Sarah Cohodes

4th Workshop on Education Economics and Policy (WEEP) to be held 7th-8th September in Trondheim, Norway.

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Keynotes: Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth) and Björn Öckert (IFAU)

Call for papers open soon

Funded by EduGAP project

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#EconConf

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This doesn't get at the larger point, but there surely are students and staff who are affected by the occupation so this would be a case where the U is directly impacted

Survey: Parents and teens support school cellphone bans, and most don’t perceive major downsides | Brookings Surveys show widespread cellphone bans have strong teen and parent support, reducing use in school but not eliminating it.

Really important new work from my UAS research team using our probability-based national panel to look at parent AND teen support for cellphone policies in schools. High level: nearly everyone supports major restrictions. www.brookings.edu/articles/sur...

The Contribution of College Majors to Gender and Racial Earnings Differences Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New research by @imbernomics.bsky.social and colleagues using Texas data dives into different economic returns to college majors by race and gender. There are differences in the share of students going into high-paying fields, as well as earnings within those fields.

Welcome to the American Winter In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

This is a really incredible piece. Share it widely 🎁https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDn7xrpPNxSpotkNz_P27oI0

Snap elections, confidence votes, proportional representation, so many boring electoral mechanisms that I wish we had in this country

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

As a physician I can say with utmost confidence that the biggest threat to public health in our country at this point is our own fucking government.

At this point I think schools should open as warming centers and shift learning to a longer school year when -- please please please -- the occupation ends

[I'm sure there are plenty of holes in the plan]

❤️❤️❤️

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Zing. Shit.

I wanted to support Prion Alliance because of a personal connection so we added that to the list www.prionalliance.org. The toddler was happy with "candles! candles!" but we'll try to include him next year.

Our family decides on where to donate in lieu of gifts for one night of Hanukkah. This year, my husband wanted to support immigrants, so we donated to JFS; my daughter wanted to support kids in foster care, so a local org that provides supplies to foster families and graduating foster kids.

Plenty of good ideas here! I'm grateful to the hundreds of people who took time to submit thoughtful comments and, of course, to @betsyjwolf.bsky.social for the summary.

IES made #EdResearch a public good. I'd love to keep it that way.

She’s a pretty sophisticated 8yo but she prefers nature documentaries 😂

Thanks to the Worst Person in the World we had an interesting dinner conversation with our 8-year-old about a wide range of topics including: narcissism, territorial sovereignty, the Cold War, rules-based international order, the Northwest Passage, and climate change.

Trump's admissions data collection strains college administrators Universities must report student demographics, grades and test scores by March 18

1/ A more serious MLK Jr. Day post: The article shows the bureaucratic absurdities associated with the administration’s request to collect admission data desegregated by test score race, and gender; it also reveals that the intent is to segregate higher education. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Kids enrolled in Medicaid:
📚 Miss fewer school days
🎓Are more likely to complete high school
💪🏽 Grow up to be healthier adults
👩🏼‍🔬 Earn higher wages

Nearly *40% of births* and nearly *40% of children* in Ohio are covered by Medicaid.

A good candidate for Governor would want to protect kids’ coverage.

Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

I am so grateful to the thousands of incredibly brave people who are each doing their part to document, protest, support victims, sue, and speak up. It's time.

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just need to add two kids and a mortgage to the second pic

Censorship Arrives on Campus In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.

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I hear you and see your ethical objections but few things delight me more than writing for a woman and comparing her to men she dominates