Other intros I won't skip: - Futurama - Peacemaker

"In 2015, Champaign eliminated minimum parking requirements downtown, in midtown, and in campustown. In the seven years that followed, 43 major developments took advantage...avoiding 2,250 empty stalls. Eight projects built none at all." www.champaignshowers.com/the-vacant-w...

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What I'm referring to. It's a privilege to be invited onto networks to talk about my reporting but I have limits. Similarly stopped doing NewsNation after Nextar took its Kimmel stance.

Educator Retention in Context: Understanding Patterns in Principal Turnover in Texas and Washington State During the COVID-19 Era journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Is there any administrative data that examines transitions from public to private school and vice versa for primary and secondary students? Particularly over time?

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A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o... It's validating to know that Eno also does not care for Shakespeare.

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy! Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster. Competence matters.

We have a new EdWorkingPaper up, from @edutuan.bsky.social, @haeryunkim.bsky.social, Chanh Lam, Mariam Saffar Pérez, Jinyoung Hur, Colleen Lewis, and me: The Effects of K-12 Computer Science Education Policies on Postsecondary CS Participation edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1301

Rural schools are deeply embedded in their communities, serving as more than just educational institutions—they are hubs of social, cultural, and economic life. Learn more about education in rural areas in Sheneka Williams and Summer Hopper's Live Handbook chapter: livehandbook.org/miscellaneou...

Happy to announce that @caldercenter.bsky.social just released two IES-funded briefs - they really are BRIEF! - about how to get a better handle on teacher demand and future teacher supply: Supply side: caldercenter.org/publications... Demand side: caldercenter.org/publications... 1/n

I found this paper quite interesting

We have a new EdWorkingPaper up, from @edutuan.bsky.social, @haeryunkim.bsky.social, Chanh Lam, Mariam Saffar Pérez, Jinyoung Hur, Colleen Lewis, and me: The Effects of K-12 Computer Science Education Policies on Postsecondary CS Participation edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1301

And among other reasons, a deal is never a deal with these people. Look at how he has treated trade partners. There will always be new asks. The time to say no is now, and in solidarity, before you rewire your institution to something unrecognizable such that saying yes to new demands is a given.

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"test score declines were larger in districts where more of the 2020–2021 school year was remote or hybrid, where students had less access to broadband, where the pandemic led to larger disruptions, and where trust in government institutions was low." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

⛓️ Here’s your quick end of the day wrap up from @insidehighered.com re: student loan cap regulations. Right after lunch, ED officials presented a new proposal that came from a long morning of negotiations behind closed doors. It was much appreciated but did not go without questions.

The Logics of Teaching: How Institutionalized Ideas about Teaching Shape Teachers’ Professional Identities journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Social Reproduction at a Minority Serving Institution: STEM Capital Disparities among Children of Immigrants journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Policy-Assigned Teacher Observations, Their Implementation, and Student Discipline Outcomes: Main, Mediated, and Moderated Relationships journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Introducing a High School Exit Exam in Science: Consequences in Massachusetts journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3... "we observed rising inequality in failure rates and retest success...barely passing the exam increased high school graduation and college outcomes of students near the score threshold"

The Leniency of Low Expectations: Parental Incarceration, Race, and Teachers’ Evaluations of Student Writing www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

In just over two weeks, my department starts reviewing applications for two faculty positions. Assistant professor of higher education: apply.interfolio.com/172680 Associate/full professor of education policy: apply.interfolio.com/172632 Please share with other top-notch scholars and people!

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

PSA: Our department of Curriculum & Instruction is hiring for an open-rank position in secondary literacy! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Not *my* department, but my College. So come work with me! (Or let me know if you want to talk about UIUC [which is great]!)

Want to learn more about a group interested in ORG THEORY IN EDUCATION? Want to share your vision for the SIG? Want to meet new friends? Well, I hope you can join our OPEN MEETING on October 22 at 3.30 PM Eastern, 12.30 PM Pacific. Register at bit.ly/OTSIG2025

This whole thing reminds me that the Student Loan Discourse has given me a much better sense of what experts think about the normative and practical merits of loan forgiveness than about what they think about reasonable debt burden levels in the first place.

PSA: Our department of Curriculum & Instruction is hiring for an open-rank position in secondary literacy! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Not *my* department, but my College. So come work with me! (Or let me know if you want to talk about UIUC [which is great]!)

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

From my experience, presenting to the Quantitative Working Group in my department is a great opportunity to practice sharing your work and to receive constructive feedback from faculty and peers. I highly recommend taking advantage of it!

For grad students or postdocs out there: let me know if you'd like to present in my department's (Ed Policy, Org, & Leadership) Quantitative Working Group meeting Wednesday of next week (October 8) at 3pm Central time. Work at any stage is fine, it's very informal. I have a presenter gap this month.

Identity Needs in Intergroup Relations: Between the Age of Apology and Victimhood Culture www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Peer Victimization Among English Learners: The Protective Impact of Dual Language Programs journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Waiving English Learner Services: Prevalence and Student Characteristics journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

The Laying on of Hands: Anti-Black and Anti-Gender-Expansive Biases in Public Perceptions of School Personnel Performance Ratings journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Dream scenario for me is JB Pritzker cutting an ad that says something like "we here in Illinois have been pioneering the jailing of corrupt politicians for decades, and we are eager to bring our knowledge to Washington."

As an Illinoisan, I am especially prickly about this. Sure, like half our governors this century have ended up in jail, but also, they _did_ end up in jail.

Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions of Mixed Reality Simulations: Variations by Task, Support, and Mode of Delivery journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Overpoliced? A Descriptive Portrait of School-Based Targeted Police Interventions in New York City journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Stop putting cider vinegar in drinks please and thank you.//Study on apple cider vinegar for weight loss retracted after many raise concerns retractionwatch.com/2025/09/23/a...

More than a title: Chancellor Isbell shines light on personal passions dailyillini.com/life_and_cul... "when you’re an institute this big with the mission that we have, you should be able to touch thousands & thousands every day. And I’m really passionate about creating the opportunities for that"

Maybe I'm the only person this matters for, like I was the last person getting Netflix DVDs. But I've been struggling for ages to find a good set of applications to organize and sync my music between my cloud storage/desktop and my phone, and MediaMonkey seems to be what I was looking for all along.

I agree with this assessment.

We are excited to announce our keynote for #AEFP2026: Arne Duncan in conversation with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach 🎉 We hope to see you in Chicago!

The Illinois State Board of Education wants to hear from educators on how to change math education in schools www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...

This game was during one of my occasional Saturday classes and some of my students were wondering if my loyalty might be to USC and I tried not to look offended.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o... This is illuminating because early on Coates essentially puts Klein in check re: Kirk with the question about tables at churches, at which point Klein evades and the conversation goes a little off the rails.