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Esther Cyna @esthercyna.bsky.social · 15h

Not going to age myself by saying how long I’ve been following @m-r-glass.bsky.social’s work, but I will say it’s a necessary and mind-blowing read. It answers so many questions about real estate, race, debt and injustice in US suburbs—and most importantly, it asks the right ones. Get it &teach it ⤵️

Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the official publication day for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS!! 🏠🥳🎉
For the next month, Penn is offering a discount of 40% off using the code UHA25. Which brings the price down to $20.97. A screaming deal!
www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

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Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the official publication day for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS!! 🏠🥳🎉
For the next month, Penn is offering a discount of 40% off using the code UHA25. Which brings the price down to $20.97. A screaming deal!
www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

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Esther Cyna @esthercyna.bsky.social · 29d

🔈 10 octobre: "Discrimination & éducation. Regards croisés États-Unis/France" UVSQ @chcscuvsq.bsky.social @telemme.bsky.social @noranafaa.bsky.social avec le soutien de la Graduate School Education Formation Enseignement @parissaclay.bsky.social
@uvsq.bsky.social ⤵️ drive.google.com/file/d/1Mjiz...

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Esther Cyna @esthercyna.bsky.social · 13d

Full program: echelles.u-pariscite.fr/manifestatio...

Colloque “Les États-Unis au XXIème siècle – Perspectives historiographiques sur un quart de siècle/A Historical Assessment” 20-21 novembre 2025 | Echelles

echelles.u-pariscite.fr

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Esther Cyna @esthercyna.bsky.social · 13d

🔈Join us for "21st-Century US: A Historical Assessment" U Paris Cité, Nov 20&21! Organized by @tamaraboussac.bsky.social @hbouvard.bsky.social & Anne Légier, supported by @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @chcscuvsq.bsky.social @institutdesameriques.fr @mondesamericains.ehess.fr @parissaclay.bsky.social

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david i. backer @schooldaves.bsky.social · 15d

@esthercyna.bsky.social and Nora Nafaa interviewed me about critical theory and school finance, which was written up and published in Politique Americanne recently shs.cairn.info/revue-politi...

Critical Education Theory and School Financing. Interview with David I. Backer

Suggestions for you

shs.cairn.info

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Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 23d

Next month is the book launch event for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS (@pennpress.bsky.social) at the @bpl.boston.gov, where I'll be in conversation with the inimitable Lizabeth Cohen. Hope to see many Boston folks there!
Registration here: www.leventhalmap.org/event/author...

Author Talk: Michael Glass on Debt and Inequality in Suburban America

Registration required Advance registration is required to attend this program. Registration is free. Join Boston College historian Michael Glass for a conversation about his new book, Cracked Founda...

www.leventhalmap.org

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olivier maheo @maheo.bsky.social · 24d

New book is coming, with @esthercyna.bsky.social (UVSQ) & Cody R Melcher (Loyola, New Orleans),
Class, Race, and the US South, American Politics and Society through the Lens of Michael Goldfield's Work, Nov. 2025, Historical Materialism Book Series @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Affiche du colloque Classe Race & Espace, 2023

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Esther Cyna @esthercyna.bsky.social · 29d

🔈 10 octobre: "Discrimination & éducation. Regards croisés États-Unis/France" UVSQ @chcscuvsq.bsky.social @telemme.bsky.social @noranafaa.bsky.social avec le soutien de la Graduate School Education Formation Enseignement @parissaclay.bsky.social
@uvsq.bsky.social ⤵️ drive.google.com/file/d/1Mjiz...

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · Aug 13

Education policy people, this fight over what counts as the nation's history is not just about historians.

With great co-authors (Leana Cabral, @esthercyna.bsky.social, Michael Hines, @mgardnerkelly.bsky.social) I got to write and think about how ideas about the past shape ed policy.

Timely!

This chapter examines varying kinds of interaction between education policy and history to
argue that U.S. education policy has long been influenced by false and distorting views of the past.
This is true across many areas of education policymaking, but we argue that it is most visible—
and perhaps has been most powerful—in policymaking about the education of Black students. U.
S. education policy has often been built on ideas of African American lives and communities, and

of the nation as a whole, that minimize Black educational striving and accomplishment and trade
on pathologizing views of Black families in the past and present. These narratives often ignore the
multiple policy mechanisms that help create, undergird, and sustain educational inequality that
harms Black students and poor students and their families while allowing resource hoarding by
White and wealthier families. It does not have to be this way. Education policy can turn to more
factually sound interpretations of the past. We show that recent work in African American
educational history and the history of racism in U.S. education can provide an accurate base for,
and help inform and shape, current policymaking

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Erica Frankenberg @efrankenberg.bsky.social · May 16

On this day before the 71st anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education decision that declared school segregation inherently unequal, sharing a new publication written for the 70th anniversary examining why integration is eroding (open access): 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Eroding Integration: 21st Century Segregation Trends in U.S. Public and Charter Schools and Implications for the Enduring Promise of Brown - Erica Frankenberg, Caprial Farrington, Elizabeth H. DeBray,...

Drawing on Boddie’s adaptive discrimination framework, this article analyzes changes in demographic trends from 2002–2021. Our findings reveal a continuation of...

journals.sagepub.com

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CHCSC @chcscuvsq.bsky.social · Apr 17

📽️ Retrouvez toutes les vidéos du colloque "Religion et immigration en Amérique du Nord : perspective ascendante", qui s'est tenu les 20 et 21 mars derniers, ici : www.chcsc.uvsq.fr/videos-du-co...

