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Jen Jennings

@jenjennings.bsky.social
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All things K-12 education policy. Professor @PrincetonSPIA & Sociology; Book: The Scarcity Loop: How School Choice Reshapes the Rationing of Public Education.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm writing a letter for a Stanford application that requires students to share 8 improbable facts: "These could include facts that people wouldn’t expect to be true and/or facts that others are surprised to learn about you." I cannot imagine why this is relevant to any selection process
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At this microschool in Florida, Wagyumama Schoolhouse, students "dehorn cattle, bottle feed calves, and do blood tests on cows to check for pregnancies." “This is way crazier than I ever expected,” Bryan said about the school’s growth. Choice scholarships “literally opened the door wide open.”
nextstepsblog.org
At the ranch school, core academics come with cows and confidence - NextSteps: Step Up For Students
LAUREL HILL, Fla. – Bryan and Laine Baker didn’t set out to start a school. They were focused on their kids and their up-and-coming cattle operation. But then
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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congratulations to everyone in the education and mainstream press who validated and platformed this guy, well done
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Thomas S. Dee @tomdee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The new academic year is finally underway at Stanford. Here's a real-time photo of me as I discuss the need for—and feasibility of—preregistering quasi-experimental studies. More here: tom-dee.github.io/files/QED_Pr...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ProPublica Academy pencils for sale.
rayguncustom.com
*PRE-SALE* ProPublica Academy Pencils - Ships Late-October
*PRE-SALE* - shipping will begin in late-OctoberThis year, a team of ProPublica reporters has been documenting how the American education landscape is shifting dramatically as states use public money to help fund private schools. With few regulations, hundreds of new private and microschools have proliferated. All of t
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“In Arkansas, all it took to establish a school was filling out a form on a state website, $45 and the purchase of an American flag”
propublica.org
Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
school district websites are a bop. “every day is day one!” says osceola county, fl public schools and this just seems like a very inefficient way to live
osceola county fl, every day is day one!
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"This time, me tell A.I.: “Write about cookies passionately!” 'Some people only eat cookies on the weekends. I eat cookies all day long. Because the cookie grind never stops. Agree?' Me horrified. Me have unique voice. And now me sound like not me. Now me sound like Matt on LinkedIn."
newyorker.com
Cookie Monster Tries to Meet His A.I. Mandate
Me confused. Me know cookie inside and out! Now me has to use A.I. for cookie work?
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
stop treating the culture wars as an exogenous shock. political actors made strategic choices to create and weaponize them. they are not a curious weather condition public schools failed to dress appropriately for.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i will never forget the principal who governed our entire school according to the teachings of Who Moved My Cheese the cheese has moved, and leadership’s job is to explain why teachers need to get better at finding cheese we all got a copy of the book
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this is the season when you realize Sold a Story is a play within a play and the two plots rhyme
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
every professor personally examining every student for 45 minutes is a scalable solution to ai because arizona state can just hire the population of vermont to help
nytimes.com
Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Go order yourself a copy of Pulitzer Prize winner @drmchatelain.bsky.social's book, out today!
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 29/09/2026
"Unless [Federal Scholarship Tax Credit] funds are targeted towards low-income areas outside the communities where the money is being donated, we expect the FSTC to become a regressive funding source, even where those funds go to public school students." www.brookings.edu/articles/who...
brookings.edu
Who is likely to benefit from the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit? | Brookings
Jon Valant and co-authors assess who will benefit from the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit—and why policymakers should be worried.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It comes as a surprise but America.gov cannot help me fire a cabinet secretary. “That is not a government service a private person can carry out.”
America.gov how do I get Linda McMahon
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
onward! i chased thy footnotes through the night and each new finding led me back to you no DOI e'er dimmed that first delight 'til reviewer two penned, "but what is new?" the academy has priced my comparative advantage, useless rhyming, at a precise zero
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
someone who spent years thinking about Jordan Catalano built a whiny AI chatbot named Jordan that tells teenagers nothing matters and grades how well they pretend to care RayAnn is coming soon
npr.org
Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them
Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With vouchers, “school choice” is ultimately one the private school makes, not the family. The school has to choose you back.
sanantonioreport.org
Why not everyone who got a Texas school voucher will use it
Nearly 25% of school voucher recipients were students with documented disabilities. But some haven't been able to find schools to take them.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“greater comfort” making the hierarchy explicit here. there are young people entitled to comfort, and others who are expected to supply it for them
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
17 states looked at quadrant 4 and said: i'll take that one. by 26-27, half of US K12 schoolkids will be eligible in a universal voucher state
NY times cost/effectiveness plot of ed reforms
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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 28/09/2026
📣 The first official post on my Substack, 📘The Blue Book📘, is up. I hope you'll read it, share it, and—if you like it—subscribe. I argue there is a bigger insight from the New York Times article ranking education reforms. matthewakraft.substack.com/p/the-implem...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
sociologists study evidence abt causes & consequences of inequality & are supposed to emerge with the opinions of someone who spent 30 years studying drywall people who study evidence have thoughts about what the evidence shows. that does not mean they stop being capable of producing evidence.
