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Liz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · 1h

So much #danger everywhere!

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Liz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · 1h

So well deserved!!

Erika Fundelius @erikatvicoms.bsky.social · 1h

We just got the TED @ted-cec.bsky.social Publication Award 2025. Thank you!

"This recognition honors the most outstanding publication of the year in Teacher Education and Special Education and celebrates scholarship that deepens our understanding of teacher preparation and inclusive practice."

“You Are Just a Life Role Model” a Multiple Case Study of Teachers With Visual Impairment in the Field of Visual Disabilities - Saurym Quezada, Erika Fundelius, Erin Bush, Jenny Root, 2025

Teachers with disabilities serve as role models for students who share their disability identity, offering lived experience as a valuable source of knowledge an...

journals.sagepub.com

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Liz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · 1h

Hoping I survive walking at night in #warzonechicago . 🙄

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Liz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · 3h

Come hang out with us on Saturday! We're super excited to share findings from SPARC Center, Project RESPECT, & Project SUSTAIN!

SPARC Center @sparccenter.bsky.social · 5h

💡Attending #SREE2025 this week? Join SPARC Center experts @lizbettini.bsky.social and @afgilmour.bsky.social for their session on Measuring and Strengthening the Special Education Teacher Workforce on Saturday, Oct 11 from 12-1:30 CT at Palmer House Hilton – Crystal.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d

🚨Important paper alert🚨

"Who Wants to Be a Teacher in America?"

"Lower interest among men, students of color, and high-achieving students... Recommenders rate students interested in teaching as having lower intellectual promise... but greater concern for others."

edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1285

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d

Join us next week online @buwheelock.bsky.social for this conversation on changing school enrollment patterns 5 years after the pandemic's onset.

We'll discuss our recent research on which families have shifted from public to private/home schooling.

bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Liz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · 2d

Such a cool paper!! Love their approach to looking at how student-teacher relationships relate to instructional practice!

TESE: The journal of CEC’s Teacher Education Division @ted-cec-tese.bsky.social · 2d

New in TESE! Broda et al. (2025) identify three distinct teacher-student relationship profiles and share the importance of both effective practice delivery and relationship quality for students with or at risk for EBD in early childhood settings.

🔗 Read the full article: doi.org/10.1177/0888...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

doi.org

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The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 5d

30 years without a real raise: New York's early intervention pay crisis

30 Years Without a Real Raise: New York’s Early Intervention Pay Crisis

New York’s early intervention providers haven’t seen a substantive raise in three decades — and vulnerable young children are losing out.

www.the74million.org

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SPARC Center @sparccenter.bsky.social · 5d

The US Commission on Civil Rights (@usccrgov.bsky.social) released a new report on The Federal Response to Teacher Shortage Impacts on Students with Disabilities, offering eight suggestions to help overcome longstanding shortages: www.usccr.gov/reports/2025...

The Federal Response to Teacher Shortage Impacts on Students with Disabilities

The Commission began this investigation to better understand how the national teacher shortage is affecting students with disabilities and to examine how the federal government, especially the U.S. De...

www.usccr.gov

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 13d

Hot off the presses a new @caldercenter.bsky.social paper on which college students are opting into a path toward becoming a teacher (by applying to a teacher ed program): caldercenter.org/publications...

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Liz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · 14d

COOL study!!

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 4

This working paper looks really cool.

"The Education-Innovation Gap"

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Taylor Odle @taylorodle.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 Come join us in Ed Policy at @uwmadison.bsky.social! We're hiring an Asst/Assoc Prof studying the intersection of education and the environment. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant or Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 17d

Few things are as persistent and widespread in U.S. education as shortages of special educators. As a former Pre-K and K teacher, I wish I'd had more training related to learning differences.

Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 17d

Trump admin cancels special ed grant to UNC-CH to train future Pre-K teachers across NC

It's part of the U.S. Department of Education's crackdown on grants promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. #nced

www.wunc.org/education/20...

