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Katie Smith

@ksmithedu.bsky.social
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Read, write and teach about higher ed and student career development/ opportunity/ outcomes. Sometimes re: STEM. Love writing, rec sports, travel. sites.google.com/view/ksmithedu

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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Pre-summer library stock up!
Stack of books with titles like Alma mater and born female.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/07/2025
“The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Replace Diversity Offices Amid DEI Purge | News | The Harvard Crimson
The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fan...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Cool paper with an great title. Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls. People from high SES backgrounds do the same www.iza.org/publications...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/06/2025
About 250 years ago, an unassuming structure on the campus of William & Mary, housed the Williamsburg Bray School, making it the oldest known building where enslaved and free Black children were formally educated. It is now, on Juneteenth, open to the public.
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On Juneteenth, This Williamsburg Schoolhouse Finds a New Life
Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial Williamsburg.
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I am becoming a bit of a higher ed history nerd. Old photos and records of women's sports are some of my favorite docs. Check out this fun photo of the 1904 Smith College hockey team and their mascot, Max, curtesy of Smith Special Collections.
Old black and white photo of a group of women wearing turtleneck sweatshirts with "1904" sewn on the front. They are holding hockey sticks and sitting together around a dog.
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I don't have an #NSF grant, but I have spent the past 17 months collaborating with 5 students analyzing open access data from another team's NSF-funded project. Fed investment in education & science is critical for our society, and the benefits are widespread. These cuts have long term implications.
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Svasti Haricharan @svasti.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Surprise surprise! Allowing scientists to have continuity and security in their funding lets them focus on research and ask big questions that require long term support to answer, and that are most likely to have big impacts for humanity. TIL. 🧪
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 07/05/2025
President Donald Trump’s administration has pulled close to $10.2 million in federal grants from AmeriCorps projects in Philadelphia, jeopardizing the future of 11 community service programs.
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Philly lost $10.2 million in the latest round of DOGE funding cuts to AmeriCorps
The cuts targeted eleven education programs, including CityYear, Teach for America, and Joyful Readers.
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Harvard’s website changed to feature research and impact: www.harvard.edu. I know they are private and the literal most well resourced institution in the US, but if you know how hard it is to make even the smallest edit on a college website, this is even more impressive.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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Adam Lichtenstein @adamlichtenstein.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Gutting. From the Tallahassee Democrat.
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 14/04/2025
Interesting new research suggesting one reason women are less likely to major in STEM, economics, and business is that they expect to face labor market discrimination later in those fields (so that the return to such majors is lower). www.nber.org/papers/w33680
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/04/2025
If you don't feel like scouring my skyline for all the places I've talked about why encouraging profligate & uncritical use of "AI" in education & public life is is so so so very bad, you can read more on what makes this situation so dangerous & problematic here: afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=5899
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 25/03/2025
Pieces like this are why I'm concerned about the ability of students to get financial aid on time in the fall...and for some small colleges to make payroll as a result. Even if there is no intent to cut aid, there don't seem to be the staff to handle inevitable issues that arise.
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Education Department Staff Struggle After Mass Layoffs
The Trump administration said its sweeping cuts would eliminate bloat at the department. Staff say the “chaotic” process has stalled essential functions and left remaining employees with unmanageable ...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In case you wanted to know some of my thoughts on how student loans would be affected by all this nonsense...here you go! Gift link. www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
screenshot of the top of the article from the wall street journal. Title reads: What to know about student loans after trump's move to dismantle the education department. Subhead reads: The federal agency manages roughly $1.7 trillion in student loans to nearly 45 million people. By Oyin Adedoyin and Dalvin Brown. Updated March 20, 2025 at 6:06pm eastern.screenshot of the article that reads: Trump has suggested moving the student-loan portfolio to another agency, such as the Treasury Department or Small Business Administration.

That could mean changes to the contracts between loan servicers and the government, said Dominique Baker, associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware.

With servicing changes, there can be headaches and delays. Last year, the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, or Mohela, a student loan servicer, transitioned record-keeping for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to the Education Department. While the transition was happening, processing of forms and other information was paused, frustrating borrowers.

