Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9

I have never pursued an ADHD evaluation but I feel a little personally attacked that this thread goes on to describe EXACTLY the system I use for socks 😅

Took my son to the #GoodTroubleLivesOn rally tonight. ✊

Breaking news: The Trump administration announced a ban on travelers to the U.S. from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The ban takes effect June 9.

My husband's mom died within a month of his birth. Social Security kept him out of poverty.

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.

Opinion | America’s Veterans Deserve Better Higher ed can and must do more to support veterans, Daniel Braun, Catharine B. Hill and Emily Schwartz write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3GkALX0

Trump's Department of Homeland Security has sent a letter to Harvard threatening to revoke its eligibility to enroll international students unless it submits information on international students' disciplinary records and protest participation.

Come to our rally in Teaneck tomorrow! Because our federal government is worth standing up for.

This excellent article by Diane Cheng of the Institute for Higher Education Policy explains why college data collected by the US Department of Education are essential tools in evaluating colleges, including by prospective college-going students: buff.ly/eFZPR2l #AcademicSky

AEFP has joined a challenge to the administration's actions as they relate to data and research infrastructure for education: www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit... AEFP affiliates--especially early career scholars and students--as a board member, please reach out if you have any questions or thoughts!

My heart breaks reading these accounts of the important research contracts that have been cancelled by the Trump administration (including research from CCRC <3 ). These don't dominate headlines, but not having reputable research results will harm Americans and waste taxpayer $in the long run.

Trump claimed during the 2024 election that “we have to do something about the Dreamers.” Oh, he’s doing something alright: continuing to attack them. He’s recently moved to strip them of their ACA coverage. americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/daca-updat... #HomeIsHere

It’s #NationalPublicDefenderDay! Today, we honor and celebrate the dedicated attorneys, investigators, and support staff who work to ensure all New Jerseyans have access to quality legal representation, regardless of their financial situation. Thank you for your work, #NJpublicdefenders!

💯 This op-ed by ed research leaders made that essential point quite forcefully: "Abruptly ending near-complete projects does not drive efficiency. Instead, it ensures that the public sees no benefit from the investments already made, converting what was productive spending into waste."

“DIGITAL BOOK BURNING”: This phrase captures the import of what is going on across numerous agencies. Yes, there are real, specific consequences of degraded or manipulated data in each case- but even those costly losses pale alongside the big picture consequence: rapid descent into authoritarianism.

If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.

All IES program officers are gone How they will be able to administer grants that are already disbursed? Spend it fast if you can

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Also, I'm not a lawyer, but I highly doubt that a memo like this is sufficient to actually declare any of these things illegal. And it seems ripe for a challenge in the courts. But there's always the risk that schools will preemptively comply.

Don’t know if anyone else read the letter and caught that it contradicts the majority opinion in SFFA, which allows discussion of racial identities in essays to be used as a factor in admissions. They’re trying to rewrite an already very conservative SCOTUS opinion www.ed.gov/media/docume...

"... slashing and burning won’t improve matters. It’s just going to weaken the foremost truth squad in American education, the chief sponsor and funder of rigorous analysis, reliable data, and clear-eyed evaluations in a realm that needs more of those things, not less."

My very first job out of college was working as an RA at MDRC on the Career Academies evaluation, funded by Dept of Ed. I got to meet the first IES director when my boss let me tag along for a presentation in DC. Here’s a blurb on the program, the study and its impact www.mdrc.org/work/project...

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

Understanding “what works” in education is HARD and is what many of us have dedicated our professional lives to figuring out. Having some wanna-be tech bros come in and decide they know better than researchers & experts is beyond infuriating and insulting to the ed research community.

Existing grants have not (yet) been hit It is CONTRACTS that are axed - eg Mathematica does WWC And they have not closed IES but just stopped much of what it does

Some reporting from EdWeek h/t @weilanch.bsky.social www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Every Child Left Behind

Speechless. It's my career, so maybe I'm biased, but rigorous research on how we can improve education and maximize student access and success is vital. Not to mention the essential standardized, clean data that IES makes publicly available.

I am hearing that the Department of Education has started issuing stop work orders. Much like USAID did a few weeks ago 😤 Our federal government agencies, capacity, knowledge, & staff are under attack (from within)! 🤬 This is an ♾️🚨 fire, we are experiencing a ‘soft’ coup. 🙏🏼 share & ☎️ your reps!!

Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts. WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders

And the DOJ memo is shockingly explicit about it, too, saying the prosecution has "'unduly restricted' Adams’ ability to 'devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that has escalated under the policies of the prior Administration'" apnews.com/article/eric...

“Elon Musk has got to go!” Thank you to all of the Indivisibles from across New Jersey who visited Sen. @corybooker.com’s office earlier today.

The Trump admin has revoked Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the United States. As I have been saying for months: Trump is not only going after undocumented people. He's also "de-documenting" people who are here and working *legally* www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Really fascinating discussion here that brings in theory from a wide ranging set of disciplines, getting at some of the roots of doom scrolling and why the modern world can feel so alienating and why it feels harder these days to devote attention to things we DO care about. Worth a read or listen!

Tonight at 7pm in Hackensack, there is a vigil urging members of Congress (including Gottheimer) to vote NO on S5/HR29 tomorrow. Please try to make it if you can!

Gov Murphy… this is out of touch. You have potential ICE Raids as the Governor of the most diverse state in the country, you have potential attacks on the LGBtQ community, you have a president that doesn’t prioritize the environment…. And you prioritize congestion pricing which is cont..

Very disappointing to see. I don't believe we should ever win elections by punching down. It won't work, and even if it did, that wouldn't make it right.

Dax and Sisko were LOUDLY playing hide and seek. Sisko was surprisingly good at hiding 👀

Important research -> (and I want to highlight that the researchers' efforts to clean and construct an accurate data set of college closures is a major accomplishment in its own right!)

I may be on parental leave from work until May-ish, but because I have no chill, I'm helping to re-launch our Indivisible NJ-5 group anyway - and this time, we're banding together several former local groups under one umbrella to maximize our impact. Come join us on Wednesday! Let's gooooooo

Update: I really enjoyed the fancy vegan cheeses on the charcuterie board 😋 Rebel brand was today's winner - both the "honee pistachio chevere" and the "tomato herb fromage" were creamy, tangy, flavorful and excellent

We ordered very delicious-looking catering but are having people over today (Saturday) for a festive meal instead of on Thursday It has been sitting in the fridge, tempting me Cornbread stuffing, sour cream mash, pecan pie, & more... 😋 I feel I deserve to be congratulated on my restraint 👏

I am thrilled to hear reports that the streamlined, new FAFSA is easy to use I am heartbroken that deportation fears have advocacy groups cautioning students with undocumented family members that completing the FAFSA could put them in danger

Absolutely yes! Let's do that? Here in NJ, where we just voted to replace the ethically compromised Senator Bob Menendez with the mensch Senator-Elect Andy Kim, we know it's a good thing when ethical violations come to light regardless of party.

Watching adults bully others has been one of the hardest things for me to parse recently. It's happening both nationally (Nancy Mace's bathroom ban in the House) & also in my local communities. For years it felt like we were making progress as a society; the cruel backlash has been hard to sit with

💔 I was a math major & only took Intro to Sociology in my 2nd semester of sophomore year to fill a distribution requirement. But sociology hooked me and I added it as a second major. I can draw a straight line from my undergrad sociology coursework & independent research to my current career.