Teachers unions/teachers' unions... Education/al policy ... Postsecondary/post-secondary.... How do we get anything done?

Minnesotans ❤️😢.

Tagging some folks for visibility: @joshua-goodman.com @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social @gzamarro.bsky.social @mikekofoed.bsky.social @mikedinerstein.bsky.social @linzpage.bsky.social @matthewakraft.com @imopper.bsky.social @andrewmcamp.com

Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...

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. :-)

Sign up and vote for the Annenberg EdWorkingPapers Webinar topic! My recent working paper, "New Places, New Players, a New Politics of Education," is in the Democracy and Its Discontents category.

Ed Peeps - deep cut: I am looking for the 2017-18 non-fiscal school membership files from the CCD. The files online are corrupted. :-(

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-...

⚠️ New working paper alert! ⚠️ How has anxiety over immigration enforcement affected the attendance of kids in immigrant families in the second Trump presidency? (1/n) edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1265

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...

3 in 1.1 million… Have a great first day, NYC! 🍎🏢📚✏️

Does where you go to high school affect whether you vote as an adult? My working paper estimating high school effects on civic engagement is now posted on Annenberg: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1260.

Does where you go to high school affect whether you vote as an adult? My working paper estimating high school effects on civic engagement is now posted on Annenberg: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1260.

#latergram Really enjoyed my visit to South Bend for the Notre Dame Civic Education Working Group! Great opportunity to meet with folks from across disciplines thinking about the role of schools in preparing children to become citizens. Thanks to David Campbell and Joseph Kahne for hosting!

Jim Ryan was dean when I was a PhD student at HGSE. I hold him in very high esteem. As a small anecdote, when I faced some serious medical issues as a first year student, he kindly wrote me a personal note expressing support and well wishes. I am really saddened by this.

Thread in the am but if you want the main takeaway: The 2024 Digest of Education Statistics (under the current administration) includes just 27 tables by the (Congressionally mandated) deadline—far fewer than the nearly 270, on average, published in prior years www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Friendly reminder NYC: it’s time to do your civic duty! This might be someone’s first election - show them local votes matter too!

Friendly reminder NYC: it’s time to do your civic duty!

Congrats to all Spencer postdocs and dissertation fellows! A list full of some great folks I know!

Terrible policy that will only work to our disadvantage and hurt bright minds. An expansion of the domestic war on higher ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

Divided Supreme Court Rejects Bid for Religious Charter School in Oklahoma www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

The May 16th hearing is at 9:30 am, 333 Constitution Avenue N.W. No Zoom option, but open to the public.

“The Trump administration is investigating whether Harvard University discriminated against white, Asian, male or heterosexual workers in its hiring and promotion practices… the charge notes Harvard’s share of tenured white male faculty dropped from 64% to 56% from 2013 to 2023.”

Pleased to see my work with @blakeheller.bsky.social showing strong returns to investment in adult English language training featured in a post by New America- I am DEEPLY concerned by the proposed cuts to adult ed funding, which would decimate this sector. www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Big day in school choice… I have always found it an unambiguous/fundamental part of the definition of charters that they are traditional public schools operated by private organizations. As someone who has worked for a traditional public school district and charter network, I’m watching closely…

This site is used by countless students, researchers and professors, but it's now scheduled to run out of money on Wednesday. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

In sincerity: based on her congressional hearing, I did not expect Linda McMahon would want her legacy to be stymieing research, waging wars on America’s most successful institutions, and harassing school districts about bathrooms and sports while kids are struggling to read. @usedgov.bsky.social

🧪 Incredible work from @noamross.net and @scott-delaney.bsky.social on community-based tracking of last Friday's terminations of NSF grants. Here's 114 out of 402 cases thus far (the 402 stat comes from DOGE): airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... Submit new entries here: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Immigration people: Who is tracking student visa revocations? Is TRAC on this platform? #immigration #research

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

“... [I]t does a real disservice to the students to suggest that they can’t handle difficult ideas or face ideas they disagree with..." (1/2) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

I’m proud to see that @aefpweb.bsky.social is taking a stand to support education research.

Ray Budde's OG proposal for a system of charter schools was published by by the Northeast Region Educational Lab (REL), a part of ED that was effectively eliminated by contract cancellations in Feb. School choice owes a lot to education research.

“The science in this country is going to be destroyed if you can change what the priorities are going to be every four years. You can’t do science that way.” www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Reducing international student enrollment in US colleges will also lower enrollment of US students. Int'l students subsidize US students, so discouraging the former reduces college budgets available for the latter. The research evidence on this is clear. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am appalled by the Trump Administration's repeated pattern of targeting students for exercising their fundamental First Amendment rights-targeting them for deportation on that basis. My statement on Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment:

I signed this letter from the faculty at Teachers College re: the Trump administration's moves against CU and education research. This statement is not a perfect statement of my beliefs and I worry (always) about being misconstrued. I signed b/c I think these points are critically important: (1/n)

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Women outvote men in the U.S.—and over half of the gap is explained by women's higher levels of educational attainment. 🔍 Authors: Cameron J. Arnzen, Sarah R. Cohodes 📄 bit.ly/4hgORFJ

I’d like as many Republicans in congress as possible to go on the record re: eliminating ED.

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.

Research with restricted-use data is more precise, powerful, and relevant. Faculty and staff will be working through the weekend to answer important research questions before we no longer can. This is not normal, necessary, or efficient.

While other units inside @usedgov.bsky.social lost more employees in absolute numbers, the Institute of Education Sciences lost the highest %age of employees — roughly 90 percent of its workforce — this week hechingerreport.org/proof-points... via @jillbarshay.bsky.social for @hechingerreport.org

This agency was established in 1867. This isn’t some some modern new idea that takes power from states. They literally support states.

“On social media, Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia, described the government’s letter as essentially saying, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

We had a KILLER 8:15 AM first-of-conference session today at #AEFP2025… I’m confident these bright minds won’t give up on education research without a fight!

This is what is at stake in today's cuts re: education data: “This is bedrock, base-line information for how our society is functioning,” said Philip N. Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland.... “It’s a common language — a shared reality we all have.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

Seems like it might be a big day in education in DC… and not just because it’s the start of #AEFP2025 @aefpweb.bsky.social