“The number one thing I would expect from that type of move is chaos,” Baker said. She said she could see a scenario where people are making payments but nobody is tracking how many they have made.
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
In addition to being morally wrong this is also just plain old wrong as shown by research by @kevinshih.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Do international students crowd-out or cross-subsidize Americans in higher education?
Recent growth in international enrollment at U.S. universities has raised controversy. While critics accuse international students of displacing Ameri…
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We're hearing from multiple sources that all U.S. Dept. of Ed buildings are closing at 6 p.m. and are closed tomorrow. Email to staff cites "security reasons." "Employees will not be permitted in any ED facility on Wednesday, March 12th, for any reason." @jodiscohen.bsky.social and I are following
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 11/03/2025
I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System. This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine. Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
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USDA halts more than $100M in funding for University of Maine System programs
The move temporarily pauses USDA funding for Maine's university system after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off the state over Maine's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in sp...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Tough to see my alma mater (SUNY Geneseo) and a number of other upstate NY institutions on these lists
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The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
CALL FOR PAPERS The Sociological Quarterly will be publishing an upcoming special issue on student activism. The deadline to submit an abstract is Jan. 15, 2025. For more information on the special issue, and instructions on submitting an abstract, go to think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I've been doing follow up interviews with participants from my dissertation about their careers. In college, they chose to be teachers. Today, most plan to leave teaching (or already have). It's a small sample, but a bit sad to see how some of these dreams have unfolded.
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Well isn’t this an interesting little piece of PA history—The Steelers and Eagles were once the same team. Here’s the history of the short-lived Steagles. www.inquirer.com/eagles/steag...
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The Steelers and Eagles were once the same team. Here’s the history of the short-lived Steagles.
World War II left the Eagles and Steelers short on players — so they combined to form the Steagles, a team that lasted only one year, perhaps in part due to two coaches who couldn't get along.
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 10/12/2024
UVA Students Resume Campus History Tours Without Officials’ Approval In August, administrators banned the volunteer student guide service from giving university-sanctioned historic tours. Now, the club has decided to go out on its own. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3Bpvyeu
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UVA students resume history tours without officials' approval
In August, administrators banned the volunteer student guide service from giving university-sanctioned historic tours. Now, the club has decided to go out on its own.
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Doctor's offices doing wild things out here.
Screenshot of online survey. Question: how long does your period last? Remote button options: >7 days, 2-7 days, 1-3 days, 3 days, 4-6 days, 7+ days
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Kaleb Briscoe Brown, Ph.D. @drkalebbriscoe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Please check out our new article in the Review of Higher Education titled “Behind the Veil”: Unmasking Anti-blackness in Presidential Discourse and Responses to Racialized Incidents. See link: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The alt doesn't cover what the actual call is so I'm sharing the post and including this link for anyone interested in the history of ed! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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AERA Division F - History and Historiography Mentoring Session 2025
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS AERA 2025 Division F Mentoring Seminar—“Take Refuge in How” This year’s Division F Mentoring Seminar considers the challenges education historians face to make the past releva...
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Lauren Schudde @laurenschudde.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New @ #RIHE: Many people study policy adoption, but few study policy discontinuation. #AmyLi & #XiaodanHu find that states show evidence of policy imitation, but not of policy emulation, in the discontinuation of performance-based funding (PBF). doi.org/10.1007/s111...
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Goodbye Performance-Based Funding: Policy Abandonment of Performance Funding for Higher Education in the United States - Research in Higher Education
Between 1997 and 2019, 16 out of 41 performance-based funding (PBF) states discontinued their PBF policies for public colleges and universities. Adapting policy diffusion theory to PBF discontinuation...
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Seconding Robert's rec, Smith's @chronicle.com article below on Knoxville College is excellent, yet quite painful. It should also be considered within the lens of a recent JHE pub shared on here about financial aid systems and whiteness: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Financial Aid as Whiteness as Property: Implications for Research and Practice
In this article, I demonstrate how financial aid is a valued property of whiteness. Utilizing critical race theory, critical race policy analysis, and whiteness as property, I examine how financial...
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Join us at the Temple University College of Ed & Human Dev in Philly! We're hiring faculty in K12 ed leadership, counseling psych, school psych, and urban teacher ed & literacy. linktr.ee/cehdcareer
Flyer with heading: BE PART OF OUR COLLEGE! with a logo for Temple University College of Education and Human Development. Flyer Text lists five open positions and descriptions, including EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY NON-TENURE TRACK FACULTY POSITION
Department of Policy, Organizational and Leadership Studies
Seeking a scholar who has expertise in urban education, school administration, organizational leadership, and education policy, along
with prior experience in higher education teaching and school or district leadership. Responsibilities include teaching, advising master’s
and doctoral students, chairing dissertation committees, and engaging in departmental and professional service. The position will begin
August 2025.
SCHOOL COUNSELING NON-TENURE TRACK FACULTY POSITION
Department of Psychological Studies in Education
Seeking a teaching faculty member in Counseling Psychology specializing in School Counseling, starting Fall 2025. The role involves
teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in school and mental health counseling, advising students, supervising practicum and internships, and contributing to departmental, college, and professional service. A commitment to equity-oriented, culturally diverse
counselor development is essential.
COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY OPEN RANK (TENURE-TRACK) FACULTY POSITION
Department of Psychological Studies in Education
