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Associate Professor of Education Policy, Organization, & Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Former middle school science teacher in Oakland and Los Angeles. www.paul-bruno.com www.last.fm/user/pabruno

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 5h
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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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 6h
Oh wow they're gonna do Project Follow Through aren't they.//Sold a Story 2: What Happened to Teaching youtu.be/4YDq-AB_d2c?...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 30/09/2026
Right, most teachers aren't getting much Freire or whatever, and even the ones who do in my experience eventually come into contact with the reality of needing to explain stuff, even if they feel guilty about it. So I don't know how to characterize the influence of the most hardline philosophies.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 30/09/2026
It's probably true that direct instruction (I'd lowercase it here) is underrated (and Freire overrated) in some more theoretical or academic circles. It's less obvious to me what this means in schools on average/overall.
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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...
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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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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 29/09/2026
How Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement? doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 29/09/2026
Current Challenges in California’s K–12 Education Finance edpolicyinca.org/publications...
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PACE - Current Challenges in California’s K–12 Education Finance
This report examines the fiscal pressures facing California’s K–12 education system despite substantial funding growth. It explains how volatile state revenues, declining enrollment, rising costs, and...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 29/09/2026
Good discussion of the CV, a super confusing topic for junior folks I think. I agree especially about hiding the ball/blurring the line on peer reviewed research, I'm surprised how much even faculty do this. I assure you it can backfire. quantitude.org/s8e04-curric...
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S8E04 The Curriculum Vitae Roadshow – Quantitude
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 28/09/2026
Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings
(October 2026) - This paper provides new causal evidence on the effects of grade retention on educational attainment, behavioral outcomes, and labor market performance by analyzing Texas's reading tes...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 27/09/2026
I can't say it's perfect since the back half of the second season falls pretty flat, but Colin from Accounts is pretty great.
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But the show I want to single out—the one on my personal 10-shows ballot that did not make the list at all—is this beautiful, and apparently now largely forgotten, creation. Do yourself a favor and seek it out. (86 Ted Lasso to make room for it.) www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/a...
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In ‘Rectify,’ Life After Prison and the Chance to Be Reborn (Gift Article)
The final season of the SundanceTV series uses deep Christian themes in telling the story of an ex-convict who is unequipped for freedom.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 24/09/2026
Chicago Public Schools enrollment drops by more than 11,000, accelerating long-term downward trend chicago.suntimes.com/education/20... "one of the largest one-year drops in more than a decade"
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Chicago Public Schools enrollment drops by more than 11,000, accelerating long-term downward trend
CPS enrollment has been on the decline for more than two decades. This year's drop of 11,500 students, one of the largest one-year drops in more than a decade, amid the federal immigrant deportation c...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 21/09/2026
LFG
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 18/09/2026
Word of the Day: pedagogy www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/l... The real "challenge of the day" is to see if you can replace it with "teaching" or "instruction".
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Word of the Day: pedagogy
This word has appeared in 45 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 18/09/2026
I think it's reasonable (including now in my new-ish AE roll) to do any of 1) flagging the AI issue for the editor; use of AI in review can violate policies; 2) asking the editor if they view some feedback as highest priority and 3) engaging with some feedback as too much in the response letter.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 18/09/2026
I'm re-reading Catch-22, a book I've loved since I was a teenager. It's dawning on me that this may be the source of my tendency to write what some readers have charitably described as "long sentences".
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 18/09/2026
I'm not proud but I lol'd here.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 18/09/2026
"there are no requests or proposals from companies to build a data center in the county and the county does not have anything planned" ipmnewsroom.org/champaign-co... That's plausibly the bigger problem, e.g.,with multiple county districts struggling to fund their school facilities.
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Champaign County residents share concerns about data centers and a shortage of skilled nursing beds - IPM Newsroom
At Tuesday’s Champaign County board meeting, the chair of the board said the county has no data centers planned. And during public comment, residents asked for help to fund a skilled nursing facility.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 16/09/2026
I'm not following this particular policy debate in NY or wherever but it does remind me that it reflects...not well on education as a field that these fish climbing trees (or riding bikes, or whatever) platitudes are so widespread and persistent despite being, at best, nonsense "metaphors".
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 15/09/2026
Also related, for CA specifically: bsky.app/profile/paul...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 15/09/2026
etc. bsky.app/profile/paul...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 15/09/2026
Q&A: Why schools have more money, but teachers aren’t making more cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/teacher-pa...
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Q&A: Why schools have more money, but teachers aren’t making more
Schools have more employees per student than they used to. At the same time, teachers have seen little real pay growth.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 13/09/2026
Well sort of but in this case she started it after hearing what I do so it's more like somebody on the plane overhearing that another passenger is a doctor and then following up with some medical questions they'd been wondering about already. I guess?