Vidéos du colloque

www.chcsc.uvsq.fr

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CHCSC @chcscuvsq.bsky.social · Apr 22

La journée d'étude doctorale CHCSC / DYPAC - organisée avec le soutien de la GS HSP Paris-Saclay - intitulée "Questionner le genre : pratiques, représentations et savoirs" aura lieu le 15 mai 2025 à l'UVSQ. Retrouvez toutes les infos et le programme de la JE ici : www.chcsc.uvsq.fr/questionner-...

Questionner le genre : pratiques, représentations et savoirs - Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines

www.chcsc.uvsq.fr

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Esther Cyna @esthercyna.bsky.social · May 5

Hot off the presses 🚨 J'ai eu le plaisir de coordonner le dernier numéro de Politique Américaine avec @noranafaa.bsky.social ! Vous y trouverez des articles d'Olivier Berton, Nicole Chickering, Sarah Harakat, @marieadmenard.bsky.social et Favian Mostura ➡️ www.editions-harmattan.fr/catalogue/li...

Fractures éducatives aux États-Unis -

Découvrez l’ouvrage Fractures éducatives aux États-Unis - aux Editions L’Harmattan

www.editions-harmattan.fr

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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · Apr 9

At #OAH25, Duke University’s Nancy MacLean called on historians to resist attacks on education led by Trump’s DOGE. “We can fight like the world depends on us.”
🔗 Read more from @chicago.suntimes.com: ow.ly/hOxR50VxGG6

'We can fight like the world depends on us': Academics try to stave off government attacks

Duke University professor Nancy MacLean issues a call to resistance in Chicago.

ow.ly

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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · Apr 8

🚨 CFP Deadline! 🚨 Don’t miss your chance to present at the 2026 OAH Conference on American History in Philadelphia! We're accepting proposals in all formats—papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, lightning rounds & more.

🗓 April 14, 2025

ow.ly/XXf650VwTI0

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Aurélie Djavadi @aureliedjavadi.bsky.social · Apr 7

Une très bonne analyse de la chercheuse @esthercyna.bsky.social pour mieux comprendre les attaques visant l'éducation aux États-Unis, à lire sur @france.theconversation.com

Aux États-Unis, Trump à l’assaut de l’éducation, entre censure, coupes budgétaires et répression

Depuis le retour de Donald Trump à la Maison Blanche, les assauts contre l’éducation prennent une ampleur inédite et se déclinent au plan fédéral comme dans les districts scolaires.

theconversation.com

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · Apr 5

Who is the education finance person who has done the school budget - buses, heating oil, paper, furniture, copiers - equivalent of this explainer? #edusky

See which cocktails and wines could get pricier with Trump’s tariffs

Americans who like to drink alcohol from Europe will have to spend lot more to indulge if the Trump administration makes good on its threats of steep tariffs.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Michaël Roy @mroyupc.bsky.social · Apr 2

ANNA JULIA COOPER, 1925-2025
Une féministe noire en Sorbonne

Colloque international @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social organisé les 19-20 juin 2025 pour le centenaire de sa thèse d'histoire

Conférences plénières de Martha Jones, Vivian May et Shirley Moody-Turner

esclavages.cnrs.fr/colloque-int...

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · Mar 27

A good thing!

@teacherscollege.bsky.social alum and @acls1919.bsky.social fellow Rachel Klepper, Phd '24, interviewed about how her training as a historian informs her current research and advocacy for children. #histed #edusky 🗃️

Rachel Klepper (Ph.D. ’24) Is Using Education’s History to Improve Its Future

Through her field work and scholarship, Klepper continues her commitment to education and child well-being

www.tc.columbia.edu

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · Mar 21

What becomes of the University if it succumbs to the demands of a political party or leader and cedes its rights of free speech, free expression, and free inquiry? …
What becomes of our students if they are only permitted to think, speak, and be in ways that follow the political winds?

FAFO

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · Mar 21

Trump gets exactly what he wants from Columbia. Next up: most of the big-name institutions in American higher education. This is a turning point in the history of our industry.

Exclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding

Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.

www.wsj.com

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Esther Cyna @esthercyna.bsky.social · Mar 21

Traveling to Chicago from Paris for @oah.org in 10 days and starting to really wonder about this as well..

Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · Mar 20

European researchers: should we go to the US at this rate? Or do we need to take a stand?

I say this as someone whose entire career relies on being able to work with my US-based colleagues, work on US archives, contribute to conferences there...

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Matthew Gardner Kelly @mgardnerkelly.bsky.social · Mar 21

I’m quoted in this NPR article trying to communicate the devastation from the loss of the dedicated staff at NCES who made sure critical data was collected to ensure low income and rural schools receive the formula funds they need to serve their students. www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...

How the Education Department cuts could hurt low-income and rural schools

With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.

www.npr.org

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david i. backer @schooldaves.bsky.social · Mar 19

My new book is coming out soon! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/as-public-...

As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America's Public Schools|Hardcover

A witty and provocative treatise on the policies we’ll need to make our public schools work for all children From the anti-CRT panic to efforts to divert tax dollars to charter schools, the righ...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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