Madeline Trimble

Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9

Felt it here in Fair Lawn too. Freaked me the hell out!

I have never pursued an ADHD evaluation but I feel a little personally attacked that this thread goes on to describe EXACTLY the system I use for socks 😅

Took my son to the #GoodTroubleLivesOn rally tonight. ✊

Trump administration reinstates and expands travel ban The effort comes as the president has pursued a series of extraordinary measures to curtail both illegal and legal immigration.

Breaking news: The Trump administration announced a ban on travelers to the U.S. from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The ban takes effect June 9.

My husband's mom died within a month of his birth. Social Security kept him out of poverty.

FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week. We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest. Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public. We will have more to share soon. Excellent work @FBIMilwaukee .

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.

It's the best/most recent non-internal poll we have. It's all we have to go on!

I know I've heard a lot of people who really wanted to know how those candidates poll head to head vs Republicans to help guide their decision, but to my knowledge there are no polls of that out, either.

Higher Ed Can Do More for Veterans (opinion) Higher ed can and must do more to support veterans, Daniel Braun, Catharine B. Hill and Emily Schwartz write.

Opinion | America’s Veterans Deserve Better

Higher ed can and must do more to support veterans, Daniel Braun, Catharine B. Hill and Emily Schwartz write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3GkALX0

Which is funny because it is a point very much in favor of the Stancil idea that social media is fundamentally breaking people's brains and destroying society

Trump's Department of Homeland Security has sent a letter to Harvard threatening to revoke its eligibility to enroll international students unless it submits information on international students' disciplinary records and protest participation.

Come to our rally in Teaneck tomorrow! Because our federal government is worth standing up for.

The Case for IES Postsecondary Studies: How IPEDS Provides Key Consumer Information About College Costs, Outcomes, and More The future of education tools that provide students, researchers, and policymakers with critical information about college costs, financial aid, and outcomes is now at serious risk. That’s because…

This excellent article by Diane Cheng of the Institute for Higher Education Policy explains why college data collected by the US Department of Education are essential tools in evaluating colleges, including by prospective college-going students: buff.ly/eFZPR2l #AcademicSky

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Admin’s Dismantling of Institute of Education Sciences - Public Citizen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)…

AEFP has joined a challenge to the administration's actions as they relate to data and research infrastructure for education:
www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...

AEFP affiliates--especially early career scholars and students--as a board member, please reach out if you have any questions or thoughts!

My heart breaks reading these accounts of the important research contracts that have been cancelled by the Trump administration (including research from CCRC <3 ).

These don't dominate headlines, but not having reputable research results will harm Americans and waste taxpayer $in the long run.

DACA Updates: Trump Seeks to Strip Dreamers of ACA Eligibility; Fifth Circuit Ruling Goes Into Effect Two recent developments related to the DACA program stand to affect thousands of young immigrants who call the US their home.

Trump claimed during the 2024 election that “we have to do something about the Dreamers.”

Oh, he’s doing something alright: continuing to attack them. He’s recently moved to strip them of their ACA coverage.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/daca-updat... #HomeIsHere

It’s #NationalPublicDefenderDay!

Today, we honor and celebrate the dedicated attorneys, investigators, and support staff who work to ensure all New Jerseyans have access to quality legal representation, regardless of their financial situation. Thank you for your work, #NJpublicdefenders!

Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

💯 This op-ed by ed research leaders made that essential point quite forcefully:

"Abruptly ending near-complete projects does not drive efficiency. Instead, it ensures that the public sees no benefit from the investments already made, converting what was productive spending into waste."

“DIGITAL BOOK BURNING”: This phrase captures the import of what is going on across numerous agencies. Yes, there are real, specific consequences of degraded or manipulated data in each case- but even those costly losses pale alongside the big picture consequence: rapid descent into authoritarianism.

If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.

All IES program officers are gone

How they will be able to administer grants that are already disbursed?

Spend it fast if you can

I took my daughter home from the hospital on election day 2024. I was imagining telling her someday that we elected our first female president that day. Instead....... This 😭

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Also, I'm not a lawyer, but I highly doubt that a memo like this is sufficient to actually declare any of these things illegal. And it seems ripe for a challenge in the courts. But there's always the risk that schools will preemptively comply.

Don’t know if anyone else read the letter and caught that it contradicts the majority opinion in SFFA, which allows discussion of racial identities in essays to be used as a factor in admissions.

They’re trying to rewrite an already very conservative SCOTUS opinion

www.ed.gov/media/docume...

Easy, DOGE. IES matters. The federal role in education dates to 1867 when President Andrew Johnson signed legislation creating the first “Department of Education” for the purpose of:

"... slashing and burning won’t improve matters. It’s just going to weaken the foremost truth squad in American education, the chief sponsor and funder of rigorous analysis, reliable data, and clear-eyed evaluations in a realm that needs more of those things, not less."

My very first job out of college was working as an RA at MDRC on the Career Academies evaluation, funded by Dept of Ed. I got to meet the first IES director when my boss let me tag along for a presentation in DC. Here’s a blurb on the program, the study and its impact www.mdrc.org/work/project...

AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

Understanding “what works” in education is HARD and is what many of us have dedicated our professional lives to figuring out.

Having some wanna-be tech bros come in and decide they know better than researchers & experts is beyond infuriating and insulting to the ed research community.