📣New Work Wednesday!📣 Is teaching a calling, a profession, or labor? This study maps how 3 institutional logics—an accountability logic, a democratic logic, and a moral calling logic—shape teachers’ identities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #NWW

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Excited to share my new piece in Sociology of Education, The Logics of Teaching: How Institutionalized Ideas about Teaching Shape Teachers’ Professional Identities. Available (open access!) here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Morning! I did a lil analysis and turns out that, when ED employees are illegally fired and contracts are canceled, ED is unable to fulfill its congressional mandate to publish national statistics on the condition of education. Why does that matter? Well... www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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This means so much, particularly when SE policy & SWDs are under such real threat. Sharing this with @mayakaul.bsky.social, whose dedication and brilliant scholarship on the teaching profession are so important at this time, makes this award even more special. I'm so grateful and honored. 🙏Div L!

Maya Kaul@mayakaul.bsky.social · last yr.

Honored to win @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Division L’s Outstanding Dissertation Award alongside @jencowhy.bsky.social. During such a challenging moment for public education, I’m particularly grateful to be in community with so many scholars deeply committed to this work!

Honored to win @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Division L’s Outstanding Dissertation Award alongside @jencowhy.bsky.social. During such a challenging moment for public education, I’m particularly grateful to be in community with so many scholars deeply committed to this work!

We’re so excited for this session, and are especially thrilled for the chance to be in conversation with @alexfreidus.bsky.social and @ericaoturner.bsky.social about these ideas. Please join us!

Alex Freidus@alexfreidus.bsky.social · last yr.

Friday 4/25 at 1:30, @ericaoturner.bsky.social (always insightful) and I (who will try) will discuss an impressive set of papers on the possibiities and constraints of racialized change. Work by @mayakaul.bsky.social, @jesboldt.bsky.social, @talialeibovitz.bsky.social and more! tinyurl.com/29522dkp

Really looking forward to being a part of this conversation next week. If you'll be at #AERA2025, join us for what promises to be a fun conversation about all things institutional logics.

Kate Kennedy@katetothek.bsky.social · last yr.

Another great session at #AERA25: Organizational theory SIG symposium at 9:50 am on Saturday 4/26. Looking forward to this one! @maxyurkofsky.bsky.social @sarahlou6.bsky.social @mayakaul.bsky.social Susan Bush-Mecenas, Julie Marsh, Josh Glazer, & Britney Jones

Need something to look forward to? We got you. This week I'll be sharing about our OT SIG sessions at #AERA2025. Come see your organizational theory friends on Thursday at our first paper session. @mayakaul.bsky.social @eostrinidad.bsky.social @maxyurkofsky.bsky.social

I'm teaching Ed Policy for Teacher Leaders this summer. I'm inheriting the wonderful Dr. Farley-Ripple's materials, but they're several years old. What should I include in my refresh, particularly in these times? Academic articles welcomed, but also videos, practitioner-facing articles, etc. please!

In a new letter, AERA and other education research leaders call on Congress to protect the nation’s education data, research infrastructure, and knowledge base, by safeguarding the IES and broader Education Department staff, leadership, and mission. www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...

New from Jen Darling-Aduana, @dave-woo.bsky.social, and me: We observed lessons in an online charter school to understand instructional quality. Despite the school's marketing as an innovative, tailored alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar publics, teachers' instruction rarely reflected this.

Our research underscores the need for a united front of policy and advocacy organizations, civil rights groups, unions, professional associations, and institutional leaders to defend open inquiry and higher education from growing law-based pressures. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The Coalitions We Need to Defend Open Inquiry (opinion)

Our research shows that silence in the face of anti-DEI laws only serves to compound suppression, Jackie Pedota and Liliana M. Garces write.

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Amidst all the chaos and upheaval in the education policy world, @annenberginstitute.bsky.social will be hiring several senior research associates in the coming months. Hopefully this helps some of the stellar education policy people find their footing again!

Seems to me what we’re seeing across the federal government are the dividends being paid from years of adopting market language to talk about public goods. Run government like a business? Businesses exist to make profit. Government exists to serve the people. We’re about to see the difference now.

Please join us for the @sparccenter.bsky.social launch event NEXT TUESDAY. Hear about work on the special educator workforce from me, @afgilmour.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, @lmasonwms.bsky.social, & Carole Clancy, director of the PA Bureau of Special Education. tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

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Join us on March 11, 2025 for the SPARC Center Launch Event! Learn about our mission to strengthen the special educator workforce through research and collaboration. Get a sneak peek at exciting cross...

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SPARC Center@sparccenter.bsky.social · 2y ago

⏰ One week to go! ⏰ The #SPARCCenter Launch Event is on March 11, 2025, 1-2pm EST. Join us for an exciting discussion on the future of #SpecialEducation with presentations from our experts and leadership team. 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Unofficial List of Ed Policy Orgs for Job/Internship Seekers

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I was just informed that the Department of Education has taken down all its Civil Rights data. If you need it, alternative sites are now hosting it for the public. See links in this thread. ocrdata.ed.gov/notfound

If you have extra funds and want to support an org doing essential work to fight the actions against public education and ed research of this administration, @edlawcenter.bsky.social is doing hard, critical work and could use anything you can contribute.

New org established to defend Department of Education coalition of public education advocates, educators, beneficiaries of federal education funding, and former employees of the U.S. Department of Education www.protectpubliced.org

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

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So instructive to climb in the time machine and go back to the OG department of education - in 1867 - it lasted a year before critics argued it was doing to much to help former slaves and canceled it. www.history.com/news/departm...

Honored to receive this recognition from AACTE for my dissertation. I hope my work helps us better understand, and ultimately respond to, the many challenges faced by the K-12 teaching profession today. edprepmatters.aacte.org/university-o...

The first article from my dissertation on graduate education is out! I find that having parents with graduate degrees is associated with enrollment into doctoral education, but not master's education. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deeply resonant thread

Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please forgive a little earnest-posting. I’m finding the start of 2025 kind of hard and while there are obvious reasons to dread what’s coming, I think it’s more than the new administration. A lot of my ground truths have been unsettled in a way that makes it hard to know what to do next.

New blog post about the emergence of racial wealth disparities in young adulthood is up on @ccfamilies.bsky.social! Very happy to be able to share the findings from this paper with @socinequality.bsky.social without all the tables and figures 😅 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2024/12/...

Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈@aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 2y ago

This week @CCFamilies blog hosted by @TheSocietyPages, Ellen Bryer and Alexander Adames explain how racial wealth inequality emerges in young adulthood. Check it out: thesocietypages.org/ccf/

Gratitude shout out to @ucea.bsky.social folks who made my amazing undergrad researcher/preservice teacher (in green) feel so welcome during her first ever presentation! True to the theme! Renewing our engagement..w/joy! #UCEA2024

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

This from @jonathanecollins.bsky.social looks great. Folks support teaching core ideas from Critial Race Theory—that racism is structural (and bad)—but oppose teaching “CRT” because policy makers tarnished the brand. This has broad implications beyond the case. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...