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🚨 New article out in Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis

“Sorted and Tracked: English Learners, College-Level Course-Taking in High School, and Postsecondary Opportunity”

🔗: doi.org/10.3102/0162... (open access!)

#SocEd #HigherEd #EdPolicy #EL
Drawing from frameworks of categorical inequality and leveled tracking, this study examines how English learners (EL) status serves as a label that limits students’ access to college-level course-taking in high school and subsequent postsecondary opportunities. We find that EL–never-EL gaps in postsecondary outcomes vary by the timing of reclassification but are largely explained by student and school factors. We also show that ELs reclassified in later grades take fewer college-level courses than both never-EL students and ELs reclassified earlier. Nonlinear variance decomposition analyses reveal that a substantial portion of these outcome gaps is attributable to differences in college-level course-taking. We conclude by sharing insights from district staff to help schools support EL students in completing college-level coursework and expanding their postsecondary opportunities.
January 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
bethschueler.bsky.social
New year, new paper out on the (mixed) impacts of districtwide turnaround in Lawrence, Mass. on postsecondary outcomes. A product of a collab w/ 2 lovely UVA EdPolicyWorks PhD students and MA DESE: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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January 6, 2026 at 5:37 PM
georgetowncew.bsky.social
Inequality in US education has high costs. According to our simulation, the country could see annual public benefits of $956B if we invested an initial $3.97T to achieve more equal #postsecondary educational attainment by income and race/ethnicity. bit.ly/3vvrroz

#AcademicSky #EduSky
The Cost of Economic and Racial Injustice in Postsecondary Education - CEW Georgetown
Postsecondary attainment gaps by economic status and race/ethnicity result in a loss of economic and social benefits to the US.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
chelseasprite.bsky.social
I guess this is just to commiserate, but as someone who has researched the value of belonging in the postsecondary world, where there are literal mission statements regarding sense of belonging, and that work is widely undervalued.

It doesn't mean quick money, so it doesn't matter
January 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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January 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM
paul-bruno.com
The Impact of School District Turnaround on Postsecondary Outcomes: Evidence From Lawrence, Massachusetts journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

"reforms improved high school graduation rates but find no impact on college enrollment and null to small negative effects on postsecondary persistence"
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January 1, 2026 at 5:04 PM
socarxivbot.bsky.social
Institutional Social Capital and Postsecondary Outcomes: https://osf.io/8arh6
December 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
metaomicsnerd.bsky.social
Their pants are really in quite the twist about women getting more postsecondary degrees, I suspect.
December 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
paul-bruno.com
Sorted and Tracked: English Learners, College-Level Course-Taking in High School, and Postsecondary Opportunity journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
stevenhigh.bsky.social
Consultants, especially American ones, have no business shaping the future of postsecondary education in Canada. Chris Hurl wrote a great book on "The Consultant Trap", which speaks to their role in legitimating neoliberal shock therapy.
December 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
iansociologo.bsky.social
72 percent of full-time faculty were white in fall 2022 at US degree granting postsecondary institutions.
72 percent of full-time faculty were white in fall 2022 at US degree granting postsecondary institutions.
December 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
stephmachado.bsky.social
All of the college and university presidents in Rhode Island (other than Brown) met this morning with Gov. McKee and Postsecondary Commissioner Shannon Gilkey to talk about campus safety moving forward
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/16/m...
Officials providing update on Brown shooting investigation, release new videos and photos of person of interest. Follow live updates. - The Boston Globe
The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person responsible for the shooting.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
albertkoehl.bsky.social
"postsecondary education is a provincial responsibility. This is Ford’s mess. More than any other actor, he made it. He has a duty to clean it up." #onpoli

www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...
Star Editorial Board: Blame Doug Ford, not international students, for the catastrophe facing Ontario colleges and universities
The federal government might have let in too many students and then cut back, but chronic underfunding by the Ford government is the real catalyst of this mess
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December 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
louiseseamster.bsky.social
it’s been very quick and not covered outside the state to my knowledge. looks a little like a quiet coup.
in october, a BOR exit to serve as Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the United States Department of Education. who knows where that goes dailyiowan.com/2025/10/08/i...
Former Iowa Regent David Barker appointed to U.S. Department of Education
David Barker, a former Iowa Board of Regents member, was appointed the Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the U.S. Department of Education Wednesday. Barker was nominated for the posi...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
insidehighered.com
Opinion | Trump’s Plan for the Education Department Isn’t Efficient—It’s Just Chaotic

