Last week, you may have seen headlines about LGB identification being in "free fall" based on cursory observations from the 2025 YRBS. I discuss that, alongside research from Cimpian & McQuillan offering nuance to earlier YRBS headlines, in my latest QueerED: balebo.substack.com/p/queered-al...

QueerED: Always Look Beyond the Headline

Vol. 1, Issue 8. Research to practice for LGBTQ+-inclusive schools and communities.

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Filing a civil rights complaint with the Office of Civil Rights can be parents’ last stop. Following cuts and restructuring, this federal office is no longer serving that same resource. (via @us.theconversation.com) https://to.pbs.org/4hzjfxh

Civil rights enforcement cuts mean fewer staff, closed offices, longer waits for students with disabilities

Filing a civil rights complaint with the Office of Civil Rights can be parents’ last stop. Following cuts and restructuring, this federal office is no longer serving that same resource.

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All for “Stupor” intelligence? 🙋‍♂️

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last mo.

Artificial intelligence will now be referred to as “super intelligence,” President Trump said at the U.N. General Assembly. “All ⁠of United ⁠States documents, ​and hopefully the world’s, will ​be ⁠changed to use the much more accurate term ‘super.’”

Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The wrong platform for science

Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

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Today @advancedequity.bsky.social is releasing a brief taking a look at what's in the recently-released 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)--and also what's missing! www.advancedequity.org/briefs/a-fir...

New in the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership with Kathryn James McGraw, Dayna Muñiz, Qurrat ul Ain Rasheed, and Cheyenne Phillips: "Graduate Student Councils as Sites of Service, Strain, and Possibility: Addressing Organizational Disconnects". doi.org/10.1177/1555...

With the upcoming academic year and job market, I’m looking forward to sharing my research, reconnecting with colleagues, and engaging with new audiences. This week, I’m at the SRCD Global Forum, and look forward to SREE, UCEA, ICSEI, AEFP, and AERA.

New, from me // Most Americans Don't Know a Trans Person. That Explains a Lot. edpolicyhub.substack.com/p/most-ameri...

Most Americans Don't Know a Trans Person. That Explains a Lot.

Morgan Polikoff

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Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 3mo ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

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...

QueerED: Transgender Youth Participation in Athletics

Issue 001: June 30, 2026. Research to practice for LGBTQ+-inclusive schools and communities.

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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.

Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

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.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.

It might not seem like a big deal to let parents opt kids out of LGBTQ books. But opt-outs put a HUGE burden on educators to provide advance notice of every book. To avoid that burden, educators may simply avoid LGBTQ books. Effectively eliminating them from schools. share.google/yIHGIEmml5ZC...

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

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.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Leavitt: "We are encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos."

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...

Trump says federal funding will stop for colleges, schools allowing 'illegal' protests

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all federal funding will stop for colleges and schools that allow "illegal" protests and that agitators will be imprisoned or sent back to the country they came from.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2y ago

ahhhhhhhhhh

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.