We said goodbye to Rainn, just shy of 16. From a NYC shelter, he once ate rat poison, beat cancer multiple times, and never left our sides. With me through teaching, grad school, the pandemic, and academia. Grateful for every day we had, including his last. His adoption video: youtu.be/VBmptgBgZms

My first interview about my new book! www.americatrendspodcast.com

Today is the official publication day for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS!! 🏠🥳🎉 For the next month, Penn is offering a discount of 40% off using the code UHA25. Which brings the price down to $20.97. A screaming deal! www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

Forbes picked up our article explaining how designating rural school districts as "education preserves" can protect them from charter and voucher expansion. www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

This is a truly wild stat. "TN will spend an average of $7,023 per public school student... compared to the $7,295 given to [voucher] students." If a state invests more in those leaving public schools than in strengthening the system that serves all comers, what does that say about its priorities?

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Education policy people, this fight over what counts as the nation's history is not just about historians. With great co-authors (Leana Cabral, @esthercyna.bsky.social, Michael Hines, @mgardnerkelly.bsky.social) I got to write and think about how ideas about the past shape ed policy. Timely!

Boom.

Oh yea we've got tons of evidence for this

Head Start programs receive 0.18% of the total federal budget. This translates to $12.3 billion out of a $6.8 trillion federal budget. This isn't about closing federal deficits, it's about being cruel and challenging constitutional precedent protecting undocumented kids. www.wpr.org/news/new-tru...

As the secretary of @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Division F, I have created a Blusky account. If you are interested in history of education or related topics, then give us a follow @aeradivf-history.bsky.social #histed #edhist

It's not a "funding freeze" or "hold." It's an unlawful seizure of federal funds and it's categorically unconstitutional. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Received an email that our son's after-school program, which has helped immensely throughout his foster and adoption journey, had its funding frozen and is in danger of completely shutting down this summer and beyond. It's illegal and it's immoral and it's just plain cruel. I will never forget this

The latest on Trump’s education funding freeze: Some programs are starting to shut down, districts are rejiggering budgets, and everyone is scrambling to make sense of the chaos. More on $6.8 billion withheld from K-12 schools: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.

With generous support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Spencer Foundation, we are pleased to be offering the Just Education Policy Institute for doctoral students interested in research to reduce racial inequality in education policy this fall. Applications are open, due June 30.

🎉 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.

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

So, who is pulling together the team to draft Project 2029 (and interim steps toward it)? We need long term plans for: 1) the courts & upholding constitutional rights & core values 2) education (early childhood through graduate) 3) rebuilding science 4) public health 5) housing equality/access...

On this day before the 71st anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education decision that declared school segregation inherently unequal, sharing a new publication written for the 70th anniversary examining why integration is eroding (open access): 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This is great news! Congratulations, Ericka!

Our EEPA paper on the media's role in shaping our understanding of student loans, race, and racism is here! Email me if you don't have access & want a copy. One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Joining with TC colleagues to say, among other things, that elite universities need to see and hopefully act in solidarity with K-12 educators and school systems in this moment we are all under attack.

OAH was a bright moment in an otherwise troubled time. We had a great session, I was honored to receive DeSantis Book Prize from SHGAPE for Dividing the Public, and I got to see Myra Armstead--a phenomenal historian, my undergraduate adviser, and the person who convinced me to become a historian!

I spent the last five years serving public history, arts, and culture at NEH. Please take a moment to let your representatives know you support NEH. Or read on and I can tell you a little bit about why I believe in public funding for the humanities.

These are their names. You may not agree with every action these people have ever made. But please recognize that this is ideological persecution, likely aided by digital surveillance evidence, and with no due process. 1/ Mahmoud Khalil (Columbia) (still detained) www.aclu.org/.../a-letter....

I’m quoted in this NPR article trying to communicate the devastation from the loss of the dedicated staff at NCES who made sure critical data was collected to ensure low income and rural schools receive the formula funds they need to serve their students. www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...

I have a family story + scholarly interpretation of it that I think/hope is politically potent at this moment. Am trying the regular op-ed route, but starting to imagine other media too. If you are/know of an illustrator/animator, especially who is from or knows Montana, pls be in touch.

Summing up the damages

it’s only cloture if it comes from the Clôture region, otherwise it’s just sparkling capitulation

The Education Department RIF represents “a tsunami,” says Felice Levine, executive director of the American Educational Research Association. “It leaves IES without even a skeletal staff to do the work that Congress has mandated.” www.science.org/content/arti...

We join with @historians.org, @oah.org & others to denounce US goverment's efforts to censor historical content in public resources. These mandates are deeply antithetical to our community's work of stewarding & preserving the integrity of the scholarly record. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hxQHlu

My goal is to have a document anyone can use to wade through the overwhelm and advocate for the US Department of Education (and by extension all public education in the US). Please feel free to share, save, message me with suggestions, etc:

Title 1 allocations and IDEA enforcement are some of the many things ED cannot continue to do now that all NCES staff have been RIFed. They either do not understand this or do not care. ED will no longer "deliver on statutory programs." Federal data reporting since 1867 will cease.

Horrifying. For EVERYONE, because this man was not a student - he had already graduated - and as a student, he had NOT been in disciplinary trouble with the Uni, this says. Could read as"NYC permanent resident kidnapped from his home, where fed agents hid & w/o warrant, & refused access to atty"

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Dr. Dominique J. Baker, associate professor of education and public policy with a joint appointment in the College of Education & Human Development and the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware, is one of our 40 leading women in #highered!

Statement from Education Law Center Executive Director @bob-kim.bsky.social on Trump Executive Order to Dismantle the U.S. Department of Education edlawcenter.org/statement-fr...

If you work in any of the federal statistical agencies and have insights/concerns about what's going on there (related to below thread or otherwise), I am reachable on Signal at crampell.13

If you're tracking the administration's claims to "end DEI" a quick thread with the docs. TL;DR: Admin swings way too wide. Careful readers point out the overreach & the illegality and/or lack of enforceability of their words. Some sue & get temp injunction. Admin rolls back, a bit. 🧵

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Excited to share the cover for my forthcoming book with @ugapress.bsky.social #histed #edhist #history #Blackhistory #southernhistory #protest #pedagogy @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

*Slams dictionary shut til Monday*

The Department of Education is too small for a label.

ICYMI: @dredf.bsky.social is hosting a Disability Community Briefing tomorrow at 12:30PM ET on Texas v. Becerra, a lawsuit that puts Section 504--and disability rights--at risk. Zoom registration link: dredf-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... For context, here's an explainer: dredf.org/protect-504/.