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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 16h

✨New Work Wednesday✨

This study examines the effectiveness of school spending by using close tax and close bond elections in multiple states to identify the effects of operating funds and capital funds.

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 1d

✍️Editor Tip Tuesday! ✍️

For reviewed articles, our median time-to-decision over the past 12 months was 63 days. Our aim is to try to maintain this 3-month turn around, but we need your help by submitting your reviews on time!

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 2d

📨Happy Message Monday 📨

Sage is hosting a FREE webinar to train researchers on how to conduct quality peer reviews on October 22 at 11:00AM ET. See link to sign up: sagepub.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How to Be a Peer Reviewer. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Considering becoming a reviewer or getting more involved with peer review? Our free webinar will guide you through the process of conducting peer review, including how to get started, basic principles...

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 5d

✨Happy Fresh Take Friday!✨

The Future of Families Study @ffcws.bsky.social recently released new school context and school characteristics variables from the NCES and CRDC for their Year 22 data wave. See ffcws.princeton.edu/alerts for more information

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Data Alerts

October 1, 2025The FFCWS Data Team is thrilled to announce the release of new as well as updated files to the Restricted Use Contract Data. This data release includes:An update to the Stanford Educati...

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 6d

⏰Throwback Article Thursday⏰

How do undergraduates engage authority figures in college?

This study shows how undergraduates with disparate precollege experiences differ in their orientations toward engaging authority figures in college

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 7d

✨️New Work Wednesday!✨️

This article explores an initiative for educational change through mid-level staff using the case of a nonprofit that places its members in large, public education bureaucracies in a developing country.

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 8d

📝Editor Tip Tuesday! 📝

Reviewers, we LOVE when you add your informal thoughts about a manuscript in the “Confidential Comments to the Editor” box. A few sentences that summarize your main decision reasoning go a long way.
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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 9d

📨Happy Message Monday 📨

The @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Sociology of Education SIG is accepting nominations for two awards that recognize, support, and advance outstanding scholarship in the field. Deadline is October 12, 2025.

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 12d

✨️Happy Fresh Take Friday!!✨️

In the past 12 months over 260 articles have been submitted to SoE. We’d love to see more! Please consider submitting your work.

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 13d

⏰Throwback Article Thursday!⏰

This research documents trends in education inequality in between-countries and proposes a method for doing so that accounts for the ways in which most education variables differ from continuous variables.

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The Rise and Fall of Worldwide Education Inequality from 1870 to 2010 - Shawn F. Dorius, 2013

This research documents long-run trends in between-country education inequality and proposes a method for doing so that accounts for the ways in which most educ...

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 14d

📚New Work Wednesday!📚

In this study, Hamilton, L. et al. (2025) find that White students respond to the high concentration of Latine students at HSIs with “white flight,” contributing to racial segregation in higher ed.

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White Flight in Public Higher Education? Racial Avoidance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions - Laura T. Hamilton, Charlie Eaton, Simon Cheng, 2025

Latine college students in the United States face increasing isolation in universities designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). We contend that this ...

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 15d

📝Editor Tip Tuesday! 📝

Help us reduce time-to-decision for our authors! If you decline our invitation as a reviewer, please help us by suggesting reviewers who we can invite. We cannot emphasize enough how grateful we are for these suggestions!

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 16d

📨Happy Message Monday📨

Our colleagues at the Sociology of Education Association (SEA) are hosting a Fall mini-conference on October 9 from 4-6:30pm EST. The theme is “Navigating equity research in the current political climate.” See seassoc.wordpress.com/2026-confere... for more details.

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2026 Conference

We look forward to welcoming you (back) to Asilomar for our annual conference in spring 2026! Can’t wait? Check out our Fall Mini-Conference–more details below! Fall Mini-Conference Det…

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 19d

✨Happy Fresh Take Friday!✨

Thinking about turning your SoE article into a research or policy brief? You should! Check out this helpful guide from Editorial Board member Christina Ciocca Eller. www.christinacioccaeller.com/research-bri...

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Research Briefs & Translation Materials | Christina Ciocca Ell

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 20d

⏰️Throwback Article Thursday⏰️

Using nationally representative early childhood data, scholars found that there is a relationship between the academic quality of a students' elementary school and the likelihood of special education placement.

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Who Is Placed into Special Education? - Jacob Hibel, George Farkas, Paul L. Morgan, 2010

The authors use nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K) to identify variables measu...

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 21d

📚New Work Wednesday!📚

In this study, Lu, Y et al.(2025) find that education-occupation mismatch powerfully reproduces racial/ethnic inequality among U.S. college graduates.

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 22d

✍️Editor Tip Tuesday! ✍️

SoE has to keep to a strict 10,000 word limit due to page print allocations, this stands for new manuscripts AND revised.

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 23d

👋 Greetings from the SoE media team! Introducing our weekly social media communications plan! 🎉 Each day has its own theme:

🗣️ Message Sharing Monday
📝 Tips from the Editors Tuesday
📚 New Work Wednesday
🔙 Throwback Thursday
🤔 Fresh Take Friday

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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · Aug 13

Happy to see our paper out that examines the role of study program characteristics for college enrollment intentions!
This ist joint work with Carina Toussaint (lead author), Hans Dietrich and @tobiaswolbring.bsky.social

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · Aug 13

New work Wednesday!
A factorial survey experiment finds: study program features like content, a flexible curriculum, and institutionalized support affect enrollment intentions—but don’t reduce social inequalities in these intentions.
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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · Jul 25

Check out the podcast of our @asanews.bsky.social featured article this issue: "Consequences of Eviction-Led Forced Mobility for School-Age Children in Houston" by Peter Hepburn, Danny Grubbs-Donovan, Nick Graetz, Olivia Jin, and Matthew Desmond.

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · Jun 10

We will miss having @jessicacalarco.bsky.social serve as a Deputy Editor *but* so thrilled to have so much sociology of education representation on ASA leadership with the important work both Jess and Al have done for understanding how race and class interact with schooling.

American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · Jun 5

We are pleased to announce that Alford Young, Jr. @umich.edu has been elected the 2026-2027 ASA President, and Jessica Calarco, University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been elected Vice President. Read full election results: https://bit.ly/3mFBhFz.

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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · Jun 5

New OnlineFirst article by Jose Eos Trinidad (bse.berkeley.edu/jose-eos-tri...)!

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · May 23

🗣 "Highlighting changes in education and organizational theorizing since the 1950s, this review integrates three perspectives for an organizational sociology of education."

Read the #OpenAccess article at the link 👉 doi.org/10.1111/soin...

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · May 27

Read the article; listen to the podcast! Get insights into detainment-based discipline in a public high school from ASA member Karlyn J. Gorski's ‪@karlynjane.bsky.social‬ (University of Chicago) recent @soceducation.bsky.social‬ article bit.ly/4jnAK2r & related podcast bit.ly/3YVydFC.

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