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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry where does this come from?

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The California Policy Lab @capolicylab.bsky.social · 9d

Please share with your networks: The California Policy Lab is hiring a policy director to amplify our policy impact in Sacramento. We're looking for a seasoned policy professional with deep experience in California state government. First review date is Oct. 10th: capolicylab.org/careers/poli...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 8d

The White House has withdrawn its nomination of a woefully unqualified partisan hack — EJ Antoni — to be BLS Commissioner, and sometimes the system actually works.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data | CNN Politics

The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN.

www.cnn.com

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 12d

That’s the beauty - I just finished true ending and had no idea Unravelled even existed until I was mopping up the game. The pathways are wild. (And of course by that point some of these bosses are close to trivial)

Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 13d

When will these people stop spamming my phone? ;) @joshcowenmi.bsky.social

An advertisement for Josh Cowen for office but he’s a professor we all know so I’m just joking with him

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 15d

My paper with Ari Anisfeld, @drelizabethbell.bsky.social, and Dennis Kramer now accepted in Econ of Ed here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 17d

Deporting students; "free speech"; reporting professors to the federal government; forcing out college presidents

Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 17d

It's fine if these are proposed but not necessarily enacted. It's just really hard to keep track of them all.

Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 17d

A little help: I want to know about what is affecting higher education changes that are NOT part of federal legislation (but could be federal actions). For instance: $100K H1s; cancelling research grants; firing ED dept staff; changes to PSLF qualifications; changes to undoc in-state tuition, etc.

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 17d

Didn't you say we're not supposed to post things anymore? :)

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 17d

A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America.

Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 19d

Think globally act locally

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 19d

How much could an H1 cost Michael? $100,000?

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 22d

An international student left the country and came back in with no problems and I breathed a sigh of relief. Sad state of affairs.

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Nothing new, but If I was writing this while this *stuff* was happening, I might have thought a little deeper.

Committed to limited government, Friedman said he opposed both "forced segregation" and "forced non-segregation." He preferred
a private system in which "exclusively white schools, exclusively colored schools, and mixed schools" could develop, giving parents a choice.
Friedman said the appropriate activity for those who oppose segregation and racial prejudice is to try to persuade others of their views; if and as they succeed, the mixed schools will grow at the expense of the non-mixed, and a gradual transition will take place."

In much of the South, however, many lawmakers were in lockstep with Byrd, and they took steps to give school segregation the imprint of the law. In Louisiana, state officials made it a crime to operate an integrated school. In North Carolina, an education advisory committee recommended eight separate bills in the summer of 1956. A pamphlet for voters said the proposals were "so that no child in North Carolina will be forced to attend a school with a child of another race." The constitutional amendment would allow for "education expense grants to any child for whom no public school is available, or who is assigned against his parents wishes to a mixed public school, and to provide by a vote of the people for suspending the operation of a school or schools in a community where conditions become intol-erable." Every white voter knew what conditions were intolerable-if this was "freedom of choice" in action, the choices were only for white families. Oddly, the plan was promoted as "an effort to preserve North Carolina's public school system." The referendum passed by an overwhelming margin?
Similarly, legislators in Virginia passed a package of laws in the summer of 1956 that created a three-person student assignment board, stripped funds from schools that desegregated, gave the governor the ability to close schools, and authorized tuition grants for students whose schools were closed. A federal judge ruled Virginias law unconstitutional in 1957, writing that it was directly in the teeth of the language of the Supreme Court." State officials promised to appeal, but the ruling gave other states an idea of what might get struck down.

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · Aug 28

When I can’t think of what to listen to I just put this on every time.

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · Aug 24

No idea

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · Aug 24

I like tennis a good bit and went to a day in the first week of the US Open many years ago. It was awesome. Yes Serena and Federer played on the big stadiums but early on there are so many games you can watch something like “world #6” play on a dinky side court from 20 ft away.

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · Aug 20

a bald man in a blue shirt and red bow tie is saying it is happening again

ALT: a bald man in a blue shirt and red bow tie is saying it is happening again

media.tenor.com

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · Aug 19

I wrote about the significant technical problems with the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) survey component that ED wants to IPEDS. A couple quick points from the piece: 🧵
bit.ly/4mQRfX0

Will ACTS Survey Deliver Trustworthy Data for Higher Ed?

The ACTS survey could undermine college admissions transparency with flawed data collection methods and unrealistic deadlines for institutions.

bit.ly

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · Aug 19

Anyone know of good estimates of the effect of BBB on college enrollment? Ideally by state? Thanks!

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reading the Project 2025 doc for the first time. I know irony is dead, but in the education section writing "Stopping executive overreach. Congress should set policy—not Presidents through pen-and-phone executive orders, and not agencies through regulations and guidance." is...

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is amazing - thanks!!!

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · Aug 15

haha - I'll take anything. This is in 6 weeks and I need to read up. And I think I also want to say some things that might be outside the norm for me. So any and all welcome. But only if it's easy for you.

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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · Aug 15

REQUEST: I will be on a CU panel about the feds and higher education - where are we going, etc. I have not followed the day to day "policy" re: feds. If you have anything that you've read that you think is good - incl. things that are not policy per se but about our context - plz share!

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