Dr. Samantha Viano
@drsamviano.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Education Leadership & Policy | School safety and security | Online learning | High school leadership | School improvement https://www.samanthaviano.com/
📢 #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...
Obituary for Mark Helmsing | Waskom Capitol Hill Chapel
Share memories & support the family
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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:
Education Policy Early Career Paper Swap
The goal is to create an opportunity for early career scholars and recent Ph.D. graduates to connect with peers at similar stages and receive constructive feedback on article-length drafts they’re pre...
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🧪💪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...
Action Plan & Appeal for Illegal NSF Grant terminations
[RedactedProjectName] Action Plan for Response to Illegal NSF Grant termination ***This document - with Background, Action Plan, & Appeal Letter - was compiled by a fellow researcher appealing their N...
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My friends, consider running for school board, and check out these amazing resources.
Karin Chenoweth@karinchenoweth.bsky.social · 2y agoRight now people are--or should be--thinking about school board elections this fall. If you are running or know someone who is or should be you should know about Democracy and Education, the organization that provides information and community to school board candidates. www.democracy-education.org
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.
‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of Education Dept.’s Data Warehouse
Fired NCES and IES employees describe a mad dash to save data that has informed higher education policy and practice since the days of Abraham Lincoln.
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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...
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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
Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education
Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...
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Daniel Laurison@daniellaurison.bsky.social · 2y agoA key step in fighting the Trump admin's attacks on higher education specifically and democracy more broadly is to say as clearly as we can that we share values that are meaningful and that we will not stand by while our institutions are destroyed. You can do that here: bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
Erica Chenoweth@chenoweth.bsky.social · 2y ago@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
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.
Kim Weeden@weedenkim.bsky.social · 2y agoW/ demise of NCES, I hope that educ journal editors & reviewers realize that asking authors who use restricted data to run 1 more robustness check, include 1 more adjustment variable, or explore 1 more interaction is functionally equivalent to squashing paper entirely. W/ massive effects on careers.
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
Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 2y agoThey won’t Most of these datasets are public w small subset of vars restricted One strategy is to write the paper around the unrestricted vars, referring to the restricted findings that are in an appendix. Submit only that appendix for review This ain’t perfect, asking for ideas
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)
Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff
The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.
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"these are dedicated professionals, many of whom have spent their entire careers working to strengthen education for every student in America"
UC Berkeley School of Education@berkeleyeducation.bsky.social · 2y agoGutting the U.S. Department of Education is both short-sighted and reckless, BSE Dean Michelle D. Young says in her statement about the mass layoffs. Read her full statement bse.berkeley.edu/deans-statem....
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...
Open letter in response to federal funding cuts at Columbia
On March 7th, the Trump administration announced the immediate cancellation of approximately $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University. This includes funding from the Departm...
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🧪🚨 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-...
What do education leaders need to know about the Department of Education's new guidance on race and civil rights?
On February 28, join Brookings for a webinar with education and legal scholars to discuss the legality of the February 14 guidance letter
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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...
It's been one year since DCist was shut down a second time
Here's what we've grown thanks to you, and what's needed to keep going.
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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...
Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient
Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
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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.
Riley Acton@riacton.bsky.social · 2y ago📢 Check on your junior colleagues! The stress, research disruptions, and uncertainty of the current moment are weighing on a lot of us (and, tbh, have been since we started jobs in... *check notes*... a pandemic)
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)
Jen Jennings@jenjennings.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is exactly the kind of thing Europeans rightfully mock the US for: Teacher preparation programs canceled by DOGE, like this one in Winston-Salem, are now resorting to GoFundMe's just to stay afloat. Absolutely outrageous.
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
Leigh McLean@leighmcleanphd.bsky.social · 2y agoI was on an IES 305A review panel this year and got this today following up on the cancellation of panels last week. I’m taking this to mean panels will not be rescheduled at all and that 305A awards likely won’t be made. I reviewed some critically important proposals. This is truly awful.
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/...
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2y agoHearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
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)
Katherine Knott@knottkatherine.bsky.social · 2y ago
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...
I let my kids watch videos on their iPads for hours and don't force them to eat vegetables. They're thriving, and I'm way less anxious.
Traditional parenting advice can feel like borderline bullying at times. That's why I ignore most of it.
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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”
