Thanks, JMW.

2026 EduTalks | Solving for X: “History Helps Us See” - Matthew Gardner Kelly YouTube video by University of Washington College of Education

My 5-minute EduTalk on history in education schools during our current moment: small fragments, silences, and how history changes how we see what’s in front of us

A pile of Anna O. Law's Migrations and the Origins of American Citizenship and one copy propped up on top. The cover is an USA flag with a figure of a man behind it like the stripes are bars

📣 🎉Today is the official release day of my book, even tho many of you have it in hand already. 🙏 to all who purchased. Availability: Amazon has the paper w/ discount, Bookshop/OUP on back order. Should be an e-version that is missing. I will check w/ my press. More: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...

This was the worse case scenario, which I think I wrote about a couple months ago.

Screenshot reads: She and other publishing specialists question whether LeapSpace’s limited reach is worth the cost. Users will need either an institutional subscription (based in part on the institution’s size and amount of research) or an individual one, which costs $32 a month. Many libraries are already struggling to afford existing subscriptions. And if users want to read the cited content, they will need a separate subscription to that content’s publisher—akin to paying for multiple video-streaming services.

The inevitable next stage of academic publishers profiting from academics' work is here - scraping it for AI then charging subscriptions for access to the AI summaries, and then again for the citations. Academic content assetization as we called it in a recent paper. www.science.org/content/arti...

Black-robed Ghost of Christmas Future pointing forward as Gov. Ferguson stands behind him scared in a striped night cap and pajamas in front of the Washington state capitol building in Olympia.

Gov. Ferguson Backs Millionaire Tax After Ghost of Christmas Future Shows Him Losing In 2028 If He Doesn’t: tinyurl.com/ye25s9zp

Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle

You don’t need an LLM to tell you what to read carefully, and if you’re just going to pull de-contextualized sections of a text to read in detail, you’re not saving time, you’re not engaging your sources, and you’re not going to produce quality historical scholarship.

Civil Rights and Schools: From Little Rock to NYC This workshop focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 and in Harlem in 1958. This event will be in-person.

NYC teachers and friends of same - please share this great learning opportunity. A day at the NY Historical Society to invigorate and expand how you teach Civil Rights Movement history. #nyc #nyccivilrightshistory #maemallory #harlem9

Just a perfect dog looking up at the camera against a medium brown wood floor

Dog on persons lap

handsome older dog

We said goodbye to Rainn, just shy of 16. From a NYC shelter, he once ate rat poison, beat cancer multiple times, and never left our sides. With me through teaching, grad school, the pandemic, and academia. Grateful for every day we had, including his last. His adoption video: youtu.be/VBmptgBgZms

Thank you for reading!

This is a deep cut and I love it.

My first interview about my new book! www.americatrendspodcast.com

Today is the official publication day for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS!! 🏠🥳🎉
For the next month, Penn is offering a discount of 40% off using the code UHA25. Which brings the price down to $20.97. A screaming deal!
www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

Do We Need Rural School Preserves? A new paper argues that rural school districts are facing an existential threat, and proposes a new sort of preserve to safeguard these districts and the students that they serve.

Forbes picked up our article explaining how designating rural school districts as "education preserves" can protect them from charter and voucher expansion.

www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

I’m excited to check this out!

Tennessee voucher total outpaces average per-pupil funding for public school students Tennessee will allocate an average of $7,023 per public school student in the state, nearly $300 less than a new private school voucher. Though public school students will receive more public funds overall given a local government contribution, Democrats and education advocates are criticizing the disparity.

This is a truly wild stat. "TN will spend an average of $7,023 per public school student... compared to the $7,295 given to [voucher] students."
If a state invests more in those leaving public schools than in strengthening the system that serves all comers, what does that say about its priorities?

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

This chapter examines varying kinds of interaction between education policy and history to argue that U.S. education policy has long been influenced by false and distorting views of the past. This is true across many areas of education policymaking, but we argue that it is most visible— and perhaps has been most powerful—in policymaking about the education of Black students. U. S. education policy has often been built on ideas of African American lives and communities, and

of the nation as a whole, that minimize Black educational striving and accomplishment and trade on pathologizing views of Black families in the past and present. These narratives often ignore the multiple policy mechanisms that help create, undergird, and sustain educational inequality that harms Black students and poor students and their families while allowing resource hoarding by White and wealthier families. It does not have to be this way. Education policy can turn to more factually sound interpretations of the past. We show that recent work in African American educational history and the history of racism in U.S. education can provide an accurate base for, and help inform and shape, current policymaking

Education policy people, this fight over what counts as the nation's history is not just about historians.

With great co-authors (Leana Cabral, @esthercyna.bsky.social, Michael Hines, @mgardnerkelly.bsky.social) I got to write and think about how ideas about the past shape ed policy.

Timely!

Boom.

Oh yea we've got tons of evidence for this

New Trump rule bans undocumented immigrant families from Head Start Immigrant families lacking permanent legal status will no longer qualify for federally funded preschool through the Head Start program, the Trump administration announced this week.

Head Start programs receive 0.18% of the total federal budget. This translates to $12.3 billion out of a $6.8 trillion federal budget. This isn't about closing federal deficits, it's about being cruel and challenging constitutional precedent protecting undocumented kids.

www.wpr.org/news/new-tru...

As the secretary of @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Division F, I have created a Blusky account. If you are interested in history of education or related topics, then give us a follow @aeradivf-history.bsky.social #histed #edhist

Trump’s $7 Billion Education Funding Freeze Blindsides Schools Superintendents are scrambling to figure out what to do with programs funded by the money now under review.

It's not a "funding freeze" or "hold." It's an unlawful seizure of federal funds and it's categorically unconstitutional.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Trump administration withholds $230 million for Pennsylvania schools • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Education advocates said the failure to release the funds was reckless and unlawful and would affect the state's most vulnerable students.

Received an email that our son's after-school program, which has helped immensely throughout his foster and adoption journey, had its funding frozen and is in danger of completely shutting down this summer and beyond. It's illegal and it's immoral and it's just plain cruel. I will never forget this

Schools and States Scramble as Trump Freezes $6.8 Billion in Federal Funds After-school programs, English-learner services, migrant education programs, and professional development are all at risk.

The latest on Trump’s education funding freeze: Some programs are starting to shut down, districts are rejiggering budgets, and everyone is scrambling to make sense of the chaos.

More on $6.8 billion withheld from K-12 schools: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.