Matthew Gardner Kelly
@mgardnerkelly.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at UW. History and school finance. Book: Dividing the Public. Retweets are not endorsements. Opinions are my own. 🏳️‍🌈 Seattle, WA. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773266/dividing-the-public/#bookTabs=1
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m-r-glass.bsky.social
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...
mgardnerkelly.bsky.social
I’m excited to check this out!
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jacobtlevy.bsky.social
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ...
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The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5
successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting
with in 2023.
Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output."
The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can
give incorrect responses."
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ansleyerickson.bsky.social
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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sifill.bsky.social
Boom.
mikesacks.bsky.social
Judge Boardman certifies a class of every baby in the country subject to Trump’s citizenship-stripping EO and blocks the unconstitutional order nationwide.

Look how she throws Alito’s words back at him as the CASA case heads back up towards SCOTUS.

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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Oh yea we've got tons of evidence for this
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“Univ. of Illinois report shows that a large humanities department like English produces substantial net profit; units like engineering and agriculture run at a loss. The widely respected Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity shows the same pattern.” /7 thi.ucsc.edu/the-humaniti...
The Humanities Really Do Produce a Profit – The Humanities Institute
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cmsaldana.bsky.social
Head Start programs receive 0.18% of the total federal budget. This translates to $12.3 billion out of a $6.8 trillion federal budget. This isn't about closing federal deficits, it's about being cruel and challenging constitutional precedent protecting undocumented kids.

www.wpr.org/news/new-tru...
New Trump rule bans undocumented immigrant families from Head Start
Immigrant families lacking permanent legal status will no longer qualify for federally funded preschool through the Head Start program, the Trump administration announced this week.
www.wpr.org
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As the secretary of @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Division F, I have created a Blusky account. If you are interested in history of education or related topics, then give us a follow @aeradivf-history.bsky.social #histed #edhist
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treblaw.bsky.social
Received an email that our son's after-school program, which has helped immensely throughout his foster and adoption journey, had its funding frozen and is in danger of completely shutting down this summer and beyond. It's illegal and it's immoral and it's just plain cruel. I will never forget this
Trump administration withholds $230 million for Pennsylvania schools • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Education advocates said the failure to release the funds was reckless and unlawful and would affect the state's most vulnerable students.
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The latest on Trump’s education funding freeze: Some programs are starting to shut down, districts are rejiggering budgets, and everyone is scrambling to make sense of the chaos.

More on $6.8 billion withheld from K-12 schools: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Schools and States Scramble as Trump Freezes $6.8 Billion in Federal Funds
After-school programs, English-learner services, migrant education programs, and professional development are all at risk.
www.edweek.org
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rlspang.bsky.social
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
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UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.
List of programs for elimination from the Indiana state legislature
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mike johnson doesn't give a shit
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Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”
Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill
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justedpolicy.bsky.social
With generous support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Spencer Foundation, we are pleased to be offering the Just Education Policy Institute for doctoral students interested in research to reduce racial inequality in education policy this fall. Applications are open, due June 30.
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🎉 Applications for the 2025 Just Education Policy Institute are now open! 🎉
Applications are due Jun 30. JEP 2025 will be held Oct 15-18, 2025 in Washington, DC. JEP helps developing scholars learn how, as a community, to conduct research that advances racial justice in education policy.
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ubiquity75.xyz
The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
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schoolfinance101.bsky.social
So, who is pulling together the team to draft Project 2029 (and interim steps toward it)? We need long term plans for:
1) the courts & upholding constitutional rights & core values
2) education (early childhood through graduate)
3) rebuilding science
4) public health
5) housing equality/access...
mgardnerkelly.bsky.social
This is great news! Congratulations, Ericka!
erickaweathers.bsky.social
I’m really proud of myself & the work I’ve been doing. I’m also thankful for the Foundation’s investment in my work, ideas, & me as a scholar! Amidst a political climate of disinvestment from justice-oriented work, shout out to WTG for “standing 10 toes down”! 1/3
www.gse.upenn.edu/news/ericka-...
Ericka Weathers selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of
This award will support the assistant professor in Penn GSE’s Policy, Organizations, and Leadership division in a five-year research plan on institutional responses to truancy.
www.gse.upenn.edu