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Maithreyi Gopalan

@maithgopalan.bsky.social
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Associate Professor @uoregon | Education - Health Policy | Civil Rights in Education | Social Psychology for Policy | Recent PNW transplant and loving it!

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Maithreyi Gopalan @maithgopalan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pair this quantitative analysis with this incredible story from Nicole Hannah Jones: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m... to get a fuller picture of the disparities in access to advanced coursework, school discipline, and staffing in our public schools!
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Betsy Wolf @betsyjwolf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You have 3 days left to submit comments on proposed changes to EDGAR (the regulations governing how the Department of Education awards grants)! 🧵https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/24/2026-17239/education-department-general-administrative-regulations#addresses
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Education Department General Administrative Regulations
The Secretary of Education proposes to amend the Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) and other provisions in 2 CFR parts 3474 and 3485 to update the regulations and better ...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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Erica Frankenberg @efrankenberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today @advancedequity.bsky.social is releasing a brief taking a look at what's in the recently-released 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)--and also what's missing! www.advancedequity.org/briefs/a-fir...
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Erica Frankenberg @efrankenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today, our team at @advancedequity.bsky.social is releasing an Interactive Dashboard harmonizing a full decade of the Civil Rights Data Collection and makes it explorable across U.S. school districts & states. @maithgopalan.bsky.social Explore 👉 advancedequity.org
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AdvancED Equity
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 16/05/2026
Want to learn infographic design? Our new data visualization specialist, Manuel Bortoletti, does fantastic diagrams, geospatial visualizations and graphs. He's teaching a two-week course in June in New York. I'd highly recommend it. Details here: coopertype.org/events/advan...
Infographic about fish and aquacultureDiagram of the earth's wandering magnetic field
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Want to do something? Scholars: get organized. Join @aaup.org. Everyone: call your congresspeople. Tell them to defend science. Tell them to regulate the AI industry. Support @standupforscience.net I’m not giving up and neither should you. /end
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Evidence & Policy @evidencepolicy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
'Fighting misinformation in education: what works, what doesn’t, and what we still need to learn' New on the Evidence & Policy Blog, by M Gopalan & F Lopez: evidenceandpolicy.home.blog/2026/03/18/f... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social
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Jason Grissom @jasonagrissom.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Great conference with great people. @dbassok.bsky.social killed it, obviously. Can’t wait to see even bigger and better next year! (No pressure, @jscottclayton.bsky.social)
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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
There is research on media exposure, disinformation, propaganda but not enough. Right wing media’s brainwashing of millions is the most important political fact of our time. And experiments can’t do it justice because short term experiments don’t replicate 20 years of bashing brains with lies.
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Congratulations @dbassok.bsky.social on an amazing program! 🎉 I learned so much from the sessions at #AEFP2026 and I'm thrilled to see the Policymakers & Practitioners community thriving. Truly a blessing of Golden Unicorns 😉
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AEFP @aefpweb.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Looking for a way to support AEFP and bring high-level visibility to your organization? Consider one of our sponsorship opportunities for #AEFP2026. Learn more here: aefpweb.org/sponsors...
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 24/09/2025
ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
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Erica Frankenberg @efrankenberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
First, in a new brief by Dajung Sohn, @maithgopalan.bsky.social, and me, we analyze how identification rates of students for gifted and talented programs have changed over the last decade, and find persistent racial disparities across this period. Read more: www.advancedequity.org/briefs/gt-ra...
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Who is labeled as Gifted? Trends and Patterns over the last Decade in US Public Schools — AdvancED Equity
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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Me & @joanalker1.bsky.social on @npr.org's "It's Been a Minute" talking about the erroneous stereotypes that drive Medicaid cuts & the fundamental connections between all of us. When we harm those whom government deems "underserving," we ultimately harm everyone. www.npr.org/2025/07/04/1...
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Think the Medicaid cuts don't affect you? Think again. : It's Been a Minute
