If you study the politics of education (or, honestly, the politics of anything else in the U.S.), this is worth a read Jefferson helps clarify some of the issues I've been struggling with as I write a book on the causes and consequences of rising partisan conflict in K-12 education

New elite just dropped.

the clear takeaway here is that the administration wants to unlawfully seize the smithsonian and make it a temple for white supremacist “history” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

Also for Miss Patti's birthday: The only version of the Alphabet to make you get the Holy Ghost. (Ernie gets struck like an old Black church lady in this clip.) youtu.be/G0hYxuDav0g

“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...

Thrilled to see this *finally* in the world and hope it provides inspiration and entry points for social studies scholars interested in taking up spatial justice in their research. As always, a pleasure to work with @timmonreal.bsky.social and Kaitlin Popielarz 💛 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy this paper at Journal of Urban Affairs is finally out :) Planey AM, Taylor NL, Kumar AD, Cross RI, Neally S, Lewis JA, Luben TJ, Martin CL. "Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas"

Adding Hexxus to this discussion www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVzY...

Wilhoit’s law remains undefeated. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

ICYMI - Great coverage of our working paper "U.S. Schools’ Proximity to Environmental Hazard Sites" in @edweek.org Full paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1384 www.edweek.org/leadership/m...

I replicated and extended @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social and @schoolfinance101.bsky.social's study on funding adequacy and school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their original study did not incorporate measures of local partisanship. I found... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Deadline approaching! Apply for a postdoc role studying the politics of education policy at Stanford GSE: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

Great to see this paper finally in print (with my excellent co-author, Alyssa Barone)! tl;dr: When high-profile partisan officials engage in ed policy debates, the chief consequence is increased polarization among the public along partisan lines (surprising, I know) direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

I keep thinking about how AI-in-classrooms would exacerbate inequity. Upper-middle/elite parents won't stand for their kids not having human interaction/feedback in K-16 classrooms. See e.g.: parents' growing tech resistance (h/t @ksinclair04.bsky.social) www.instagram.com/reel/DSTOhxj...

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.

The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester. A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:

“I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with bars.

New NEPC Talks Education podcast: Jarvis Givens highlights the experiences of Black and Native Americans in the origin story of American education @cmsaldana.bsky.social bit.ly/4afqzft

See @jamiecummins.bsky.social 's work

3/ I was then fortunate to publish my first academic article on #AI and #education with Jiseung Yoo, about the limits of LLMs and the need for embodied, acculturated human cognition. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Now published with @anbutler5.bsky.social -- we study how development and gentrification shape the dynamics of school choice for of middle-class families in Detroit. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to listening! Yesterday, my seminar discussed Plyer’s legacy alongside this 2015 piece from Gonzales et al. www.harvardeducationalreview.org/content/85/3...

If you have absolutely nothing good to say about A.I. come and sit by me. www.thewrap.com/emma-thompso...

"Academic freedom is not negotiable." WAHOOWA! And [deepest sigh ever because wow I disliked my PhD] Anchor Down. (Sharing screenshots with alt)

Supported by both the Fordham Institute and @wallacefoundation.bsky.social, Michael Hartney and I explored the extent to which U.S. school board members are politically and demographically representative of the communities they serve. Here's a summary of our main findings: 1/12

📢 Job Posting! 📢 We are hiring TWO postdocs at Detroit PEER at Wayne State (detroitpeer.org)! We are looking for one quant/mixed methods expert and one qual/mixed expert to work with me & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social on attendance research. Apply by Oct. 10, but flexible on start date! Please share!

Folks teaching ed policy/politics this semester: One of my usual first-day activities is to discuss Henig's Reading the Future of Education Policy. 12 years after that piece...::waves hands:: What are your favorite short readings about education policy/politics post-2020? #edusky #academicsky

Since tomorrow is Labor Day and school is in session, I'd like to argue (again) that teaching about GenAI should include discussion of the extractive, exploitative labor conditions that make the technology possible. 🧵

Indistinguishable from the Trump agenda for schools.

Look at Gregg’s face for that half second before he hit the button and tell me he’s not both shocked but also making all the same jokes we are in that particular instant.

A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups called on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection, to protect student protesters and others from government retaliation apnews.com/article/coll...

Lots of rambling thoughts, but this strikes me as another way that the push for AI in education is going to widen equity gaps. Students with the know-how to attend office hours/have access to writing centers and the like will get actual assistance. Everyone else gets whatever this is.

Once again, there is <no plan> for how to backfill 15-25% of the budget of every R1 university in the country, & 👇 is coming for every institution & voters/parents/students have no idea what this will mean in terms of courses/degrees/opportunities that will no longer exist. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

"It’s not like I’m losing my job," @betsyjwolf.bsky.social said. "It’s like I’m losing my field, my entire career pathway." Excellent, though harrowing, article on how the field of education research has been hit:

Anyone teaching Ed Policy or Econ of Ed this fall? Looking for ideas to keep the class current when everything is in constant flux.

Been thinking more about this: so many tech folks are not creating racist tech by accident. They believe Black kids-especially disabled Black kids-need more punishment. White supremacy relies on criminalizing Blackness. They are happily fueling the nexus between tech, schools & jails for Black kids

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge? I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

Just this morning, @ksinclair04.bsky.social and I discussed the equity implications of this “teach kids AI” business…

it is so funny to imagine living in new england. are you guys like “whoops im in a different state!”? wakin’ up and driving over the border to get a muffin!

New: Schools and education leaders are in a bind this summer after learning last week that several billion dollars of federal funding may not show up after all. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

So cool that people are still discovering this #Sinners syllabus, published by the African American Intellectual History Society, and composed by Jemar Tisby & Keisha N. Blain. Enjoy!

Between The Magicians and The Last of Us, listening to A-ha’s Take On Me will never be the same.

Statement from Education Law Center on U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor edlawcenter.org/statement-fr...

Today's Supreme Court ruling reminds me of this 2022 piece by Dan Silver using our UAS data to show that support for parent opt-out is quite high (I would guess higher now than then), and discussing the alarming implications of an opt-out culture in education time.com/6227537/opt-...