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Oded Gurantz

@odedgurantz.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, CU Boulder; sites.google.com/site/ogurantz

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My paper w/ @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social--on how Black migration via the Great Migration led northern cities to replace mayors with appointed city managers--has found a home at Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) ungated page proofs: drive.google.com/file/d/1bFea...
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Looking for a paper I can't remember: something like in the early 2000s certificates in CS-type programs came but then went away. I think finding was less agg employment but wages were stable-ish for those who remained because less supply of workers. Anyone remember this?
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
An officer reported other cops for using racist, sexist and homophobic slurs at work, filed an Internal Affairs complaint & submitted recordings of the other cops being bigoted as evidence b/c otherwise nothing would be done about it. He’s now charged with 16 felonies & could get 13 years in prison.
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Quasi-experimental DD syllabus question: Anyone have a paper they like to use to teach new staggered DD stuff that is empirical but does a good job of walking through (/showing) all the individual estimates and how they are aggregated?
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Been reviewing for foundations and "methods" are often a laundry list of terms with no linkage between activity and goal. So they "use sensitivity analysis, covariate adjustment, interrater reliability checks,..." in a slapdash run-on sentence, but it's never about a conrete theoretical concern.
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DavidPBLRoss @davidpblross.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A paper published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications had quickly become one of the most cited studies supporting the use of ChatGPT in education. It was retracted today via @nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... #edtech #GenAI #ailiteracy #aiready #aifluency #edpolicy #edresearch
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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
1/ Important new investigative report from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social about "Maestro," advertised as "the AI University" on TikTok, that turns out to be a chatbot bolted onto a failing for-profit business school in order to illegally harvest Pell grants. www.newamerica.org/insights/the...
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The AI College: How One For-Profit School Substituted Instructors With a Chatbot
An inside look at AI-powered Maestro University exposes a pattern of policy failures, potential legal violations, and widespread frustration among students—acting as a warning sign for higher educatio...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 10/06/2026
The Economic Cost of DHS Attacks on Immigrants @epi.org webinar with @chloeneast.bsky.social, me, and Erica Williams us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Cost of DHS Attacks on Immigrants
Date & Time
Jun 25, 2026 12:00 PM in Central Time

Description
The Trump administration's deployment of DHS agencies—such as ICE—has caused irreparable harm to our communities, neighbors, and families across the country. The economic costs are also substantial—and mounting.

