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"Deftly punctures the self-serving academic myths of tenure, while also, with empathy and candor, revealing what we lose when it’s gone."

The War on Tenure by Deepa Das Acevedo, Coming Soon

#LawSky 💙📚 #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky #edpolisky 🗺️

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August 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟

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Education Data Explorer
Explore education data
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February 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
New evidence confirms what we know well: starting early is best for students, families, and education systems.

Great new essay from @anikaalam.bsky.social and our DC PreK study team published by the Learning Curve @urbaninstitute.bsky.social.

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December 18, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Our 5-year study of universal preschool in Washington, DC shows that "public pre-K for 3-year-olds appears to stabilize children’s early educational experiences, especially those starting furthest from opportunity, and provide a strong foundation for later learning." #edusky #edpolisky #eduskyecec
December 16, 2024 at 9:29 PM
#edpolisky As goes Texas so goes the nation?

The main source of new teachers now in Texas is … no preparation at all.

Is that a great idea? Is a teaching certificate just another piece of paper?

No. It’s is a declaration of quality. Want evidence? Read here.

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Beyond the Tipping Point: The Rise of the Uncertified Teachers in Texas
New research reveals that half of newly hired teachers in Texas lack state certification and classroom experience. Now, researchers warn that hiring uncertified teachers is not an effective solution a...
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November 28, 2024 at 10:55 PM
#edpolisky As goes Texas so goes the nation?

The main source of new teachers in Texas is … no preparation at all. Where and what are they teaching?

bit.ly/Uncert2024
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November 28, 2024 at 10:47 PM
New @npr.org reporting features DC’s Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund and the evidence we are building on its many benefits—and lingering challenges. #edusky #edpolisky #eduskyecec

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D.C.'s pay equity fund helps increase wages for child care workers
So far, it has helped stabilize and grow the supply of child care workers, helping working families as well as child care workers themselves.
www.wbur.org
November 28, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Some good news! DCPS has exploratory data showing that automatic texts to parents and 6th grade academies can help, but early-dismissal days hurt. #EducationPeeps #EdPoliSky
D.C. truancy, chronic absenteeism drop to lowest levels since pandemic
Truancy in D.C.’s public schools has returned to pre-pandemic levels while chronic absenteeism is at its lowest since schools closed nearly five years ago, new data show.
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November 14, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Hey glad to see you here. #EduSky is a feed of some interest, although very geared to teachers. I tried to launch an #edpolisky feed for the ed-nerds of the world while at my last job, but it didn't go very far. Will be interesting to see how the uptick in folks here changes things.
November 11, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Revisiting Charles M. Payne's "So Much Reform, So Little Change" (2008) feels timely. His insights into the limitations of neoliberal school reform are more relevant than ever.
#educationalresearch #edpolisky
November 5, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Nice graphic showing how states with voucher programs are also the same states that underpay their teachers
#EdPoliSky #EduSky

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October 4, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Happy to see my analysis on the inequities of teacher vacancies get reporting in the Charlotte and Raleigh papers

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‘It’s not going away.’ NC data show which schools are hit hardest by teacher shortages
Teacher vacancies increased across the state last year. Is higher teacher pay key to filling them?
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August 29, 2024 at 7:08 PM
1/ This paper started several years ago as a term paper for my coauthor Ali Kagalwala. Now, it is finally in print!
Get ready for a study touching education policy, politics, state & local government, budgeting & finance, and even judicial politics!
#polisky #PAsky #EdPoliSky
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The Politics of School Funding: How State Political Ideology is Associated With the Allocation of Revenue to School Districts - Nathan Favero, Ali Kagalwala, 2024
States diverge widely when it comes to education funding choices, leading to substantial differences in how much states spend on schooling, the role of local ve...
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July 25, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Been recommending some excellent ed policy papers these past few days, but this is the one I enjoyed the most. I will undoubtedly be referring to this one all the time in my own writing

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July 16, 2024 at 1:06 PM
This excellent brief shows that "teacher sorting" in NC is bad, and - due to NCGA policies - is getting worse
epic.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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July 15, 2024 at 6:50 PM
This is a fantastic piece detailing the trade-offs we/educators/students face to implement standardized testing

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Perspective | What is lost to EOGs
An educator reflects on all that is lost to testing. "You can’t add up the feelings of inadequacy that students share," she writes.
www.ednc.org
July 15, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Please give this a read to understand the Trump administration's grim vision for public education

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Project 2025 and the GOP Platform: What Each Says About K-12 in a 2nd Trump Term
A side-by-side look at what the two policy documents say on key education topics.
www.edweek.org
July 15, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Good summary of the threat a Trump administration poses for schools

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Project 2025: The Far Right’s Plan to Dismantle Public Schools (and Our Democracy) | Save Our Schools Arizona Network
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July 10, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Our newest essay argues that professional hierarchies in our workplaces exist to set groups of workers in schools, libraries, museums, and other educational institutions against each other.

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Against Professionalism!
Professional hierarchies in educational workplaces exist to set groups of workers against each other in service of arbitrary definitions of professional conduct that are imposed by our employers.
angryeducationworkers.substack.com
July 7, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Less than 10% of the nation's college students could bring high-impact #tutoring to a quarter of the nation's K-12 students. Here's how federal work-study could be tweaked to make it happen. #EduSky #Edpolisky www.future-ed.org/tapping-coll...
Tapping College Students to Sustain High-Quality Tutoring Post Pandemic
This piece originally appeared in The Hechinger Report. Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and effective way to jumpstart lagging student…
www.future-ed.org
July 5, 2024 at 5:19 PM
The Science of School Spending remains undefeated

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Yes, COVID relief money did help students’ academic recovery, two new studies find
New research tries to pin down how much student recovery can be credited to ESSER spending.
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June 26, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Our latest report, Incomplete: The Unfinished Revolution in College Remedial Education, explains what the dev-ed reform movement has achieved, why it stalled, and what needs to be done to get it back on track. #HigherEd #EduSky #edpolisky
www.future-ed.org/incomplete-t...
Incomplete: The Unfinished Revolution in College Remedial Education
Reforms around college remediation programs, or developmental education, have stalled, leaving many underserved students stuck. This report explains how to revive the “dev-ed” movement.
www.future-ed.org
June 17, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Join FutureEd and 50Can on June 25 for an enlightening conversation about applying advocacy research to the cause of tutoring. #EduSky #Edpolisky www.future-ed.org/event/webina...
WEBINAR: Applying Lessons from Advocacy Research to Expand Tutoring in Public Education
What led to the rapid spread and adoption of tutoring as a solution? What will it take to bring tutoring to the scale? And what can the science of advocacy teach us about how other policy ideas might…
www.future-ed.org
June 14, 2024 at 4:40 PM