"Teachers reminded us that reforms often sound simpler than they turn out to be in practice."

Time well spent? Teacher perspectives on time-saving reforms - Kappan Online Teacher are too often overwhelmed with things to do. What reforms do they believe will be most effective in helping them manage their time?

New work led by one former student of mine and one current one!

Time well spent? Teacher perspectives on time-saving reforms - Kappan Online Teacher are too often overwhelmed with things to do. What reforms do they believe will be most effective in helping them manage their time?

We asked teachers what they think about reforms meant to save them time. Their verdict? Most of the "fixes" might actually create more work. Here's what they told us:

kappanonline.org/time-well-sp...

@jackschneider.bsky.social

New paper w/ @ashleyjcarey.bsky.social looks at how non-binary students are erased in state data sets.

Basic arg is: When we have better data, we are better able to see students who are otherwise erased in the binary. We can also work to make things better for them.

epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

I'm so glad this article is out in the world! We examine how accurately non-binary students are represented in state data and how their school experiences compare with those of their peers. Even in "blue" states, there is much work to do:

epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

@peterpiazza1000.bsky.social

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I replicated and extended @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social and @schoolfinance101.bsky.social's study on funding adequacy and school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their original study did not incorporate measures of local partisanship. I found...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Some Bridgeport students may have the longest walks to school in the U.S. after bus route cuts Nearly 2,400 Bridgeport K-12 students across the city, including hundreds of charter school students, will be affected.

I spoke with the CT Post about what’s at stake as Bridgeport increases its school bus radius to as much as 2.5 miles.

Making it harder to get to school means more students will miss school.

www.ctpost.com/news/educati...

PACE - Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism in California Abstract: Chronic absenteeism—defined as missing 10 percent or more school days—has surged in California since the pandemic, with 20 percent of students chronically absent in 2023–24. This is not mere...

In a new PACE commentary, @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social of WSU COE conclude that schools cannot be expected to solve chronic absenteeism alone but need community & state support to address systemic barriers for students and families. edpolicyinca.org/newsroom/ret... (1/3)

Non-binary students are lost in the data. States can help Each June, schools celebrate Pride Month. But without inclusive data systems, many non-binary students remain invisible.

Data systems are not neutral. When states fail to recognize non-binary students, they contribute to their invisibility. @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social and I outline steps states can take to ensure all students are seen, supported, and safe. districtadministration.com/opinion/non-...

Wow! Congrats, Chris! 🎉

Congrats, Jeremy! 🎉

Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)

Still pondering this bit of wisdom from a student's final essay:

"The problem with American education is that American parents don't just want GOOD schools for their kids; they want BETTER schools than other kids get."

#childcarestrong | Child Care Aware of America Child care prices jumped 29% between 2020 and 2024—outpacing other major family expenses and inflation! Families deserve better. High prices leave families, communities, and the child care workforce...

2024 CCAoA report: "Center-based care for two children exceeded median annual rent payments" in 45 states + DC and center-based care for an infant exceeded in-state university tuition in 41 states + DC. Parents need affordable, high-quality child care - not medals.

www.linkedin.com/posts/childc...

People often fail to appreciate that autocracies do civics education too.

Very proud of this work, led by @ashleyjcarey.bsky.social

Red Light! Green Light! An Analytic Frame & Learning Device for Race Talk Predominantly White educator groups often struggle to talk about race, even when that is their explicit aim. This study examines conversational patterns in one district’s antiracist book study to e...

New publication in Equity & Excellence in Education: Red Light! Green Light! An Analytic Frame & Learning Device for Race Talk w/ @yrboohilary.bsky.social @jmnoonan.bsky.social @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UEENI...

This.

Power to the states (but only the ones adhering to our specific vision for social policy. If you are not, we will use every tool in our arsenal to punish you into compliance. We will also use tools that aren't in our arsenal).

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Sacred Heart is looking for an Associate Professor and Department Chair to lead the Department of Educational and Literacy Leadership.

FWIW, I didn't come here *only* bc there are five beaches in town, but there are five beaches.

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What the Department of Education actually does America’s least understood and most efficient agency, explained

Great read on what U.S. Dept of Ed actually does

“For every $1 ED gets from Congressional approps, it spends ~ 3.4 cents to make money flow, enforce the law, & ensure someone picks up phone when one of the tens of millions of student loan borrowers needs help”

www.slowboring.com/p/what-the-d...

Hi Michael-sure--want to send me an email?careya11@sacredheart.edu

As fat cats who have never set foot inside of a public school work to convince us that public schools are a failure, we need to question who is shaping our ideas about the state of our schools. @lutzfernandez.bsky.social @michaelcralph.bsky.social

These two pieces pair nicely together:

Is Facebook making us hate our schools? Here, I share some key findings from my recently published work:

sites.psu.edu/ajeforum/202...

"Even in the midst of a raging culture war, Americans are still pragmatic people who maintain practical interests in their communities and the institutions that anchor them ... The trick, then, is to sound an alarm now that can be heard across the partisan divide."

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.

"The chaos in Washington isn't just in Washington," Leeper said "The dollars they are cutting are dollars that come to us, the taxpayers. This is our money that they are stealing from us, and they are crippling our future by making these radical and short sighted choices."

Trump looks to withhold school aid over lessons on equity and gender. Can he? The federal government is barred by law from mandating what curriculum schools use. But Trump’s order about “discriminatory equity ideology” and “gender ideology” indicates he wants to use his adminis...

"Federal law prohibits federal officials from telling schools what they can and cannot teach." www.chalkbeat.org/2025/01/29/t...

The Cumulative Costs of Gun Violence on Students and Schools | CEA | The White House Children and adolescents are dying from gun violence at alarmingly high rates in the United States, with firearms now the leading cause of death among youth ages 1 to 19 (figure 1). The threat of gun ...

Wayback time machine to the rescue: web.archive.org/web/20250120...

If you decide to go R, I found the book "R in Action" helpful. Also, if any of the departments at your school do an introductory R workshop, those can be great to get you up and running!