The Department of Labor is not prepared or equipped to take over key postsecondary programs. https://bit.ly/3Mug7qI

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Illustration showing the Education Department building taken apart brick by brick.
December 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
thearcoftucson.bsky.social
Check out this helpful information from Think College called "A Resource Guide for Inclusive Postsecondary Education for Students with Intellectual Disability." Read on to learn more.
A Resource Guide for Inclusive Postsecondary Education for Students with Intellectual Disability | Think College
This guide is designed to introduce you to inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE), or college options for students with intellectual disability (ID). In this guide, you’ll find everything you need t...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
carltonfong.bsky.social
Could not be more proud of you @agustingarcia.bsky.social! 🤩

It's been an honor to get to see you develop into a scholar-practitioner committed to postsecondary student success. Congratulations to you as you start your tenure-track journey! 🎉

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December 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
chelseasprite.bsky.social
I'm very much drawn to the scholarship on disabled postsecondary students which talks about mastering the role of student (studenting) because so much literature just completely ignores that the learner is often expected to play a very specific role, even though we never explicitly teach that.
December 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
eustace.justshootme.ca
#Alt4You
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"For four years, the Biden Administration sought to unlawfully shift student loan debt onto American taxpayers, many of whom either never took out a loan to finance their postsecondary education or never even went to college themselves, simply for a political win to prop up a failing Administration," said Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent in a statement on Tuesday. "The Trump Administration is righting this wrong and bringing an end to this deceptive scheme. The law is clear: if you take out a loan, you must pay it back. Thanks to the State of Missouri and other states fighting against this egregious federal overreach, American taxpayers can now rest assured they will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for illegal and irresponsible student loan policies.
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
thebigcow.bsky.social
Taxed to death by my own government for the crime of getting an education.

Also, this "if you take out a loan you must pay it back" line is such horseshit. Did we all forget back in 2020 when the Trump admin gave instantly-forgiven loans to business owners to buy new cars and pay their kids?
“For four years, the Biden Administration sought to unlawfully shift student loan debt onto American taxpayers, many of whom either never took out a loan to finance their postsecondary education or never even went to college themselves, simply for a political win to prop up a failing Administration,” said Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent. “The Trump Administration is righting this wrong and bringing an end to this deceptive scheme. The law is clear: if you take out a loan, you must pay it back. Thanks to the State of Missouri and other states fighting against this egregious federal overreach, American taxpayers can now rest assured they will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for illegal and irresponsible student loan policies,” Kent added.
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
staterepjuliareed.bsky.social
Good morning! Postsecondary Education and Workforce committee is gaveled in. We're getting a briefing about student mental health at higher ed institutions. #waleg
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
gethporno.bsky.social
"tell us about your recent order" you are literally a company that provides postsecondary school transcripts and that is what you did. what more do you want from me
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
insidehighered.com
Kentucky Study Shows Most Effective Way to Deliver Dual-Enrollment Courses

According to new research, students who take courses taught by a high school instructor on a college campus are most likely to enroll in postsecondary education. https://bit.ly/4iCZtkH

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky
A professor standing in front of a split image of a high school and college classroom.
December 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
chelseasprite.bsky.social
I failed to do #ResearchAdvent yesterday, so while my students are working on something...

Hi! My research interests lie at the intersection of higher ed/postsecondary ed, sense of belonging, and pedagogical interventions of belonging. My diss might be on fac dev to teach about sense of belonging.
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
jameshmclaren.bsky.social
Well, most of us lock our doors. And we did have a school shooting at a postsecondary institution some years ago. Yes, one.
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM