Greer Mellon

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In our polarized political environment, I’m excited to share my new ASR publication: “Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does Not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Two new papers on when and how school spending matters. With fabulous co-authors @greermellon.bsky.social @susannaloeb.bsky.social
Now if only the federal govt would fund schools appropriately...

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What a kickoff! 🎉

Our 1st #EdWorkingPapers webinar brought together researchers, policymakers, & educators for a real-time conversation on when and how funding matters in schools.

Thanks to @weilanch.bsky.social, @chriscandelaria.com, @emilyrauscher.bsky.social, and all who attended.

Look forward to presenting our work about when school funding matters most with coauthor @greermellon.bsky.social
Please join us!
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Does school funding actually improve outcomes? 🤔Join our first-ever #EdWorkingPapers webinar Wed 5/21 at 2pm ET with @emilyrauscher.bsky.social and @chriscandelaria.com to find out. buff.ly/TW1oFhu #research #schoolfunding

Love this! Since becoming a mom, I deeply appreciate the booths that have stress balls or slinkies! Easiest way to pick up the “new toy” I promised I’d bring home from a trip! :)

We analyzed racial justice statements from the 500 largest US companies and found that DEI officials really did have an influence Only 1 in 5 Fortune 500 companies made strong racial justice commitments in response to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. Those companies were more likely to have DEI staff.

PLEASE REPOST
Two colleagues and I have been looking at corporate racial justice responses to the George Floy murder/BLM protests. Top line finding is influential DEI staff mattered. I suspect that the current DEI backlash is at least in part a response.
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Ohio State cutting DEI programs shows a breathtaking fear of the truth | Opinion Pretending racism does not exist will not stop Donald Trump's attack on higher education.

An important and courageous op-ed from @tiffjhuang.bsky.social on the critical need to uphold commitments in the fight against racial inequality in education: www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Summing up the damages

I'm really looking forward to #AEFP2025 next week! I'm presenting new work with @emilyrauscher.bsky.social and @susanna-loeb.bsky.social on superintendents' funding priorities at the Politics and School Finance panel on Friday at 1:45pm!

I'm looking forward to attending #ESS this week. I'm presenting research on the role of partisan affiliation in local public sector hiring - focusing on the case of school district superintendents - in the "From Polarization to Solidarity" mini-conference. DM me if you want to chat or grab coffee!

This is all so terrible - lays out the details of cancelled contracts (including extensions to core datasets like the ECLSK, and RCTs on reading interventions).

In This Brave New World, Does Scholarship Still Matter? If the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?

Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for the invitation to write about what policy scholars should do if "policy" is permanently broken. There are lots of good answers, but we can't afford to ignore the question.