Kara Finnigan

Thanks for sharing this Ariel! Your research is so important in calling attention to and expanding the work around transportation justice and schooling. 👏

Such a great resource w/ info related to early childhood, K-12, & higher ed....along w/ misc. cross-cutting topics like mine on research use. #education #edresearch #edpolicy #researchevidence @aefpweb.bsky.social @dbassok.bsky.social @carajackson.bsky.social. Check it out and share with others👇

Thank you for sharing this @equintero.bsky.social!

‪And thank you to @carlhendrick.substack.com for the thought-provoking essay:‬ "Deep reading..trains us in the moral dispositions that public life requires: attention, imagination, restraint." substack.com/home/post/p-...

"there’s no sidestepping a president deploying the military in an American city based on ludicrous falsehoods about a foreign invasion. Indeed, it’s hard to think of a clearer signpost on the road to dictatorship."

I'll be joining "No Kings" mobilization Sat. Find 1 near you: www.nokings.org#map

These are the kinds of stories that help to show how vast and devastating the massive cuts to government offices are, and how they impact people's lives. Thanks for sharing your story about your dad with us @ansleyerickson.bsky.social!

A primary difference between her testimony & other witnesses' was hers was informed by decades of research evidence, along w/her own research, and allowed her to delineate critical areas for oversight. The voice of researchers is so impt to policy dialogue & decision making! #edresearch #edpolicy

So true! Her key point: Civil rights guardrails (through regulation and oversight) are needed to counter the ways that charter schools have limited enrollment and increased segregation.

Watching live stream of Genevieve Siegel-Hawley doing her public service today testifying abt charter schls & educ equity before House Committee on Education & Workforce's Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, & Secondary (w/ former student Jenna Roberson in audience) 👏 #edresearch #edpolicy

Grades are in, graduation is tomorrow! What a year! Grateful for these students who made my first year at @umich.edu extra special (and special shout out to Ashley and Brianna for their selfie talents)! #goblue

What a great idea! Sharing for any early career ed policy researchers who may be interested 👇

I don't know how you are keeping up with all these things but I so appreciate it when you share the backstory!

Agree! We need public opinion campaign ASAP. Leverage alumni network like Princeton but build collective across these networks? Extend info/reach of @wearehighered.bsky.social Post info on other platforms-FB, LinkedIn, TikTok, to reach broader audiences w info to call reps, university leaders, etc.

Was glad to see President Ono's name added to this letter this morning! #courageiscontagious

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Front cover of Handbook of Education Policy Research (2nd edition)

Chapter 1 of Handbook of Education Policy Research. (2nd edition), titled "Learning Across Boundaries: Connecting Education Policy and Social Policy Research to Advance Equity"

Look what arrived! Congrats to Lora, Peter & @janellescott.bsky.social! This 79-chapter hdbk is critical to our field! @aeraedresearch.bsky.social #education #edpolicy #edresearch Our chapter on educ & social policy w/Jennifer Jellison Holme @markiejay06.bsky.social Walker Swain & Terrenda White

So true! "What is the cost of not resisting? What happens when educators stop defending stdnts & start enabling oppression? Authoritarianism thrives when people bend. It crumbles when they hold firm. For our republic to survive, ed. ldrs must be amng those who hold firm. Our children are watching."

Glad to see this lawsuit brought by @democracyforward.org on behalf of @aeraedresearch.bsky.social & SREE in defense of #edresearch - research that is critical for educators, policymakers, parents, and students.

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Yes! An ex. of "strength of weak ties"! Amazing to see 4000+ people joining together. While a few universities are in headlines, people from all different institutions & general public, all over the country, are speaking out in support of education and democracy. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Grading papers (policy-related book & documentary reviews) & thinking abt the amazing group of master's students in my policy analysis class....& how fun it's been to have them in my first class at UMich esp given all going on in the world. #education #edpolicy #GoBlue #EDUC646

A civil rights issue @edebray.bsky.social @janellescott.bsky.social Janel George & I note in a recent brief abt ESEA reauth using our equitable, evidence-based, & ecol. framework. If not feds, states must address given systemic funding inequities & harms to students nepc.colorado.edu/sites/defaul...

Gutting DEI Won’t Save Us Only a sustained and coordinated defense can meet this challenge.

