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Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Sometimes (human/animal) social groups split into two (or more). Team departures in corporate firms, political party splits, religious schisms, software forks, etc. Let's study this. I hire a predoc or a postdoc on social group splits. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/events/...

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Call for Applications AxPo Research Assistant/Postdoc

AxPo Research Assistant/Postdoc Application 2026AxPo Research Assistant/Postdoc Application 2026Research Assistant job application for Research Group on Social Group Splits at AxPo, Sciences Po, Paris...

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

My two cents: everyone studying and making education policy should know education history. Since that seems unlikely, I’ll settle for requiring Groundhog Day: nearly every “new” reform has already been debated, tried, renamed, or memory-holed.

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

NEW: Corshelle Jenkins was falsely charged with a crime + a warrant issued for her arrest. It was clear mistaken identity but a judge said there were no available lawyers for her. The charge would stay + she had no way to fight it She's 1 of 1000s in Oregon trapped in criminal cases without lawyers

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Falsely charged with a crime, no way to fight it: inside Oregon’s court crisis

An attorney shortage has left thousands trapped in criminal cases without lawyers. One wrongfully accused woman had no choice but to wait

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Olivier Godechot @oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We demonstrate that financial cities are increasingly overrepresented in national and local top earnings and that earnings for financiers in these cities explain 28% of this growing disparity.

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I am so excited for what this will mean for evidence-based education policy in Oregon and the opportunities it will create for Oregon kids! graduate.lclark.edu/live/news/58...

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Ben Bowman Joins L&C as Senior Fellow

Bowman will work closely with Graduate School leadership and faculty and with partners across the state to scale the school’s impact and expand the use ...

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 18/04/2026

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

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Emily Penner @emilykpenner.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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 🧵 doi.org/10.3102/0002...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 19/03/2026

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.

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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.

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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 19/03/2026

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

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Christopher Cleveland @christocleve.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@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.

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Aaron Ainsworth @ajainsworth.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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: A 🧵

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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...

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

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

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.

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Yet one more way that we are failing children.

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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

Bar chart of Banff animal over and underpass crossing data.

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

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David Houston @dmhouston.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 16/08/2025

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.

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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.

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 27/07/2025

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.

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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.

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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!

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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.

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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

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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...

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Very excited for the latest paper from the international administrative data network I am a part of! Led by @aresherman.bsky.social we show that 75% of pay differences between immigrants and native-born workers arise because of sorting into different jobs, with 25% due to unequal pay within jobs.

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NBER @nber.org · 31/05/2025

Universal school masking reduced weekly COVID-19 deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. 50 percent of districts removed mask requirements by spring 2022 contributing to 9 percent of COVID deaths that year, from Guzman, Imberman, Filosa, Kilbride, and Malkus www.nber.org/papers/w33849

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Rachel Fish @rachelefish.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

AERA: I'm looking forward to sharing a paper co-authored with @alexfreidus.bsky.social and @ericaoturner.bsky.social on how families of disabled children made school choices during the pandemic. Should be a stellar symposium on school choice for marginalized families! 8am Sunday in Meeting Room 712.

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I love this assignment so much and can’t wait to use it (with attribution) the next time I teach Sociology of Education!

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

So excited to present some great undergrad honors theses from UCI LIFTED students at #psa2025 Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and to the session organizers who helped make this happen!

Roundtable attendees watch a presentation on a laptop.

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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

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Leah Clark @leahclark.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Allow me to nerd out a bit about the stats in our recent PNAS paper... To make this graph, we calculated a 100-by-100 grid of the average proportion of peers in each income percentile for students in each percentile (i.e., average peer income distributions for each student percentile). [1/n]

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

What I keep turning over at 3am: How do we design an education system that cultivates people to have the courage to stand up, and stand together, for something greater than themselves?

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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

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Computational Journalist

New York, New York, United States

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Thad Domina @t-h-a-d.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Hey! What are you doing Friday morning? Attending the Schooled and Sorted "Author Meets Critics "session, obviously. 8AM, Boston Park Plaza, Brookline conference room. #ESS2025 www.russellsage.org/publications...

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Schooled and Sorted

In Schooled & Sorted, Thurston Domina, Andrew M. Penner, and Emily K. Penner, explore processes of educational categorization in order to explain the complex relationship between education and social

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Things I am excited to fly across the country and wake up at 8am EST for : ) #ESS2025

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Thad Domina @t-h-a-d.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Attending #ESS2025 & interesting in donuts, education, and/ inequality? Join us next Friday, 8AM for an author (me, @emilykpenner.bsky.social , @andrewpenner.bsky.social) meets critics (@rachelefish.bsky.social, @johndiamondphd.bsky.social, @jenjennings.bsky.social) discussion!

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Michelle Spiegel @michspieg.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We're living through a highly polarized time, both economically and politically. Schools have the potential to bring us together, but are contributing to our separation. In a new @pnas.org article, my colleagues and I document students' exposure to economically diverse school and classroom peers. 📄:

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Thad Domina @t-h-a-d.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Roses are red, Violets are blue, When we abandon the common school ideal, Our society turns to poo.

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Michelle Spiegel @michspieg.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Students in the top 1% of the income distribution are highly isolated in affluent school enclaves. 💥6%💥 of these top 1% percentile kids’ peers are ALSO in the top income percentile. 💥20%💥 are in the top 5 income percentiles. 💥Nearly 50%💥come from the top 20 income percentiles.

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

When students from the top 1% of the family income distribution have as many classmates from from the top 10% as from the bottom 60% they are deprived of opportunities to learn with and from classmates who aren’t similarly high income.

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Economic integration within schools is limited, @ucirvine.bsky.social-led study finds | Research, published in PNAS, highlights disproportionate isolation of students from families in highest income brackets @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @andrewpenner.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social

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Economic integration within schools is limited, UC Irvine-led study finds

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 10/12/2024

Hmm, could be bad news for all the Narratives out there.

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