu

The US is a great place to live for the super rich and super famous. For everyone else, plenty of other places would offer a better life. And yet, a big chunk of the latter group doesn't demand better from the US, because the former group convinced them that they too could be rich or famous someday.

In Chapter 17, School-Led Family Engagement Programs, Educational Inequality, and Directions for Future Research, Daniel Hamlin & William Parham outline an agenda for future research with the goal of identifying effective school-led family engagement programs link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In Chapter 16, Resilience in Education: Newcomer Families and the Power of Parent Engagement, Rahat Zaidi, Patti Trussler & Anusha Kassan examine the role of parent engagement in supporting newcomer families to navigate unfamiliar school systems and communities link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In Chapter 15, Parents as Partners: School Resilience and Cohesion Post-COVID-19, Erica Fae Thomson, Samantha Mullin, Emily Milne & Karen Robson view parents as key partners to create more equitable, inclusive, and accessible post-pandemic educational opportunities link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...