Alex Hyres
@hyres376.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the History of US Education at the U of Utah | AERA Division F Secretary | Research and Writing: https://linktr.ee/hyres376 | Opinions my own.
A position or view currently being “mainstream” or shared by the majority does not, in itself, make it a good, right, justified, or acceptable position or view. Look at all the things in history that were “mainstream” or shared by the majority, especially views/positions that are meant to oppress.
The median college student enrolls at an institution 17 miles from home
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · last wk.What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
"There is a revolution happening right now. It's not a woke one, it's an authoritarian one."
Sam Ulmschneider@samulmschneider.bsky.social · last wk.Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
DRAFTING THE PAST is expanding! Together, @katecarp.bsky.social and @mkn.bsky.social are creating a website and newsletter devoted to nonfiction history books. You'll find book reviews, craft essays, author interviews, publishing news, and more--plus the podcast you already know and love. 🗃️ 1/
BLUESKIS. This is what @katecarp.bsky.social and I have been working on! Check out the website and join our community of readers who want to know and talk about #history worth reading! www.draftingthepast.com
Drafting the Past@draftingthepast.bsky.social · last wk.DRAFTING THE PAST is expanding! Together, @katecarp.bsky.social and @mkn.bsky.social are creating a website and newsletter devoted to nonfiction history books. You'll find book reviews, craft essays, author interviews, publishing news, and more--plus the podcast you already know and love. 🗃️ 1/
Cox is right that reform is decades overdue. But a visa pilot doesn't help the DACA recipient or asylum seeker losing status right now, and letting states manage work permits only works if it's paired with due process and real protections, not just labor on demand. buff.ly/hRP5Xtx
Why Utah governor says ‘now’s the time’ for U.S. immigration reform
Cox to lead bipartisan task force requesting state-led migrant work visas.
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www.damemagazine.com/2026/07/31/d...
Democrats Won’t Save Voting Rights Without Building Black and Brown Political Power -
August 6 will mark 61 years since the Voting Rights Act was passed. In 2026, the landmark federal law that prohibited racial discrimination in voting, and thus enfranchised hundreds of thousands of Bl...
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Get ready, Blueskis! @katecarp.bsky.social and I have some fun things to show you over the next few weeks and months …
New Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/
Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...
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School people: ICYMI, I just figured out I had a *gift link* to this article! Trump's private-school subsidy is coming January 1. The history is grim:
Financial Hell Is About to Break Loose in American Schools
School funding is about to drop off a fiscal cliff. Costs will stay the same. What then?
slate.com
See the CFP for the African American Intellectual History Society's 2027 Conference in Boston, MA: www.aaihs.org/call-for-pap... #Blackhistory #intellectualhistory #edhist #histed
Call for Papers – AAIHS 2027 Conference - AAIHS
#AAIHS2027 The African American Intellectual History Society’s Twelfth Annual Conference March 5-6, 2027 Boston, MA Conference Theme: Black Worldmaking Call for Papers Submission Deadline: September 3...
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"What I found most encouraging in the ruling was the rejection of Florida’s claim that paying faculty members’ salaries gave the state the right to control their classroom speech. The opposite decision would have fundamentally changed public higher education."
How the Stop WOKE Act Ruling Strengthened Academic Freedom
A conversation with Tim Cain, an academic freedom expert and professor of higher education at the University of Georgia.
insidehighered.com
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · last mo.
Seizing people’s ill gotten gains is entirely consistent with abolition and I do think it’s a bigger deterrent than the threat of prison. It also arguably accords more with justice as the scale & breadth of corruption-for-thievery taking place is almost unfathomable.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last mo.I’m interested in any political imagination for accountability. It has to be proactive & retroactive. It has to be spectacular. And, ideally, it would leave so many of them broke that it actually becomes a deterrent. Being poor is truly all they care about not because they don’t care about prison.
Thank you, @erinalberty.bsky.social. The maps are a great tool for seeing what is happening. The cuts are even more than in 2017.
Erin Alberty@erinalberty.bsky.social · last mo.We used maps of Trump's reduced boundaries for Bears Ears & Grand Staircase Escalante national monuments to see which canyons, arches and historic sites are left without protections. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
If lawmakers want to argue this was money well spent, the invoices are now public. Voters can judge for themselves.
For nearly two million dollars of public money, Utahns got a losing effort to undo something they voted for, argued by out-of-state lawyers at rates the state's own attorneys don't charge. 🔗 Utah Political Watch: buff.ly/O4uUsMj
Utah lawmakers hired a D.C. law firm to defend their repeal of Prop. 4. The tab: $1.86 million.
Utah taxpayers paid Consovoy McCarthy $1.86 million to defend the Legislature's repeal of Prop. 4's anti-gerrymandering rules, and lost at nearly every turn.
utahpolitics.news
Time to pick your next read! Which books from @nyupress.bsky.social’s Black Power Series are calling to you? Maybe your manuscript is our next read. Writing about Black Power? Submit a proposal! More info: blackpowerseries.com @ibramxk.bsky.social
New article in Educational Policy. We looked at how school culture and climate measures changed before, during, and after the pandemic. Findings underscore the importance of "soft" data for student engagement and school improvement. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jackschneider.bsky.social
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See the CFP for the African American Intellectual History Society's 2027 Conference in Boston, MA: www.aaihs.org/call-for-pap... #Blackhistory #intellectualhistory #edhist #histed
Call for Papers – AAIHS 2027 Conference - AAIHS
#AAIHS2027 The African American Intellectual History Society’s Twelfth Annual Conference March 5-6, 2027 Boston, MA Conference Theme: Black Worldmaking Call for Papers Submission Deadline: September 3...
aaihs.org
As I said in one of my Red Scares columns, faculty have been leading the charge on protecting institutional independence
Check out my appearance on the American Campus Podcast talking about the making of the Black high school in the South open.spotify.com/episode/0un7... @ugapress.bsky.social #history #histed #edhist #protestandpedagogy #protest #pedagogy
Creating the Black high school with Alexander D. Hyres
American Campus Podcast · Episode
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Nearly 1,000 weighed in, and now, 5 years after Charlottesville's Confederate monuments were removed, the next chapter begins. This Friday, July 10 at 6 p.m. at the Jefferson School—the final design team for Swords Into Plowshares will be announced.
On my way to the Isaac Chotiner interview where I will outsmart him.
Check out my appearance on the American Campus Podcast talking about the making of the Black high school in the South open.spotify.com/episode/0un7... @ugapress.bsky.social #history #histed #edhist #protestandpedagogy #protest #pedagogy
Creating the Black high school with Alexander D. Hyres
American Campus Podcast · Episode
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Every day the SCOTUS releases opinions is another day to bring this back and remind people what the Court has become.
Marcelius Braxton@marceliusb.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe SCOTUS has become so bold that they went from "This is the outcome we want, so we'll pretend/twist the law to fit the decision we want to get to" to "This is the outcome we want, so we're not even going to consider lower court rationale, apply the law, or pretend like laws matters for our side."