Seeking a faculty member to support the development of equity-oriented, culturally diverse counselors, starting Fall 2025. Ideal
candidates will have a strong research agenda in counseling psychology with a record or potential for publications, grants and funding.
Responsibilities include research, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, advising students, and contributing to service activities.
Experience or interest in working with youth is preferred but not required.
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP OPEN RANK (TENURE-TRACK) FACULTY POSITION
Department of Policy, Organizational and Leadership Studies
Seeking a sch…
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
ASHE was a success! Hit a milestone in my career, which was sitting in the audience to watch my student collaborators present our work! This project, focused on understanding paths into bioscience PhD programs & parent education influences, came out of an advanced qual course! #ASHE2024 #ASHE24
Photograph of a large screen that reads "Understanding First-Generation and Continuing-Generation Graduates' Decisions to Pursue PhD Programs in Bioscience" with the six author names listed below. Three women standing and smiling to the right of the screen.
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
My husband, a loyal New Jerseyan who uprooted his whole life to follow my career to Philly, still boos every time we leave NJ and enter PA. NJ loyal is a while different brand.
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
go.bsky.app/TL1589Q I made a starter pack but check first and make sure it is your vibe!
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This is terrible NCAN devotes itself to making college accessible It is a big, big deal for them to recommend that filing the FAFSA is too dangerous for some families
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🚨 The Qualitative Scholars and First-Gen Scholars Community Groups @aefpweb.bsky.social are hosting a panel discussion with journal editors focused on publishing qualitative and mixed-methods research related to education policy. 12/9 from 3-4 p.m. ET Register here: utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: AEFP Qual & Mixed Methods Publishing Panel. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: AEFP Qual & Mixed Methods Publishing Panel. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Looking for a community of Latinx/a/o scholars broadly throughout academia? With help from @larrylafountain.bsky.social I started this starter pack, now w/ 111/150 scholars. If you wanted to be added please reply to post. Dr. @jorgenleal.bsky.social also has a starter pack!! go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
⬆️ in Michigan’s teacher prep enrollment are driven by alt-route programs, with the largest increases coming from two relatively new virtual programs. Teachers who enter the workforce through alternative certification pathways are more diverse than those from traditional TPPs (1/2)
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Jim Barber @jpbarber.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
W&M faculty Melissa Whatley @melwhat.bsky.social presenting research on “A Quasi-experimental Analysis of the Relationship between Gun Violence at US Higher Education Institutions and International Student Enrollment” - found campus shootings didn’t have a significant impact on enrollments #ASHE2024
Dr. Melissa Whatley speaking at the podium Paper title slide: A Quasi-experimental Analysis of the Relationship between Gun Violence at US Higher Education Institutions and International Student Enrollment
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Dr. Crystal E. Garcia @crystalegarcia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#ASHE2024 folks — join for a working meeting advocating against anti-DEI movements TODAY 1-2:15pm! 3rd floor, ballroom Salon E
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hello, #ASHE24 in Minneapolis! It’s winter here.
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Kim Bullington, Ph.D. @kimbullington.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Higher Education Politics and Economics (HEPE)- Call for papers. Special issue guest edited by @dcollier74.bsky.social, @chrismarsicano.bsky.social, and Alex Marsicovetere: Beyond the Balance: Narratives from the Frontlines of Student Loan Debt
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Corey Moss-Pech @cmpech.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'm thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming book Major Trade-Offs! I love the retro design, building illustrations, and color scheme. The team at the University of Chicago Press really nailed it. Keep an eye out for the book, coming May 2025
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Oh yay, this paper is finally out at AERA Open! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Screenshot of the top of the article. Title is Racial Category Usage in Education Research: Examining the Publications from AERA Journals. Authors are Dominique J Baker, Karly S Ford, Samantha Viano, and Marc P Johnston-Guerrero. Abstract reads: How scholars name different racial groups has powerful salience for understanding what researchers study. We explored how education researchers used racial terminology in recently published high-profile peer-reviewed studies. Our sample included 1,427 original empirical studies published in the nonreview AERA journals from 2009 to 2019. We found that two thirds of articles used at least one racial category term, with an increase from about half to almost three quarters of published studies between 2009 and 2019. Other trends include the increasing popularity of the term Black, the emergence of gender-expansive terms such as Latinx, the popularity of the term Hispanic in quantitative studies, and the paucity of studies with terms connoting missing race data or including terms describing Indigenous and multiracial peoples.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Crisp explanation from the BBC of what the Education Department does and how Trump can’t close it www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Amazing opportunity to learn about LOTS of education data, including the Elementary/Secondary Information System (ELSI); the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Data Explorer; Educational Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) data tools to explore ACS and GIS data...
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
How do postsecondary structures shape women's entry into computing bachelor's programs? In short: through admissions, institutional organization, computing cultures, and major entry policies. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... (open access w methods details in supplementary files)
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 14/11/2024
The American Bar Association is allowing law schools to try test-optional admissions policies for a 3-5 year period while requiring data sharing for evaluation purposes.
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No LSAT to get into law school? ABA opens door to bypass standardized test
The American Bar Association has established a path for law schools to admit some or all of their new students without the Law School Admission Test or other “valid and reliable” admissions test.
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Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
As a recent and first time homebuyer, anything other than the lowest possible level of flood risk was an automatic dealbreaker.
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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
This site getting good is really defeating my attempt to be Less Online
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