5,000 Penn State faculty members vote to unionize 75-25! Big union victory in Pa!

Thrilled to see this research finally out, looking at dynamics in a majority Black suburban district. W/ Sarah Asson, Ruth Buck, & @csfowler.bsky.social

The Voting Rights Act helped to ensure when I was growing up in Alabama, my elected school board and city and county leaders were multiracial. I’m grateful for how they shaped & improved my community and my schools and believe we must work hard to preserve these gains other before us worked for.

Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) recently announced that Jennifer Van Hook, distinguished professor of sociology and demography, will become the new director of its Data Resources Hub (DRH), effective July 1. 🔗

In the just-up “Ending Birthright Citizenship,” @vanhookjenny.bsky.social & @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social determined that Latinos would account for ~80% of “unauthorized” births & Asians would experience the greatest relative impact of the Exec Order. @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Thanks Bob Kim @edlawcenter.bsky.social for your incisive and evidence-aligned letter in today’s @nytimes.com on the limits of school choice to meet our nation’s education challenges.

DC district court has denied the Department of Education's motion to dismiss our case challenging IES's termination of four research studies, its peer review program, and restricted data use application processing! ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

SSRI has opened applications for its 2026–2027 Mid-Career Research–Practice Partnership Fellows Program, a new initiative designed to strengthen collaborative research that drives real-world impact. ➡️

A story covering our study in Social Science Research looking at how a district's two-way dual language programs attract students within and across zones. With an amazing team: @lucasantibanez.bsky.social, Sarah Asson, Clemence Darriet, Francesca Lopez, & Claudia Cervantes-Soon.

“On the 70th anniversary of the Bus Boycott, Gray said the most important thing for people to do, aside from continuing to fight for civil rights, is for people to know their history, and use it to impact the future.” www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/l...

Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss

Especially important school board races--to help determine how our public schools include and educate all children--and judicial races on the ballot in PA.

Sarah Asson, @efrankenberg.bsky.social, and colleagues examine two-way dual language immersion programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Complimentary access to this article is right here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

New article examining enrollment in two-way dual language immersion programs in LAUSD. These programs are often located near students who benefit most from DLI. But (in article freely available through end of next month)... (1/2) authors.elsevier.com/c/1lvks,17Ro...

Grateful for this coverage of recent early childhood research from Center for Education and Civil Rights. With amazing recent grads Rohitha Edara & Karen Babbs Hollett.

As @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social alum, very glad to see this. Many of the things this compact seeks to change would have lessened my college experience. Important moment for higher Ed.

Congrats to @lexapot.bsky.social & the incredible providers she works with to stabilize ECE providers and to work towards funding full cost of care for CA’s youngest. This will support kids, families and providers.

Through October 3, free access to Urban Education special issue marking the 70th anniversary of the Brown v Board of Ed. decision, including our article: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... with @janellescott.bsky.social @edebray.bsky.social @sarahmccollum.bsky.social @talialeibovitz.bsky.social

So disappointed by this decision to wind down our local NPR station due to fed & univ cuts. I joined several NPR programs over my years here to talk about my research. I’m also frustrated for our community & as a parent who has a kid who adores listening to/ learning from NPR when he’s in the car.

Our new special issue is out on "The Rise of Education Marketization & the Enduring Enigma of School Segregation" with Ee-Seul Yoon, & great commentary from @efrankenberg.bsky.social journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index....

I have two disappointed kids by this @nytimes decision. They were always very faithful adherents to the tagline not to let adults read the NYT kids section. It helped make my son a devoted newspaper reader. After Eight Years, a Kids Section Says Goodbye www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/i...

As students & educators head back to schools and universities amid uncertain interpretations about how to protect students' equitable access to educational opportunities and enhance student inclusion, AdvancED Equity announces new resources to support the work of advancing educational opportunities.

