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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · May 21

Sooooolo happpy!!! For Ange. For Son (who doesn’t look like he has much left). For this whole team and fanbase!

Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · May 1

Great thread on yesterday’s oral argument. Delighted that at least one justice (Gorsuch) read our brief. But, as Cam points out in detail and with receipts that was a…weird and disappointing argument full of blind alleys and imprecise questions and answers.

Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · May 1

1/ Some quick thoughts on the St. Isidore oral arguments yesterday, about whether Oklahoma must permit the operation of a Catholic charter school. In no particular order… 🧵

#education #SupremeCourt #law

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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · Apr 17

“If the court ignores a clear historical record merely because it is inconvenient for a political cause favored by its conservative members, it will move one fateful step closer to losing its public legitimacy.” @ehutt.bsky.social and Aaron Tang

Contributor: Tax dollars for religious schools? Conservative justices could be the roadblock

The current court has deemed history and tradition to be central to the interpretation of our constitutional rights. Two centuries of history on this topic is clear.

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Wesley T. Morris @wesleytmorris.bsky.social · Apr 11

Late update, but excited to share I successfully defended my dissertation on April 1–and no one’s said April Fools yet.

Big thanks to my advisor Dr. Lauren Sartain and committee @drconstance.bsky.social @ehutt.bsky.social @danielklasik.bsky.social & Steve Hemelt for their support the past 5 yrs!

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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · Apr 10

Proud to sign this amicus brief for the OK religious case.

W/ @ehutt.bsky.social @scribnerumcp.bsky.social & Steven K. Green.

The history's clear: The Founders believed "funding religious instruction would foment civic strife and damage school administration."
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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · Mar 28

"Given the persistence of chronic absenteeism, this book should be on the shelf of every principal, school administrator, and policymaker in the country.” —@ehutt.bsky.social on RETHINKING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM by @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social and @jeremylsinger.bsky.social‬ https://bit.ly/3ZKYXbk

Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism

A call for community-based approaches to reducing the barriers that prevent regular attendance in K-12 schools In Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism, Sarah Winc...

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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · Mar 28

This Monday (3/31) at 12 PM ET, be sure to join HEP authors @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social and @jeremylsinger.bsky.social for a free, Monroe C. Gutman Library-hosted book talk on RETHINKING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM! This event will be moderated by @ehutt.bsky.social. Register here: https://bit.ly/4k1uuyI

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David Houston @dmhouston.bsky.social · Mar 27

Wonderful thread on the history of federal education data collection

Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

Nice to see all the education research orgs put out a joint statement calling for Congress to safeguard the (Congressionally established) IES and NCES I would have liked to see them underscore the historical dimensions a bit more (surprise!) 1/ www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

...if for no other reason than it undercuts one of the virtues of federalism & local control: the possibility of learning from a pluralistic approach to schooling. We can empower states & local communities while leaving intact our ability to learn from that variety. 12/x

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

I say this as someone who has been plenty critical of the quantification of schooling and learning: crippling ED's ability to collect and disseminate stats about our schools makes all states and districts worse off.... 11/

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Off the Mark — Harvard University Press

Amid widespread concern that our approach to testing and grading undermines education, two experts explain how schools can use assessment to support, rather than compromise, learning.Anyone who has ev...

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

Same is true of early federal longitudinal data sets. The first ones were bloated, cumbersome, (and some how still omitted key variables like race!), and didn't produce much insight. But those efforts begot HSB, NELS, ELS, HLS, etc.... 10/

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

Granted, even w/ ED trying to coordinate thousands of school districts in the US, it took a very long time to get the standard data reporting practices we have. Efforts in the 1950s toward a "common core" of data were a mess but led to: HEGIS (1966); IPEDS (1986) CCD (1986) 9/

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

For a contemporary ex of the babel of ed statistics, districts/states have very different definitions of what counts as having "attended" school for the day. This was especially challenging during Covid! Does virtual access mean you're always present?! 8/

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

That's the thing about the quantification of schooling: it's not self-evident what or how (or how often) you should count/measure things in schools. A lot of different ways make sense! So you need coordination and uniform definitions! 7/

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

"...but the records of so many single experiences, incapable of being aggregated or contrasted with each other, and so their chief value is lost; especially is this true of educational statistics in this country." -Eaton "Educational Lessons of Statistics" (1872) 6/

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

Here's 2nd Commissioner of Ed, John Eaton (1872), "It too often happens when the thought of keeping records occurs, the workers in a given field adopt methods so diverse and incomplete that they form..." 5/

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

This history is significant but the argument doesn't/shouldn't turn on the fact that this was an old practice. It should turn on the basic insight embedded in the practice. i.e. why we thought *centralized* collection and dissemination of statistics was important in the first place 4/

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

You can argue that we need to reduce or "turn back" federal overreach in education. Fine. But I'm not clear how that argument can include eliminating the collection and dissemination of information about the nation's schools. That's been there since the beginning. 3/

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

Federal data collection in education goes back to 1867, which means it is basically as old as American school systems. Yes there was schooling before 1867, but only MA/VT/DC had compulsory school laws at the time. Schooling was largely informal & voluntary. 2/

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Mar 27

Nice to see all the education research orgs put out a joint statement calling for Congress to safeguard the (Congressionally established) IES and NCES I would have liked to see them underscore the historical dimensions a bit more (surprise!) 1/ www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...

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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · Mar 17

On Monday, 3/31 at 12 PM ET, join @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social and @jeremylsinger.bsky.social for a virtual talk on their book, RETHINKING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM. This event is hosted by the Monroe C. Gutman Library, moderated by @ehutt.bsky.social, and is free to attend! https://bit.ly/4k1uuyI

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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · Feb 24

cc: @ehutt.bsky.social @johannneem.bsky.social @nrooks.bsky.social @adamlaats.bsky.social @ansleyerickson.bsky.social @hyres376.bsky.social @redheadmenace.bsky.social @scribnerumcp.bsky.social @rgoransdotter.bsky.social

Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · Feb 24

The latest issue (Vol. 65, Issue 1) of History of Education Quarterly is out.

Below are (free or open access) links to all the content.

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Feb 21

To my historian followers: do you have any favorite resources you share with students doing archival work for the first time?

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Feb 14

Agreed that this is a great post. Cancelling data collection is terribly stupid and goes against the aim of federal involvement in education going back to 1867 (and to 1950s for longitudinal data)…

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Feb 14

Great piece on the important studies killed off at IES

Incredibly shortsighted behavior

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Inexplicable Cuts at the Dept. of Education

Recently, DOGE has bragged about terminating 89 contracts worth a collective $881 million at the Institute for Education Sciences at the US Department of Education.

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · Feb 12

Is there a database where someone can see IES funding by location of the research site. As people try to communicate how widespread the reach of this research is it would be useful to point to concrete examples.

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