Excited to share a new @annenberginstitute.bsky.social working paper, co-authored w/ Rebecca Jacobsen. We’ve been exploring what happens when national partisan politics reach one of the most local arenas of American democracy—school board elections? edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1360

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

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....

Are you a political scientist who studies/teaches education policy? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi. Are you an education researcher who studies/teaches politics? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.

As I start my read of 107 Days, I have to remind myself that 77.3 million people voted for Trump and 75 million voted for Kamala, but 90 million eligible voters didn’t vote at all… 🗳️

Destroying Fed independence is almost the perfect example of latent opinion. Polls won’t tell you the effect on public opinion because most people don’t think about and/or understand monetary policy basics. But if you cause inflation or stagflation, future public opinion will be very disapproving.

Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution. To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social‬. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: ‬ tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m 🧵 below:

The book comes out next month! You can preorder now from SUNY or that other place that sells books on the internet. sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

Jerry Min Receives the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for “Do Left Governments Tax More? How States Tax Global Capital With Tax Treaties” The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or…

looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs

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.

All of the “let’s revisit this in June” convos are coming to roost. 😵‍💫

This is so, so important: these smaller-in-size regional protests. It's not just big cities! It's people in small towns, too.

Back home:

Hi! I’m looking for a few more doctorate holding reviewers for AERA Division L - Section 1 (governance and politics). Reviewing will take place later this summer. If you’re interested, drop a comment here or message me. Thanks for considering.

🚨Attention Job Seekers: We're hiring a quantitative researcher for a 1-year (possibly renewable for 2nd yr) position to study Career & Technical education! While not technically a postdoc, this would be a great fit for a recent PhD graduate! 🧵 careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Saw the first academic job market posting (so early?!) of the season... Hello existential stress, my old friend.

Apparently the vibes for the re-release of Reputation (TV) are going to be fueled the President of the United States’ weird obsession with Taylor Swift. 🐍

🚨 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!

It makes my heart happy that our education research conference is happening at the same time/place as a youth dance competition and a comic con. Great vibes all around.

Doing what I do 95% of the time: talking about education governance and politics! Just this time, it’s at #AERA2025

Harvard sued the Trump admin today 💪🏽🥳💯 www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

Nothing says teaching critical thinking like state-level bans on what topics can be taught

“What becomes of the University if it succumbs to the demands of a political party or leader that cedes rights of free speech, free expression, and free inquiry? What becomes of our students [of any age] if they are only permitted to think, speak, and be in ways that follow the political winds? “

"A significant portion of the gender gap in voting can be attributed to the rise in women’s education. If men’s educational levels reached those of women, we would expect the gender voting gap to shrink significantly." @camarnzen.bsky.social @cohodes.bsky.social edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1152

With all of the targeting of higher ed, it's critical that we have a good understanding of who governs our institutions - I wrote this piece for Brookings to summarize what we know. I also show some new data on the politics and representativeness of public boards. www.brookings.edu/articles/und...

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

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Who says you can’t observe real world politics at a political science conference?

Happening right outside the MPSA conference, too! There were so many more blocks of people stretched all around the loop.

Who is the education finance person who has done the school budget - buses, heating oil, paper, furniture, copiers - equivalent of this explainer? #edusky

My 12 y/o son was willfully ignorant of politics until he calculated the potential cost of a Switch 2 with tariffs. Now he is radicalized.

At what point do these powerful institutions band together to fight back? There HAS to be some sort of coordination happening, right?

I know there’s a lot going on today, but in case you are curious about the types of federal research being canceled, you can read 16 first-person accounts (including my own) here www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

PACE is hiring! We’re seeking a dynamic, strategic, and collaborative researcher to support district partnerships while advancing education policy and systems change in PK–12 education across California. Learn more and apply today: edpolicyinca.org/careers/educ... @stanfordeducation.bsky.social

My friends, consider running for school board, and check out these amazing resources.

This book couldn’t come at a more perfect time, and @dmhouston.bsky.social is THE person to write it. I am so excited to read it, assign it, and cite it.

Really cool new working paper by @cohodes.bsky.social and @camarnzen.bsky.social ! Definitely worth checking out if you’re interested in the intersection of education and political economy.

“a significant portion of the gender gap in voting can be attributed to the rise in women’s education.” @camarnzen.bsky.social @cohodes.bsky.social

Maybe this is why the current admin is assaulting higher education 🧐🧐🧐

#edusky colleagues, higher ed or K-12, please share. We are at Columbia, but we know that this struggle matters for education across the lifespan. A Statement from Teachers College Faculty on the Attack on American Education docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🏫 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.

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!

A fundamental question that motivates my research and teaching is where to situate power in educational decision-making. As with all governance designs, there are tradeoffs. I can assure you, however, that gutting the federal role in education is not a solution to the problems our schools face.