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Erica O. Turner

@ericaoturner.bsky.social
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Assoc Professor of Educational Policy Studies. Parent. Author of Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/c…

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Rachel Fish @rachelefish.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
New paper with @alexfreidus.bsky.social and @ericaoturner.bsky.social ! Our interview data show how disability and ableism—intersecting with racism and SES inequality—complicate and stratify school choice for families of disabled students. doi.org/10.1177/2332...
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Weighing Risks: How Families of Disabled Children Made School Choices During COVID-19 - Rachel Elizabeth Fish, Alexandra Freidus, Erica O. Turner, 2025
In this paper we show how positionality shapes caregivers’ decisions about children’s schooling by expanding on research on Black families’ educational decision...
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
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Andrew Ujifusa @andrewujifusa.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The top 10% of high-income districts were four times more likely to have recovered in both math and reading compared with the poorest 10%. And academic recovery within districts remains divided by race and class. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/11/s...
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Hit by pandemic ‘aftershocks,’ kids fall further behind in reading, still trail pre-COVID peers
Wealthier school districts made much more progress catching kids up to pre-pandemic levels than lower-income districts, a new analysis by the authors of the Education Recovery Scorecard finds. And aca...
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 11/02/2025
ICE raids in schools, hospitals, and churches are turning places of learning, healing, and worship into places of fear and suffering. Our Protecting Sensitive Locations Act would ban ICE from conducting enforcement actions from within 1000 feet of these sacred spaces.
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Crockett Co-Lead Bicameral Legislation to Protect Sensitive Locations From ICE Raids
YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This is another one where, for the moment, the temporary order applies only to the 23 plaintiff states—which are mostly Democratic-controlled, or have a Dem. AG. It thus preserves NIH disbursements for Blue States, but the taps are still turned off for Red States.
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Erica O. Turner @ericaoturner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
may be beside the point/extremely obvious but i feel like you can only ignore extreme wealth inequality for so long before it metastasizes into something that fundamentally remakes and destabilizes the world by giving people access to so much money that they are fully above consequence
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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
IES was established by the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002. The functions of IES are specified by this law, which was signed by George W. Bush. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
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Trump Admin. Suddenly Cancels Dozens of Education Department Contracts
The Trump administration abruptly terminated dozens of contracts financed by the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 10/02/2025
I don’t have a fancy lesson I delivered about the #SuperBowlHalftimeShow Before I showed it, I instructed my students to write down three words and document when they noticed them: •imagery •symbolism •message We watched once all the way through, then we broke down where my students noted. +
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 11/02/2025
Colorado bill to curb school library book challenges clears first legislative hurdle www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2025/02/…
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Colorado bill to curb school library book challenges clears first legislative hurdle
The bill would require Colorado districts to have book challenge policies and only allow parents with children in a school to challenge a book at that school.
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Melanee Thomas @melomas.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Come work with us! We're looking for a colleague specializing in Gender and Diversity in Politics. Subfield open, but IR and Conparativists are especially encouraged to apply. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1555649...
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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If your state just handed $447M to vouchers for kids already in private school, spare me the "it’s too much money" excuse when it comes to educating undocumented immigrant students. Follow the law of the land—Plyler still stands.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hello, many new Bluesky followers! I’m a WIRED reporter looking to talk to people about the repercussions of Trump/Musk’s cuts. (In and outside of US) In particular on issues such as child protection, cybercrime, national security, intel sharing I can be reached on Signal: mattburgess.20
QR code for Signal, username: mattburgess.20
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Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"Teachers have every reason to be guarded about what they say & do within state-surveilled school spaces. But teachers’ selfhoods do not end at the door of the classroom. Teachers are friends, neighbors, beloveds- & they are amazing organizers" ~@eveewing.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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Trump’s Reign of Terror on Schools—and How We Fight Back
It’s not enough to be afraid of the laws and rules we don’t want to see in schools. We have to clarify our visions of what we are fighting for.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is a good action.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
These Democrats voted for cloture for Doug Collins last week but voted no on confirmation today. That means that they are responding to calls: Baldwin Blunt Rochester Cantwell Duckworth Kim Murray Reed Warner Whitehouse
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! she shouts into the void
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Special issue call from AERA Open. They specifically highlight wanting to see scholars from the humanities provide their thoughts! www.aera.net/Portals/38/2...