Republicans have passed President Trump's One Big, Beautiful bill, but is it built on bad faith stereotypes? The legislation guts funding for Medicaid, and for a long time Republicans have been attack...
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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
In this paper, my colleagues (Maithreyi Gopalan @maithgopalan.bsky.social, Kathy Emerson, Greg Walton) and I drafted a hybrid review + empirical article. We see it as a useful reference for anyone working to help colleges and universities create better belonging opportunities for students.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Are you working in civil rights enforcement for the federal government and being made to investigate racial equity programs OR are you an organization being investigated or had your federal funds stripped for racial equity work? Message me. Signal: nhannahjones.67
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS
By Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender
May 22, 2025
Updated 2:17 p.m. ET
The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University's ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation's oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration's efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president's agenda.
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Maithreyi Gopalan @maithgopalan.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Depressing indeed 😕
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
“One point seems to be lost: The reason that the federal government funds science is not just to provide scientists or government bureaucrats with jobs… We fund science because it is in our national interest to do so!” goodscience.substack.com/p/nsf-should...
Whether it’s DARPA creating the original Internet, or an NSF grant funding the origins of Google, or the NIH funding work that led to a miracle cure for a type of leukemia, or NSF funding work that ended up making PCR usable, or Defense research that led to the GPS system that made it possible to have real-time maps on our phones, we all benefit from putting public money towards scientific R&D.
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Michael Cattell @mjcj0203.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I wrote about corporal punishment in public schools for a project led by @efrankenberg.bsky.social and @maithgopalan.bsky.social While we see a steep decline in corporal punishment use in schools, there are still states that allow the practice. Read more: www.advancedequity.org/briefs/cp-hi...
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Corporal Punishment in Public Schools in the United States — AdvancED Equity
Corporal punishment has been present in public schools for decades. While certainly a diminished presence in 2025, it is still enshrined in state education statutes in at least 14 states as a legal wa...
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Maithreyi Gopalan @maithgopalan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Excited for this special issue! Send us your best work! Focus is Prek-16 and expansive to broadly construe "Civil Rights". So higher Ed folks, law and Ed, history of Ed, sociology of Ed, econ of Ed, and policy folks - all welcome!
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
How federal investments in education research help students succeed www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
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How federal investments in education research help students succeed
Researchers discuss how federally funded research projects have helped identify and scale programs that improved student outcomes.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Essential reading to know your rights. One thing to know is that no matter who you are, immigration officers can search your phone upon entry to the US.
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What Rights Do Immigrants, Citizens, Green-Card Holders and Visitors Have? (Gift Article)
The expansion of immigration enforcement actions by the Trump administration has thrown the status of some rights into question. See what is unchanged, what is expanded and what is in dispute.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Proud of AEFP, of which I am a past president www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Admin’s Dismantling of Institute of Education Sciences - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)…
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Social Science Research Institute at Penn State @ssripennstate.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
SSRI associate director @efrankenberg.bsky.social & @maithgopalan.bsky.social wrote a piece for @us.theconversation.com about how big cuts at the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights will affect vulnerable students for years to come. ➡️
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Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come | Social Science Research Institute
By Erica Frankenberg, Penn State and Maithreyi Gopalan, University of Oregon, for The Conversation
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AEFP @aefpweb.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A special thank you to Michal Kurlaender and the program committee for all of their work on an excellent conference program this year! We appreciate your time and service. #AEFP2025
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Rachel M. Perera @rachelmarisa.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
For folks at #AEFP2025 till the end, join us TODAY @ 11:45a for a policy dialogue session about 60 years of federal civil rights enforcement. Bring all your questions about OCR and civil rights!
AEFP session 11.12 details @ 11:45a in Rhode Island

