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Just in time for CIES 2026 Europe and Central Asia SIG are happy to share our newsletter mailchi.mp/6937768bc932...
Congratulations to Olga Mun, Gulzhanat Gafu, and Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar who are the 2026 Best Paper/Book Award Winners!
unallowable pet expenses
Milton Friedman argued parents, if given govt $ to spend on education, would invest in kids' human capital. His model excluded pets.
Drawn from multiple ESA accounts, some of my favorite pet expenditures. Did you know they make wrinkle cream for bulldogs & frenchies? Or that dog DNA kits exist?
Yes, Unequal Childhoods has a very useful methodological appendix explaining the Bourdieusian roots of her study en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal...
02.03.2026 15:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Coming up in a couple of weeks! Do not forget to register for our webinar on outsourced concerted cultivation in international schools in Mainland China and Hong Kong lnkd.in/eGuHgTcw
02.03.2026 11:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1A collaboration between @glasgow.ac.uk @uogcfte.bsky.social and our colleagues at @educationscotland.bsky.social webinar info and sign up details can be found in this post!
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Education Scotland, the Centre for Teaching Excellence and University of Glasgow will host a 3-part webinar series on parent engagement from policy, research, and practice perspectives. Join us for 3 great discussions on March 12 lnkd.in/eXGmY3Y4 Mar 19 lnkd.in/eZwjPqUp and Mar 26 lnkd.in/eTHMSEhZ
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UPDATE!
Join us for “Demystifying Academic Life: What No One Tells You”, now featuring a special moderator announcement: We’re thrilled to welcome Meghna Sabharwal as moderator, bringing her insight, generosity, and leadership to this conversation.
Have you read our recent Special Issue on 'Curricular justice and contemporary education: Policy learning from Australia and the UK'? Guest edited by @stewartriddle.com, Martin Mills and Glenda McGregor. Editorial and 10 new articles to read 👉 bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14693704...
26.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Is it real? I hoped it is satire.
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A YEAR OF KITES is on sale at @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social February sale! @amberren.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/year-of-k...
What if academic life is carbon-coded? Mobility. Speed. Output. AI. Prestige. Growth. We question the fossil-fueled assumptions organizing scholarship itself.
open.substack.com/pub/edforpla... @carkar.bsky.social
Do not miss our March 18 webinar Parenting Strategies of the Middle-Classes in China’s Greater Bay Area: Outsourced Concerted Cultivation and International Schooling with Dr Ewan Wright (The Education University of Hong Kong) and Dr Ying Ma (Fudan University) lnkd.in/eGuHgTcw
20.02.2026 10:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Great to share our #STEM and #parentengagement research on this international forum @maeveliston.bsky.social @eleanorwalsh2.bsky.social Thanks @maxanthony.bsky.social for facilitating.
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If you missed our great Feb 18 webinar with Dr Sandra Ryan @sandra-ryan.bsky.social - Developing Partnership Competencies in Initial Teacher Education: Evidence from a STEM Field Experience, you can watch the video recording on our YouTube channel lnkd.in/egdt27Qz
19.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
If you missed our great Feb 18 webinar with Dr Sandra Ryan @sandra-ryan.bsky.social - Developing Partnership Competencies in Initial Teacher Education: Evidence from a STEM Field Experience, you can watch the video recording on our YouTube channel lnkd.in/egdt27Qz
19.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Congrats to @coralinglingxu.bsky.social on winning the 2026 Best Book Award from the Higher Education SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society for THE TIME INHERITORS!
A powerful study on time inheritance & inequality #HigherEd.
#WinnerWednesday #ReadUP tinyurl.com/yc7k864x
The call for submissions for the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) conference in Glasgow on September 3-5, 2026 is now open baice.ac.uk/conferences/...
18.02.2026 08:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Over the moon to announce OVERINVESTED, my new book baby due January 20, 2026, with a starred Publishers Weekly review. “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting” press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Knowledge Under Siege
Charting a Future for Universities
uofrpress.ca/Books/K/Know...
Insightful report from WONDER Foundation on the importance of parent and family engagement in youth work lnkd.in/emsstW3k
16.02.2026 15:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Coming up next Wednesday (Feb 18) at 10AM ET/3PM GMT - Developing Partnership Competencies in Initial Teacher Education: Evidence from a STEM Field Experience uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
11.02.2026 07:33 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A webinar co-organized by the Canadian Sociological Association's Sociology of Education Research Cluster (CSA) and the Canadian Association of Sociology of Education (CASE).
February 26, 2026 @ 12:00 PM Eastern Time
lnkd.in/eDS4Fs3q
Between the feds cutting student grants in half and Ontario - which makes up something like 60% of the non-Quebec Canada Student Financial Assistance Plan "zone" cutting them by 60-70%, I am pretty sure we will be talking a lot more about student debt in 2030 than we have at any time since 1998.
13.02.2026 23:45 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1Coming up next Wednesday (Feb 18) at 10AM ET/3PM GMT - Developing Partnership Competencies in Initial Teacher Education: Evidence from a STEM Field Experience uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
11.02.2026 07:33 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Grades have been criticised for as long as they have existed, yet little has changed. Perhaps it is time for new approaches? Our new paper on post-critical approaches to grading with @margaretbea.bsky.social, Rola Ajjawi and David Boud is out in Higher Education! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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What is translanguaging? Here's my one-minute hot take, which I hope serves as a springboard for discussion with educators and those working with multilingual populations <3
www.youtube.com/shorts/aq_W3...
Great article by Trevor Tsz-lok Lee and Miron Kumar Bhowmi - Relational agency for inclusion: how a Hong Kong school and families co-construct collaborative strategies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
08.02.2026 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Would you like to know how preservice teachers can improve their readiness for parent engagement during their field experience? Register for our Feb 18 webinar with Dr. Sandra Ryan @sandra-ryan.bsky.social who will speak about how it's done in Ireland tinyurl.com/3d5rhu5e @centcs.bsky.social
07.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1The video of the launch of Max's edited book is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1B68-... Please do have a look The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement - From inequality to social justice in education #parentanegagement @max-antony-newman.bsky.social
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