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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · 17h

Another interesting example of how these guys are failing at consolidation. European fascists cowed the church! Meanwhile Trump’s boys apparently fall in a Venn Diagram overlap between “Minor Demon” and “Vampire”

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · 11d

There are a lot of those types in the officer corps, for sure, but it’s more divided than you might think. Still a lot of meathead pilots, for example (who are a different, more libertarian breed of frat boy conservative) and a lot of engineering and science nerds (though many went to space force)

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Sep 11

This feels like wide success in the efforts of the capital class to return higher ed to its "roots" - status maintenance for upper class families and kids. See also the wide undermining of research dollars and strong emphasis on customer culture and college "experience" at elite serving institutions

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Sep 11

I think it's existential for a portion of the sector (community colleges and regional comps). You have to remember that buy-in to higher ed among working and lower-middle class folks is relatively recent and based on a shift toward higher ed as a motivator of social mobility from the '50's and 60's.

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Aug 10

I think this really understates the extent to which the (relatively) new managerial class that has captured most of higher ed absolutely detests both faculty (who threaten their sinecures) and students (who they prefer as silent consumers).

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Jul 18

I think maybe the root problem is that we have an unsustainable capital class that demands large populations to exploit, and that a lot of the big quandaries that face us (the labor issues raised by automation, climate, etc.) kind of work themselves out when you curtail the parasitism.

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Jul 12

Yeah but the problem JD Vance has is that Caesar was 1) loved by some portion of the legions and 2) wasn’t a completely miserable and unlikable CHUD.

Who’s lining up for Vance to be God-Emperor who isn’t planning to immediately kill him and usurp the throne (or harvest his organs in Thiel’s case)?

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Jul 11

Cool to see the administration essentially stealing millions of dollars from Central Florida - an outcome I assure you has absolutely nothing to do with these districts doing anything resembling “woke”.

Just the rich stealing from the rest, same as it ever was

Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · Jul 9

Yesterday, I shared my @educationwork.newamerica.org team's district impact analysis of the $6+ billion that the Trump admin is refusing to disburse to schools (link in 2nd post). Now, @edweek.org has published our funding figures for ALL districts in the US for which we have data. Search for yours↓

See How Much Federal Money Trump Is Holding Back From Your District

Hundreds of districts will lose more than $1 million each, according to a new analysis.

www.edweek.org

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Jun 28

Gotta wonder if some grim awareness is breaking through that a.) Trump will pin every negative policy outcome on Congress and b.) it doesn't take too many dead mee-maws before those jacked up F-150's are hanging effigies on your lawn, rather than the teacher's with the wrong kindergarten books.

Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Jun 27

It’s all just assholes lashing out at the things and people that have rejected them, made them feel small, and dared to challenge their assumed superiority. Miller, et al. are just walking grievance machines with no real end-game in mind, for all their hand waiving at a supposed “golden age”

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Jun 27

I think that, like so much of what they’re doing, though, exposes the fractures in their coalition. Undermining these institutions’ role in social mobility strikes poor whites, as well - and the tech oligarchs pouring money into the right have no desire to uphold the arrangements of the “old money”.

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · Apr 14

AERA, in partnership with the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education over the unlawful dismantling of the Institute of Education Sciences. www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

AERA Files Lawsuit Against Education Department

www.aera.net

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Apr 4

AERA where you at?

Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Feb 17

I think we dramatically underestimate how important faith is to educating. March captured this idea when he talked about “irrational optimism”. And buddy…I’m having like the biggest crisis of faith right now. Hard to preach the gospel of human potential when you’re starting to root for the meteor.

Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Jan 30

Having a really good time as the person who teaches sociology and politics in my school. Really good times.

Happily, I long ago accepted the gospel and wisdom of dasharez0ne into my heart and it guides my responses to a number of hurdles these days.

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Dec 4

It seems obvious in retrospect because we’re living in a world defined by ubiquitous institutional collapse, but I don’t think there’s a work with more daily relevance to my life than Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. Just living every day with this meme in my head:

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Sep 24

My administration, facing down a hurricane, went with "let's just swap to remote classes!"

Have we done this for past storms? No. Is there a plan for if power is out? Internet? Nah. Have students received instructions re: tech? Lol. Faculty just have to make it happen, using their own resources.

Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Sep 24

Apparently Chris Rufo got outed in the Ashley Madison files alongside Mark Robinson last week too so it's just all hypocrites all the way down.

I mean everybody already knew and I just assume anybody connected to Heritage is hiding skeletons these days but the extremity is kinda surprising

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Sep 18

I tend to see this disconnect fueling a lot of our debates around other things too - like the role of AI and how it should be used.

It’s like the culmination of the debate between human capital theory and signaling theory, which is cool intellectually but living through the effects kinda sucks!

Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Sep 18

With my students, I’ve come to see this as a disconnect in our assumptions about why we’re all here. Few of them see this as a learning experience - they’re here for a credential, and fixation on outcome conditions a lot of their behavior.

But that’s what K-12 institutions have pounded into them!

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Sep 1

Think I'm finally hitting the point where it's time to bail on higher ed and go back to K-12. For all the incredible challenges of the K12 system, it is still humanizing at its best. I don't rightly know what HE is anymore, but it isn't humanizing.

At this point it's all just feels like extraction

Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Aug 12

Heeeeey I don't know if we do this anymore but we just published an article in AJE looking at some of the underlying politics of improvement research in education!

If that's the kind of thing that you're into check it out and if you're paywalled, just lmk! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Warrants for Action: An Agenda for Continuous Improvement Research in Education | American Journal of Education: Vol 130, No 4

Purpose: Recent reports by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have ignited a new wave of discourse regarding the future of education research and reinvigorated calls for educa...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Aug 12

All while hollowing out the faculty right before bailing ahead of any accountability. Great stuff, love to have had front row seats to two states (FL and NC) actively destroying their university systems for the dumbest possible reasons.

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · Feb 20

I made the mistake of looking up admin salaries at my small private college where they stopped cleaning the classrooms this semester and…I’m going to have one of those veins popping out of my forehead all day now

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · Feb 19

🚨 Out now in Ed Researcher @aeraedresearch.bsky.social a new study with @bakerdphd.bsky.social Karly Ford&Marc Johnston-Guerrero 🚨
We coded a census of original research from AERA journals (2009-19) to surface hidden patterns in authors use racial terminology
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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Educational research commonly uses racial terminology but with little understanding of racial classification patterns across the field. In this study, we surface the use of racial terminology using a census of original research published in American Educational Research Association journals between 2009 and 2019. We do so as an ethical quantification exercise, seeking to further social justice goals by encouraging scholarship on racial terminology in educational research. Using latent class analysis, we identify six classes of research ranging from about a third of articles that use almost no racial terminology to an eighth of articles that use terminology extensively. More recently published articles are more likely to be part of classes with extensive or narrow racial terminology usage and less likely to be in classes that are absent racial terminology. Qualitative research is more likely to use extensive racial terminology, and quantitative research is more likely to be absent of or

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