Bryan Mann

Student: Teacher, why do we learn?

Socrates: For life!

Freire: For liberation!

Dewey: For democracy!

Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!

Congrats!

I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

Receiving more confirmation that NCES has been demolished. But no info on where ed data collection or NAEP assessment will be transfererd to.

Whelp.

This was great! I channeled so much rage into preserving data.

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

This website shows you how many jobs NIH funding creates for your state along with the overall economic activity generated.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Trump looks to withhold school aid over lessons on equity and gender. Can he? The federal government is barred by law from mandating what curriculum schools use. But Trump’s order about “discriminatory equity ideology” and “gender ideology” indicates he wants to use his adminis...

Let's be VERY clear here.

Trump does *not* have the authority to withhold federal funding from public schools for what they teach. The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act is very explicitly clear on this. #EduSky

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/01/29/t...

Morning !!!

What’s in store for cities and metropolitan areas across the nation in President Trump’s second term in the White House? This compendium brings together insights from Brookings Metro scholars, examining how the next four years might shape cities, regions, and communities

www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

@brookings.edu

The Future of Education After the Election of Donald Trump Many questions about the future of education have arisen after the 2024 election of Donald Trump. Reporters and editors weigh in.

What's next for education journalism in 2025? Join EWA for a Reporters' and Editors' Roundtable on Thursday, Dec. 12 at 1 p.m. Eastern. ewa.org/events/upcom...

Tough few weeks to be a NY Rangers, Yankees, Giants fan. Though I expect zero sympathy 🤣🤣

This is terrible

NCAN devotes itself to making college accessible

It is a big, big deal for them to recommend that filing the FAFSA is too dangerous for some families

Assistant Professor in Quantitative Methods in Educational Research University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

Come work with me and my fantastic colleagues in the Dept of Education @ UCSB. Quant methods position w/application details below. Reach out with q’s
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02883

Increasing suburban school diversity A KU study found American suburban schools increased diversity in the last 20 years.

news.ku.edu/news/article...

Increasing suburban school diversity A KU study found American suburban schools increased diversity in the last 20 years.

No more white flight? Study by @bryanmann.bsky.social found suburban school districts diversified from 2000-2020, but urban districts saw more racial isolation. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Lol Upper Pensiula Michigan is the only place I know that has such establishments. I learned the embarrassing way that they call them past-y not paste-y 🤣🤣🤣

lol who did this

Even less typical: They had just retaken them to settle a bet. 🤣🤣

The new website launched today: cgep.ku.edu

#187 The Politics of Disruption Schools are in for more chaos and conflict, whatever specific policies are enacted by a second Trump Administration. We talk to two scholars about just how much the politics of disruption are costing,

Fixing what's so broken about our national politics requires seeing each other as human beings again. And that starts at the most local level with schools and school boards. New
@haveyouheard.bsky.social with @drrachelswhite.bsky.social and Rebecca Jacobsen on.soundcloud.com/dJ1FWoNb69bA...

I mean, yeah that's what Margaret Spellings would say. You get 'mixed reactions' if you sample like that.

Of course, teaching experience is not a requirement to run the Dept. of Ed. but it surely helps to have meaningful experience in the educational system before running the educational system...

a little transcript blip from this great, but really heavy, conversation with @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social & @jackschneider.bsky.social on the impacts of culturally divisive conflict on superintendents — physically, emotionally, financially, psychologically, socially

My life:

Dear professor,

I hope you are doing well. Please read the following email so thoughtfully composed by ChatGPT.

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I know! Absolutely terrible

I saw WWE in the headline and was thankful it wasn't Hulk Hogan...

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...

Important work from ProPublica: www.propublica.org/article/segr...

Also quoted in the article is @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social

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