Viewing climate change as central to education policy is about creating more productive learning environments & a healthier planet. Supporting students’ development & academic growth increasingly requires that schools become more resilient & sustainable.🎓🌎 matthewakraft.substack.com/p/education-...
“As I learned more about these various types of centers and programs, I kept feeling like I had heard about this type of project before. And I had.” Thanks, @bakerdphd.bsky.social, for putting these feelings into more concrete terms and historical context for the rest of us.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3w ago"We should be asking ourselves: When is civility useful and when is it a canard for oppression? When is anger a detriment and when is it a righteous tool?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
The Nikole Hannah Jones article has invoked a lot conversation on race, school choice for Black families. I’ve been researching how black folks choose schools for 17 years, I have a lot of nuanced thoughts. Long thread. 1/
Excited to see our study on four-day school weeks and teacher retention out at Education Finance & Policy! Using 18 years of data from Oregon, we find that switching to a four-day week actually increased teacher turnover by about 2 percentage points. direct.mit.edu/edfp/article... 1/4
Less Is More? The Causal Effect of Four-Day School Weeks on Teacher Turnover
Abstract. The use of four-day school weeks (4dsw) in the United States has expanded rapidly over the past two decades. Previous work examines the impact of 4dsw on student outcomes, but less research ...
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This is a devastating analysis of the impact of the NIH's policies in fiscal year 2025 on the research project grant investigator pool. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/5
Trends in NIH Investigators by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Disability Status
This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...
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I wrote about this, and the costs of generational STEM optimism, last year. "It’s created such wreckage to have implied that history and humanities are luxury goods, rather than essential services." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen
Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.
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Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis already happened for the NEH. I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...
🚨 "More than $1 billion of the currently unapportioned Education Department funds will expire and return to the Treasury if OMB doesn’t release the money in the next four months." by @marklieberman.bsky.social www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
White House Blocks $2 Billion for Education: See All the Affected Programs
We're tracking federal education funding that Trump's federal budget office has stalled.
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Interested in some highlights from our latest paper about the effects of Ethnic Studies while it scales district-wide? Our friends at EdWorkingPapers have you covered. edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...
Cultural Relevance at Scale: The Effects of an Ethnic Studies Expansion on Academic Outcomes
Ethnic Studies (ES) has emerged as a promising approach to address this challenge. By centering the histories, cultures, and lived experiences of communities of color, ES is designed to make learning ...
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If we treated poor people as full humans worthy of dignity, we wouldn’t spend so much time policing them in the first place…
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7mo agoA bipartisan group of senators has introduced the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act to allow Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants to purchase hot rotisserie chicken with their benefits.
Pay teachers more ➡️ increase retention But we don't need to stick with a rigid salary schedule to do it www.future-ed.org/higher-salar...
Research Notes: Higher Salaries Increase Teacher Retention, Study Finds
In 2023, Arkansas legislators passed the LEARNS Act, a comprehensive education reform package that, among other goals, aimed to strengthen teacher recruitment and retention. The law raised the…
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🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2
Share Your Story: Impacts of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission.
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Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!
Emily Penner and colleagues have published “The Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education Workforce: Descriptive Evidence on Demographics and Turnover from Oregon” in Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness doi.org/10.1080/1934...
The Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education Workforce: Descriptive Evidence on Demographics and Turnover from Oregon
Early intervention (EI) and early childhood special education (ECSE) services for children with disabilities have expanded substantially across the U.S. over the past few decades, necessitating eff...
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Emily Penner, Assoc Prof of Education and CPIP affiliate, has a new article, “Cultural Relevance at Scale: The Effects of an Ethnic Studies Expansion on Academic Outcomes” in AERJ that evaluates SFUSD’s high school ethnic studies program as it scaled up across the district. doi.org/10.3102/0002...
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Taking a year-long ethnic studies course could be helping San Francisco high school students earn better grades and exam scores, according to a newly released study.
S.F. ethnic studies courses linked to higher grades, UC eligibility, study finds
Taking a year-long ethnic studies course could be helping San Francisco high school students earn better grades and exam scores, according to a newly released study.
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Some good news: SFUSD's high school Ethnic Studies course has substantial academic benefits when implemented district-wide. New research by @birajbisht.bsky.social, Sade Bonilla, Grace Kim, and myself just out today in @aeraedresearch.bsky.social 🧵 doi.org/10.3102/0002...
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We can remember at least one time when the United States did take care of daycare; it was during a time of war. 🤔 #FDR
The US Funded Universal Childcare During World War II—Then Stopped | HISTORY
Federally-subsidized childcare centers took care of an estimated 550,000 to 600,000 children while their mothers work...
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoTrump: "The US can't take of daycare. That has to be up to a state. We're fighting wars. Medicaid, Medicare -- they can do it on a state basis. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. But all these little scams that have taken place, you have to let states take care of them."
"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.
niki grayson@nikigrayson.com · 7mo agoright now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.
Happening today! An entire @aefpweb.bsky.social panel on "Climate Change and Education" #AEFP2026 Don't miss @emilykpenner.bsky.social @andrewpenner.bsky.social & many others at session 3.10 in St. Gallen 3. Grace will be presenting our WP: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1238
Thinking about the recent passing of George Farkas as I head to #AEFP2026 today. George’s work motivated me to get a Ph.D. in Education and apply to @uci-education.bsky.social. He was an enthusiastic mentor and colleague, always working to find ways to help kids learn. May his memory be a blessing.
Glad to see our work about special ed and gifted identification across the income distribution appear in this week's @chalkbeat.org
Chalkbeat@chalkbeat.org · 8mo agoPlus quick hits on AI cheating, strikes, gifted ID, and time in class in this Chalkbeat Ideas roundup.
Good @heatherknightsf.bsky.social and Soumya Karlamangla story about the dire situation for BART in SF: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
The Bay Area Considers the Unthinkable: Life Without BART
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Family income shapes educational opportunities: Students with disabilities edition. And, as we've said before, FRPM won't tell you the full story. Led by the wonderful @nick-ainsworth.bsky.social. See his thread for more details, a WP link, and our co-author team.
Nick Ainsworth@nick-ainsworth.bsky.social · 8mo agoExcited to share a new EdWorkingPaper on the relationship between family income and disability ID. 🧵 TLDR: Low-income students are much more likely to receive SPED services while high-income students are more likely to get 504 plan accommodations. edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1374
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
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Late to the celebration, but this was a great project with a wonderful team. Excited to have this work out to share with everyone.
Aaron Ainsworth@ajainsworth.bsky.social · 9mo agoI’m really glad to see that our paper is now out at Ed Researcher! We examine turnover among the half of school employees who are not teachers to understand how their turnover compares. Using Oregon data (2007-23) for all public school employees, there are 3 new patterns that we document: A 🧵
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
