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Associate Professor, CU Boulder; https://sites.google.com/site/ogurantz/

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haha now I'm the idiot. I thought they had their own thing that was not CEEB codes (College Board) but something else. Will dig in!

05.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Random data question. In CO I have data with an ACT high school code. I want to link this to NCES to say something about the high school they attend. ACT won't give us a crosswalk. Anyone have access to something like this? Thoughts?

05.03.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Reimagining" the Institute of Education Sciences It didn't have to be this way

My response to the "Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences" report. It didn't have to be this way: betsyjwolf.substack.com/p/reimaginin...

04.03.2026 22:43 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

19.02.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 2751 πŸ” 1567 πŸ’¬ 171 πŸ“Œ 403

Thanks!

10.02.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How AI Impacts Skill Formation AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...

ok found one I was looking for: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

10.02.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Random question: can anyone point me to recent high quality articles that show AI use can be detrimental to learning (on any dimension). I'm finding that googling is hard to find them, though I've seen them around.

10.02.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE bypasses El Paso medical examiner for autopsy on migrant ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility for the autopsy of a Nicaraguan man and won’t release a ruling to the public.

2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide.

This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling.

www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...

04.02.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 489 πŸ” 352 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 19
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But that DD part is only a small part no? (I only looked for 5 minutes). I think these figures are just logit comparisons across years

03.02.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Beth Schueler | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Deadline approaching! Apply for a postdoc role studying the politics of education policy at Stanford GSE:
postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

29.01.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.

How far we have not come in 250 years.

22.01.2026 21:33 πŸ‘ 3315 πŸ” 1699 πŸ’¬ 124 πŸ“Œ 296

hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:

21.01.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 985 πŸ” 408 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 46

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

19.01.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 18207 πŸ” 8160 πŸ’¬ 406 πŸ“Œ 529

Like I used stuff like this last semester: www.educationnext.org/wp-content/u... and www.educationnext.org/wp-content/u.... One was on a HW so they had practice, and one was on the final. So asking questions about data, validity, methods, interpretation, etc.

16.01.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've started doing again because accusing people of AI cheating sucks and is a huge waste of time in my experience). if they don't take advantage of the opportunity that's on them. But also allows me to ask "harder" questions because it feels more fair to me.

16.01.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just another note - in my undergrad stats I often now assign a paper to read way ahead of the final, and then ask them questions about it. So they have time to meet with me to assess their understand (or with each other) but very few of them do. Makes me feel less bad about in-person exams (which...

16.01.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's work and I can't say I've done it but I do think the two-step of (1) write stuff down but then (2) talk to me about it - really helps you assess their understanding. The one thing I take for granted that we professors are actually pretty good at is asking good questions within a conversation.

16.01.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ β€œFighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

16.01.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 2965 πŸ” 715 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 58
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This video shows ICE holding children hostage to bait parents out of their homes.

Just unspeakable levels of cruelty and inhumanity.

14.01.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 883 πŸ” 595 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 170

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

14.01.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 10387 πŸ” 3998 πŸ’¬ 148 πŸ“Œ 184
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Censorship Arrives on Campus In her debut column, β€œEchoes 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.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

13.01.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 903 πŸ” 281 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 28
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This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

12.01.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 7842 πŸ” 2161 πŸ’¬ 417 πŸ“Œ 518

Not quite "minor" but when I was on Wheel of Fortune Vanna came backstage and said to the contestants (they film multiple a day) "I'm really rooting for you all to win a bunch of money" and I said sarcastically "Thanks! I hope you get paid well for what you do to" and she shot me a withering look.

29.12.2025 22:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I recently read Death of the Author and that was a weird one for me - I liked the ending and felt satisfied having read it but didn't totally enjoy the process of getting there. I liked both Remote Control and (very slightly less so) Who Fears Death. Didn't like Binti but might need to try again.

29.12.2025 20:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Curious if you like it. Since kids and Covid (when I had stopped reading basically) I’ve now got back into sf/fantasy novellas, usually using Hugo/nebula lists of finalists as a starting point.

29.12.2025 20:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Siren Queen "Lyrical, mesmerizing, and otherworldly. . . stunning p…

I tend to like moody SF novellas so don’t think of this as a hard action book: www.goodreads.com/book/show/54...

29.12.2025 20:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Old timey Chinese movie actress who needs to avoid being killed by demon executives

29.12.2025 20:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."

Public Universities FTW!

24.12.2025 21:00 πŸ‘ 487 πŸ” 154 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 14

I wrote about Yglesias β€œdefending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

16.12.2025 13:50 πŸ‘ 848 πŸ” 221 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 17

Happy to have @aefpweb.bsky.social @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social share key details from my chapter on grant aid from the AEFP Live Handbook. As these are intended to be "live" free free to share additions or disagreements as you see fit!

15.12.2025 19:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0