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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Bathroom security or surveillance? @drsamviano.bsky.social & colleagues find that schools increasingly treat restrooms as sites of control, using vape detectors & staff patrols. Students are skeptical; administrators are supportive. 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1307

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I rarely post, but I thought it meaningful to share this beautiful tribute to a really special colleague, Mark Helmsing, written by his sister. Wanted to share in case anyone knew Mark from Mason, MSU, or academic circles, and just so others will learn about him www.waskoms.com/obituary/Mar...

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Obituary for Mark Helmsing | Waskom Capitol Hill Chapel

Share memories & support the family

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Been chatting with folks who've lost their jobs and several said it would be nice to learn about how to get into consulting work. So I said I could put something together on that! Webinar next Thursday at 1pm eastern. (Thanks AEFP, APPAM, NCME, & SREE!) Register here: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...

Flyer for a webinar on Thursday, June 12th from 1-2pm eastern titled "Breaking into Education Consulting: Exploring Independent Career Paths." The overview says: curious about what it takes to build a career as an independent consultant? In this webinar, panelists will share practical advice for researchers considering this path. I'm moderating and there are 4 dope panelists. Co-hosted by AEP, NCME, APPAM, and SREE.

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Wesley T. Morris @wesleytmorris.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🚨Organizing a paper swap for early career edu policy researchers.🚨 Share a nearly-complete draft, exchange feedback, and connect with peers. Great if you’ve got a lingering project or diss chapter that could use feedback and soft deadlines to move it forward this summer. Sign up & learn more here:

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Education Policy Early Career Paper Swap

The goal is to create an opportunity for early career scholars and recent Ph.D. graduates to connect with peers at similar stages and receive constructive feedback on article-length drafts they’re pre...

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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🧪💪I know folks are struggling to appeal #NSF grant terminations I created a generic GD version of our team's response plan, including a draft appeal*, based on compiled guidance. *Not a lawyer, best guess! Also, DMs open for ?/feedback. @davidimiller.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Action Plan & Appeal for Illegal NSF Grant terminations

[RedactedProjectName] Action Plan for Response to Illegal NSF Grant termination ***This document - with Background, Action Plan, & Appeal Letter - was compiled by a fellow researcher appealing their N...

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My friends, consider running for school board, and check out these amazing resources.

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

New from the amazing Jennifer Darling-Aduana and me: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in K–12 Online Learning: A Systematic Review Review of Educational Research journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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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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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Public schools have not recovered from COVID-19, we can see it in the scores, hear it from teachers and school leaders. Throwing schools into chaos is the last thing they need, and there is nothing but chaos in dismantling the Department of Ed. This is an attack on educators & children #EDMatters

How Dismantling the Department Hurts Students, Teachers, and Communities

7.4 million students with disabilities, served by Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), money that goes straight to states and schools to help kids with disabilities learn, like early intervention services.

26 million students from low-income backgrounds in urban, rural and suburban communities rely on federal Title I funding to improve achievement.

6 states where more than 20% of the education budget comes from the federal government: Alaska, Montana, South Dakota, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky.

9.8 million students in rural schools depend on federal support to bridge funding gaps iin communities with more limited local tax bases.

6.6 million Pell Grant recipients rely on federal student aid to attend college.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This statement is nearing 1600 signatories. Have you signed? Have you sent to your friends & colleagues? Your department or university list-serve? Your alumni network? if not, can you? bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd or to go right to signing bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign

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Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education

Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

Chart showing double the number of protests in 2025 than occurred during the same time period in 2017.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I spent a lot of my time with grad students at aefp talking through what they do with dissertation papers that use restricted data when r&rs will likely ask them to go back to the data. I think editorial boards need to be talking about their options for navigating this.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Sharing in case other people with or knowledgeable about nces restricted data have ideas for disclosure risk review since typically you email IES to get approval to release your paper to non-licensed folks and all of IES basically disappeared over night

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u... This is an earthquake. It's going to absolutely hamstring important government functions, and students and families will suffer. I'm especially worried by the mention of deep cuts to the Office of Civil Rights at USED—not unexpected, but still terrible. (1/4)

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Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff

The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.

