Ben Lebovitz
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Ph.D. Candidate | University of Wisconsin-Madison 🌈🏫 Education, Policy, and Politics. 🎶🎭🍷🪴
Attending
#APPAM2025
? I’m excited to present the first paper from an emerging project documenting the Trump administration’s unlawful erasure of data, information, and resources across federal agencies. Hope to see you on Saturday morning! 👋
2 months ago
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
7 months ago
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Jess Calarco
7 months ago
In case you missed it in the deluge of depravity, the Supreme Court ruled that parents can opt out kids out of lessons on religious grounds. Which will likely lead not only to opt-outs but to a constriction of curriculum, a culture of surveillance, and more teacher shortages in public schools.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
7 months ago
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Mark Joseph Stern
10 months ago
An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Cara Jackson
10 months ago
AEFP and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Demolition of IES.
www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...
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Served as the “chief” election official for my ward / polling place in WI tonight (my fourth election as chief inspector) and got to spend some quality time with city officials as the result of a wild (party-affiliated) election observer.
10 months ago
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AERA
10 months ago
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.
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Excited to see
@ucea-leadership.bsky.social
publish this "Executive Action Tracker" of changes impacting the education landscape. Grateful to have this new resource, hosted by a professional organization (!), addressing current needs in educational policy & leadership.
www.ucea.org/executive_ac...
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Executive Action Tracker - University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)
https://www.ucea.org/executive_actions_tracker.php
10 months ago
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Andrea Pitzer
10 months ago
When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
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AERA
10 months ago
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions:
www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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Matthew Gardner Kelly
10 months ago
Not to be dramatic (but somehow not dramatic enough)
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Don Moynihan
11 months ago
Most people are not political scientists using formal definitions. So I am curious when is the moment that people tell themselves "oh, I live under an authoritarian government now." Because what else is this?
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Erin Reed
11 months ago
The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
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11 months ago
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UCEA GSC
11 months ago
📢 Join the UCEA GSC and AERA LSI's Researcher Development Program next month to hear from Dr. Alex Bowers on Exploring Public Open Education Data & Code using FAIR Data Frameworks in Education! 1/3
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Laura Meckler
11 months ago
NEW: Peggy Carr, commissioner of the Nat'l Center on Education Statistics and a two-decade+ veteran at Educ Dept, was abruptly put on leave today. She runs NAEP, the national math and reading tests seen as important marker of educational progress
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Courts rule on Trump administration initiatives including DOGE, DEI
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/21/trump-presidency-news/#link-KCMJWWFN6ZHQBL47YJWNZH2Y3U
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Beth Tipton
11 months ago
In this op-ed, we - the presidents of SREE and AEFP - joined forces to argue for the importance of evidence on "what works" and how cutting such funding is not "efficient" - it is wasteful.
www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...
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Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient
Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/cutting-research-funding-would-make-education-less-effective-and-efficient/
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David Mack
11 months ago
we can and must aim higher! i’m doing my part! are YOU? 🫵🏻
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YEEEESS congratulations!!! 🎉 Can’t wait to visit you in Philly!!
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11 months ago
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I’ve been thinking about everyone’s favorite movie “Don’t Look Up” and have no notes for whoever’s running the current simulation we’re all thriving in.
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11 months ago
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Joe Cimpian
11 months ago
This is the current CDC webpage for the most recent YRBS.
www.cdc.gov/yrbs/results...
A word of advice: Pay attention to the trends reported in the blue box. This is more important than ever... partly because of what is written in the yellow box! Support LGBTQ+ youth! 🏳️🌈 Support data! 📊
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Philip Gourevitch
11 months ago
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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jamelle
12 months ago
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
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Joel Mittleman
12 months ago
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.
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Cara Jackson
12 months ago
"Federal law prohibits federal officials from telling schools what they can and cannot teach."
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/01/29/t...
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Trump looks to withhold school aid over lessons on equity and gender. Can he?
The federal government is barred by law from mandating what curriculum schools use. But Trump’s order about “discriminatory equity ideology” and “gender ideology” indicates he wants to use his adminis...
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/01/29/trump-executive-order-targets-critical-race-theory-gender-issues-in-schools/
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Dr. Tom Frieden
12 months ago
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.
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Yesterday, NIH completely removed the Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office site, and all affiliated pages, resources, and reports, from the department website.
dpcpsi.nih.gov/sgmro
12 months ago
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Revoking the EEO wasn’t on my bingo card for this week, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised knowing Trump’s been playing for a blackout.
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12 months ago
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Allison Chapman
about 1 year ago
‼️ A federal judge in KY has ruled that the Department of Education prohibiting teachers from misgendering and deadnaming students violated their First Amendment Rights. In other words, teacher have the right to harass and bully their students. Disheartening and cruel ruling.
