New paper with @alexfreidus.bsky.social and @ericaoturner.bsky.social ! Our interview data show how disability and ableism—intersecting with racism and SES inequality—complicate and stratify school choice for families of disabled students. doi.org/10.1177/2332...

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

The top 10% of high-income districts were four times more likely to have recovered in both math and reading compared with the poorest 10%. And academic recovery within districts remains divided by race and class. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/11/s...

ICE raids in schools, hospitals, and churches are turning places of learning, healing, and worship into places of fear and suffering. Our Protecting Sensitive Locations Act would ban ICE from conducting enforcement actions from within 1000 feet of these sacred spaces.

This is another one where, for the moment, the temporary order applies only to the 23 plaintiff states—which are mostly Democratic-controlled, or have a Dem. AG. It thus preserves NIH disbursements for Blue States, but the taps are still turned off for Red States.

may be beside the point/extremely obvious but i feel like you can only ignore extreme wealth inequality for so long before it metastasizes into something that fundamentally remakes and destabilizes the world by giving people access to so much money that they are fully above consequence

IES was established by the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002. The functions of IES are specified by this law, which was signed by George W. Bush. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

I don’t have a fancy lesson I delivered about the #SuperBowlHalftimeShow Before I showed it, I instructed my students to write down three words and document when they noticed them: •imagery •symbolism •message We watched once all the way through, then we broke down where my students noted. +

Colorado bill to curb school library book challenges clears first legislative hurdle https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2025/02/11/school-library-bill-clears-first-legislative-hurdle/

Come work with us! We're looking for a colleague specializing in Gender and Diversity in Politics. Subfield open, but IR and Conparativists are especially encouraged to apply. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1555649...

If your state just handed $447M to vouchers for kids already in private school, spare me the "it’s too much money" excuse when it comes to educating undocumented immigrant students. Follow the law of the land—Plyler still stands.

Hello, many new Bluesky followers! I’m a WIRED reporter looking to talk to people about the repercussions of Trump/Musk’s cuts. (In and outside of US) In particular on issues such as child protection, cybercrime, national security, intel sharing I can be reached on Signal: mattburgess.20

"Teachers have every reason to be guarded about what they say & do within state-surveilled school spaces. But teachers’ selfhoods do not end at the door of the classroom. Teachers are friends, neighbors, beloveds- & they are amazing organizers" [email protected] inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

This is a good action.

These Democrats voted for cloture for Doug Collins last week but voted no on confirmation today. That means that they are responding to calls: Baldwin Blunt Rochester Cantwell Duckworth Kim Murray Reed Warner Whitehouse

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! she shouts into the void

Special issue call from AERA Open. They specifically highlight wanting to see scholars from the humanities provide their thoughts! www.aera.net/Portals/38/2...

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

This makes quite a bit of sense...

"In the 1980s, when United Auto Workers realized during contract negotiations that manufacturers were trying to provoke workers into striking — to permanently replace them with scabs — the union turned to work-to-rule, throwing production into chaos and winning a 36% wage bump over three years"

If true... could this be a brilliant move by someone in NSF to identify every single grant and gum up the system OR a nefarious move by someone in NSF to identify every single grant and defund the entire higher education/research sector? I'm really, really toggling here...

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

Happy Black History Month—every month. Black energy is everlasting. The contributions of Black people to this country & the world cannot be erased by policy or hate. Who is your favorite Black history icon? We’re honoring and building all year long. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory365

If you’re a government employee, thank you for your service & here’s a resource you may find helpful. Stay strong. www.civilservicestrong.org

Can't wait to read this issue and these authors. Such important work!

The economy is booming, but Americans are sicker, sadder, and more stressed than we used to be. Maybe because that economic growth was built on a culture of overwork that sacrifices people's wellbeing.

Today in an email to parents, teachers and students, the leaders of Maryland’s largest school district vowed to “use all legal means necessary” to resist President Trump’s executive orders seeking to end diversity initiatives and transgender inclusion in public education.

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

“We @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social have no plans to change the way we do business. We have no plans to change our funding priorities, which are reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the way evidence from research is used in policy and practice.” That’s what I told @insidephilanthropy.com …

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Some thoughts on the latest anti-history and anti-trans EO. (Initial, on the bus, subject to revision 😉 & more informed on the 🗃️ than the 🏳️‍⚧️rights problems here.) 1) Can they do this? That is, is it legal for the executive to do this, in this way? NO.

This thread will be stories of how people hold the line--continue to behave responsibly and ethically.

DEI public favorability continues to be +19. Pundits are wrong that: 1) DEI is unpopular. It's popular. 2) This recent support is thermostatic. This is NOT thermostatic. DEI favorability has been high throughout its existence (second pic).

The union representing thousands of janitors said ICE went to multiple downtown San Francisco offices but that building security kept them from entering, KTVU reports. “Union president Olga Miranda said the janitors were relieved that someone spoke up for them.” www.ktvu.com/news/ice-age...

🚨What the hell is going on? 🧵 Another PUERTO RICAN family detained, a man tells Telemundo his sister, her mother in law, & a child were taken by ICE in Milwaukee & driven to facility where his sister explained they’re US CITIZENS. ICE response to this flagrant violation? “Sorry”

The vagueness of just which programs need to be frozen under the new OMB memo really says to me that they're hoping groups preemptively shut down their programs that get federal funds and use that as proof that they were woke all along

I'm a former OMB official and this is absolutely true. And let's also not forget that these illegal actions have direct, harmful consequences for actual people. New moms won't get help feeding their infants. Small businesses won't make payroll. People could lose their jobs, their homes.

I called @vanhollen.senate.gov, Angela Alsobrooks, and Kweisi Mfume just now. If you're reading this, do the same for your reps! If we want Dems to show backbone, we need to flood their phones! www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

A LOT (a LOT) of dictators in the past grabbed power with something claiming to be "temporary."