📣New Work Wednesday!📣 Is teaching a calling, a profession, or labor? This study maps how 3 institutional logics—an accountability logic, a democratic logic, and a moral calling logic—shape teachers’ identities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #NWW

Excited to share my new piece in Sociology of Education, The Logics of Teaching: How Institutionalized Ideas about Teaching Shape Teachers’ Professional Identities. Available (open access!) here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Morning! I did a lil analysis and turns out that, when ED employees are illegally fired and contracts are canceled, ED is unable to fulfill its congressional mandate to publish national statistics on the condition of education. Why does that matter? Well... www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

This means so much, particularly when SE policy & SWDs are under such real threat. Sharing this with @mayakaul.bsky.social, whose dedication and brilliant scholarship on the teaching profession are so important at this time, makes this award even more special. I'm so grateful and honored. 🙏Div L!

Honored to win @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Division L’s Outstanding Dissertation Award alongside @jencowhy.bsky.social. During such a challenging moment for public education, I’m particularly grateful to be in community with so many scholars deeply committed to this work!

We’re so excited for this session, and are especially thrilled for the chance to be in conversation with @alexfreidus.bsky.social and @ericaoturner.bsky.social about these ideas. Please join us!

Really looking forward to being a part of this conversation next week. If you'll be at #AERA2025, join us for what promises to be a fun conversation about all things institutional logics.

Need something to look forward to? We got you. This week I'll be sharing about our OT SIG sessions at #AERA2025. Come see your organizational theory friends on Thursday at our first paper session. @mayakaul.bsky.social @eostrinidad.bsky.social @maxyurkofsky.bsky.social

I'm teaching Ed Policy for Teacher Leaders this summer. I'm inheriting the wonderful Dr. Farley-Ripple's materials, but they're several years old. What should I include in my refresh, particularly in these times? Academic articles welcomed, but also videos, practitioner-facing articles, etc. please!

In a new letter, AERA and other education research leaders call on Congress to protect the nation’s education data, research infrastructure, and knowledge base, by safeguarding the IES and broader Education Department staff, leadership, and mission. www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...

New from Jen Darling-Aduana, @dave-woo.bsky.social, and me: We observed lessons in an online charter school to understand instructional quality. Despite the school's marketing as an innovative, tailored alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar publics, teachers' instruction rarely reflected this.

Our research underscores the need for a united front of policy and advocacy organizations, civil rights groups, unions, professional associations, and institutional leaders to defend open inquiry and higher education from growing law-based pressures. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Amidst all the chaos and upheaval in the education policy world, @annenberginstitute.bsky.social will be hiring several senior research associates in the coming months. Hopefully this helps some of the stellar education policy people find their footing again!

Seems to me what we’re seeing across the federal government are the dividends being paid from years of adopting market language to talk about public goods. Run government like a business? Businesses exist to make profit. Government exists to serve the people. We’re about to see the difference now.

Please join us for the @sparccenter.bsky.social launch event NEXT TUESDAY. Hear about work on the special educator workforce from me, @afgilmour.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, @lmasonwms.bsky.social, & Carole Clancy, director of the PA Bureau of Special Education. tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I was just informed that the Department of Education has taken down all its Civil Rights data. If you need it, alternative sites are now hosting it for the public. See links in this thread. ocrdata.ed.gov/notfound

If you have extra funds and want to support an org doing essential work to fight the actions against public education and ed research of this administration, @edlawcenter.bsky.social is doing hard, critical work and could use anything you can contribute.

New org established to defend Department of Education coalition of public education advocates, educators, beneficiaries of federal education funding, and former employees of the U.S. Department of Education www.protectpubliced.org

this from a representative at American Institutes for Research about DOGE/Trump cancelling IES contracts is spot on (& good on them for speaking out clearly about this)

So instructive to climb in the time machine and go back to the OG department of education - in 1867 - it lasted a year before critics argued it was doing to much to help former slaves and canceled it. www.history.com/news/departm...

Honored to receive this recognition from AACTE for my dissertation. I hope my work helps us better understand, and ultimately respond to, the many challenges faced by the K-12 teaching profession today. edprepmatters.aacte.org/university-o...

The first article from my dissertation on graduate education is out! I find that having parents with graduate degrees is associated with enrollment into doctoral education, but not master's education. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deeply resonant thread

New blog post about the emergence of racial wealth disparities in young adulthood is up on @ccfamilies.bsky.social! Very happy to be able to share the findings from this paper with @socinequality.bsky.social without all the tables and figures 😅 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2024/12/...

Gratitude shout out to @ucea.bsky.social folks who made my amazing undergrad researcher/preservice teacher (in green) feel so welcome during her first ever presentation! True to the theme! Renewing our engagement..w/joy! #UCEA2024

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

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...

Hadn’t seen a women in education policy research starter pack yet. Please let me know if I missed you… still getting my bearings in the new place. go.bsky.app/PixwBrM

📣New at the Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard, I summarize big takeaways from my research on 772 teacher strikes over the past 16 years 📣 www.brookings.edu/articles/the... I have 3 big papers/working papers on strikes (all linked in the post)

Looking forward to presenting my work on teacher demoralization to @ucirvine.bsky.social 's Center for Research on Teacher Development and Professional Practice today. I wish the question of how to prepare teachers to navigate/resist racialized systems wasn't so...uh, relevant right now.

Oh yay, this paper is finally out at AERA Open! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Starter pack for those interested in the politics of education, loosely defined. Please let me know if you'd like to be added (and forgive omissions!). Thanks! go.bsky.app/4LxftVF

Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other! Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/BaXvoap