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Ethan Hutt

@ehutt.bsky.social
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Associate Prof UNC School of Ed; study ed history, reform, law; love TV, sports, dogs, & prose | New book: offthemarkbook.com #Dodgers #COYS 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Sooooolo happpy!!! For Ange. For Son (who doesn’t look like he has much left). For this whole team and fanbase!
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Great thread on yesterday’s oral argument. Delighted that at least one justice (Gorsuch) read our brief. But, as Cam points out in detail and with receipts that was a…weird and disappointing argument full of blind alleys and imprecise questions and answers.
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“If the court ignores a clear historical record merely because it is inconvenient for a political cause favored by its conservative members, it will move one fateful step closer to losing its public legitimacy.” @ehutt.bsky.social and Aaron Tang
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Contributor: Tax dollars for religious schools? Conservative justices could be the roadblock
The current court has deemed history and tradition to be central to the interpretation of our constitutional rights. Two centuries of history on this topic is clear.
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Wesley T. Morris @wesleytmorris.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Late update, but excited to share I successfully defended my dissertation on April 1–and no one’s said April Fools yet. Big thanks to my advisor Dr. Lauren Sartain and committee @drconstance.bsky.social @ehutt.bsky.social @danielklasik.bsky.social & Steve Hemelt for their support the past 5 yrs!
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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Proud to sign this amicus brief for the OK religious case. W/ @ehutt.bsky.social @scribnerumcp.bsky.social & Steven K. Green. The history's clear: The Founders believed "funding religious instruction would foment civic strife and damage school administration." www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"Given the persistence of chronic absenteeism, this book should be on the shelf of every principal, school administrator, and policymaker in the country.” —@ehutt.bsky.social on RETHINKING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM by @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social and @jeremylsinger.bsky.social‬ bit.ly/3ZKYXbk
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Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism
A call for community-based approaches to reducing the barriers that prevent regular attendance in K-12 schools In Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism, Sarah Winc...
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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This Monday (3/31) at 12 PM ET, be sure to join HEP authors @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social and @jeremylsinger.bsky.social for a free, Monroe C. Gutman Library-hosted book talk on RETHINKING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM! This event will be moderated by @ehutt.bsky.social. Register here: bit.ly/4k1uuyI
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David Houston @dmhouston.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Wonderful thread on the history of federal education data collection
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
...if for no other reason than it undercuts one of the virtues of federalism & local control: the possibility of learning from a pluralistic approach to schooling. We can empower states & local communities while leaving intact our ability to learn from that variety. 12/x
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I say this as someone who has been plenty critical of the quantification of schooling and learning: crippling ED's ability to collect and disseminate stats about our schools makes all states and districts worse off.... 11/ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Off the Mark — Harvard University Press
Amid widespread concern that our approach to testing and grading undermines education, two experts explain how schools can use assessment to support, rather than compromise, learning.Anyone who has ev...
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Same is true of early federal longitudinal data sets. The first ones were bloated, cumbersome, (and some how still omitted key variables like race!), and didn't produce much insight. But those efforts begot HSB, NELS, ELS, HLS, etc.... 10/
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Granted, even w/ ED trying to coordinate thousands of school districts in the US, it took a very long time to get the standard data reporting practices we have. Efforts in the 1950s toward a "common core" of data were a mess but led to: HEGIS (1966); IPEDS (1986) CCD (1986) 9/
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
For a contemporary ex of the babel of ed statistics, districts/states have very different definitions of what counts as having "attended" school for the day. This was especially challenging during Covid! Does virtual access mean you're always present?! 8/
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
That's the thing about the quantification of schooling: it's not self-evident what or how (or how often) you should count/measure things in schools. A lot of different ways make sense! So you need coordination and uniform definitions! 7/
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"...but the records of so many single experiences, incapable of being aggregated or contrasted with each other, and so their chief value is lost; especially is this true of educational statistics in this country." -Eaton "Educational Lessons of Statistics" (1872) 6/
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Here's 2nd Commissioner of Ed, John Eaton (1872), "It too often happens when the thought of keeping records occurs, the workers in a given field adopt methods so diverse and incomplete that they form..." 5/
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This history is significant but the argument doesn't/shouldn't turn on the fact that this was an old practice. It should turn on the basic insight embedded in the practice. i.e. why we thought *centralized* collection and dissemination of statistics was important in the first place 4/
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
You can argue that we need to reduce or "turn back" federal overreach in education. Fine. But I'm not clear how that argument can include eliminating the collection and dissemination of information about the nation's schools. That's been there since the beginning. 3/
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Federal data collection in education goes back to 1867, which means it is basically as old as American school systems. Yes there was schooling before 1867, but only MA/VT/DC had compulsory school laws at the time. Schooling was largely informal & voluntary. 2/
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Nice to see all the education research orgs put out a joint statement calling for Congress to safeguard the (Congressionally established) IES and NCES I would have liked to see them underscore the historical dimensions a bit more (surprise!) 1/ www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...
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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
On Monday, 3/31 at 12 PM ET, join @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social and @jeremylsinger.bsky.social for a virtual talk on their book, RETHINKING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM. This event is hosted by the Monroe C. Gutman Library, moderated by @ehutt.bsky.social, and is free to attend! bit.ly/4k1uuyI
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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
cc: @ehutt.bsky.social @johannneem.bsky.social @nrooks.bsky.social @adamlaats.bsky.social @ansleyerickson.bsky.social @hyres376.bsky.social @redheadmenace.bsky.social @scribnerumcp.bsky.social @rgoransdotter.bsky.social
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
To my historian followers: do you have any favorite resources you share with students doing archival work for the first time?
