More than half of the increase in segregation in the 2000s can be attributed to the rise of charter schools, plus other research finds and trends on the eve of Brown v. Board anniversary: hechingerreport.org/proof-points-5… via Key

💫Today we launch the Segregation Explorer!💫

Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991.

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The first chain of publicly financed, privately managed schools (charter schools) were begun by white supremacist orgs in Miss following BvB. They franchised themselves across the south to allow white parents to defy the law and use taxpayer funds to do it. This is like that.

A really informative thread about the origins and meanings of “antisemitism”

Yo! Public Service Announcement to all my academic friends. We have to review manuscripts, y'all. You should be willing to review 3-5 papers for every paper you submit for publication. Editors are tired, in part b/c we keep saying no. We need better pacing, or a new system.

Thank you to the The New Yorker for honoring Faith Ringgold & Sonny Rollins with this cover. RIP Faith Ringgold.
#SonnyRollinsBridge

Any university that allows snipers on the roof of campus buildings in response to a nonviolent student protest is not place of higher learning.

Last thing: conflating criticisms of Israel with antisemitism or concern for innocents with a defense of Hamas won’t help us get moral clarity. The issues are already difficult. Passions are already high. And we are fighting it all in a moment when the country has seemingly…

We must be clear that administrators are inviting police, who are legally authorized to use deadly force, on campuses to respond to what are peaceful protests. It is an unnecessary and dangerous escalation.

Pro-Palestinian student protests highlight lessons learned from past demonstrations trib.al/DCkWYiz

Their egos are so weak and power so corrupt that they can’t even tolerate a question.

APPLICATIONS are OPEN for the Large Research Grants program. We welcome education research proposals from across the methodological spectrum. The Intent to Apply deadline is May 22 at noon CT and Full Proposals are due on June 18. spencer.org/grant_types/la…

If you’re aware that a group is engaging in a propaganda campaign, you as a journalist have an ethical responsibility not to legitimize it. It is not a secret what’s happening with “DEI.” They’ve used the same playbook with “woke” and “CRT” and yet journalists keep doing this.

✨The Unfinished Legacy of Brown v Board of Education at 70✨

Join us May 6 at Stanford University to distill the lessons of past research and craft a new agenda for addressing racial and economic segregation in American schools.

Info+registration at humsci.stanford.edu/feature/unfini…

One thing about us DEIs: We are going to metabolize your hatred into hilarity with a quickness.

If you didn't know...now you know... Brown University is an amazing place to study punishment & criminal justice! This event is going to be epic! Excited to support my dear friend and colleague John “renegade teacher and scholar” Eason as he hosts this symposium Watson Institute !

ASA condemns unfounded accusations of plagiarism against sociologist Christina Cross and expresses concern about political actors misrepresenting the scientific process. Read our statement: bit.ly/4auxG0w

In favour: 14
Against: 0
Abstention: 1

The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the immediate, unconditional release of all hostages.

news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

A way to resist attempts to destroy the full actualization of a multiracial, inclusive democracy is to keep pushing back and asserting its values through critical practices.

A group of PIs on large national datasets has released this message bit.ly/3TvFlo9. ASA supports the message and Christina Cross.