Civil rights figures like Jesse Jackson are why black feminists are theorized intersectionality: he might have forged a multi-racial coalition but black woman weren’t always in that coalition. Complicated man, complicated politics.
Feels like humanity sort of needs today's Lunar New Year/Mardi Gras/Ramadan/Fasnacht mash up after all we've been through lately.
you know, it still seems like it should be an even bigger issue that the president has been sending armed forces to kidnap and assault people in an ethnic cleansing campaign, with a specific geographic focus on regions that didn't vote for him in the last election
I would have a difficult time voting for anyone who used that kind of language—especially in public. But what do I know? I’m just a white mom in suburban Philly.
All of the chatter about the censoriousness of the left pales in comparison to how people on the right actually treat people.
And you'll have a chance to talk with the authors and hear more about their work Thursday thanks to the @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social!
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We took out the ring camera that came with our new house and just...didn't replace it. Turns out people are still capable of knocking, and I get to decide whether or not I heard the knock.
ME: Lord, I just pray that you send a hedge of protection.
GOD: Say less.
Glad to see @tomdee.bsky.social and Elizabeth Huffaker's work on accelerating opportunity in Algebra I out of the working papers and into @aeraedresearch.bsky.social!
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You can’t have it both ways: report scores “adjusted for demographics” (which includes poverty), rank MS #1, and claim skeptics said “nothing can be done until poverty is addressed” The regression adjustment already addressed it.
(Also, tell me who said “nothing can be done.” Nobody, ever.)
I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone
GOP: Parents should control what our kids learn. Schools can't indoctrinate our kids.
Texas GOP: Actually, the state decides and here are the only books your kids can be assigned in schools.
See y'all there!
Yeah, that's actually really dumb.
Thank you for your service.
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
Yes, exactly! I'm working on a couple of such papers now, but they are more in the form of case studies than causal inference. It's difficult to get big datasets for questions about equity in this academic climate.
Thanks for jumping in with the international angle! European student sorting systems add a whole other layer of nuance to this discussion.
I wish @aeraedresearch.bsky.social would have considered what it means to ask folks–especially graduate students and early career faculty–to cross the U.S. border during this administration before choosing their 2027 annual meeting location.
I think we are agreeing because what I'm saying is that we need to study detracking itself more rigorously in light of the studies that already exist about tracking.
Purple and pink lettering on a cream background inviting people to a webinar about insights from a study by Dee and Huffaker demonstrating that placing 9th grade students with low prior test scores into Algebra I class with additional teacher supports significantly increased their grade 11 math achievement without lowering the achievement of higher-scoring peers.
Anyone interested can sign up here! forms.gle/f2kb7PgkkZDp...
And that experience, which many kids have had, seems to speak to the need for studying what to do instead. The Access, Detracking, and Tracking SIG is actually hosting a webinar about this paper next week.
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I don't think we can say about nearly anything in education that it's always good or always bad, but I do think there is lot of rigorous evidence as I cite below that does suggest tracking as its typically practiced tends to exacerbate many kinds of inequality.
One more and then I really have to stop, a 2022 meta-analysis (so not causal but I think very rigorous) found no statistically significant effect of tracking on efficiency but did find a significant effect on inequality. There might be some papers of interest to you here: doi.org/10.3102/0034...
Sean Kelly's chapter in Education and Society also had a good overview of some of these issues. I could chat tracking, detracking, and access all day but unfortunately have to finish up some R&Rs coming due. Good luck to your kids in navigating their math challenges!
The abstract itself states "Expanding access to AP courses without additional incentives or support for disadvantaged students to succeed is unlikely to address educational inequality." If you really want to dig into the broader literature, I would again recommend Domina et al.
I wouldn't take that as an exhaustive list as its meant to be more of an introduction. Hirshl and Smith's paper from 2023 is also causal and there are others. I also disagree with your interpretation of the Owens study.
Yes, I think this situation speaks to the need for research about what to do next rather than how the current (or in your case recent) system is functioning. That has been pretty well studied since at least the 1970s, I think.
A great, recent book about tracking research and its policy effects in the US is Schooled and Sorted by the lovely team of @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, @emilykpenner.bsky.social, and @andrewpenner.bsky.social.
