What do the midterms mean for higher education? A thread (I'll keep it up going for a few days).
Maithreyi Gopalan
@maithgopalan.bsky.social
Associate Professor @uoregon | Education - Health Policy | Civil Rights in Education | Social Psychology for Policy | Recent PNW transplant and loving it!
My job market paper is now online first at EEPA! I examine the impact of a suspension ban on the classification of SWDs, finding that the ban increased classification of more stigmatizing disabilities. doi.org/10.3102/0162...
Disability as Discipline? Effects of the New York City Suspension Ban on Students With Disabilities - Jo R. King, 2026
Suspension bans have become a popular policy response to address excessive and inequitable use of suspension in schools. However, there is little research that ...
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Pair this quantitative analysis with this incredible story from Nicole Hannah Jones: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m... to get a fuller picture of the disparities in access to advanced coursework, school discipline, and staffing in our public schools!
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Erica Frankenberg@efrankenberg.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday @advancedequity.bsky.social releases a broad overview of what some of the recently released 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) data illustrate in terms of the nature of students' educational experiences, opportunities, and barriers. www.advancedequity.org/briefs/a-sec...
You have 3 days left to submit comments on proposed changes to EDGAR (the regulations governing how the Department of Education awards grants)! 🧵https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/24/2026-17239/education-department-general-administrative-regulations#addresses
Education Department General Administrative Regulations
The Secretary of Education proposes to amend the Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) and other provisions in 2 CFR parts 3474 and 3485 to update the regulations and better ...
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Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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Today @advancedequity.bsky.social is releasing a brief taking a look at what's in the recently-released 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)--and also what's missing! www.advancedequity.org/briefs/a-fir...
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Today, our team at @advancedequity.bsky.social is releasing an Interactive Dashboard harmonizing a full decade of the Civil Rights Data Collection and makes it explorable across U.S. school districts & states. @maithgopalan.bsky.social Explore 👉 advancedequity.org
AdvancED Equity
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Want to learn infographic design? Our new data visualization specialist, Manuel Bortoletti, does fantastic diagrams, geospatial visualizations and graphs. He's teaching a two-week course in June in New York. I'd highly recommend it. Details here: coopertype.org/events/advan...
Want to do something? Scholars: get organized. Join @aaup.org. Everyone: call your congresspeople. Tell them to defend science. Tell them to regulate the AI industry. Support @standupforscience.net I’m not giving up and neither should you. /end
'Fighting misinformation in education: what works, what doesn’t, and what we still need to learn' New on the Evidence & Policy Blog, by M Gopalan & F Lopez: evidenceandpolicy.home.blog/2026/03/18/f... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social
Great conference with great people. @dbassok.bsky.social killed it, obviously. Can’t wait to see even bigger and better next year! (No pressure, @jscottclayton.bsky.social)
AEFP@aefpweb.bsky.social · 8mo agoAnd that's a wrap on #AEFP2026! Thank you all for a great conference. We are already looking forward to #AEFP2027 in San Diego!
There is research on media exposure, disinformation, propaganda but not enough. Right wing media’s brainwashing of millions is the most important political fact of our time. And experiments can’t do it justice because short term experiments don’t replicate 20 years of bashing brains with lies.
Congratulations @dbassok.bsky.social on an amazing program! 🎉 I learned so much from the sessions at #AEFP2026 and I'm thrilled to see the Policymakers & Practitioners community thriving. Truly a blessing of Golden Unicorns 😉
AEFP@aefpweb.bsky.social · 8mo agoAnd that's a wrap on #AEFP2026! Thank you all for a great conference. We are already looking forward to #AEFP2027 in San Diego!
Looking for a way to support AEFP and bring high-level visibility to your organization? Consider one of our sponsorship opportunities for #AEFP2026. Learn more here: aefpweb.org/sponsors...
ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
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First, in a new brief by Dajung Sohn, @maithgopalan.bsky.social, and me, we analyze how identification rates of students for gifted and talented programs have changed over the last decade, and find persistent racial disparities across this period. Read more: www.advancedequity.org/briefs/gt-ra...
Who is labeled as Gifted? Trends and Patterns over the last Decade in US Public Schools — AdvancED Equity
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Me & @joanalker1.bsky.social on @npr.org's "It's Been a Minute" talking about the erroneous stereotypes that drive Medicaid cuts & the fundamental connections between all of us. When we harm those whom government deems "underserving," we ultimately harm everyone. www.npr.org/2025/07/04/1...
Think the Medicaid cuts don't affect you? Think again. : It's Been a Minute
Republicans have passed President Trump's One Big, Beautiful bill, but is it built on bad faith stereotypes? The legislation guts funding for Medicaid, and for a long time Republicans have been attack...
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In this paper, my colleagues (Maithreyi Gopalan @maithgopalan.bsky.social, Kathy Emerson, Greg Walton) and I drafted a hybrid review + empirical article. We see it as a useful reference for anyone working to help colleges and universities create better belonging opportunities for students.
Are you working in civil rights enforcement for the federal government and being made to investigate racial equity programs OR are you an organization being investigated or had your federal funds stripped for racial equity work? Message me. Signal: nhannahjones.67
This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS
Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · last yr.Lordy I hate these people www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
“One point seems to be lost: The reason that the federal government funds science is not just to provide scientists or government bureaucrats with jobs… We fund science because it is in our national interest to do so!” goodscience.substack.com/p/nsf-should...
I wrote about corporal punishment in public schools for a project led by @efrankenberg.bsky.social and @maithgopalan.bsky.social While we see a steep decline in corporal punishment use in schools, there are still states that allow the practice. Read more: www.advancedequity.org/briefs/cp-hi...
Corporal Punishment in Public Schools in the United States — AdvancED Equity
Corporal punishment has been present in public schools for decades. While certainly a diminished presence in 2025, it is still enshrined in state education statutes in at least 14 states as a legal wa...
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Excited for this special issue! Send us your best work! Focus is Prek-16 and expansive to broadly construe "Civil Rights". So higher Ed folks, law and Ed, history of Ed, sociology of Ed, econ of Ed, and policy folks - all welcome!
Erica Frankenberg@efrankenberg.bsky.social · 2y agoNow that #AERA2025 has concluded, sharing our AERA Open special topics call for proposals, "Centering Civil Rights Protections in Schools in the US" that I'm co-editing with @maithgopalan.bsky.social. Please share widely & reach out with questions. Due May 15. www.aera.net/Portals/38/S...
How federal investments in education research help students succeed www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
How federal investments in education research help students succeed
Researchers discuss how federally funded research projects have helped identify and scale programs that improved student outcomes.
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Essential reading to know your rights. One thing to know is that no matter who you are, immigration officers can search your phone upon entry to the US.
What Rights Do Immigrants, Citizens, Green-Card Holders and Visitors Have? (Gift Article)
The expansion of immigration enforcement actions by the Trump administration has thrown the status of some rights into question. See what is unchanged, what is expanded and what is in dispute.
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Proud of AEFP, of which I am a past president www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Admin’s Dismantling of Institute of Education Sciences - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)…
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SSRI associate director @efrankenberg.bsky.social & @maithgopalan.bsky.social wrote a piece for @us.theconversation.com about how big cuts at the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights will affect vulnerable students for years to come. ➡️
Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come | Social Science Research Institute
By Erica Frankenberg, Penn State and Maithreyi Gopalan, University of Oregon, for The Conversation
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A special thank you to Michal Kurlaender and the program committee for all of their work on an excellent conference program this year! We appreciate your time and service. #AEFP2025
For folks at #AEFP2025 till the end, join us TODAY @ 11:45a for a policy dialogue session about 60 years of federal civil rights enforcement. Bring all your questions about OCR and civil rights!
