Ansley Erickson
@ansleyerickson.bsky.social
US cities & schools, historically.
Books: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem.
Thoughts here represent me, not my employer.
www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ate11
nyccivilrightshistory.org
Also 🌱 🪴 and 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️ and I♥️NYC.
Books: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem.
Thoughts here represent me, not my employer.
www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ate11
nyccivilrightshistory.org
Also 🌱 🪴 and 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️ and I♥️NYC.
Pinned
Boulder kept my dad alive. So did the government
My father never quite understood how I could live in New York City. He always preferred Montana, open rather than dense, prairie rather than concrete. Great Falls was his birthplace,
www.boulder-monitor.com
I wrote about my dad, our government, and how we need each other to stay alive.
Whether Trump, Musk, and the gang think so or not.
Whether Trump, Musk, and the gang think so or not.
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Employees Rally Around Penn’s Refusal to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #edusky
Penn Refuses to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names
The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs and organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.
www.insidehighered.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Employees Rally Around Penn’s Refusal to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #edusky
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
Grading is better here.
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Grading is better here.
The universe is insisting on hope.
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The universe is insisting on hope.
Good morning from San Juan!
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Good morning from San Juan!
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
Conference mash-up report from this fall:
ASALH + K-pop in Atlanta = most confusing elevator encounters
History of Ed + Comicon in Providence = funniest juxtapositions on the street
ASA + youth Basketball tourney in San Juan = most dissonant soundscape
Academics < others in fun dept
ASALH + K-pop in Atlanta = most confusing elevator encounters
History of Ed + Comicon in Providence = funniest juxtapositions on the street
ASA + youth Basketball tourney in San Juan = most dissonant soundscape
Academics < others in fun dept
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Conference mash-up report from this fall:
ASALH + K-pop in Atlanta = most confusing elevator encounters
History of Ed + Comicon in Providence = funniest juxtapositions on the street
ASA + youth Basketball tourney in San Juan = most dissonant soundscape
Academics < others in fun dept
ASALH + K-pop in Atlanta = most confusing elevator encounters
History of Ed + Comicon in Providence = funniest juxtapositions on the street
ASA + youth Basketball tourney in San Juan = most dissonant soundscape
Academics < others in fun dept
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Here's one in honor of Universal Children's Day.
In 1827, white adult Thomas Hale visited the all-Black NYC African Free School.
He was dismayed that the class was derailed due to students' "Levity and Laughter, which Seemed rather generally to prevail.”
In 1827, white adult Thomas Hale visited the all-Black NYC African Free School.
He was dismayed that the class was derailed due to students' "Levity and Laughter, which Seemed rather generally to prevail.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Here's one in honor of Universal Children's Day.
In 1827, white adult Thomas Hale visited the all-Black NYC African Free School.
He was dismayed that the class was derailed due to students' "Levity and Laughter, which Seemed rather generally to prevail.”
In 1827, white adult Thomas Hale visited the all-Black NYC African Free School.
He was dismayed that the class was derailed due to students' "Levity and Laughter, which Seemed rather generally to prevail.”
Who is your favorite young writer of satire about academic life?
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Who is your favorite young writer of satire about academic life?
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The trauma we inflict on children in this country is unconscionable.
Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say
Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.
www.wbtv.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The trauma we inflict on children in this country is unconscionable.
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stop.terrorizing.our.neighbors
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
stop.terrorizing.our.neighbors
If you are only ashamed because your pedophilia became public….
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If you are only ashamed because your pedophilia became public….
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Would pay to see @tressiemcphd.bsky.social who's also written on this subject (scams), and @timothysnyder.bsky.social do a U.S. road show. People need to know.
"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse"
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
The Grift Bubble
A Political Theory of American Collapse
snyder.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Would pay to see @tressiemcphd.bsky.social who's also written on this subject (scams), and @timothysnyder.bsky.social do a U.S. road show. People need to know.
Happy Sunday from the fall garden
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Happy Sunday from the fall garden
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She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.
Alice Wong taught me so much through her writing and her fight and her way of being in the world.
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Alice Wong taught me so much through her writing and her fight and her way of being in the world.
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The first section of our forthcoming book is a deep dive Gee's "Academic Transformation" at WVU from those who actually lived it; after you read it you won't be able to fathom why some people in the higher ed space still insist on taking him seriously. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
The Campus Crisis Toolkit
sunypress.edu
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The first section of our forthcoming book is a deep dive Gee's "Academic Transformation" at WVU from those who actually lived it; after you read it you won't be able to fathom why some people in the higher ed space still insist on taking him seriously. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
Great to meet you too, @robertcottojr.bsky.social!
It was great to meet Professor Ansley Erickson at the History of Education Society Conference in Providence, RI this past weekend. As soon as I saw her I thought about her scholarship on history of school desegregation and writing on family. Thanks for saying hello, @ansleyerickson.bsky.social!
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Great to meet you too, @robertcottojr.bsky.social!
Missing you today. Imperfect, hurting people can still give perfect unconditional love.
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Missing you today. Imperfect, hurting people can still give perfect unconditional love.
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Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
The orchid is preparing to make blooms. Growth, regeneration, beauty still lay ahead.
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The orchid is preparing to make blooms. Growth, regeneration, beauty still lay ahead.
Teen parenting is initialing the athletics permission form in 13 places for the 11th straight season and knowing you’ll be sad when the 12th and last ends.
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Teen parenting is initialing the athletics permission form in 13 places for the 11th straight season and knowing you’ll be sad when the 12th and last ends.
Sometimes grading means getting to hear great thinking from a usually quiet student.
And that is a joy.
And that is a joy.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Sometimes grading means getting to hear great thinking from a usually quiet student.
And that is a joy.
And that is a joy.
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No such thing as a good billionaire. Let alone trillionaire.
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
No such thing as a good billionaire. Let alone trillionaire.
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A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also occurred for U.S. citizen students.
ICE arrests could hurt student test scores, study says — and not just for immigrants
A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also occurred for U.S. citizen students.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also occurred for U.S. citizen students.