Elsewhere on that thread was the point that blaming drivers gets politicians and traffic engineers off the hook.

Some good news:

SFUSD's high school Ethnic Studies course has substantial academic benefits when implemented district-wide.

New research by @birajbisht.bsky.social, Sade Bonilla, Grace Kim, and myself just out today in @aeraedresearch.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.3102/0002...

Inside a Gold Mine of Texas Prison Music Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you, putting 100+ songs online for the first time.

Happening today! An entire @aefpweb.bsky.social panel on "Climate Change and Education" #AEFP2026

Don't miss @emilykpenner.bsky.social @andrewpenner.bsky.social & many others at session 3.10 in St. Gallen 3.

Grace will be presenting our WP:
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1238

I know that this is not the thing I should be wondering about, but can you tell whether there were multiple trips to Japan (are there date stamps) or if any of the European visits are linked?

And the dearth of visits to the southern hemisphere is also striking.

Very cool work on this!

A computer on every lap? NC schools rethinking one-to-one device access. Cost to replace laptops and doubts about learning retention have NC districts questioning practice of assigning a device to each student.

If you want better student outcomes, scrap the chromebooks & upgrade the HVAC.

@mattbarnum.bsky.social of @chalkbeat.org highlights our research about the relationship between students’ gifted and special education identification and family income.

Higher income -> gifted education
Lower income -> special education

There’s a lot to ponder about why this happens.

Revolving School Doors? A Longitudinal Examination of Teacher, Administrator, and Staff Contributions to School Churn - Emily K. Penner, Yujia Liu, Aaron J. Ainsworth, 2026 Non-teaching staff comprise over half of all school employees, and their turnover may be consequential for school operation, culture, and student success, yet w...

I’m really glad to see that our paper is now out at Ed Researcher! We examine turnover among the half of school employees who are not teachers to understand how their turnover compares. Using Oregon data (2007-23) for all public school employees, there are 3 new patterns that we document:
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I love how this reframes what our goals are💜

A thing we have discussed in my classrooms recently is how LLMs don’t help us achieve these goals, which are what we want to focus on together. I haven’t been using the language of absolute goods to make this point, but am going to start doing so!

I have found myself thinking about this line a lot recently.

Students from high income families get more 504 supports, while students from low income families are more likely to be in special education.

Working paper is available at:

Gifted Identification Across the Distribution of Family Income Students from families in the top income percentile are more than 5 times as likely to be identified for gifted programs as students from the bottom percentile.

Full paper is available here

In a new working paper, my collaborators and I show that which students are identified as gifted and talented varies substantially by family income, and that these differences remain even after accounting for students’ test scores.

Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Yet one more way that we are failing children.

#205 Schools as Sorting Machines Play #205 Schools as Sorting Machines by Have You Heard on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

New episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social, featuring research by @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, @emilykpenner.bsky.social, and Andrew Penner.

We subsequently looked at a few of the images I have published, but none were deemed as cool as the Banff data🙃

Kiddo was incredulous and excited when I noted that making pictures to help people understand the world better was my job, and said I could publish this. Kiddo then suggested a division of labor where they would bring me other tidbits like this for me to publish😍

Bar chart of Banff animal over and underpass crossing data.

Table from book that inspired figure (Banff animal over and underpass crossing data).

Baby’s first data visualization—was reading a book about the Banff wildlife crossings and wanted to understand the preferences of different animals.

Fascinating work by Deven Carlson, @t-h-a-d.bsky.social, James Carter, @rachelmarisa.bsky.social, Vitali Radsky, and Andrew McEachin on both the potential of school choice for the purpose of desegregation and the disappointing reality that most school choice systems tend to exacerbate segregation

The Prison Soul Band That Opened for Stevie Wonder The band The Power of Attorney flourished when more Americans saw incarcerated people as more than their crimes.

The Power of Attorney flourished when more Americans saw incarcerated people as more than their crimes.

Their career would be unthinkable today: Leaving prison under armed guards to play hundreds of concerts and record in major studios.

For me as a graduate student, @isa-rc28.bsky.social modeled the kind of large-scale, big team, data intensive, methodologically rigorous, theoretically meaningful research that I aspired to do, and so it was especially meaningful to have our work recognized by this award!

It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social
on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.

As @oliviergodechot.bsky.social notes, in some ways this could be seen as an example of "big" science:
coauthors: 29
years it took: 9
countries: 12
pages (w/ appendices): 111
observations: 1,164,687,821

But it can be summarized in one 5-word sentence: Top earners increasingly work together. PERIOD.

So excited to receive this award on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and 27 other coauthors!

In Prison, She Changed Constitutional Law. Meet the Trans Woman Behind the Case. Farmer v. Brennan is one of the most cited Supreme Court cases of all time. Few people know just how revolutionary Dee Farmer was.

Every jailhouse lawyer knows Dee Farmer’s name, even if they don’t know who she is.

What most of them don’t know is that the person who paved the road for them was a transgender woman who filed her suit from a federal prison cell, in an era when her gender identity was considered a mental illness.

Immigrants in Europe and North America earn 18% less than natives – here’s why Immigrants struggle to access higher-paying jobs, meaning their skills often go to waste.

Short piece about our @nature.com paper on the immigrant-native pay gap in The Conversation! Also broad coverage in (so far) German, Dutch, and Spanish central news outlets today!

Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Immigrants in Europe and North America earn 18% less than natives – here’s why Immigrants struggle to access higher-paying jobs, meaning their skills often go to waste.

And you can read more of our thoughts at The Conversation.

Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...

The paper is available at Nature.