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 13/09/2026
Lol there are only like 40 people at this wedding and at least 3 others are going to the same Mountain Goats show as me next week.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 13/09/2026
Normally I am not and nobody would say that I am but she came back and found me later to follow up so I think of myself as playing a needed role in this particular moment.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 13/09/2026
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Funny Kenny Powers Says Basically
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 13/09/2026
At a wedding, the mother of the bride, from another country, wants to know why we have so much k-12 educational fragmentation and local control and doesn't that contribute to low quality and high inequality and well the bar is open and I'm not a dancer so...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 11/09/2026
Sacramento City Unified strikes new deal with teachers union after county blocked first try www.abridged.org/news/sacrame... "'They’re using Monopoly money,' said Michael Fine, CEO of the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team."
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Haeryun Kim @haeryunkim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am excited to share that @iwerc.bsky.social has released a new report, to which I contributed through data analysis. If you are interested in issues related to science and math teacher retention, especially in rural areas, please check out our report below! ⬇️
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Haeryun Kim @haeryunkim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am happy to share that I was selected for the Korean Honor Scholarship awarded by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the United States! I am truly grateful for this honor, and I will continue pursuing research on K-12 education policies that meaningfully contribute to policy and practice.
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Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative @iwerc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New reports out today! Two new reports from IWERC and NORC at the University of Chicago examine the science and mathematics teacher workforce in rural Illinois. Read the reports here: go.illinois.edu/RuralSMT.
New reports. With funding from the National Science Foundation, IWERC and NORC partnered to examine the science and mathematics teacher workforce in rural Illinois. The first two reports from this series are now available. Visit https://go.illinois.edu/RuralSMT
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 10/09/2026
My Steam Machine has arrived. Do I put that directly into my away message or
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 10/09/2026
From CA LAO: The 2026-27 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan lao.ca.gov/Publications... "Unlike the Rest of the Budget, Substantial Resources Available for New K‑14 Education Spending"
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 10/09/2026
...though people are studiously avoiding saying what ultimate funding outcome they want in lieu of focusing on their discomfort with one specific adjustment approach. But I agree completely we should focus *more* on the ultimate outcome rather than one very narrow slice of funding system.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 10/09/2026
Well the ultimate outcome is the distribution of funding and the incentive structure under which schools spend it. But even just re funding, that's my point. The same funding outcome can be achieved different ways...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 10/09/2026
The accountability framing begs the question like I note it does to treat attendance based funding as "punishment", which is probably better thought about as an incentive structure. You can mostly reproduce whatever funding level you want while retaining the attendance incentives.
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The University of Illinois System @uofilsystem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the first time, fall enrollment across the University of Illinois System has topped 102,000 — a new system record. 📈 The growth is coming from home: in-state undergraduates are up 4.2%, and Illinois residents now make up nearly 80% of our undergraduate population: ow.ly/psSG50ZLfv8
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IL College Network @ilcollegenetwork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
U of I System fall enrollment tops 102,000, establishing new system record
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U of I System fall enrollment tops 102,000, establishing new system record
The University of Illinois System’s fall enrollment has topped 102,000 for the first time, extending its string of record fall enrollments, with growth driven largely by new in-state undergraduates....
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CBS News Chicago @cbschicago.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is welcoming a record-breaking class for the 2026 fall semester.
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University of Illinois announces record enrollment year for 3rd year in a row
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 02/09/2026
The epilogue with the reviewer reports is incredible. Anyway, to those who honestly reported in their revisions that the similar checks I asked for in my reviews didn't point in the direction they'd hoped: we salute you.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 02/09/2026
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Jack Nicholson's Evil Smile Head Nod
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CUrbanism Club @curbanism.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The city of Champaign just eliminated minimum parking requirements citywide!!!
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 01/09/2026
"California is set to launch such a database by next summer for school support staff, such as bus drivers and janitors, with substantiated claims of egregious misconduct. But public school teachers are not included."
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 31/08/2026
A wild reminder here.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination” datacolada.org/138
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[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 28/08/2026
Solid mailbag for Kathy in the local paper this week. www.news-gazette.com/business/kat...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 27/08/2026
Join us for these GDTFIII webinars, including one with me on September 3 re: K-12 school finance in California: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Getting Down to Facts III Webinar Series. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join Getting Down to Facts III researchers for a closer look at the evidence from this landmark independent study of California’s education system. Drawing on 55 technical reports and 22 research brie...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 27/08/2026
Composition, Distribution, and Stability of the Special Education Teacher Workforce in Seven States journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 27/08/2026
Both are obviously very reductive but as answers to the question "Is there a teacher shortage?" if you have to pick one "no" is probably closer to correct than "yes".
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 27/08/2026
More and more people are saying. bsky.app/profile/paul...
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