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NEW: Dept. of Ed. launches anti-diversity snitch portal. Also: Moms for Liberty now speaking for the Department of Education

submitted 19 hours ago • 52 comments

Education research orgs that require titles and affiliations to sign up for membership, webinars, etc: I encourage you to make those fields optional for now, given gestures wildly everything going on.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just mindblowing how a political party encompassing like a third of the country collectively decided an arbitrary percentage of federal employees are “useless.” They have no basis for this. They just said so one day and it’s the entire foundation for ruining thousands of lives now

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Stay fierce 😬

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I still don’t understand why Democrats would negotiate a budget when the Trump administration claims unilateral authority to cancel any spending it dislikes. As long as congressional Republicans endorse that position, they are not legitimate negotiation partners! An agreement with them has no value!

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

Or racism. Per union, most of employees put on admin leave a while ago due to DEIA are Black.

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NEW: Peggy Carr, commissioner of the Nat'l Center on Education Statistics and a two-decade+ veteran at Educ Dept, was abruptly put on leave today. She runs NAEP, the national math and reading tests seen as important marker of educational progress www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

In this op-ed, we - the presidents of SREE and AEFP - joined forces to argue for the importance of evidence on "what works" and how cutting such funding is not "efficient" - it is wasteful. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...

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Edu folks — we will be convening again tomorrow for a working session building content (Insta posts, 1 pagers, testimonials, letters to editor, action toolkits) to build awareness in SoR circles and mobilize folks for upcoming actions. Please join & share widely! #SoR4IES zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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For those dismayed at the future of ed research, especially IES: The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) will host virtual gatherings next week Don't have to be a member to join: Wed, Feb 26: sree.memberclicks.net/wednesday--f... Sat, March 1: sree.memberclicks.net/march1cc

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NEW: We are suing three Maryland drivers who racked up more than $90,000 in fines for dangerous driving violations in DC. These are the first lawsuits brought under the STEER Act. This new civil authority empowers OAG to make our roads safer by holding dangerous drivers from any state accountable.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Trump administration terminates $336 million Regional Educational Labs, cutting off key source of aid to states, @gtoppo.bsky.social reports www.the74million.org/article/trum...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like cancelling research and the collection of data is an ongoing theme. Don’t have to combat the results if there are no results, amirite.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Friend sent me this. Department of Ed webpage on environmental sustainability is now down and redirects to a page about the benefits of homeschooling.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

JIC, here is an OSF Folder of the following What Works Clearinghouse materials as of February 2025: - Data from Study Reviews - Handbooks and Reviewer Resources - Intervention Reports - Practice Guides osf.io/w5aq8/

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I will never understand Congress’s inaction at this point in time. It’s remarkable, although maybe not surprising, that low-level workers have far more courage than elected officials.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Tomorrow afternoon, join the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy for a free in-person data preservation event to collect and archive public data sources. No registration needed. AERA is proud to co-sponsor. events.georgetown.edu/mccourt-mdi/...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about how the Trump administration's assault on the civil service draws from the same playbook used for decades against public school teachers. A nation that devalues its public servants devalues its future www.vox.com/donald-trump...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

The DOGE aspects of this EO are rightfully getting a lot of attention, but I'd focus more on this: they are planning to RIF as many gov't employees as possible. They want to reduce the government to just the "essential" workers who would still work during a shutdown. This would wreck the economy.

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

EdTrust is deeply concerned by the Trump administration’s recent decision to abruptly terminate dozens of contracts funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education. Click read our full statement: edtru.st/40SeuGQ

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The Institute of Education Sciences, created by an Act of Congress in 2001 is being dismantled by DOGE. It includes the National Center for Education Statistics, which is how we track progress and funds rigorous research on education interventions' cost effectiveness. 50 states can't do that

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Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

www.npr.org/2025/02/10/n...

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Some reporting from EdWeek h/t @weilanch.bsky.social www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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New from me: Regular civil rights enforcement at the Education Department has been curtailed in recent weeks because some staff face a ban on external communications, sharply limiting their day-to-day work. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts. WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders

submitted 17 days ago • 41 comments

This is a just one part of a full fledged attack on science and expertise and anyone who would dare to question the regime.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

New reporting shows that despite the supposed unfreezing of federal grants, many Head Start centers still can't access funds, forcing them to close and leaving kids without preschool and health services and families (esp moms) without the care they need to work for pay. www.salon.com/2025/02/06/e...

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

submitted 21 days ago • 1140 comments

extremely this

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Banned words include "female" and "women," but not "male" or "men."

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

submitted 23 days ago • 1420 comments

"Special government employees" are restricted from participating in matters that directly involve their own “financial interests.” Given that two of Musk’s companies have received over $15.4 billion in government contracts over the past 10 years, it’s clear that that standard isn’t being followed.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

submitted 24 days ago • 927 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 24 days ago • 1328 comments

DC9 doing $2 drinks 5-7p on Thursday for Federal employees, the deadline to accept deferred resignation offer

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"Conor, you're being hysterical, he won't really try to close it." www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

submitted 25 days ago • 201 comments

ah cool, an archive of all CDC data before they tampered with it

submitted 26 days ago • 39 comments

Wow, Census is down.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

It’s far too soon to ascribe responsibility for the horrific DC plane collision, but it’s not too soon to say that dismantling the safeguards afforded by a functioning federal government put us at significant risk. And it’s irrefutable that, since January 20th, we are all less safe.

submitted 29 days ago • 465 comments