Due tonight at midnight - it’s not lengthy. We hope you’ll apply!

POV: you are a doc student in Ed policy AND are wanting more mentorship and learning around racial justice. Just Ed Policy is for you: we provide three days in DC with speakers who’ll advise you on crafting your research agenda. Apply by June 1. www.justeducationpolicy.org/apply

Reminder that applications for the September program are due June 1!

The program will be held September 28-October 1.

We are excited to announce that applications for JEP 2026 are now open! If you are a current doctoral student or post-doc in education policy working on racial justice, this Institute shows how, in community, to develop your research agenda. Apply here through 6/1: www.justeducationpolicy.org/apply

Thoughts on our new book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXTd... On the costs of policy induced racial isolation

Through October 3, free access to Urban Education special issue marking the 70th anniversary of the Brown v Board of Ed. decision, including our article: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... with @janellescott.bsky.social @edebray.bsky.social @sarahmccollum.bsky.social @talialeibovitz.bsky.social

❗HIRING ❗ Join me at UGA School of Law! We're hiring 4-5 tenure-track or tenured positions. Priorities include torts, Ks, bankruptcy, environmental law, property, *international law* & secured transactions. Send letters of interest & cv/resume @ [email protected]. Feel free to reach out w/ ??s.

I couldn’t ask for better collaborators on this extended project. I hope I get to work with you again!

NAGB just voted (reluctantly) to kill several NAEP exams over the next 10 yrs. Cuts: 1) No Long-Term Trend NAEP at all until 2033. 2) No 4th grade science in 2028 and no 12th grade science in 2032. 3) Writing scrapped altogether. 4) No 12th grade history in 2030 (1/3)

Attention education policy doc students: Just Education Policy will be back this Fall!

A civil rights issue @edebray.bsky.social @janellescott.bsky.social Janel George & I note in a recent brief abt ESEA reauth using our equitable, evidence-based, & ecol. framework. If not feds, states must address given systemic funding inequities & harms to students nepc.colorado.edu/sites/defaul...

I’m writing my first book! “The Long Division: How the Politics of Education Became Partisan” is now officially under contract with Oxford University Press I’m excited for this opportunity—although I’ve discovered that it can be a grim satisfaction when your research becomes relevant (1/13)

I really like this idea of "catching courage from each other"...colleagues in higher education, if you haven't signed this yet... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Let me try to be more measured about the Supreme Court taking this case: I see no upshot if you value public education. All the usual caveats apply, e.g. Court could rule on different grounds, avoid issue. Otherwise, my thoughts... 1/ www.scotusblog.com/2025/01/supr...

My students are writing papers about the Oklahoma case and I needed to brush up. Good summary of Green & Ecke’s ingenious law rev piece.

Come work with me and my fantastic colleagues in the Dept of Education @ UCSB. Quant methods position w/application details below. Reach out with q’s recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02883

@justedpolicy.bsky.social is here and you should follow them!

NEPC made it over here!

Molly and Huck wishing everyone a good mid-week.

Just putting it out here that I will be an empty nester in 10 months and I would like to spend the next academic year someplace else. Correlation is causality.

Key west day and night.

Great pc in the Atlanta Journal Constitution by @stephenjowens.bsky.social. The GA school funding formula needs some serious reform, starting with the fact that—unlike 97% of GA school leaders—it doesn't recognize that kids in poverty face specific challenges in school. www.ajc.com/education/ge...

You’re so easy to love, Georgia.