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‘It’s a complicated time to be a white Southerner’ − and their views on race reflect that How do white Southerners think about their racial status in a world that is scrutinizing white advantages? Researchers found people across the political spectrum grappling with what being white means.

For The Conversation, I wrote about how White Southerners are making sense of what it means to be White in these times.

In a nutshell, it’s complicated.

I hope you’ll read and share widely.

theconversation.com/its-a-compli...

Private School Demographics — ProPublica Look up the demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby.

How segregated are your local private schools?

With our database, look up the demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby.

By @cerealcommas.bsky.social @natlash.bsky.social @bxroberts.org

Sometimes good research just finally provides well-designed evidence for an assumption many hold: supply in sex work is driven by economic slumps.
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Excited to see my first paper out!

(and, of course, see Bob Jones v. US). Many segregation academies and racially discriminatory schools only started admitting Black students once their tax exempt status was threatened by the IRS (and even then, enforcement was spotty at best) (www.oyez.org/cases/1982/8...)

This has happened before: as late as 1982, Goldsboro Christian School in North Carolina did not admit Black students because “We believe that God in his plan and purpose and wisdom separated men into . . . races and that those races should be preserved” (source: www.nytimes.com/1982/01/18/u...)

Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.

ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 million over the course of six years through a state-funded program.

At least eight opened with an early boost from state-funded vouchers in the 1960s.

(Published Nov. 2024)

Thank you!

aw thanks Sophie!

Thank you!!

This is great! I don't think enough of the dissertation fellows are on bsky to make a starter pack--I could only find 4 and the limit is 8 😅

congrats to you as well!! excited to see that project

Thank you Josh and thank you NAED/Spencer--I never expected to get this fellowship and am incredibly honored to be part of this community. Congratulations to the other fellows, and I look forward to meeting y'all in the fall!

Friday night of an insane news week is the optimal timing for this right?

YEAH!!!

‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of Education Dept.’s Data Warehouse Fired NCES and IES employees describe a mad dash to save data that has informed higher education policy and practice since the days of Abraham Lincoln.

For weeks, as contracts were halted, workers fired, and a center created in 1867 essentially dismantled overnight, workers scrambled to save data used to inform educational policy and practice. Here’s how it looked from inside.
www.chronicle.com/article/brea...

'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

I’ve been saying for years that allowing racial segregation in public accommodations was a goal of the right-wing conservative movement. It’s one reason I study this type of segregation. We are closer to a reality of legal racial segregation than anytime since 1964. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

congratulations!!

Don't cheer, Gov. Ivey: Killing the Department of Education will hurt Alabama students • Alabama Reflector Gov. Kay Ivey is a sure-footed politician. She’s walked the narrow and dangerous path of Alabama politics all the way to summit. It requires focus, dedication and balancing performative apathy and win...

Editor @brianlyman.bsky.social writes that the U.S. Department of Education is one of the few forces pushing against Alabama's centuries-old efforts to deny poor and disadvantaged children a proper education. And a reminder of the racist origins of the state's system of funding public schools.

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Just saw a great paper by @michaelbriskin.bsky.social ! He shows that WWII led to a massive teacher shortage that led to lower wages and lower educational attainment for affected students #AEFP2025 #Econsky

New WP with @trevondlogan.bsky.social, David Rosé, and @drlisadcook.bsky.social ⬇️ We study how the intersection of consumer discrimination and market power shapes firm behavior, including pricing decisions using new data on the prices of firms by discriminatory status from 1940-1960.

I'll be at AEFP presenting my work on segregation academies: all-white private schools established during the 1960s-70s to circumvent public school integration. Bring your coffee (and your feedback!) to Soc Dynamics of School Choice at 8:15 Thursday: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/42278/...

It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that"

Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to:

- 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force
- 20% decrease in wages

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

This map shows how much NIH funding goes to your state. I used the info on my state when I called officials to ask them to push back against the freeze. And if I can do it when my senators are Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville...well, I mean...

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

It's not everyday that I wake up to a front page article in the Boston Globe featuring a colleague of mine, complete with photo shoot.

Today is that day! Fantastic coverage of the teacher workforce research that @oliviachi.bsky.social does here at BU Wheelock.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/14/b...