He knows this won’t make buying pierogis any easier, right?

John Cena or nothing

The Department of Ed still (mostly, sort of) exists, so my money is on McMahon getting the axe for not defying Congress bigly enough.

Today in Teaching in Higher Ed

That wasn’t quite the takeaway I intended. I was the parentified child and it did a lot of harm. It probably built resilience too, but the cost was high.

Hopefully not the dynamic that’s emerging with your eldest.

Good good. All totally reasonable then

So the thesis is:

Public servants=overpaid scum we should stop coddling

Billionaires who engage in politics=delicate and imperfect flowers who must be given every benefit of the doubt

Just making sure I didn’t miss anything.

This is so incoherent that it only makes sense as a billionaires reactionary brain farts. Eg: public employees are not “priests” and are over compensated. Reality: they are underpaid and have been serially abused. Next point, people engaging in public life (read: DOGE, Palantir) deserve our grace.

Proposing

“here to complicate everything”

as the official motto of the education research field.
With full credit to Cara.

An over representation, if anything

I might have shirts made

“Here to complicate everything” is an on point motto for the field.

No one is coming to me to do causal work, I’ve got “qual researcher” stamped on my bones, but dear lord, we need both to interpret the world properly.

A single math study dooms the entire discipline-based and interdisciplinary scholarship REALM of research and scholarship. Cool.

Like one Doctor Strange movie ruins the entire MCU.

Even in very functional households, eldest kids tend to experience very different parenting.

In less functional ones, well, you end up being a 3-4 year old taking care of things no tiny kid should.

My sisters never had to deal with that in the same way.

I can’t read the paywalled article but using critiques of Jo Boaler to attack all of quantitative education research is nonsense. There is tons of excellent education research, experimental and quasi experimental. And our knowledge of what works has grown dramatically in recent years as a result.

Came to weigh in and I’m glad to see the work has been done already

The empirical evidence from economics actually makes the opposite point. www.nber.org/system/files...

No notes.

I’ll never forget reading an econ textbook in my PhD program that proudly claimed that theory was not necessary in studies because economists could just “use intuition.”

This checks out then.

I thought we had to base all decisions on institutional prestige!?

It’s also a field where taking purely economic approaches has/is doing harm.

There’s enormous value in talking about the ROI of higher Ed. It’s also been weaponized, because it’s been leaned on too hard.

Preach it, John!

This is one of just may reasons I like James.

Are you the eldest?

Justice involved/impacted is definitely a thing, I’ve seen it a lot in the Pell grants for prison education programs policy work.

It’s really just meant to be a catch all term for anyone whose life is still touched by the carceral system.

There’s something fascinating about the enduring ease with which academics in other fields shit on education researchers.

(I’d say “some” academics in other fields, but they’re not doing nuance so I’m not either)

Trump’s war is making everything more expensive.

The costs of gas, groceries, and even mortgage rates are out of control.

Republicans promised lower costs and no new wars. It was all a lie.

The deeply unpopular reality is that we all should be paying higher taxes if we want things like a proper healthcare system.

The uber wealthy should pay vastly more.

I’ve got a lot longer, which is distressing given the world today