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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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New working paper from me and a great group of coauthors: The Effects of the Four-Day School Week on Teacher Recruitment and Retention caldercenter.org/publications... Read on to see what's different about this vs. some of my prior work 🧵⬇️

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Our Founding Fathers would have had a word for calling up a battalion of Marines for regular domestic law enforcement: tyranny.

I understand why it doesn't work properly but not why it looks so dumb.

I finally got the opportunity to go to the Magic Castle and I can report that it is very fun.

Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Jenny McCarthy: Oprah was basically a one-woman Operation Paperclip for horrible grifters.

This is what Roberts wrought. Trump is immune from criminal liability, and can preemptively pardon anyone below him. Local DAs can't charge federal actors in state court, and SCOTUS has shrouded all of them with immunity from civil liability. They can target anyone they dislike with with impunity.

the convicted felon president wants to arrest our duly elected governor who has committed no crime. hail to the thief.

Five months into office, this administration is trying to arrest Democratic members of Congress, congressional staffers, and governors. This is not just the authoritarian playbook, it is the aggressive version of it.

In his first article for the blog, @jaredfritz.bsky.social takes a look at a particularly confusing case of zoning in Champaign, and what it means for the city's housing priorities moving forward. Read the full piece here on Champaign Showers dot com: champaignshowers.com/longer-reads...

In itself it's not the biggest thing but Congress specifically passed a law requiring ICE to allow access to members of Congress because of Trump's antics in the first term. This isn't even norms. It's violating black letter statute law.

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

After Chicago, sure.

I've done a fair bit of research & read more on how to increase retirement savings. It's made me pretty pessimistic about every strategy except mandatory, universal pensions for baseline retirement income security. Lots of people just won't choose to save but will need $ later.

I don't really begrudge people having bubble. But you should know who is (and isn't) in it with you and this is very much a bubble (for now). It's worth being honest about that so you can think about the consequences clearly rather than just rolling your eyes that somebody pointed it out.

Every accusation is a confession

The media didn't like Biden and they do like Trump and want to help him. That's the key difference

Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

You know I'm open to both of these arguments but, again, note that CS and computer engineering look much better by the other metrics in this very same report. Not a neat story one way or the other and it's OK to dial back predictions.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o... There's stuff in here that I didn't even know about. All impeachable offenses IMO.

The only real issue here is that Up is much better than Reveal. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

[thinking about how good I would feel about myself if you all spent one billion dollars making it happen]

Lindsay Burke wrote the Department of Education chapter in Project 2025.

manuscript central while building a pdf

"They did not pass other major higher-education initiatives, including Pritzker’s plan to allow community colleges to offer four-year bachelor’s degrees in certain high-demand career fields, and a long-sought overhaul in the way Illinois funds its universities." www.news-gazette.com/news/capitol...

The ground has officially been broken for Illini Hall, a new state-of-the-art facility slated for replacing the one that was demolished on Wright Street in 2023.

"the second instalment of the Silents Synced series will see Buster Keaton’s visionary 1924 comedy Sherlock Jr. matched to R.E.M’s 1994 album ‘Monster’ and 1996 release ‘New Adventures in Hi-Fi’." www.nme.com/news/music/n...

I'm probably gonna miss this flight but OK with that given the current state of Content incoming.

Not with that attitude.

We live in the stupidest timeline

I will never forget this Thursday afternoon

We made this episode public so everyone could hear us live-react to the White House's berserk conspiracy website www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein . But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will

Welcome to campus, Chancellor Isbell!

BREAKING NEWS: Charles Lee Isbell Jr. will become the U of I’s 11th chancellor. Isbell is currently provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and previously served as dean of the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Let me know if you have any interesting in participating in symposium submission to AERA this cycle. Our team has a paper on nationwide computer science education policies and their effects, which could go in multiple thematic directions (CSed, teacher production, undergrad major choice, etc).

Quite the cast.

The thing is that if I'm coding in Stata I'm already probably doing the work I most want to do. That's not when I need motivation!

Please let us know if you’re interested in joining our AERA symposium submission below!👇 Our paper is about the impact of computer science (CS) education policies.