Jonathan Collins

I get it….but also…what are we doing?!

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI.

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I just wish somebody from the future would’ve come back and told us that electing the first black president would lead to…

*waves hands wildly*

Can School Boards Survive the “Parents’ Rights” Movement? With the 2024 U.S. election on the horizon, TC’s Jonathan Collins and Jeffrey Henig discuss America’s fiery landscape of politics and education

Hear/read more on this topic from @jonathanecollins.bsky.social www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/202...

Honored to be quoted in this thoughtful piece on what the Trump cabinet selections mean for communities of color.

Right. That’s akin to what I want the takeaway to be, which is: partisan elections are fine if it gets you high voter participation without the anti-democratic and inegalitarian stuff.

Should school board elections be partisan? - Kappan Online School board politics could benefit from being a more vibrant space, but we should be careful with empowering political parties.

As education becomes more politicized, we’re seeing efforts to shift school boards to partisan elections. Is this a bad idea? In my latest @pdkintl column, I dig into this question at length (and gush over my favorite Kendrick Lamar album). Check it out: kappanonline.org/should-schoo...

The Penguin would lose his mind

This from @jonathanecollins.bsky.social looks great. Folks support teaching core ideas from Critial Race Theory—that racism is structural (and bad)—but oppose teaching “CRT” because policy makers tarnished the brand.

This has broad implications beyond the case.

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The folks Kamala would’ve nominated must be rolling over in their competence right now.

Why do we have to be serious if the Trump Administration refuses to be?

But the CRT that wasn’t even being taught in schools was indoctrination?!

It took over 60 years to get justice, and the $6 million is still but a fraction of the equity they would’ve generated.

The City

And they only hate that because they are told to.

Basically smh

Bye, Elon — Bluesky Is Gaining Popularity Postelection. Here's What You Need To Know. The competitor to X, formerly called Twitter, just reached 16 million users this week.

Wrote a Bluesky guide for my fellow newbies doing an X exodus.

If nothing else, click to watch the amazing gif our visuals department made: www.huffpost.com/entry/bluesk...

Happy to share my latest peer-reviewed publication, “They Only Hate the Term.” Here, I conduct multiple survey experiments to show that the use of the term “critical race theory” generates a > 20% drop in support for teaching kids about race in K-12 classrooms.

Nicknaming a man “little Marco” only to make him leader of the foreign service is 2 parts scary, 1 part hilarious.

#167 Public Education Needs More Democracy, Not Less Everybody loves to hate on school boards these days. But as education policy scholar Jonathan Collins reminds us, these beleaguered bodies are actually the most accessible entry points to democracy th

(Related @haveyouheard.bsky.social episode with @jonathanecollins.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/jK3Up )

Superintendent with Central Bucks School District resigns with 6-figure severance package Abram Lucabaugh is expected to receive a payout of more than $700,000.

You want to know why voters pushed out Republican 'culture war' school board candidates?
It's because most of them have been committed to counterproductive politics that hurts kids and wastes A LOT of money:
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