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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A thread worth reading if (like me) you enjoy outraged comments about that report.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
what should we pay teachers? please submit your proposed hourly rate for extracting this child from the chair
theassemblync.com
A Hand Up for the Helpers
A new Wake County program is testing an apprenticeship model to help instructional assistants get the training they need to lead a classroom.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
admittedly late to the rubin report on sociology commissioned by the tube top of selective universities. “the inequality monocrop” is a philly haircut you got on south street in 1997 and why did no one tell her
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the famously motivating genghis khan, best known for making learning fun
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
there i was thinking garbage pail kids were just a stupid toy banned at my elementary school when they were a prophecy about american political culture
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a massive nor’easter is coming, which is nature’s way of saying: stay home, make a hot beverage & curl up with 102,274 extremely cozy words about the rationing of public education
Back of book, the scarcity loop, w blurbs
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
education policy’s primary love language is “my miracle is bigger than your miracle.” first, everyone waves around the bar chart w no y axis proving theirs is biggest. then, the miracle is declared overhyped & by spring the same people are introducing a new one a gullible but hopeful people, we
chicagotribune.com
Paul Vallas: Mississippi is no substitute for the New Orleans education miracle
Despite the improvement, many Mississippi students still fail to reach proficient benchmarks on state and national exams.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC sunset, later
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NYC sunset
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i have now encountered enough religious school handbooks specifically prohibiting mohawks that i would like the investigative journalists of the united states to look into what happened with the mohawks
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I Have Challenged Ken Paxton to Meet Me at High Noon in an H-E-B Parking Lot, Where We Will Settle This With Super Soakers Under the Emergency Jurisdiction of a Texas Roadhouse Manager
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You don’t gut the country's capacity to measure what's happening in its schools because you care about improving them. Guardian article below.
graph of number of employees at NCES
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Call For School Voucher Accountability via @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...
forbes.com
The Call For School Voucher Accountability
There may be support for vouchers, but there is also support for taxpayer-funded vouchers to operate with transparency, accountability, and some requirement to play on a level playing field with publi...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the voucher stuff happening in red states has gotten so dumb, so far from any post-enlightenment “evidence matters” conversation, that the only response left is satirical recipes in the Ambien cookbook spirit
new yorker ambien cookbook
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notamateurhour @notamateurhour.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stealing a scorpion bowl from the Harvard Square Hong Kong and sipping through the interview. King shit. I close by throwing the little plastic monkey at the camera.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Offered some thoughts here on who's getting vouchers, and what it means: "You can make the subsidy universal without making access universal, and that's what new programs have done."
theeduledger.com
Most Indiana vouchers now go to families earning over $100,000
As the state expands voucher access to all students, new state data show the program’s income-based awards shifting increasingly toward higher-earning families.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My economic indicator is the number of ads asking us to please reset our vagus nerves. The Fed has no tools for this.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
gift link to NJ’s 125 best pizzas now stop complaining about how we do gas (the ancient and correct way)
nj.com
New Jersey’s 125 best pizzas ranked, for 2026. New No. 1 pie is crowned!
The ultimate pizza guide is back and bigger than ever — only the best for the ultimate pizza state.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“School choice:” There is a school. You choose it. This is how choosing a sandwich works. You approach the sandwich. You indicate that you would like the sandwich. At no point does the sandwich ask for a letter from your pastor.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
True equality means every child gets the same opportunity to be rejected by a private school for insufficient household Jesus.
EQUAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY
Ankeny Christian Academy welcomes students who, with their parents/guardians, indicate an
understanding and willingness to support the school’s mission, statement of faith, principles and policies
and who meet the spiritual and academic qualifications.
A student’s admittance to the school is based upon the principal’s judgment, acceptable entrance,
standardized test score(s), behavioral recommendation, special needs, application information, a
satisfactory record from the previous school, at least one parent’s or guardian’s signature indicating
agreement with the policies for school enrollment, and at least one parent’s or guardian’s personal
testimony of faith in Christ. Students in grades 5-12 must sign a student commitment indicating their
desire to attend and their willingness to abide by the rules and policies in the Parent Student Handbook.
Final decisions regarding enrollment are subject to the discretion of the administration. The school
reserves the right within its sole discretion to refuse admission to an applicant or discontinue enrollment
of a student who opposes the school’s values and biblical standards, fails to meet academic requirements,
or whose needs cannot be met reasonably within the operation of the school
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Announcing the Future of Evidence in Education Network! It's been dark times for #EdResearch since Feb. 2025, but it's also brought together a lot of thoughtful people who really believe in research for the public good. www.edevidencenetwork.org
edevidencenetwork.org
The Future of Evidence in Education Network
A cross-sector network of researchers and evaluators strengthening how education evidence is generated, interpreted, and used.
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Chantal Hailey @chantalahailey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you want to hear more about how Black families' select schools. Check out this podcast I did with Lloyd Freeman last year: www.bipc.com/dimensions-o...
bipc.com
Dimensions of Diversity: Crossing Divides: Exploring Race, Education and Belonging with Dr. Chantal Hailey
On this episode of Dimensions of Diversity, Lloyd Freeman is joined by Dr. Chantal Hailey, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and a National Aca...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🧵 Let's talk about the backstory here, which you can also read about in my book. Bergtraum was 1 of 8 new selective citywide career-themed HS opened between 1969-82. 8 new schools doesn't sound like a lot, but at the time, there were 86 HS in NYC & new schs recruited from the whole city. 1/12
the scarcity loop: how school choice reshapes the rationing of public education cover
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You get one wild and precious life and some of it has to be spent on hold with Trenton Water Works.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hobbit Day following Yom Kippur is needlessly aggressive.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This tidbit of greatness just resurfaced in my feed
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Islamic communists:Marx checks notes. Considers opium.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
who looked at manhattan traffic and said, you know what this needs? the UN
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