Join economists and policy experts for a discussion on how the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign is harming workers, businesses, and the broader economy with case studies on Minneapolis and the greater Washington, D.C. region.
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I very mildly helped (along with many others) this Brookings piece on Promise programs: www.brookings.edu/articles/get...
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Getting state 'free college' right: Design choices that matter | Brookings
Katharine Meyer and Isabel McMullen assess state "free college" designs, showing how simple, generous aid boosts completion.
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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 06/04/2026
As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though
recent Axios story on maternal health policy referenced
"findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. On the surface, there's nothing unusual about that. What wasn't originally mentioned, however, was that these findings were made up.
Clicking through the links revealed (as did a subsequent editor's note and clarification by Axios) that the public opinion poll was a computer simulation run by the artificial intelligence start-up Aaru. No people were involved in the creation of these opinions.
The practice Aaru used is called silicon sampling, and it's suddenly everywhere. The idea behind silicon sampling is simple and tantalizing. Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use A.I. agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Our research center CADRE is hiring a Research Associate. Posting here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... Please don't hesitate to ask if you have questions, and share widely!
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Research Associate
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Our research center CADRE is hiring a Research Associate. Posting here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... Please don't hesitate to ask if you have questions, and share widely!
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Random data question. In CO I have data with an ACT high school code. I want to link this to NCES to say something about the high school they attend. ACT won't give us a crosswalk. Anyone have access to something like this? Thoughts?
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Betsy Wolf @betsyjwolf.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
My response to the "Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences" report. It didn't have to be this way: betsyjwolf.substack.com/p/reimaginin...
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"Reimagining" the Institute of Education Sciences
It didn't have to be this way
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Random question: can anyone point me to recent high quality articles that show AI use can be detrimental to learning (on any dimension). I'm finding that googling is hard to find them, though I've seen them around.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide. This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...
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ICE bypasses El Paso medical examiner for autopsy on migrant
ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility for the autopsy of a Nicaraguan man and won’t release a ruling to the public.
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Beth Schueler @bethschueler.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Deadline approaching! Apply for a postdoc role studying the politics of education policy at Stanford GSE: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Beth Schueler | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2026
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 14/01/2026
This video shows ICE holding children hostage to bait parents out of their homes. Just unspeakable levels of cruelty and inhumanity.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Not quite "minor" but when I was on Wheel of Fortune Vanna came backstage and said to the contestants (they film multiple a day) "I'm really rooting for you all to win a bunch of money" and I said sarcastically "Thanks! I hope you get paid well for what you do to" and she shot me a withering look.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Happy to have @aefpweb.bsky.social @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social share key details from my chapter on grant aid from the AEFP Live Handbook. As these are intended to be "live" free free to share additions or disagreements as you see fit!
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Deleted my post about Excel vs Sheets. As expected, it was some weird decimal rounding thing that was unobserved.
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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez. The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work. And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📢 New postdoc opportunity at Annenberg! The Annenberg Institute is seeking a postdoctoral research associate for a 2‐year appointment to join a diverse community of scholars committed to educational equity and improvement! More info here: annenberg.brown.edu/opportunitie...
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Brian Holzman @brianholzman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Have any NCES data users gotten a disclosure review approved for a paper/report since spring? I've been waiting for 6+ months 😞
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National Education Policy Center @nepc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Former EdSec @arneduncan.bsky.social is wrong. Govs likely won't be able to "ensur[e] that the students with the greatest needs are prioritized" by Trump's SGO/voucher program. wapo.st/3LkhIP7. Welner explains why: nepc.colorado.edu/publication/.... @joshcowenmi.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social
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Opinion | America is in an ‘education depression.’ This solution is a no-brainer.
Democrats can regain the educational (and moral) high ground with this federal program.
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We wrote up a Brookings Post related to my recent paper with Ari Anisfeld, @drelizabethbell.bsky.social, and Dennis Kramer: www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
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How Return of Title IV Funds policies prevent college students from re-enrolling | Brookings
Return of Title IV Funds policies can leave students with unexpected debt after withdrawing midterm, hindering their ability to re-enroll.
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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")? Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event. Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...
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Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
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The California Policy Lab @capolicylab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Please share with your networks: The California Policy Lab is hiring a policy director to amplify our policy impact in Sacramento. We're looking for a seasoned policy professional with deep experience in California state government. First review date is Oct. 10th: capolicylab.org/careers/poli...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The White House has withdrawn its nomination of a woefully unqualified partisan hack — EJ Antoni — to be BLS Commissioner, and sometimes the system actually works. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...
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White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data | CNN Politics
The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN.
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
When will these people stop spamming my phone? ;) @joshcowenmi.bsky.social
An advertisement for Josh Cowen for office but he’s a professor we all know so I’m just joking with him
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My paper with Ari Anisfeld, @drelizabethbell.bsky.social, and Dennis Kramer now accepted in Econ of Ed here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....
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Costly withdrawals reduce future college-going for low-income students: Evidence from Return of Title IV funds
Governments must strike a balance between promoting access to financial aid while at the same time remaining good stewards of taxpayer funds by preven…
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A little help: I want to know about what is affecting higher education changes that are NOT part of federal legislation (but could be federal actions). For instance: $100K H1s; cancelling research grants; firing ED dept staff; changes to PSLF qualifications; changes to undoc in-state tuition, etc.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America. Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
How much could an H1 cost Michael? $100,000?
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
An international student left the country and came back in with no problems and I breathed a sigh of relief. Sad state of affairs.
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Nothing new, but If I was writing this while this *stuff* was happening, I might have thought a little deeper.
Committed to limited government, Friedman said he opposed both "forced segregation" and "forced non-segregation." He preferred
a private system in which "exclusively white schools, exclusively colored schools, and mixed schools" could develop, giving parents a choice.
Friedman said the appropriate activity for those who oppose segregation and racial prejudice is to try to persuade others of their views; if and as they succeed, the mixed schools will grow at the expense of the non-mixed, and a gradual transition will take place." In much of the South, however, many lawmakers were in lockstep with Byrd, and they took steps to give school segregation the imprint of the law. In Louisiana, state officials made it a crime to operate an integrated school. In North Carolina, an education advisory committee recommended eight separate bills in the summer of 1956. A pamphlet for voters said the proposals were "so that no child in North Carolina will be forced to attend a school with a child of another race." The constitutional amendment would allow for "education expense grants to any child for whom no public school is available, or who is assigned against his parents wishes to a mixed public school, and to provide by a vote of the people for suspending the operation of a school or schools in a community where conditions become intol-erable." Every white voter knew what conditions were intolerable-if this was "freedom of choice" in action, the choices were only for white families. Oddly, the plan was promoted as "an effort to preserve North Carolina's public school system." The referendum passed by an overwhelming margin?
Similarly, legislators in Virginia passed a package of laws in the summer of 1956 that created a three-person student assignment board, stripped funds from schools that desegregated, gave the governor the ability to close schools, and authorized tuition grants for students whose schools were closed. A federal judge ruled Virginias law unconstitutional in 1957, writing that it was directly in the teeth of the language of the Supreme Court." State officials promised to appeal, but the ruling gave other states an idea of what might get struck down.
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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I wrote about the significant technical problems with the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) survey component that ED wants to IPEDS. A couple quick points from the piece: 🧵 bit.ly/4mQRfX0
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Will ACTS Survey Deliver Trustworthy Data for Higher Ed?
The ACTS survey could undermine college admissions transparency with flawed data collection methods and unrealistic deadlines for institutions.
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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Anyone know of good estimates of the effect of BBB on college enrollment? Ideally by state? Thanks!
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Oded Gurantz @odedgurantz.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Reading the Project 2025 doc for the first time. I know irony is dead, but in the education section writing "Stopping executive overreach. Congress should set policy—not Presidents through pen-and-phone executive orders, and not agencies through regulations and guidance." is...
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