“It’s like getting dirty and changing clothes and expecting to smell good without taking a bath. That’s what you’re doing when you change your governance structure.” - @jonathanecollins.bsky.social www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/23/p...

How do administrative designs shape access to democracy? We analyze U.S. school district websites and meetings to show how bureaucracy and group mobilization facilitate access to school board info and the democratic process. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jonathanecollins.bsky.social

I get it….but also…what are we doing?!

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

I just wish somebody from the future would’ve come back and told us that electing the first black president would lead to… *waves hands wildly*

Hear/read more on this topic from @jonathanecollins.bsky.social www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/202...

Honored to be quoted in this thoughtful piece on what the Trump cabinet selections mean for communities of color.

As education becomes more politicized, we’re seeing efforts to shift school boards to partisan elections. Is this a bad idea? In my latest @pdkintl column, I dig into this question at length (and gush over my favorite Kendrick Lamar album). Check it out: kappanonline.org/should-schoo...

The Penguin would lose his mind

This from @jonathanecollins.bsky.social looks great. Folks support teaching core ideas from Critial Race Theory—that racism is structural (and bad)—but oppose teaching “CRT” because policy makers tarnished the brand. This has broad implications beyond the case. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The folks Kamala would’ve nominated must be rolling over in their competence right now.

Why do we have to be serious if the Trump Administration refuses to be?

But the CRT that wasn’t even being taught in schools was indoctrination?!

It took over 60 years to get justice, and the $6 million is still but a fraction of the equity they would’ve generated.

The City

And they only hate that because they are told to.

Wrote a Bluesky guide for my fellow newbies doing an X exodus. If nothing else, click to watch the amazing gif our visuals department made: www.huffpost.com/entry/bluesk...

Happy to share my latest peer-reviewed publication, “They Only Hate the Term.” Here, I conduct multiple survey experiments to show that the use of the term “critical race theory” generates a > 20% drop in support for teaching kids about race in K-12 classrooms.

Nicknaming a man “little Marco” only to make him leader of the foreign service is 2 parts scary, 1 part hilarious.

(Related @haveyouheard.bsky.social episode with @jonathanecollins.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/jK3Up )

You want to know why voters pushed out Republican 'culture war' school board candidates? It's because most of them have been committed to counterproductive politics that hurts kids and wastes A LOT of money: 6abc.com/central-buck...

Come study with @jonathanecollins.bsky.social and me at Teachers College! Learn about becoming a student in our Politics & Education graduate program at this open house. Please share with interested students. apply.tc.edu/register/Pol...