Steve Kotok

Airport time is a flat circle

🍎🦡 I'm recruiting a PhD student in Ed Policy (fall '26) at @uwmadison.bsky.social! Come work with me on college access, admissions, & fin aid in our top-ranked, fully-funded program. I’m especially excited for this student to immediately join our direct admissions RCT team.

UNL Proposes Cutting Educational Administration Department University leaders say they need to slash the budget. Education administration professors say it’ll sever a pipeline to education leadership roles.

The University of Nebraska looks to join West Virginia University as flagship public universities to cut graduate programs in K-12 and higher ed administration. It's not a great look for land grant missions.

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Excellence can't be efficient - The Bugeater At the December 2023 meeting of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, I remarked during the comment period that in education excellence and efficiency are diametrically opposed values. My state...

This seems to be relevant again. You cannot cut your way into excellence. You have to invest in excellence.

thebugeater.com/diversity-eq...

I'm hiring a postdoc to assist with creating a longitudinal dataset of state charter school funding laws. More info in the position description. Please share!

Come work with us! We’re really excited about our research on attendance and chronic absenteeism. And we’d be really excited to work with you! Reach out if you have any questions.

Detroit-based preferred, but remote might be possible. Start as early as Dec 2025 or later in Spring/Summer 2026.

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.

Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

My department is searching for two tenure-line positions to start in August 2026. Come join our growing team and make a difference in building the future!

Assistant professor of higher education: apply.interfolio.com/172680

Associate/full professor of education policy: apply.interfolio.com/172632

Just another Friday afternoon in 2025 higher education.

Valuable work that should inform our understanding of the complicated political dynamics underlying anti-public school, anti-teacher union backlash to COVID policies.

Terrible analysis. The Post wants NY to unfairly punish students who get harder questions. NY's approach follows standards, see Ch 5 www.testingstandards.net/uploads/7/6/...

Plenty of reasons to critique/improve state testing. This isn't one of them. Our TAC comment www.linkedin.com/posts/new-yo...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing parents that Roblox was free

This a great example of why denominators matter. I'm willing to guess the 3% of art history majors equates to a very small raw number.

I’m old enough to remember when it was a Real Problem that Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch hung out on a tarmac once.

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I don't understand the govt getting rid of office of civil rights folks and DEI but then crying foul about student belonging and inclusion.

We should ensure all students feel safe on college campuses to learn and be challenged intellectually. Jewish students, Muslim students, LGBTQ students, students of Color, and anybody who attends. This shouldn't be hard for unis and one group's rights should never come at the expense of others

State of usa in one image

Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Show Was The Highest-Grossing Charity Concert Of All Time On July 5, Ozzy Osbourne put on a farewell concert, performing as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath for the last time in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, UK. Billed as the “Back To The Beginning”...

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Shares Antisemitic Posts on X

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/t...

More important for Ed schools IMO. Title IIA funding covers tuition for many current teachers, particularly in high needs schools. I know NY and NJ leader prep programs are poised to take a big hit. Not good timing with current teacher shortages and retention issues.

Underrated moments of my childhood are when Prince did a song for Batman and GNR did a song for Terminator 2.

Being a parent of teens/tweens can be hard but within an hour my 13 yo daughter asked me for a piggy back ride to bed and my 9 yo son gave me a hug so that was pretty pretty pretty good!

ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

Maine Case Opens New Battleground for School Choice: The Right to Discriminate Some religious schools say serving LGBTQ students violates their faith. One voucher opponent said they want a ‘blank check to do what they want.’

“I’m a Christian man. But what these schools want to do is wrong. These guys want a blank check even if it’s leaving some kids and families out.”

Coverage @the74.bsky.social of my fight on billionaire vouchers, where religious schools choose which kids to serve.
www.the74million.org/article/main...

Brad Lander is shown being detained by federal agents in a courthouse. Lander wears a dark blue suit, blue shirt and blue striped tie. The agents wear sweatshirts and blue jeans. A headline reads: "Brad Lander Is Detained By ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse." Photo by Olga Fedorova/Associated Press.

Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE

So on the one hand, Trump is banning students from China to visit the U.S. to study, and on the other, he is taking in personal payments by selling his memecoin and then inviting Chinese tech execs with ties to Communist Party to a VIP dinner and White House tour. Welcome to the USA in Trump era.

These cuts are very concerning. They would greatly reduce budgets for teacher training at public and private K-12 schools. All so billionaires can have a tax cut. I'm disgusted.