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Eos Trinidad @eostrinidad.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

"these are dedicated professionals, many of whom have spent their entire careers working to strengthen education for every student in America"

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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Not in my name. If you are a Jewish university affiliate and want to express that cuts to university research do not protect Jews and do not address anti-semitism, consider signing here: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...

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Open letter in response to federal funding cuts at Columbia

On March 7th, the Trump administration announced the immediate cancellation of approximately $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University. This includes funding from the Departm...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day. Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience Thread👇🧵

Graph between 1/20 and 2/28 of fiscal year 2024 and 2025 new awards in the EDU directorate.

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Rachel M. Perera @rachelmarisa.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🚨 Join us this Fri 2/28 @ 1:30PM, ET for an online webinar with education and legal scholars, including experts in civil rights enforcement, to discuss the legality of the Department of Education's Feb 14 Dear Colleague Letter & the potential threat of enforcement. www.brookings.edu/events/what-...

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What do education leaders need to know about the Department of Education's new guidance on race and civil rights?

On February 28, join Brookings for a webinar with education and legal scholars to discuss the legality of the February 14 guidance letter

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A vacuum of local news coverage opened a year ago when DC's NPR affiliate eliminated DCist. We need reporting that matters to DC residents. If you're local and able, please support the 51st 51st.news/email/11c7e3...

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It's been one year since DCist was shut down a second time

Here's what we've grown thanks to you, and what's needed to keep going.

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Beth Tipton @statstipton.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

In this op-ed, we - the presidents of SREE and AEFP - joined forces to argue for the importance of evidence on "what works" and how cutting such funding is not "efficient" - it is wasteful. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...

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Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient

Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A thing I do is setup early career virtual coffees with the pre-tenure folks in my area in my department. I had one this morning and while I can't solve most of the big problems, I think it was helpful.

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Virginia Foxx, Chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, represented Winston-Salem/Forsyth County for decades (until recent redistricting). The current reps coving WS/FCS are Pat Harrigan (R) and Addison McDowell (R)

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

On a different IES review panel and received the same email. In addition, it's wasting millions of dollars to cancel at this point. This is about destruction, not efficiency

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Educational Science Reform Act of 2002 as passed by Congress and signed into law: "There shall be in the Department the Institute of Education Sciences" www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

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Rachel M. Perera @rachelmarisa.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

this from a representative at American Institutes for Research about DOGE/Trump cancelling IES contracts is spot on (& good on them for speaking out clearly about this)

“This is an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars, which have been invested—per Congressional appropriations and many according to specific legislation—in long-standing data collection and analysis efforts, and policy and program evaluations,” Tofig said. “These investments inform the entire education system at all levels about the condition of education and the distribution of students, teachers, and resources in school districts across America. Many of these contracts are nearing completion and canceling them now yields the taxpayers no return on their investment. If the purpose of such cuts is to make sure taxpayer dollars are not wasted and used well, the evaluation and data work that has been terminated is exactly the work that determines which programs are effective uses of federal dollars, and which are not.”

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I love all my friends saying things like, “I wish I could make a career off being petty and making diss tracks” after the halftime show, and I’m out here like, “Have you considered academia?”

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Matthew Gardner Kelly @mgardnerkelly.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Reminder to the education policy crowd: download all the publicly available federal data you could ever need today

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

So happy for ppl with perfect children but my 8YO turns into an evil creature if we do too much screen time And, yes, random judgy opeds are a great distraction in these times! www.businessinsider.com/ignoring-tra...

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I let my kids watch videos on their iPads for hours and don't force them to eat vegetables. They're thriving, and I'm way less anxious.

