Excited to share QueerED #2 and spotlight a great article from @queeringedu.bsky.social. LGBTQ+-Inclusive Curriculum is associated with improved health and academic outcomes for queer youth, yet it's rare even in a state that supports inclusivity. How can school leaders and educators change that?

Today, SCOTUS ruled states can bar trans students from womens' sports. It lets 27 existing bans stand but imposes no national ban. It's also the first issue of QueerED, my new newsletter for LGBTQ+-inclusive schools. I hope you'll read and share! balebo.substack.com/p/queered-tr...

We will not get a second Reconstruction from people who don’t defend the first.

Excited to share the online publication of our new article in Review of Educational Research. We analyzed 100 articles published since 1993 discussing advocacy & activism for #lgbtq equity in k-12 schools.

I'm presenting at @aefpweb.bsky.social this week in Chicago! Looking forward to seeing all of this week's great sessions - hope to see you in one of the sessions I'm presenting or a co-author on Thursday or Friday!

I'm excited to share preliminary results from one of my dissertation papers tomorrow (12pm on Friday, 2/6), kicking off this semester's seminar series for the interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Looking forward to sharing this work!

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

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! 👋

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.

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.

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...

AEFP and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Demolition of IES. www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...

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.

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. www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...

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...

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.

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...

Not to be dramatic (but somehow not dramatic enough)

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...

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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📢 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

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...

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...

we can and must aim higher! i’m doing my part! are YOU? 🫵🏻

YEEEESS congratulations!!! 🎉 Can’t wait to visit you in Philly!!

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.

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! 📊

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.

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.

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.

"Federal law prohibits federal officials from telling schools what they can and cannot teach." www.chalkbeat.org/2025/01/29/t...

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.

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

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.

‼️ 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.

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...

“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!

📢 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.

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.

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...

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.

Excited to see friends in LA this week!

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

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.

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

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)?

🚨 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