session title: 60 years of Civil Rights Enforcement in Educational Institutions in the US - Taking Stock and Looking Forward

Panelists:
Maithreyi Gopalan, University of Oregon
Erica Frankenberg, Professor of Education and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University,
Rachel Perera, Fellow – Governance Studies, Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings
Robert (Bob) Kim, Executive Director, Education Law Center (ELC)
Seth Galanter, Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office for Civil Rights
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Andrew Ho @andrewdeanho.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Research with restricted-use data is more precise, powerful, and relevant. Faculty and staff will be working through the weekend to answer important research questions before we no longer can. This is not normal, necessary, or efficient.
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Erica Frankenberg @efrankenberg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Short article with @maithgopalan.bsky.social assessing the stakes of changes & budget cuts affecting the Office of Civil Rights in the US Dept of Education. Students' full access to schools & universities will be harmed, as will research to understand inequality. theconversation.com/big-cuts-at-...
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Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come
The layoffs further complicate staffing shortages at the Office for Civil Rights, which plays a vital role in promoting a fair education for public school students.
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Rachel M. Perera @rachelmarisa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Worth pointing out amidst Trump/McMahon's firing of half of ED's Office for Civil Rights yesterday that the agency was already staggeringly under resourced. OCR's budget had remained flat over the last two decades while its caseload quadrupled. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
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Trump Firings Gut Education Department’s Civil Rights Division (Gift Article)
Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.
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Maithreyi Gopalan @maithgopalan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Stop by at #aefp to learn more about @uoregon.bsky.social coe's MS in Education Policy and Leadership (EPoL)! The ducks are almost gone - the best swag at this year's conference 😁
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Jordan Matsudaira @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The dismantling of NCES is insane and will critically hobble progress in improving education - this agency is so important it existed more than 100 years before the creation of Department of Education.
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Maithreyi Gopalan @maithgopalan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Have also been hearing that about half of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within ED gone! Insane!
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Travis T. York, Ph.D. (he/they) @travisyork.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🧪The entire staff of the Department of Education’s NCES-a vital independent statistical agency - has just been RIFed. The continued erasure of data and evidence allows for the Trump administration to hide the impact of their corruption. #EduSky #Scisky @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @cossa.bsky.social
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Brian Holzman @brianholzman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Come to the Joint Community Group Happy Hour on March 14th from 6-8pm during the @aefpweb.bsky.social conference. All are welcome! Details are below. 🥂
AEFP Joint Community Group Happy Hour. Co-hosted by Scholars of Color, Ed Dev, First Gen, and Policymaker & Practitioner community groups. When: Friday, March 14 from 6:00-8:00 pm. Where: Blackfinn DC (1620 I St NW, Washington, DC 20006). Food and drinks will be provided!
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Erica Frankenberg @efrankenberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
AdvancED Equity also has harmonized CRDC files available for 2011-21, and we're anticipating adding the 21-22 files soon. @maithgopalan.bsky.social
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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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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
👩‍🏫 Who’s teaching the next generation? The numbers don’t add up—while the US #studentbody diversifies, the #teacherworkforce remains predominantly White. New #DataViz by Drs. @maithgopalan.bsky.social, @jilli-jung.bsky.social & Paul Hanselman: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
For those dismayed at the future of ed research, especially IES: The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) will host virtual gatherings next week Don't have to be a member to join: Wed, Feb 26: sree.memberclicks.net/wednesday--f... Sat, March 1: sree.memberclicks.net/march1cc
1. Provide Members Ways to Gather in Community. With the known and potential funding cuts looming, we understand the importance of no-cost virtual and in-person gatherings with your colleagues and peers. This is a critical role SREE can and will play for our community for the foreseeable future. This is how we will begin:

 

Virtual Gatherings Next Week 

Wednesday, February 26, 1-2  PM eastern. Register here.

Saturday, March 1, 1-2 PM eastern. Register here.

These sessions will be an opportunity to come together, share thoughts, ideas, and resources. You do not have to be a SREE member to participate.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/02/2025
Kudos to the school administrator who wrote this letter for making it clear to families what happened and who they should blame. This is the way to build a coalition--with a shared adversary and a reason to fight.
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Rachel M. Perera @rachelmarisa.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I worked on a few REL projects while at RAND & the connection btwn our research and the needs of local policy makers was clear, tangible & acute, and the impact was direct This isn’t about cutting government waste, this is about finding more ways to undermine efforts to strengthen public schools
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Akay444.bsky.social @akay444.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Same for Oregon. Oregon Health & Science University has a medical school, is a top tier research center, provides some of the best medical care in the region, and is one of the largest employers in the state. It's devastating.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If you conduct research with federal data of any kind I strongly suggest you spend this weekend downloading copies of everything you use.
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Just because you erase something doesn’t mean it stops existing. Solidarity to all the federal employees forced to comply with an overreaching federal government who is somehow obsessed with censorship and yet totally comfortable with censoring us all apple.news/AXRWuYE0-SN-...
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Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day — ABC News
The mandate is the latest effort in the Trump administration's push to end DEI.
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Victor Cadilla @victorcadilla.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Presenting a paper on how OCR resolves these investigations at a symposium on OCR and at AERA this spring...in Denver. Looking forward to talking with @rachelmarisa.bsky.social ‬, @maithgopalan.bsky.social, @efrankenberg.bsky.social and others about the past, present, and future of OCR.
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Lucy Sorensen @lucy-sorensen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Please message below or email me if you're headed to 2025 AEFP and interested in being a MENTOR for the Early Career Mentorship Program. Happy to answer any questions -- and thank you in advance!!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
If you are 1) a federal civil servant/contractor ordered not to release scheduled data or reports, or 2) an academic who has lost access to government data in the past week ...please get in touch. I'm happy to keep our conversations confidential. crampell[@]washpost[dot]com
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Jordan Matsudaira @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This was the result of a collab, led by the Chief Economist office at ED, between FSA’s outreach&data teams and top academic behavioral economists. New admin needs to continue to invest in these experiments like this to both improve services for student loan borrowers and save money for taxpayers.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Educators and journalists: Here is a link to 8 journal articles that document the harmful effects of immigration enforcement on kids' educational outcomes, school attendance, and well-being.
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