Brian Kisida

The comments on this post are a perfect example of how the Bluesky experiment has failed. People who fled the cess pool of twitter are realizing this place isn't any better.

1/ A new working paper from me and my amazing collaborators, Alberto Ortega, Matthew Patrick Shaw, and Vandy undergrad extraordinaire Daniel Yoo:

"Politics of the professoriate: Longitudinal evidence from a state public university system's universe of faculty"

Link: github.com/MemeMedianMo...

Twitter is better without them. Still awful, but less awful. I only come here to occasionally remind myself what the other side of derangement looks like.

New CALDER Working Paper by @briankisida.bsky.social , Matthew Pepper, Michael Podgursky, and Michelle Wickman uses longitudinal data from the US Chess Federation to analyze male-female ratings gaps among young chess players.

Read the full paper here! 👉 bit.ly/3YNTGzJ

Thank you, & thanks for all the related work you're doing!

Thank you!

Thanks Morgan!

I am thrilled to announce that I have been named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow! This
@carnegiecorp.bsky.social fellowship will support my research on strategies to strengthen and measure civic values and dispositions in K-12 education. #CarnegieFellows

It's notable that AERA isn't represented here. AERA (& other academic associations) regularly engage in partisan politics, which obviously invites political retribution.It's all fine & dandy to argue for data-informed science, but that isn't the full story.

www.aera.net/Newsroom/New...

Inexplicable Cuts at the Dept. of Education Recently, DOGE has bragged about terminating 89 contracts worth a collective $881 million at the Institute for Education Sciences at the US Department of Education.

New piece!
goodscience.substack.com/p/inexplicab...

We're living through a highly polarized time, both economically and politically. Schools have the potential to bring us together, but are contributing to our separation.
In a new @pnas.org article, my colleagues and I document students' exposure to economically diverse school and classroom peers.
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Oh I agree, many innocent people will be affected by this stupid war. It's been instigated by elites on both sides who have the luxury of not being directly affected by it, while those who have sounded alarm bells have been ignored or ridiculed.

I don't disagree, but it would be myopic to say this war wasn't provoked. And the warning signs have been obvious to anyone paying attention.

(I'm also testing out the limits of contrarian speech on this app 🤔)

#955: Critical race theory: The student perspective with Brian Kisida On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Brian Kisida, Associate Professor at the Truman School of Government & Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, joins Mike and David to discuss his r...

Interesting survey results on whether CRT-type discussions are happening in public schools. Like @briankisida.bsky.social, I suspect that the findings on CRT are a bit of a Rorschach test.

Amber's Research Minute also interesting 👇
1/3
fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...

Thank you, & of course!

New research using a national survey of HS students sheds light on the prevalence of CRT-related topics in schools, student opinions about these issues, & who most influences students' political views.

Trying to explain academic conferences to normies
#2024APPAM

I like people who are smart, funny, kind, & open-minded. It has little to do with the specific views they hold.

Maybe go with "any errors remaining my own are" to be on the side safe

When the New York Times lost its way America’s media should do more to equip readers to think for themselves

www.economist.com/1843/2023/12...

The majority of the time I've opted for more peaceful, & have had huge stretches of deliberate disengagement. That said, for the past couple of months X has been the best (only?) place to follow world events, for better & for worse.

Hardly thankless. Liz Magill was paid well over a million dollars annually. The previous Penn Pres was pulling down $3.4 M annually.

Thankful to work at a public university bound by the 1st Amendment!

I think it's survival bias. People still on X stayed because they can't quit engaging. People who moved here prefer a quieter experience (too quiet, imo).

If there's one thing this conflict has done, it's brought the authoritarian tendencies of the far left to the mainstream.

Opinion | What the University Presidents Got Right and Wrong About Antisemitic Speech The proper response to censorship is not more censorship.

www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/o...

Congrats! I worked on an arts ed policy project w/Lithgow for the Academy, he's the best. (And now you have a Kevin Bacon score of 2 degrees 🙂)