👇 Richard Thompson Ford: "The greatest threat to the esteem of colleges is not DEI but their own unwillingness to forcefully defend themselves...Only a sustained & coordinated defense of the academy in Congress, the courts, & the court of public opinion can meet this challenge." tinyurl.com/3kb2xhdw

Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign if you are having trouble signing at the above linked form you can ...

If you want to join this fight and show your own support for science and education and their essential role in democracy, you can join the 3700+ others who have already signed this open letter from @wearehighered.bsky.social.
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standing up, speaking out, taking risks, thank you @booker.senate.gov 👏👏👏

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will continue at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Dear Colleagues, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) will continue at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design because our academic program and DEl initiatives are legally compliant, in alignment with our university values, and an extension of the mission of our school. On Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 3:30 p.m., President Ono, Provost McCauley, CFO Chatas, and VP for Medical Affairs Runge wrote to the University of Michigan community announcing the elimination of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI), the discontinuation of the university DEl 2.0 Strategic Plan, university-wide elimination of diversity statements, and legal review of existing programs to ensure they comply with federal law and guidance. Two hours prior to this announcement, I was walking through Pierpont Commons and took a picture of this University of Michigan sign, which explicitly states, "Our Core Values: Integrity, Respect, Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, Innovation." The move to eliminate the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion directly contradicts these institutional values. While I, as Dean, and Stamps, as a school, did not directly create the University of Michigan's Culture Journey or signify these six values, we have collectively worked to honor them. Integrity, Respect, Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Innovation are aspirations that establish a benchmark by which to measure our actions, actions that work to build and sustain our community. Throughout the 2024 national election, DEl, immigrants, and trans communities have been targeted as political flashpoints. On January 27, 2025, two DEI-related Executive Orders that potentially impact the university were issued, including the Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity order, which expands the application of the Supreme Court ruling that struck down... [truncated due to character limit]

I assure you, the Stamps School's academic program and initiatives to support faculty, students, and staff are fully legal and ethical. Secondly, the central claim in the "Dear Colleague" letter is erroneous, which attempts to argue that the United States wasn't founded upon structural racism. Despite efforts to rewrite history, the fact remains that the United States was founded upon systemic and structural racism. Chattel slavery, African Americans designated as 3/5ths a person, broken treaties and forced relocation, and Jim Crow laws are just a few examples of racism that is structural and systemic. A further example that systemic and structural discrimination existed in the country's formation is the fact that women did not have the right to vote until 1920, as suffrage has existed for only 105 years. The forces behind the "Dear Colleague" letter want to ignore these difficult truths that our country was formed on very unequal and discriminatory terms. Wealth that was generated through the formation of the United States came from land-taking and the greatest form of dehumanization, enslavement. These are difficult truths that our own University of Michigan's Inclusive History Project articulates through the most profound scholarly rigor and peer review. We must reckon with these difficult truths and figure out how to co-build the future together. This mandate of reckoning with history is the imperative that the civil rights movement and generation gave us, and we must now steward onward. Rather than reaffirming that we are operating academic programs that are legally compliant and affirming the value and prestige of the peer-reviewed knowledge production produced by the University of Michigan's 100 academic programs that are ranked in the national top 10 within their respective fields, yesterday, the university chose to eliminate the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion..... [truncated due to character limit]

In case link stops working, here are screenshots of the text that I reassembled from the mailchimp URL. Apologies I could only alt text the first 2000 characters due to word limit. This text and images are quoted from original link posted at top of thread by Carlos F. Jackson, Dean and Professor.

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So many aspects of this statement are critically important & the leadership of Dean Jackson is inspiring. I hope this statement causes other leaders across the university & across the country to speak out.

Please stop what you are doing and take the time to read it. 👏

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If you have a stake in higher education - faculty, staff, admin, alum, etc - consider signing our public statement affirming the values of education and diversity, and calling on university leaders to step up. It's at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd. Or look for others at WeAreHigherEd.org

Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign if you are having trouble signing at the above linked form you can ...

"we believe it is our duty to speak out against the attacks on diversity & pluralism, on scholarship & learning, on academic freedom, & on democracy itself."

If you work at a college, university, or community college, no better time than now to read, sign, & share.👇

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Look forward to reading this recent book by @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social on chronic absenteeism based upon their ongoing research in Detroit.