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Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Organization, & Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Former middle school science teacher in Oakland and Los Angeles. https://www.paul-bruno.com/ https://www.last.fm/user/pabruno
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What do changes in state NAEP scores imply for birth cohorts’ later life outcomes? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "cohorts in states with large increases in NAEP math achievement enjoyed higher incomes, improved attainment, and declines in teen motherhood, incarceration, and arrest rates"

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Family Background and College Major Choice: Evidence on Major Earnings Growth direct.mit.edu/edfp/article... "Students with more educated parents, especially those who have graduate degrees, choose majors with lower early-career earnings but much stronger earnings growth."

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"the engagement of high-profile partisan officials typically did little to move public opinion in the direction of the cue-giver's preferred policies. Instead, the chief consequence was increased polarization among the public along partisan lines." direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

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Does Corequisite Remediation Work for Everyone? An Exploration of Heterogeneous Effects and Mechanisms direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

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Changing Value Dimensions in Higher Education? Evidence from Faculty Job Postings in Education, Business, and the Social Sciences www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... "we find that equity values are far more prevalent than other values in higher education job postings, reaching a peak in 2022."

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Situational Motivation in Academic Learning: A Systematic Review link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The Prevalence of LGBTQ+ Teachers in the United States journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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This reminds me of the one time I was at the NEA representative assembly - 2009? - and there was a very active debate about more or less this question as teachers' unions were in the process of expanding the scope of their priorities in many places.

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Trump's "beautiful" bill wrecks our energy future www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-bea...

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When School Board Elections Lose Their Voice www.educationnext.org/when-school-... To my mind school boards illustrate broader problems with much-romanticized "local control".

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Please respect my privacy during this difficult time.

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John Cale - Mr Wilson youtu.be/pvQFSXyVqDk?...

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the zenith of comedy. the absolute zenith. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

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(Meme format takes on a new dimension with the Epstein file allegations, too 😬)

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Me not being convinced by your brownbag talk and/or claims to constitutional authority for your actions

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Unpacking California’s Continued School Enrollment Decline www.ppic.org/blog/unpacki...

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Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at 82.

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‘This issue isn’t going away’: Illinois lawmakers delay pension reform again www.news-gazette.com/news/this-is... (The reformed pension system may not be generous enough to satisfy federal requirements that Social Security replacements be at least as good as SS.)

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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on the scale of things that are both likely and concerning, I am way more worried about the destruction of american research and higher education than I am about military takeover

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Again, I think absences and vacancies are getting conflated in a lot of peoples' minds/the discourse and this could help to explain the gap between the shortage discourse (crisis!) and the shortage data (mostly fine).

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Gaining a better understanding of teacher absenteeism: How structural and organizational factors impact a teacher’s decision to be absent epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

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ICYMI

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I sort of thought the conventional wisdom had already mostly adjusted here, is that not the case?

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SMILE POLITELY: Champaign Whiskey Fest 2025’s Gala is set for August 9th Whiskey enthusiasts better jot down August 8th and 9th because those are the dates for Champaign Whiskey Fest 2025. A collab of Watson's Shack & Rail, Punch! Bar, and Big Grove, Champaign Whiskey Fest's main ...

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even having micro-influence gives me an occasional sense of how unbearable it would be to get to the stage where I am a significant character actor in people's heads

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Chilling and un-American

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I tried making this point less articulately with our math teachers prior to their curriculum review this spring. The goals of math instruction and how to measure them aren't agreed on, which leads to wildly different recommendations about how to better achieve those ill-defined goals.

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What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s? The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly) Why? Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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[reflects back on edu-journalism and the edu-commentariat]

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Why are we celebrating traitors that fired upon US soldiers in a bid to keep people enslaved?

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I know I'm late to this but The Residence is pretty fun for what amounts to eight episodes of Why You Should Always Insist that Your Lawyer Be Present.

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Every day the authoritarianism grows worse - Christopher Rufo calling for the Trump administration to "dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking" christopherrufo.com/p/trump-shou...

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As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

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Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

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Gov. Newsom ends at the 6:45 mark with an appeal to all Americans: “This is about all of us … Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=pXQQ...

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Delayed Bachelor’s Degree Graduates Have Lower Graduate School Enrollment Rates direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

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Should I Stay or Should I Go (Later)? Teacher Intentions and Turnover in Low-Performing Schools and Districts Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

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