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I’ve grown so much from the research and scholarly environment fostered by
@drmcquillan.bsky.social
- excited and hopeful to see them and their work get this support and recognition! 🥳 Congratulations to all these deserving scholars. 🎉
wtgrantfoundation.org/ten-finalist...
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Ten Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030 - William T. Grant Foundation
We are pleased to announce the finalists for the William T. Grant Scholars Program class of 2030. Ten early-career researchers were selected from a pool of 58 applicants after a rigorous review by our...
https://wtgrantfoundation.org/ten-finalists-selected-for-the-william-t-grant-scholars-class-of-2030
about 1 year ago
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
about 1 year ago
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
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📢 Join us this afternoon at
#UCEA2024
in advancing inclusive school supports for LGBTQ+ youth. 📍 Santa Barbara A ⏰ 2:40 PM Happy to have organized this symposium featuring work from
@drmcquillan.bsky.social
, me,
@erinkgill.bsky.social
, and
@katetothek.bsky.social
with discussant Michael O’Malley.
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Excited to present a study led by the incredible
@drmcquillan.bsky.social
today at
#UCEA2024
in Los Angeles! So grateful for the work of this research team, alongside Mollie and
@erinkgill.bsky.social
, highlighting the importance of LGBTQ+ inclusive school district policies for queer youth in WI.
about 1 year ago
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Lee Iskander
about 1 year ago
I have a new article out today with colleagues
@drmcquillan.bsky.social
@harperkeenan.bsky.social
@ftmathteacher.bsky.social
, Bishop Owis, Christina Cook and Daniel Gallardo! We interviewed trans school workers and invited them to respond to this cultural moment:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZVP6D...
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‘Everything they think they know, they should forget’: how trans school workers respond to transphobic discourses
This article explores how trans school employees redeploy, trouble, challenge, and refuse prevalent discourses about transness and education. Drawing from interviews with 100 school workers in Cana...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZVP6DJS9KN9PFQFRNPSG/full?target=10.1080/01596306.2024.2431026
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You’d think if Mace were concerned about safety at the Capitol, she might focus on instigators of a rally-turned-insurrection! Instead, the right continues to favor bullying (🤬) over governance.
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about 1 year ago
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Excited to see friends in LA this week!
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about 1 year ago
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr.
about 1 year ago
Figuring out ways to build community as we transition to this app. Please reply to this post if you want to be added!!
#QTSE
go.bsky.app/VitwfUt
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Sharing recent work that feels especially relevant to the sociopolitical moment. In a recent research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics (MT McQuillan, JR Cimpian, me,
@erinkgill.bsky.social
) we show: School staff provide critical support for trans youth.
about 1 year ago
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UCEA GSC
about 1 year ago
Meet the UCEA Graduate Student Council (GSC)! 👋 Our final introduction is our Communications committee! This team leads GSC recruitment and onboarding & manages social media and email communications about UCEA and GSC programming and events! 1/2
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I’ve been reflecting a lot on my role in advocating for equity over the last week...
#EduSky
, particularly anyone who made the jump from being an equity-oriented educator, how do you navigate your advocacy role (thinking about institutional politics, but also leveraging credentials and experience)?
about 1 year ago
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UCEA GSC
over 1 year ago
🚨 Call for Mentees! 🚨 Graduate students—don’t miss the chance to join the 2024-25 Researcher Development Program (RDP)! 📚🤝 ✔️ Collaborate on research projects ✔️ Build networks with scholars ✔️ Present at UCEA 2025 Annual Convention 1/3
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It’s propagation moving time! Who wants a plant? Starting to think about winter in Madison and I don’t have room for any of these! 🪴
over 1 year ago
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Today in overly complicated but delicious bakes: Pistachio pain au chocolat with an orange and almond frangipane. 👨🍳🥐
about 2 years ago
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Surfacing from the academic vortex to share my gratitude for friends, colleagues, and mentors from this past weekend at UCEA! From conferencing with
@uceagsc.bsky.social
to presenting my own work and soaking in brilliant contributions across Minneapolis, I’m already looking forward to next year. 🤓
about 2 years ago
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UCEA GSC
about 2 years ago
@balebo.bsky.social
the bingo king of UCEA
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I’m excited to share an Ignite! session at 1pm in today’s graduate student summit, rethinking narratives of Title IX to be inclusive of trans and nonbinary individuals.
#UCEA23
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about 2 years ago
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UCEA GSC
about 2 years ago
So excited to be on Bluesky and to be getting started with the Graduate Student Summit at UCEA! Looking forward to a great conference.
#UCEA23
#EduAction
#GSS23
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It’s not an Election Day in Wisconsin, but there’s plenty of need for civic participation. 🗣️ This bill would restrict educational freedom and censor “controversial” topics in Wisconsin classrooms. Can’t make the hearing on Wednesday at 1pm? Submit written testimony to
[email protected]
about 2 years ago
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