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Preston Green

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John and Maria Neag Professor of Urban Education; Professor of Educational Leadership and Law; University of Connecticut Opinions expressed are my own. Website: https://www.drprestongreen.com/

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Preston Green @drprestongreen.bsky.social · 9d

Forbes picked up our article explaining how designating rural school districts as "education preserves" can protect them from charter and voucher expansion.

www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

Do We Need Rural School Preserves?

A new paper argues that rural school districts are facing an existential threat, and proposes a new sort of preserve to safeguard these districts and the students that they serve.

www.forbes.com

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Preston Green @drprestongreen.bsky.social · 5h

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton wants to double private school voucher program

www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/20...

Tennessee House speaker wants to double private school voucher program next year

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton wants to double the state’s new voucher program from 20,000 seats to 40,000. One state Democrat called the plan “fiscally reckless” as the program is already cur...

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NPR @npr.org · 18h

Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned her a MacArthur award. n.pr/4of1xku

A MacArthur 'genius' gleans surprising lessons from ancient bones, shards and trash

Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned her a MacArthur award.

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Preston Green @drprestongreen.bsky.social · 1d

Would love that!

Preston Green @drprestongreen.bsky.social · 1d

This idea, which will be published in Idaho Law Review, may provide a solution:

www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

Do We Need Rural School Preserves?

A new paper argues that rural school districts are facing an existential threat, and proposes a new sort of preserve to safeguard these districts and the students that they serve.

www.forbes.com

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Preston Green @drprestongreen.bsky.social · 1d

Vouchers would hurt rural Idaho students. That’s why we’re suing | Opinion

Read more at: www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/read...

www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/read...

Vouchers would hurt rural Idaho students. That’s why we’re suing | Opinion

Why would I entertain the idea of pulling $50 million from our general fund to pay for ... fiscally irresponsible tax credits? | Opinion

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Preston Green @drprestongreen.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Funding Cuts Hit Particularly Hard for Deaf and Blind Children

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Trump Funding Cuts Hit Particularly Hard for Deaf and Blind Children

Programs supporting students with rare, complex disabilities have lost millions of federal dollars.

www.edweek.org

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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 1d

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/m... My colleague and friend, @hahrie.bsky.social has won a MacArthur

MacArthur 2025 ‘genius grant’ winners include a Chicago photographer

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

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Kerri Arsenault @kerriarsenault.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to @ievajusionyte.bsky.social and her incredible work on borders and how they affect cultures on both “sides” of a boundary line ❤️❤️💪 www.macfound.org/videos/2025-...

Ieva Jusionyte - 2025 MacArthur Fellow

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court will soon hear a case on an Illinois lawsuit challenging mail-in ballots. There's a lot at stake.

Restrictions on vote-by-mail would be catastrophic for democracy, says former Oregon Secretary of State Phil Keisling @washingtonmonthly.com

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/10/t...

Why Does Trump Hate Vote-By-Mail?

Restricting vote-by-mail, as Trump wants, could disenfranchise millions of voters, explains pioneer of the practice Phil Keisling.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

John Roberts Colorblind Constitution bsky.app/profile/dlkn...

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 2d

2008 2.0 is going to be so much fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 2d

Here is is, from Bryan Stevenson @eji.org.
What's wrong with "heroic history?"
"It’s like saying, 'I’m going to the doctor, but I’ve already instructed my doctor, Don’t give me any bad news' ... if you don’t want to be sick... you have to be willing to hear the truth of your condition."
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Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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Nicole M. Wolverton (she/her/hers) @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social · 2d

It's always a toss up between Aloysius Snuffleupagus and the Yips/Martians...but I'll go with the Yips today.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

1,000+ people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020.

Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases.

With @veritenews.org

An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There.

Five years ago, the Supreme Court decided that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional. But for this Louisiana prisoner — and hundreds of others — “tough on crime” state leaders have ensured t...

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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 2d

I am SUPER proud to have written a chapter for this book. My chapter is titled "Race and Emerging Technologies in Education: Towards an Anti-Racist Educational Technology Leadership (AETL) Praxis". You can pre-order the book soon, and I am working on getting a pdf of my chapter to share publicly.

Anti–Racist Practices in K–12 Schools and Systems: Voices from Justice–Seeking Leaders

Anti-Racist Practices in K-12 Schools and Systems equips aspiring school and systems leaders with the necessary tools to disrupt oppressive systems and foster inclusivity within schools and classrooms...

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Preston Green @drprestongreen.bsky.social · 9d

Forbes picked up our article explaining how designating rural school districts as "education preserves" can protect them from charter and voucher expansion.

www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

Do We Need Rural School Preserves?

A new paper argues that rural school districts are facing an existential threat, and proposes a new sort of preserve to safeguard these districts and the students that they serve.

www.forbes.com

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 2d

As a small-town Midwesterner with a PhD in education policy, I know the world of competitive high schools exist...but I still can't process it. Growing up, the options were the local public high school or a regional Catholic school. I went to the public school and turned out okay-ish.

These Parents Are Willing to Pay Up to $15,000 to Get Their Kids Into High School

Getting into high school—private and public—is more competitive than ever. Parents are paying up.

www.wsj.com

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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 2d

What is it like serving on a board of education? Here’s what Chicago school board members have to say about the unpaid job — so far.

16 quotes on what serving on the Chicago school board is actually like

What is it like serving on a board of education? Here’s what Chicago school board members have to say about the unpaid job — so far.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 2d

#econ_ra

Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford @inetoxford.bsky.social · 2d

FOUR new positions available at INET Oxford!

@zparolin.bsky.social is hiring:

🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
🠺 3x PT Rsearchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility

Find out more and apply HERE ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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Preston Green @drprestongreen.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome.

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Cathleen Crudden @cathleencrudden.bsky.social · 3d

Man, that is amazing.

Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 3d

#goals

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 3d

I guess I will live blog the argument. Unless I get too disgusted and stop.

Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 3d

Hello!

I am your friendly neighborhood First Amendment professor here to provide some background on Chiles v. Salazar, to be argued in Supreme Court this morning.

At issue is whether Colorado can ban licensed therapists from inflicting the discredited practice of “conversion therapy” on minors

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

Literally all I have wanted with that argument (which, coincidentally is just a narrative version of decades of feminist economic scholarship) is that our macroeconomic data hides a lot of friction, that friction is not equally experienced, & tech economy fundamentals have exasperated that gap.

Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 3d

This passage succinctly hits the heart of how Smart Number-Knowers can technically be speaking the truth when they say "but the economy is Good by all metrics we have!"... and yet, people are nevertheless struggling in an extremely real and impactful way

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