Screenshot of the special topic call (that can be accessed at the link) that reads: AERA Open Special Topic Call for Proposals. "Democratic Education in Undemocratic Times." Special Issue Editors: Michele S. Moses & Terri S. Wilson (with potential co-editors Cara Furman and Derek Gottlieb). This is an open call for a special issue of the open-access journal AERA Open, exploring the future of democracy, and, by extension, of democratic education. The contours of our current democratic crisis are familiar: sharply partisan politics, the rise of authoritarianism, attacks on voting rights and free elections, increasingly undeliberative discourse, the weakening of democratic institutions, and the erosion of democratic values.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
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Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy
If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.
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Erica O. Turner @ericaoturner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This makes quite a bit of sense...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"In the 1980s, when United Auto Workers realized during contract negotiations that manufacturers were trying to provoke workers into striking — to permanently replace them with scabs — the union turned to work-to-rule, throwing production into chaos and winning a 36% wage bump over three years"
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Erica O. Turner @ericaoturner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If true... could this be a brilliant move by someone in NSF to identify every single grant and gum up the system OR a nefarious move by someone in NSF to identify every single grant and defund the entire higher education/research sector? I'm really, really toggling here...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
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Tami Sawyer @tamisawyer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Happy Black History Month—every month. Black energy is everlasting. The contributions of Black people to this country & the world cannot be erased by policy or hate. Who is your favorite Black history icon? We’re honoring and building all year long. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory365
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If you’re a government employee, thank you for your service & here’s a resource you may find helpful. Stay strong. www.civilservicestrong.org
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Civil Service Strong: Resources for Civil Servants
Effective. Impartial. Resilient. The civil service comprises dedicated, nonpartisan federal employees who work tirelessly across the country and around the world to ensure the effective delivery of go...
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Erica O. Turner @ericaoturner.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Can't wait to read this issue and these authors. Such important work!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 31/01/2025
The economy is booming, but Americans are sicker, sadder, and more stressed than we used to be. Maybe because that economic growth was built on a culture of overwork that sacrifices people's wellbeing.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 31/01/2025
Today in an email to parents, teachers and students, the leaders of Maryland’s largest school district vowed to “use all legal means necessary” to resist President Trump’s executive orders seeking to end diversity initiatives and transgender inclusion in public education.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025
i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve
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Adam Gamoran @agamoran.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“We @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social have no plans to change the way we do business. We have no plans to change our funding priorities, which are reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the way evidence from research is used in policy and practice.” That’s what I told @insidephilanthropy.com …
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Some thoughts on the latest anti-history and anti-trans EO. (Initial, on the bus, subject to revision 😉 & more informed on the 🗃️ than the 🏳️‍⚧️rights problems here.) 1) Can they do this? That is, is it legal for the executive to do this, in this way? NO.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This thread will be stories of how people hold the line--continue to behave responsibly and ethically.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
DEI public favorability continues to be +19. Pundits are wrong that: 1) DEI is unpopular. It's popular. 2) This recent support is thermostatic. This is NOT thermostatic. DEI favorability has been high throughout its existence (second pic).
Big support for DEI  DEI was popular before
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The union representing thousands of janitors said ICE went to multiple downtown San Francisco offices but that building security kept them from entering, KTVU reports. “Union president Olga Miranda said the janitors were relieved that someone spoke up for them.” www.ktvu.com/news/ice-age...
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ICE agents in downtown San Francisco blocked by building security
Local 87, the union representing 6,000 janitors in the private sector, said federal agents went to multiple downtown office buildings late Friday afternoon, but that building security kept them from e...
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Adrian Carrasquillo @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🚨What the hell is going on? 🧵 Another PUERTO RICAN family detained, a man tells Telemundo his sister, her mother in law, & a child were taken by ICE in Milwaukee & driven to facility where his sister explained they’re US CITIZENS. ICE response to this flagrant violation? “Sorry”
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Familia puertorriqueña habría sido llevada a centro de detención en Milwaukee
Hermana de una de las detenidas alega que los arrestaron por hablar español.
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The vagueness of just which programs need to be frozen under the new OMB memo really says to me that they're hoping groups preemptively shut down their programs that get federal funds and use that as proof that they were woke all along
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Michael Linden @michaelslinden.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I'm a former OMB official and this is absolutely true. And let's also not forget that these illegal actions have direct, harmful consequences for actual people. New moms won't get help feeding their infants. Small businesses won't make payroll. People could lose their jobs, their homes.
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Austin Clemens @austinclemens2.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I called @vanhollen.senate.gov, Angela Alsobrooks, and Kweisi Mfume just now. If you're reading this, do the same for your reps! If we want Dems to show backbone, we need to flood their phones! www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A LOT (a LOT) of dictators in the past grabbed power with something claiming to be "temporary."
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