📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Bathroom security or surveillance? @drsamviano.bsky.social & colleagues find that schools increasingly treat restrooms as sites of control, using vape detectors & staff patrols. Students are skeptical; administrators are supportive. 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1307

I rarely post, but I thought it meaningful to share this beautiful tribute to a really special colleague, Mark Helmsing, written by his sister. Wanted to share in case anyone knew Mark from Mason, MSU, or academic circles, and just so others will learn about him www.waskoms.com/obituary/Mar...

Been chatting with folks who've lost their jobs and several said it would be nice to learn about how to get into consulting work. So I said I could put something together on that! Webinar next Thursday at 1pm eastern. (Thanks AEFP, APPAM, NCME, & SREE!) Register here: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...

🚨Organizing a paper swap for early career edu policy researchers.🚨 Share a nearly-complete draft, exchange feedback, and connect with peers. Great if you’ve got a lingering project or diss chapter that could use feedback and soft deadlines to move it forward this summer. Sign up & learn more here:

🧪💪I know folks are struggling to appeal #NSF grant terminations I created a generic GD version of our team's response plan, including a draft appeal*, based on compiled guidance. *Not a lawyer, best guess! Also, DMs open for ?/feedback. @davidimiller.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My friends, consider running for school board, and check out these amazing resources.

www.chronicle.com/article/brea... All of us who use and value NCES data are distraught. No one more than @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social who understands the work being lost and implications better than anyone.

New from the amazing Jennifer Darling-Aduana and me: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in K–12 Online Learning: A Systematic Review Review of Educational Research journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Public schools have not recovered from COVID-19, we can see it in the scores, hear it from teachers and school leaders. Throwing schools into chaos is the last thing they need, and there is nothing but chaos in dismantling the Department of Ed. This is an attack on educators & children #EDMatters

This statement is nearing 1600 signatories. Have you signed? Have you sent to your friends & colleagues? Your department or university list-serve? Your alumni network? if not, can you? bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd or to go right to signing bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

I spent a lot of my time with grad students at aefp talking through what they do with dissertation papers that use restricted data when r&rs will likely ask them to go back to the data. I think editorial boards need to be talking about their options for navigating this.

Sharing in case other people with or knowledgeable about nces restricted data have ideas for disclosure risk review since typically you email IES to get approval to release your paper to non-licensed folks and all of IES basically disappeared over night

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u... This is an earthquake. It's going to absolutely hamstring important government functions, and students and families will suffer. I'm especially worried by the mention of deep cuts to the Office of Civil Rights at USED—not unexpected, but still terrible. (1/4)

"these are dedicated professionals, many of whom have spent their entire careers working to strengthen education for every student in America"

Not in my name. If you are a Jewish university affiliate and want to express that cuts to university research do not protect Jews and do not address anti-semitism, consider signing here: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...

🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day. Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience Thread👇🧵

🚨 Join us this Fri 2/28 @ 1:30PM, ET for an online webinar with education and legal scholars, including experts in civil rights enforcement, to discuss the legality of the Department of Education's Feb 14 Dear Colleague Letter & the potential threat of enforcement. www.brookings.edu/events/what-...

A vacuum of local news coverage opened a year ago when DC's NPR affiliate eliminated DCist. We need reporting that matters to DC residents. If you're local and able, please support the 51st 51st.news/email/11c7e3...

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...

A thing I do is setup early career virtual coffees with the pre-tenure folks in my area in my department. I had one this morning and while I can't solve most of the big problems, I think it was helpful.

Virginia Foxx, Chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, represented Winston-Salem/Forsyth County for decades (until recent redistricting). The current reps coving WS/FCS are Pat Harrigan (R) and Addison McDowell (R)

On a different IES review panel and received the same email. In addition, it's wasting millions of dollars to cancel at this point. This is about destruction, not efficiency

Educational Science Reform Act of 2002 as passed by Congress and signed into law: "There shall be in the Department the Institute of Education Sciences" www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

this from a representative at American Institutes for Research about DOGE/Trump cancelling IES contracts is spot on (& good on them for speaking out clearly about this)

I love all my friends saying things like, “I wish I could make a career off being petty and making diss tracks” after the halftime show, and I’m out here like, “Have you considered academia?”

Reminder to the education policy crowd: download all the publicly available federal data you could ever need today

So happy for ppl with perfect children but my 8YO turns into an evil creature if we do too much screen time And, yes, random judgy opeds are a great distraction in these times! www.businessinsider.com/ignoring-tra...

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

New paper from Vargas and colleagues theorizes & measures "Academic Copaganda": "studies contesting social movement claims by authors (1) masking their conflicts of interest, or (2) espousing police epistemology." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

2 more empirical questions how can we determine what it would look like if students had a reason to care about their naep performance? how much has time increased over the last couple decades in how often are students taking similar assessments to naep?

My hot take for the day is that students are way over-tested and the naep results are just as likely driven by apathy as "learning loss"

I think it is hard to fully understand how extreme consequences are for youth in certain states for often dumb stuff. This article is about TN but the baker act in Florida has led to thousands of students being involuntary detained, including students with autism www.propublica.org/article/tenn...

This is so great! When I was at NSF, I often advised applicants to ask around for examples of successful proposal, but would be ideal if grantees took the lead on using this kind of transparency to help others!

Looks like it is time to think about NSF CAREER proposals again! Hope my materials can be helpful to others, and I'm happy to pay-it-forward to others interested in applying. Let's get more ed leadership and ed policy research funded by NSF!!! www.samanthaviano.com/projects/4113

Talk about well-timed publication announcements! Such relevant and important work from @dmhouston.bsky.social

Wow wow wow, this is such an exciting announcement for educators and education researchers. This could also be amazing for dissertations! A definite 📌

This is so beautiful and exactly what I teach to aspiring ed leaders, use research to motivate and inspire 🤓

Love this and will add that AI should never be used to look up information or to solve problems. Large language models are built to hallucinate and current models were incapable of being accurate, i.e. they will make shit up every time

Agree with all this for ed research too, and I'm begging all Reviewers to focus on the empirics and contribution and stop asking authors to rewrite the whole freakin manuscript

School districts have spent over $100 million on window film that does nothing to stop bullets. Utah, Texas and Tennessee have mandates that will profit the companies making false claims at the expense of the students. This is a terrible waste of resources. #EdPolicy www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

The National Academies has an ad hoc committee on The Impact of Active Shooter Drills on Student Health and Wellbeing Hopefully, there will be more soon that can really get at what we should do about these drills 🤞 www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/the...

Have typically been very underwhelmed with chatgpt for variety of things, coding, logic, summarizing, etc, but I just asked it to draft an interview protocol and WOW

NEW 📚“Handbook of Children and Screens” is out! I co-authored a chapter on ethics and equity in K-12 Online Learning led by the amazing Jen Darling-Aduana Download for Free ➡️bit.ly/handbook-of-children-and-screens @childrenandscreens.bsky.social

Regular reminder that school resource officers job is NOT to help students or increase safety. Their job is to enforce the law

This thread makes excellent points for how having police in schools increases the likelihood of arrest which could then result in deportation. But also, kids often tell police in schools that they/their family members are undocumented bc the kids are told the police are there to help them

This is exactly the argument I had at home the other night. Husband says he just uses ChatGPT because Google results don't cut it. I agreed Googing is broken, but ChatGPT isn't better, it's just spits out the hallucinations faster

I don't just kvetch about school security here, I also do so in marketing videos for my job youtu.be/b8sL_CrDvyI?...

My favorite conference proposal decision days are ones where I did not submit, so I just get to enjoy the celebrations 🤗🎉🥳