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Agreed that this is a great post. Cancelling data collection is terribly stupid and goes against the aim of federal involvement in education going back to 1867 (and to 1950s for longitudinal data)…
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Is there a database where someone can see IES funding by location of the research site. As people try to communicate how widespread the reach of this research is it would be useful to point to concrete examples.
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I disagree with Checker Finn far more often than i agree with him, but this one he has spot on: fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
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Easy, DOGE. IES matters.
The federal role in education dates to 1867 when President Andrew Johnson signed legislation creating the first “Department of Education” for the purpose of:
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If you need a good laugh: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/was...
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Was It Cake?
“It’s not cake!” my wife screamed as the cleaver split the thermostat in our foyer. I pushed past her and sank my chef’s knife into the Ethan Allen...
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The Crisis in Education is an excellent (and short) essay, worth your time. I just taught it to my undergrads and we had a good discussion about what it means to preserve the revolutionary potential of youth…
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
And if you enjoy this essay, you should know @scribnerumcp.bsky.social has a substack open.substack.com/pub/campbell...
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Thoughts on Art and Education | Campbell F. Scribner | Substack
Short essays on education, childhood, and art. Click to read Thoughts on Art and Education, by Campbell F. Scribner, a Substack publication. Launched 24 days ago.
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A superb meditation on moral education. “Romantic educators are not wrong to celebrate children’s creativity and potential. Rather, their mistake is to pull those qualities away from the existential commitment & moral seriousness that give them meaning & in which the soul takes root.”
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This is an imp point (in a great thread). Our paper we argues that the history is clear: states could *but didn’t have to* (as a constitutional matter) fund religious school. The history doesn’t have to be dispositive for you, but we should be clear about what it is. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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"Original History" and the Free Exercise Case for Religious Charter Schools
<p><i>Does the Free Exercise Clause guarantee a right to taxpayer funds for charter schools that would teach religious doctrine as truth? Leading commentators b
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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
1/ Another Free Exercise/Establishment Clause case, this one years in the making! The Court just agreed to hear St. Isidore v. Drummond, which asks whether Oklahoma can establish a Catholic charter school (as the state charter board did) or not (as the OK Supreme Court ruled).
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
If I can add one more to paper to the ones you have here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... 😁 And I think the case will be heard in April, so you don’t have so long to wait!
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Can we get the supercut of the Mahomes roughing the passer penalties with the hits Allen and Jackson took today? 🙏🙏
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
If the NFL decides to stop giving the Chiefs 3 drive extending penalties each week, I don’t think they make it back to the Super Bowl. So, yeah I guess you’re right. Time to give the Commanders a shot. 😁
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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
1/ The Supreme Court just agreed to hear Mahmoud v. Taylor, about LGBT curriculum & opt-outs. It should be a helpful ruling, but not for any of the reasons that the two sides have outlined. A quick 🧵:
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
“Grief comes and goes to the flow of an unknown and unknowable tide. In the face of this, with a new year before us, we may ask: Aren’t there things we’re supposed to do? Like stages or some such? No. There are not.” www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/01/faci...
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Facing a New Year of Grief - Front Porch Republic
Grief is not a process to work through, a disorder to heal, a condition to treat, or an illness to cure.
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Shot in the dark but: ~6mo ago I heard a short radio segment on NPR (may have been world news hour) on children deciding to leave their families to become Jain monks. I cannot find the clip anywhere. Did anyone else hear this segment? Know where I can find it? (And, yes, I’m working on my syllabus)
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
If you want to squeeze a last session into your #NCTE, come chat about what’s wrong with the way we grade and test our students and what we might do about it…
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If you’re going to be at #NCTE tomorrow, come here me talk about my book “Off the Mark How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To)” Sunday 9am! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Off the Mark — Harvard University Press
Amid widespread concern that our approach to testing and grading undermines education, two experts explain how schools can use assessment to support, rather than compromise, learning.Anyone who has ev...
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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Calling all historians of education: History of Education Quarterly has just released a "Forum on Future Directions for History of Education." I'll include all the contributions in this thread, with free access. 1/n
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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 18/11/2024
Does your library have @jackschneider.bsky.social @ehutt.bsky.social’s recent book? Good stuff in it! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Off the Mark — Harvard University Press
Amid widespread concern that our approach to testing and grading undermines education, two experts explain how schools can use assessment to support, rather than compromise, learning.Anyone who has ev...
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Thanks!
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Talk to me about how you follow Spurs on here. On that other platform I just had a list with all my Spurs follows. Is there an equivalent here?
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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
"A is for Arson" offers an alternative history of American education, interpreting property destruction as a form of political resistance, aesthetic self-formation, and pure chaos. It’s a fun read! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
I’d be curious what this looks like with college students. They definitely know what chatgpt is. Also 60-70% of high schoolers recently engaged in cheating? Maybe there’s no *new* big wave of cheating because the vast majority our students are *already* engaged in cheating…
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
You already have an AI-detection software: it’s called a grammar check. Until ChatGPT introduces comma splices into its answers, cheating will continue to be easy to spot…. <sigh>.
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
@jackschneider.bsky.social and I had a great chat about our book with the Nat Malkus of AEI. If you prefer to consume our book by podcast rather than print, you're in luck, we covered some new ground in this one: www.aei.org/podcast/etha...
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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Reposting my WaPo piece with @ehutt.bsky.social about grade inflation (this time with a gift link that should give everyone access). Our argument: you can’t simply insist that educators “get tough.” Grade inflation isn’t about teachers being “soft.”
wapo.st
Perspective | Is the new handwringing over grade inflation inflated?
What’s really at stake.
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Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
This is a good question for @judithkafka.bsky.social !!
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