Laura Rogers
@laurarogers.bsky.social
Associate professor @uvaehd.bsky.social studying the people and policies that make school districts tick.
Want to learn how to make org theory concrete for students? Come to OT Sig's panel next Thurs, 9/10, 2-3 ET! Expert panelists Eleanor Anderson, David Eddy-Spicer, and Don Peurach will each share one thing they do in class to bring org theory to life. Register here: tinyurl.com/8rffd4mc
Hard to reconcile: 1. Professors should not be political in the classroom and should not push their politics onto students 2. We need more politically conservative professors
Racial Status Threat and Anti-DEI Efforts in Local School Districts edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1528
Racial Status Threat and Anti-DEI Efforts in Local School Districts
This study draws on political science theory to analyze how perceived status threats to White social dominance influence local educational politics. We examine the relationship between racial status t...
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📢The American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) has published the findings from our first year of analysis. The paper explores the composition, distribution, and stability of the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce. Read here: doi.org/10.3102/0002...
About to start my 8th year as a tenure track professor! Here's what I've learned:
#UCEA26 Awards are open for nominations! Want to recognize a #UCEAwesome junior colleague? Nominate them for the Jack A. Culbertson Award! #LeadershipMatters UCEA GSC @UCEAJSN For more information: www.ucea.org/award_j...
Brown just opened a cluster hire for two tenure-track positions in Education Policy. Come join our vibrant community of scholars at @brownedudept.bsky.social & @annenberginstitute.bsky.social! apply.interfolio.com/190527 Please help spread the word.
There is something really sacred about when your adult sibling visits your house and sleeps for 12 hours the first night because they're away from their family.
📢 We're #hiring! CRPE is on the hunt for a Research Analyst with qualitative or mixed-methods skills to join our fully remote team. Help us study what it takes to build a public education system that works for every student. Apply: bit.ly/4w7PQ3j
Research Analyst, Center on Reinventing Public Education
Job Profile: Lab and Research Specialist 2 Job Family: Lab and Research Support Time Type: Full time Max Pay – Depends on experience: $85,000.00 USD Annual Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day b...
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Still the best advice I've gotten in this weird, wild world of academic research.
You expect me to believe that the Knicks had such a massive lead in the mail-in points after losing the early points so decisively?
https://charlottesvilleschools.org/preschool/ We are beginning a complicated, expensive, but hopefully rewarding and successful effort to provide high quality Pre-K here in one place in sunny Charlottesville this Fall. Please wish us luck. #CharlottesvilleCitySchools #education #cville
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Hi #EconSky 📢 New paper accepted at #EconomicsofEducationReview by Christopher Avery & @abacherhicks.bsky.social : "Inequality and within-school student-teacher assignment patterns" They use US-data to analyse within school matching of students and teachers. 1/3
Look, causal inference studies can be good or bad regardless of where the person who produced it works, what field their degree is in, and whether they have a PhD. You have to actually look at what they did. There are no shortcuts. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
How Teachers Can Judge the Credibility of Research (Opinion)
As a teacher, your time is limited. Don't waste it on programs that only serve the interest of the companies selling them.
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www.nytimes.com/shared/v2/20... What a delightful surprise from NYT this morning. Lover of poetry as I am, I will do this every day.
I completed day 1 of the Poetry Challenge!
Let’s learn one poem together this week.
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every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat
Not even going to AERA this year and still getting i-presentation emails.
doc brown from back to the future is standing in front of a sign that says back to the future
ALT: doc brown from back to the future is standing in front of a sign that says back to the future
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Join the Qualitative Scholars Community Group tomorrow at 1 PM ET as they walk through Taguette, a new, free, and open-source qualitative coding software. Register today: aefpweb.org/ev_calen...
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AEFP Live Handbook@aefplivehandbook.bsky.social · 8mo agoRead Laura Rogers (@laurarogers.bsky.social) and Brendan Bartanen's chapter on The Importance of Administrators and Leaders to understand why school leaders matter and their impact on school climate and student outcomes. Learn more: livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...
Maybe it's because I'm such a big fan of Susan Engel's...but this is one of my favorite episodes we've done. Hot off the press.
#210 The Curious Case of Kindergarten
Every year more than 3 million kids march off to kindergarten, a mysterious world about which adults know very little. Research psychologist Susan Engel, who has spent a lifetime studying how children
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Fabulous postdoc opportunity at Stanford to work on the politics of education with one of the best @bethschueler.bsky.social postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Beth Schueler | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
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New article out in Educational Administration Quarterly! I examine why LAUSD's school board struggled to remove school police after George Floyd's murder, even while acknowledging racial harm. I introduce "abolitionist infrastructure" as a path forward. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New year, new paper out on the (mixed) impacts of districtwide turnaround in Lawrence, Mass. on postsecondary outcomes. A product of a collab w/ 2 lovely UVA EdPolicyWorks PhD students and MA DESE: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
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The rise of accommodations is a legit issue to explore, but this graf conflates two different things. *504 plans* are generally for accommodations. IEPs are for needed educational services and *do not* disproportionately go to advantaged students. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
On it's 50th birthday, special ed law is fighting for its life. On Oct 10, the Department of Ed cut hundreds of positions from OSEP, which oversees implementation of the law & investigates complaints from students who’ve been denied needed services. www.bu.edu/articles/202...
50 Years After Mandated by US Law, Special Education’s Future in Question, BU Scholar Says
Wheelock’s Elizabeth Bettini on the potential impact of Department of Education cuts to students and the special ed workforce
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