Frey: I think the impetus has to be on all of us to recognize that we've got more guns in this country than we have people, and it's on all of us to recognize the truth and the reality that we can't just say that this shouldn't happen again, and then allow it to happen again and again

Two new CECR reports looking at racial inequality in center-based ECE, looking at patterns in 2012 and 2019, one looking at the ECE workforce & child composition, another at educator pay. With a terrific team of Rohitha Edara & Karen Babbs Hollett. Please read and share: cecr.psu.edu/our-research...

Glad to see this out—brief describing our research findings to date on dual immersion schools and strategies for promoting equity. Please share widely. With @lucasantibanez.bsky.social & others not on here.

Breaking news from @marklieberman.bsky.social on the $5 billion in impounded K-12 funding www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

See our thoughts & those of other scholars examining why the layoffs at the U.S. Department of Educations are so concerning for students and protecting their civil rights. With @maithgopalan.bsky.social theconversation.com/trump-free-t...

SSRI's Child Maltreatment Solutions Network & the PA Office of Child, Youth & Families were recently awarded the Institutional Challenge Grant from @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social. The funding will be used to focus on improving health & well-being outcomes for youth. ➡️

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

In her dissent from today's decision—Mahmoud v. Taylor—Justice Sotomayor says that the court's holding "threatens the very essence of public education," and that its "reverberations" will be felt "for generations." This is a very heartfelt and mournful dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

With generous support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Spencer Foundation, we are pleased to be offering the Just Education Policy Institute for doctoral students interested in research to reduce racial inequality in education policy this fall. Applications are open, due June 30.

Nearly 70 years after Brown v. Board, schools in the U.S. remain segregated and unequally funded. On this episode of Justice Above All, Saba Bireda and Elizabeth Horton Sheff join us to explore the unfinished work of desegregation. tminstituteldf.org/brown-v-boar...

That's my hometown that looks Sweet Home Alabama today (actually, not the song lyric version).

If the courts can't save us, maybe we can save us. New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration. sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...

Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.

Public schools will remain public. In what would have been the most consequential school case since the days of Brown v Board, the Court sides with sanity on the question of whether states must allow churches to run charter schools.

On this day before the 71st anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education decision that declared school segregation inherently unequal, sharing a new publication written for the 70th anniversary examining why integration is eroding (open access): 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Watching live stream of Genevieve Siegel-Hawley doing her public service today testifying abt charter schls & educ equity before House Committee on Education & Workforce's Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, & Secondary (w/ former student Jenna Roberson in audience) 👏 #edresearch #edpolicy

Imoortant voting rights victory as LDF & ACLU keep fighting. “[T]ry as we might, we cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamians’ voting strength and evade the unambiguous requirements of court orders standing in the way,” the judges wrote.

Thrilled to see @erickaweathers.bsky.social named a @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social Scholar! Look forward to how her work will continue to advance in its impact on reducing educational inequality for Black and Latinx students. Congrats to all of the new class of Scholars.

Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)! #AcademicSky

I wrote about corporal punishment in public schools for a project led by @efrankenberg.bsky.social and @maithgopalan.bsky.social While we see a steep decline in corporal punishment use in schools, there are still states that allow the practice. Read more: www.advancedequity.org/briefs/cp-hi...

Now that #AERA2025 has concluded, sharing our AERA Open special topics call for proposals, "Centering Civil Rights Protections in Schools in the US" that I'm co-editing with @maithgopalan.bsky.social. Please share widely & reach out with questions. Due May 15. www.aera.net/Portals/38/S...

The Review of Research Award goes to Andrene Castro, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Kimberly Bridges, and Shenita E. Williams (Virginia Commonwealth University) for their article in Review of Educational Research about school rezoning.

BREAKING: A federal court blocked the enforcement of the Dept. of Education’s certification requirement, which threatens schools with a loss of funding. This decision is a step toward ensuring every student receives access to a quality education.

Not to be missed @aeraedresearch.bsky.social #AERA2025

In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.” So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.

There’s a historical aspect of the Trump administration’s attack on universities that I think has not been appreciated: Their legal theories are based on a perversion of one of the greatest legal accomplishments of the American project - school desegregation. 🧵 1/