"Attendees engaged in ways that broke with long-standing behavioral norms, mirroring the current style of national politics. Negativity, insults, and even threats to elected leaders grew in frequency, leading to polarization and an us-versus-them atmosphere" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Mike Johnson always falsely states proposals he wants to bat down. No one has proposed that ICE agents wear their addresses. The proposal is that dress and act exactly as they did from the founding of the agency until Stephen Miller decided to give it a makeover

And this is by design. Voucher folks were gung-ho to use same scale as public schools until ~2015-6 when horrific Louisiana and Indiana results came out. They even tried to quash those results for a year or more. Since then, the strategy has been kill as many testing requirements as possible.

This needs to happen at the very least

Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Dang they should join some kind of treaty organization

Great to see this paper finally in print (with my excellent co-author, Alyssa Barone)! tl;dr: When high-profile partisan officials engage in ed policy debates, the chief consequence is increased polarization among the public along partisan lines (surprising, I know) direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

To ring in the new year, I'm excited to announce the launch of the Politics of Education Lab (PEdL) at the Stanford GSE. The goal is to advance understanding of the political dimensions of education policymaking to help policymakers and practitioners strengthen school systems. pedl.stanford.edu

Congratulations are in order for @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social who was awarded a research grant through the William T. Grant Foundation to study the impact of school board election timing policies on educational equity. Lyon and two fellow researchers were awarded $299,083 through the grant.

Washington DC’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (Vouchers for Low-Income Students to Attend Private School): high-quality RCT of students entering grades 2-12 in 2004-2005 found no discernible long-term impact on college enrollment rates. nospin.evidencebasedpolicy.org/articles/was...

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

Shell Game is back! Every time Evan tells me something about this season I wind up laughing hysterically even though it’s also obviously very depressing that some people are so desperate to ruin our lives and jobs for this vaporware technology

Given education's essential role in shaping democracy and its recent drift into general, partisan politics, we argue that poli sci should take seriously studying the broader political dynamics of education & offer suggestions as to how to do so. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@camarnzen.bsky.social and @chloeoneill.bsky.social explore how political science courses can better integrate education politics into the curriculum in “Teaching About Schooling: Integrating Education Politics into Political Science Curricula.” 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1551...

On the "Mississippi Miracle:" We've heard a lot about MS reading gains. The puzzle: in the Spencer (2024) study, MS NAEP math and scores in 4th grade increased by similar amounts. Perhaps retention, not instruction, is doing some of the work here? 1/

The current homepage of USDA. This is deeply and profoundly fucked up. And illegal. People need to go to jail.

I will be joining a panel on school choice and civic education hosted by the League of Women Voters of Murfreesboro-Rutherford County on Monday, October 27 from 5:30-7 at the Rutherford Co BOE www.lwvtn.org/lwv_murfrees...

A new NBER working paper by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues shows that about two-thirds of the unexplained gap in post-college earnings by family income may be due to challenges in finding that first job. Family connections and resources matter.

New working paper on contemporary child labor in the U.S. and its impacts on school attendance ⬇️ edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1302 With absolute dream team @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @stevebholt.bsky.social & PhD student Ji Hyun Byeon

Prospective PhD Students: I am planning to accept a PhD student for AY 2026-27 in the economics and education program at Teachers College. Apply if you want to use the economics of education to study immigration or politics/political engagement and public schools. :-)

In my ongoing series, "You can buy *that* with Arizona ESA funds?" Small animal ultrasound, $779.99 Taxpayers are subsidizing pet pregnancy care while public schools scrape for basics.

Blake Heller and I wrote an editorial about Trump’s proposals to end federal funding for adult education- whatever comes for FY 2026, it’s worth keeping an eye on this often overlooked part of our education sector @blakeheller.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/now-...

We are hiring in sociology of education at Teachers College! Come join us in EPSA - we're a great crew :-) employment.tc.columbia.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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Valuable work that should inform our understanding of the complicated political dynamics underlying anti-public school, anti-teacher union backlash to COVID policies.