Trump admin cancels special ed grant to UNC-CH to train future Pre-K teachers across NC

It's part of the U.S. Department of Education's crackdown on grants promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

www.wunc.org

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CEC Division for Research (CEC-DR) @cec-dr.bsky.social · 19d

Consider nominating a colleague (or yourself) for one of the 2026 CEC-DR Awards! You have two months to think about it. Awards will be presented at the CEC Convention in Salt Lake City, UT in March 2026. Visit our website to learn more about each award: cecdr.org/cec-dr-awards

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 19d

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20d

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’

www.nytimes.com

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SPARC Center @sparccenter.bsky.social · 20d

Policy solutions can help stabilize and diversify the paraeducator workforce to improve #SpecialEducation outcomes. A recent paper by @lindseykaler.bsky.social and @roddy-theobald.bsky.social at @caldercenter.bsky.social examines turnover patterns in WA and offers suggestions for policymakers.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26d

The Supreme Court is forging an America where weighing race can be used to harm minorities, but not to protect them.

The Supreme Court says colleges can’t consider race. But ICE can.

So much for the justices' promise of a "colorblind Constitution."

www.motherjones.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28d

The Trump administration says it will withhold $350 million in grants to hundreds of colleges that serve large populations of minority students, calling the decades-old programs discriminatory.

Education Department ends grants for some minority college students

The Education Department is withholding millions of dollars in grant funding appropriated by Congress for colleges that serve large populations of minority students.

wapo.st

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 28d

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

Emily Pitts Donahoe @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social · 28d

I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078

Donate to Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague, organized by Angel Matos

Recently, our colleague Melissa McCoul was fired from her position as a S… Angel Matos needs your support for Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague

gofund.me

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 29d

RFK Jr has promised to release a report on the causes of autism in September. To prepare, it's a good idea to make sure we know what the common types of observational research biases are. First up: confounding by indication.
Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Confounding by Indication: A Research Bias You Should Know

It’s September which means RFK Jr will soon be releasing his promised report on the ‘causes’ of autism. We can prepare by learning some key types of research bias.

open.substack.com

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Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 29d

Come work with us! We’re really excited about our research on attendance and chronic absenteeism. And we’d be really excited to work with you! Reach out if you have any questions.

Detroit-based preferred, but remote might be possible. Start as early as Dec 2025 or later in Spring/Summer 2026.

Sarah W. Lenhoff @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Job Posting! 📢 We are hiring TWO postdocs at Detroit PEER at Wayne State (detroitpeer.org)! We are looking for one quant/mixed methods expert and one qual/mixed expert to work with me & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social on attendance research. Apply by Oct. 10, but flexible on start date! Please share!

Detroit PEER Postdoc Job Description 2025.pdf

drive.google.com

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Teacher Education Division of CEC @ted-cec.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today is the last day to nominate someone for a TED award!

Teacher Education Division of CEC @ted-cec.bsky.social · Jul 23

🏆 Celebrate excellence in education! Nominate a changemaker (or yourself!) for a 2025 TED Award by Aug 23.
Categories include service, publication, social justice & more.
🔗 Learn more and apply at tedcec.org/ted-awards

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨Interested in a PhD focusing on quant methods and education & social policy? I'm recruiting this year at @bclynchschool in the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment program www.bc.edu/bc-web/schoo...

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment - Lynch School of Education and Human Development - Boston College

MESA has been training students to examine educational programs, design quantitative research studies, develop assessment instruments, and analyze educational data to help inform policy-making for ove...

www.bc.edu

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Liz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · Aug 29

The phrase "make time" is a great way to elide the fact that you are sacrificing doing something else. Time cannot be made.

Liz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · Aug 29

(side note, paperwork isn't the problem here - the paperwork exists to protect students' legal rights. The problem is that she doesn't have dedicated time to do it).

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