Traditional parenting advice can feel like borderline bullying at times. That's why I ignore most of it.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/02/2025

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 03/02/2025

New paper from Vargas and colleagues theorizes & measures "Academic Copaganda": "studies contesting social movement claims by authors (1) masking their conflicts of interest, or (2) espousing police epistemology." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

2 more empirical questions how can we determine what it would look like if students had a reason to care about their naep performance? how much has time increased over the last couple decades in how often are students taking similar assessments to naep?

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My hot take for the day is that students are way over-tested and the naep results are just as likely driven by apathy as "learning loss"

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I think it is hard to fully understand how extreme consequences are for youth in certain states for often dumb stuff. This article is about TN but the baker act in Florida has led to thousands of students being involuntary detained, including students with autism www.propublica.org/article/tenn...

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Two Families Sue After 11-Year-Old and 13-Year-Old Students Were Arrested Under Tennessee’s School Threat Law

The lawsuits, filed in federal court this month, argue East Tennessee school officials violated students’ rights by calling the police on them under Tennessee’s threats of mass violence law.

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is so great! When I was at NSF, I often advised applicants to ask around for examples of successful proposal, but would be ideal if grantees took the lead on using this kind of transparency to help others!

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Looks like it is time to think about NSF CAREER proposals again! Hope my materials can be helpful to others, and I'm happy to pay-it-forward to others interested in applying. Let's get more ed leadership and ed policy research funded by NSF!!! www.samanthaviano.com/projects/4113

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Samantha Viano - Resources

Funded Grants NSF CAREER Award I have received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER program, National Academy of Education/Spencer ...

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Talk about well-timed publication announcements! Such relevant and important work from @dmhouston.bsky.social

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Wow wow wow, this is such an exciting announcement for educators and education researchers. This could also be amazing for dissertations! A definite 📌

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This is so beautiful and exactly what I teach to aspiring ed leaders, use research to motivate and inspire 🤓

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Love this and will add that AI should never be used to look up information or to solve problems. Large language models are built to hallucinate and current models were incapable of being accurate, i.e. they will make shit up every time

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Agree with all this for ed research too, and I'm begging all Reviewers to focus on the empirics and contribution and stop asking authors to rewrite the whole freakin manuscript

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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

School districts have spent over $100 million on window film that does nothing to stop bullets. Utah, Texas and Tennessee have mandates that will profit the companies making false claims at the expense of the students. This is a terrible waste of resources. #EdPolicy www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Schools Spend Millions on a Safety Measure to Stop Bullets. It Doesn’t Work.

Demonstrations by dealers selling window film to keep out armed attackers often mislead officials into thinking it is a bullet-resistant shield.

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The National Academies has an ad hoc committee on The Impact of Active Shooter Drills on Student Health and Wellbeing Hopefully, there will be more soon that can really get at what we should do about these drills 🤞 www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/the...

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Have typically been very underwhelmed with chatgpt for variety of things, coding, logic, summarizing, etc, but I just asked it to draft an interview protocol and WOW

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

NEW 📚“Handbook of Children and Screens” is out! I co-authored a chapter on ethics and equity in K-12 Online Learning led by the amazing Jen Darling-Aduana Download for Free ➡️bit.ly/handbook-of-children-and-screens @childrenandscreens.bsky.social

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Regular reminder that school resource officers job is NOT to help students or increase safety. Their job is to enforce the law

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This thread makes excellent points for how having police in schools increases the likelihood of arrest which could then result in deportation. But also, kids often tell police in schools that they/their family members are undocumented bc the kids are told the police are there to help them

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

This is exactly the argument I had at home the other night. Husband says he just uses ChatGPT because Google results don't cut it. I agreed Googing is broken, but ChatGPT isn't better, it's just spits out the hallucinations faster

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I don't just kvetch about school security here, I also do so in marketing videos for my job youtu.be/b8sL_CrDvyI?...

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School Security: Keeping Students Safe at School

YouTube video by George Mason CEHD

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Dr. Samantha Viano @drsamviano.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My favorite conference proposal decision days are ones where I did not submit, so I just get to enjoy the celebrations 🤗🎉🥳

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