📢 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…

THIS THIS THIS I have said as much in innumerable meetings. Everyone looks at me like confused owls

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-...

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

New study with @bcmurray.bsky.social shows effect of school race on parents perceptions of multiple dimensions of safety. White parents rate Black, Latine, & Asian schools as socioemotionally unsafe, Black & Latine schools as violent & disorderly, Black schools as biologically unsafe. 1/2

How fitting that I finished Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel over the weekend. Who doesn’t love dystopian surveillance? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717465...

Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

🎉 Applications for the 2025 Just Education Policy Institute are now open! 🎉 Applications are due Jun 30. JEP 2025 will be held Oct 15-18, 2025 in Washington, DC. JEP helps developing scholars learn how, as a community, to conduct research that advances racial justice in education policy.

Lindsay Burke wrote the Department of Education chapter in Project 2025.

Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students. My latest for ProPublica:

This kind of clear, direct explanation of what’s happening is basic journalism and yet it’s surprising to hear it stated so forthrightly in this mealy-mouthed era.

I’ve noticed an uptick in dismissals of the concerns of teachers about AI. Some say that it’s *their* job to find a way to evaluate work that AI can’t replicate. I would just ask that you talk to real teachers and really listen. I’d also suggest reading a bit about writing and the brain.

More evidence "turn around" policy (closing schools) to improve student outcomes on standardized tests doesn't. @nepc.bsky.social report supports teachers unions defending neighborhood schools with policies that support kids, teachers, families, communities: www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=17...

If the default to recording everyday interactions with weak and strong ties becomes an opt-out culture, where we rely on people’s individual ethic to solicit an opt-in, every interaction is degraded as surely as the person listening to their phone without headphones.

Each day, I inch closer to Ron Swanson levels of disdain for technology.

"There are no standard assessments of students’ civility, but a few other projects are trying to look at some of the necessary components—such as listening and considering feedback from partners." This is no better than a guidance counselor saying you're good at it www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

With the SCOTUS deadlock in the St. Isidore charter case, the lower court ruling will stand. The separation between church and state has dodged a bullet, at least for today. So has the right of states to defend &maintain that separation in their school systems. www.npr.org/2025/05/22/n... 1/12

When I wrote that these folks were segregationists, the response from some quarters was that I was exaggerating or missing the bigger picture. But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.

Proud to share a draft chapter from my upcoming book “The Long Division: How the Politics of Education Became Partisan” I trace the history of US K-12 school governance, focusing on institutional changes that have made the domain more exposed to partisan conflict edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1182 1/3

Well deserved!

If you've been protecting your peace by avoiding or only taking these New Eugenicists in small doses, @ruha9.bsky.social has done the hard work of identifying, naming, & making connections across the harms they are committing, the theories that rationalize the harms & those who seek to profit.

Come see @anbutler5.bsky.social & I alongside our amazing research assistants @kadenmiller.bsky.social & Kearsetyn Bargeron. We're presenting on our DC study, specifically about teacher advocacy and activism in district & city-level education policy decision making. Sat, 3:20, Meeting Room 302. ⬇️

What an honor to be named an outstanding reviewer for AERA Open! #AERA25

The L.A. Times names THICK one of the best non-fiction books of the last 30 years. I will be honest with you, even I cannot always believe that this is my life. Thank you. Very much. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

This is vacuous, a nullity. Follow the money. Privatizing education is their goal. We must rally behind public education now, don't be deceived by "schools are failing" narrative. For all their faults, there's no democratic alternative to public schools. None. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

#edusky colleagues, higher ed or K-12, please share. We are at Columbia, but we know that this struggle matters for education across the lifespan. A Statement from Teachers College Faculty on the Attack on American Education docs.google.com/document/d/1...

They're not just going to stop collecting data; they want researchers to stop accessing the data that already exists. Despicable.

This is fabulous, and I'm already thinking of ways to integrate this live handbook into my policy courses.

@clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza, the day after construction crews began removing its mural. “Symbols are not just symbols,” he writes. This is “part of a movement that is removing Black people” from power.

If they can bring down the US Department of Education, they will be emboldened to bring down your state department of education, your local school board. The target is public education itself, folks.