Thank you!

Erika McEntarfer, fired as BLS head by Trump …got her PhD in 2002 …has 47 publications …which have 1327 citations

The FBI released its Uniform Crime Report *today* showing that all categories of violent crime are down in Washington DC, returning to pre-2020 levels.

Hey Gallup! Hey Pew! Next time you poll Americans re trust, please ask about trust in Colbert, Stewart, Kimmel vs. Brendan Carr, Russell Vought, Stephen Miller.

The multi-year increase in aggressive and indiscriminate enforcement could cause millions of workers to lose their jobs

New blurb! "Ultimately, their findings illustrate both a complex picture of police shootings and demonstrable patterns to these events, hopefully laying the groundwork for effective conversations about reforms." - @libraryjournal.bsky.social #DeadlyForce www.libraryjournal.com/review/deadl...

In our 2024 U.S. Post-Election Reflection via @apsa.bsky.social, Rebecca Jacobsen and I preview some of our ongoing research on how partisanship and nationalization influence on-cycle local school board elections.

If the Founders had known about Truth Social I’m sure they would have said that’s how legislation gets made instead of doing the whole complicated Congress thing

We are excited to announce our 2024-2025 award winners. Congratulations to all our prize winners! First up, Jeffrey R. Henig Best Book Award goes to R. Shep Melnick (Boston College), for The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality. University of Chicago Press, 2023

The current wave of federal immigration raids began in January with a “rogue” operation in California’s Central Valley. My new study finds these raids increased school absences by 22%—a leading indicator of the resulting family stress & lost learning opportunities👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

🇺🇸Patriots preparing for peaceful protest today against wanna-be dictator Donnie playing Army man with his lethal toys. #NoKings day 6/14 find ur protest 🇺🇸 @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social

Today is the official publication day of our book! You can download and read Chapter 1 using the link. I hope you'll buy a copy of the book, read it, cite it, and/or tell others about it. Public access to the data is forthcoming! #DeadlyForce #polisky press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

These attacks on international students, postdocs, and faculty are existential threats to American higher ed. Our universities are international. Every professor should be on the Capitol steps. Who’s organizing?

This is an excellent - and thus terrifying - explainer. $$ + tax credits + “scholarships” - oversight = massive grift

🚨 Essential Politics of Education Reading 🚨 This piece so perfectly captures how education governance has changed in the recent decades, and it would be particularly excellent for graduate education policy/politics courses!

You guys GOTTA start asking followup questions

How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law

2/2 Now, some other possible headlines that would fit same space, match just as well with the data in the piece, and convey an entirely different impression. And—my opinion— say more about what the realities actually are. Entire rest of world envies this US model. (Byline for these heds? JMF)

Much of the voter participation gap by gender may be explained by the fact that women are more educated than men and that more educated citizens vote more often. New work by Cameron Arnzen and @cohodes.bsky.social. edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1152

You heard about this yesterday. A (not-optimistic) thread to make sense of it. 🧵 TL;DR: Trump has turned every educational institution in the country into a client, supplicant to his administration for funds. That is the point. And there's no reason to think it stops with education.

I’m writing my first book! “The Long Division: How the Politics of Education Became Partisan” is now officially under contract with Oxford University Press I’m excited for this opportunity—although I’ve discovered that it can be a grim satisfaction when your research becomes relevant (1/13)

Hey citizens, you feeling united yet? s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

This news, arriving the day before the "abolish USED" order, captures the fundamental contradiction in this admin's approach to ed policy: A) We will eliminate the fed role and "send educ back to the states" B) We will aggressively wield USED against states to enforce our vision for social policy

🏫 Education operates similarly for boys’ and girls’ later voting behaviors. 🗳️ Increasingly, however, women are more educated than men. @cohodes.bsky.social and I find that this difference in educational attainment explains over 50% of the gender gap in voter turnout.