This Cornell Merlin bird app is just awesome. There are 13 identifiable birds where I am sitting.

Due tonight at midnight - it’s not lengthy. We hope you’ll apply!

Just Education Policy Institute @justedpolicy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

POV: you are a doc student in Ed policy AND are wanting more mentorship and learning around racial justice. Just Ed Policy is for you: we provide three days in DC with speakers who’ll advise you on crafting your research agenda. Apply by June 1. www.justeducationpolicy.org/apply

POV: you are a doc student in Ed policy AND are wanting more mentorship and learning around racial justice. Just Ed Policy is for you: we provide three days in DC with speakers who’ll advise you on crafting your research agenda. Apply by June 1. www.justeducationpolicy.org/apply

Reminder that applications for the September program are due June 1!

Just Education Policy Institute @justedpolicy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are excited to announce that applications for JEP 2026 are now open! If you are a current doctoral student or post-doc in education policy working on racial justice, this Institute shows how, in community, to develop your research agenda. Apply here through 6/1: www.justeducationpolicy.org/apply

The program will be held September 28-October 1.

Just Education Policy Institute @justedpolicy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are excited to announce that applications for JEP 2026 are now open! If you are a current doctoral student or post-doc in education policy working on racial justice, this Institute shows how, in community, to develop your research agenda. Apply here through 6/1: www.justeducationpolicy.org/apply

We are excited to announce that applications for JEP 2026 are now open! If you are a current doctoral student or post-doc in education policy working on racial justice, this Institute shows how, in community, to develop your research agenda. Apply here through 6/1: www.justeducationpolicy.org/apply

Thoughts on our new book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXTd... On the costs of policy induced racial isolation

Bruce D. Baker Delves into Equal Educational Opportunities

YouTube video by Harvard Education Press

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Through October 3, free access to Urban Education special issue marking the 70th anniversary of the Brown v Board of Ed. decision, including our article: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... with @janellescott.bsky.social @edebray.bsky.social @sarahmccollum.bsky.social @talialeibovitz.bsky.social

❗HIRING ❗ Join me at UGA School of Law! We're hiring 4-5 tenure-track or tenured positions. Priorities include torts, Ks, bankruptcy, environmental law, property, *international law* & secured transactions. Send letters of interest & cv/resume @ lawhiring@uga.edu. Feel free to reach out w/ ??s.

I couldn’t ask for better collaborators on this extended project. I hope I get to work with you again!

Andy Saultz@andysaultz.bsky.social · last yr.

There is something special about seeing a work in press. Thank you to Elizabeth DeBray and Denisa Gandara for all the work you put into this. It was a joy to work with you and think through federal educational policy research. @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @edebray.bsky.social

NAGB just voted (reluctantly) to kill several NAEP exams over the next 10 yrs. Cuts: 1) No Long-Term Trend NAEP at all until 2033. 2) No 4th grade science in 2028 and no 12th grade science in 2032. 3) Writing scrapped altogether. 4) No 12th grade history in 2030 (1/3)

Attention education policy doc students: Just Education Policy will be back this Fall!

Just Education Policy Institute @justedpolicy.bsky.social · last yr.

Just Education Policy is coming back! We’re excited to announce that we are planning for an *in-person* Just Education Policy Institute this Fall 2025. Applications & more details will be released in early May. For more info. about the Just Education Policy Institute, visit justeducationpolicy.org.

A civil rights issue @edebray.bsky.social @janellescott.bsky.social Janel George & I note in a recent brief abt ESEA reauth using our equitable, evidence-based, & ecol. framework. If not feds, states must address given systemic funding inequities & harms to students nepc.colorado.edu/sites/defaul...

david i. backer@schooldaves.bsky.social · last yr.

So much time and money spent on testing, accountability, charters, vouchers—really what we need to do is fix the buildings, but there’s never money for it. www.freep.com/story/news/e...

I’m writing my first book! “The Long Division: How the Politics of Education Became Partisan” is now officially under contract with Oxford University Press I’m excited for this opportunity—although I’ve discovered that it can be a grim satisfaction when your research becomes relevant (1/13)

I really like this idea of "catching courage from each other"...colleagues in higher education, if you haven't signed this yet... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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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Brad Simpson@bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · last yr.

One of my activist mentors, the peace activist Kathy Kelly, used to say that one of the purposes of activism is to give people the opportunity to catch courage from each other.

Let me try to be more measured about the Supreme Court taking this case: I see no upshot if you value public education. All the usual caveats apply, e.g. Court could rule on different grounds, avoid issue. Otherwise, my thoughts... 1/ www.scotusblog.com/2025/01/supr...

Supreme Court will weigh in on effort to found nation’s first religious charter school - SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added three more cases – two of which will be argued together – to its docket for the 2024-25 term. In a brief unsigned order, the justices agreed to review a rul...

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My students are writing papers about the Oklahoma case and I needed to brush up. Good summary of Green & Ecke’s ingenious law rev piece.

Preston Green@drprestongreen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Forbes picked up the law review article that Suzanne Eckes and I wrote about religious charter schools. www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

Come work with me and my fantastic colleagues in the Dept of Education @ UCSB. Quant methods position w/application details below. Reach out with q’s recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02883

Assistant Professor in Quantitative Methods in Educational Research

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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@justedpolicy.bsky.social is here and you should follow them!

Just Education Policy Institute (@justedpolicy.bsky.social)

An institute for supporting and developing scholars of race-conscious educational policy. Founded 2021 through a collaboration of UGA, MSU, and UC-Berkeley.

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NEPC made it over here!

National Education Policy Center@nepc.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEPC publishes a podcast, called "NEPC Talks", found here: nepc.colorado.edu/publications.... This morning, we released an interview with UPenn Prof. Michael Gottfried about chronic absenteeism. nepc.colorado.edu/publication/... The podcast is hosted by UW Madison Asst. Prof. Chris Saldaña. #edusky

Molly and Huck wishing everyone a good mid-week.

Just putting it out here that I will be an empty nester in 10 months and I would like to spend the next academic year someplace else. Correlation is causality.

Key west day and night.

Great pc in the Atlanta Journal Constitution by @stephenjowens.bsky.social. The GA school funding formula needs some serious reform, starting with the fact that—unlike 97% of GA school leaders—it doesn't recognize that kids in poverty face specific challenges in school. www.ajc.com/education/ge...

Legislature ‘24: Rethink education funding so all kids get equitable shot

The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute's education director urges the 2024 General Assembly to spend more to educate kids in poverty and help school bus programs.

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You’re so easy to love, Georgia.