Ashley Carey
@ashleyjcarey.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Sacred Heart University
College of Education & Human Development
College of Education & Human Development
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“That Middle School Is Trash!!!” Public Knowledge about Local Schools on Social Media | American Journal of Education
Purpose: Americans frequently turn to online social networking sites (OSNs) as a source of news and information. Yet the role of OSNs in knowledge formation about local public schools remains underexa...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
So excited to share my first solo-authored article! I find that FB presents an accessible tool for special interest actors to disrupt public education. Viral algorithms give Comment Cathy more power than ever to shape knowledge about local public schools: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
I spoke with the CT Post about what’s at stake as Bridgeport increases its school bus radius to as much as 2.5 miles.
Making it harder to get to school means more students will miss school.
www.ctpost.com/news/educati...
Making it harder to get to school means more students will miss school.
www.ctpost.com/news/educati...
Some Bridgeport students may have the longest walks to school in the U.S. after bus route cuts
Nearly 2,400 Bridgeport K-12 students across the city, including hundreds of charter school students, will be affected.
www.ctpost.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I spoke with the CT Post about what’s at stake as Bridgeport increases its school bus radius to as much as 2.5 miles.
Making it harder to get to school means more students will miss school.
www.ctpost.com/news/educati...
Making it harder to get to school means more students will miss school.
www.ctpost.com/news/educati...
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In a new PACE commentary, @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social of WSU COE conclude that schools cannot be expected to solve chronic absenteeism alone but need community & state support to address systemic barriers for students and families. edpolicyinca.org/newsroom/ret... (1/3)
PACE - Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism in California
Abstract: Chronic absenteeism—defined as missing 10 percent or more school days—has surged in California since the pandemic, with 20 percent of students chronically absent in 2023–24. This is not mere...
edpolicyinca.org
July 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
In a new PACE commentary, @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social of WSU COE conclude that schools cannot be expected to solve chronic absenteeism alone but need community & state support to address systemic barriers for students and families. edpolicyinca.org/newsroom/ret... (1/3)
Data systems are not neutral. When states fail to recognize non-binary students, they contribute to their invisibility. @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social and I outline steps states can take to ensure all students are seen, supported, and safe. districtadministration.com/opinion/non-...
Non-binary students are lost in the data. States can help
Each June, schools celebrate Pride Month. But without inclusive data systems, many non-binary students remain invisible.
districtadministration.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Data systems are not neutral. When states fail to recognize non-binary students, they contribute to their invisibility. @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social and I outline steps states can take to ensure all students are seen, supported, and safe. districtadministration.com/opinion/non-...
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Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)
June 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)
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Still pondering this bit of wisdom from a student's final essay:
"The problem with American education is that American parents don't just want GOOD schools for their kids; they want BETTER schools than other kids get."
"The problem with American education is that American parents don't just want GOOD schools for their kids; they want BETTER schools than other kids get."
May 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Still pondering this bit of wisdom from a student's final essay:
"The problem with American education is that American parents don't just want GOOD schools for their kids; they want BETTER schools than other kids get."
"The problem with American education is that American parents don't just want GOOD schools for their kids; they want BETTER schools than other kids get."
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2024 CCAoA report: "Center-based care for two children exceeded median annual rent payments" in 45 states + DC and center-based care for an infant exceeded in-state university tuition in 41 states + DC. Parents need affordable, high-quality child care - not medals.
www.linkedin.com/posts/childc...
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#childcarestrong | Child Care Aware of America
Child care prices jumped 29% between 2020 and 2024—outpacing other major family expenses and inflation! Families deserve better.
High prices leave families, communities, and the child care workforce...
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May 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
2024 CCAoA report: "Center-based care for two children exceeded median annual rent payments" in 45 states + DC and center-based care for an infant exceeded in-state university tuition in 41 states + DC. Parents need affordable, high-quality child care - not medals.
www.linkedin.com/posts/childc...
www.linkedin.com/posts/childc...
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People often fail to appreciate that autocracies do civics education too.
Y’all — OKLAHOMA is going to require their schools to lie to their kids that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.
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May 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
People often fail to appreciate that autocracies do civics education too.
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Very proud of this work, led by @ashleyjcarey.bsky.social
New publication in Equity & Excellence in Education: Red Light! Green Light! An Analytic Frame & Learning Device for Race Talk w/ @yrboohilary.bsky.social @jmnoonan.bsky.social @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UEENI...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UEENI...
Red Light! Green Light! An Analytic Frame & Learning Device for Race Talk
Predominantly White educator groups often struggle to talk about race, even when that is their explicit aim. This study examines conversational patterns in one district’s antiracist book study to e...
www.tandfonline.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Very proud of this work, led by @ashleyjcarey.bsky.social
New publication in Equity & Excellence in Education: Red Light! Green Light! An Analytic Frame & Learning Device for Race Talk w/ @yrboohilary.bsky.social @jmnoonan.bsky.social @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UEENI...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UEENI...
Red Light! Green Light! An Analytic Frame & Learning Device for Race Talk
Predominantly White educator groups often struggle to talk about race, even when that is their explicit aim. This study examines conversational patterns in one district’s antiracist book study to e...
www.tandfonline.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New publication in Equity & Excellence in Education: Red Light! Green Light! An Analytic Frame & Learning Device for Race Talk w/ @yrboohilary.bsky.social @jmnoonan.bsky.social @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UEENI...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UEENI...
This.
Power to the states (but only the ones adhering to our specific vision for social policy. If you are not, we will use every tool in our arsenal to punish you into compliance. We will also use tools that aren't in our arsenal).
Power to the states (but only the ones adhering to our specific vision for social policy. If you are not, we will use every tool in our arsenal to punish you into compliance. We will also use tools that aren't in our arsenal).
This news, arriving the day before the "abolish USED" order, captures the fundamental contradiction in this admin's approach to ed policy:
A) We will eliminate the fed role and "send educ back to the states"
B) We will aggressively wield USED against states to enforce our vision for social policy
A) We will eliminate the fed role and "send educ back to the states"
B) We will aggressively wield USED against states to enforce our vision for social policy
Maine must take steps to prohibit transgender athletes from playing on girls’ sports teams in the next 10 days or it will risk losing millions of dollars in federal education funds, the U.S. Department said Wednesday. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
March 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This.
Power to the states (but only the ones adhering to our specific vision for social policy. If you are not, we will use every tool in our arsenal to punish you into compliance. We will also use tools that aren't in our arsenal).
Power to the states (but only the ones adhering to our specific vision for social policy. If you are not, we will use every tool in our arsenal to punish you into compliance. We will also use tools that aren't in our arsenal).
📢 Join Our Department! 📢
Sacred Heart is looking for an Associate Professor and Department Chair to lead the Department of Educational and Literacy Leadership.
FWIW, I didn't come here *only* bc there are five beaches in town, but there are five beaches.
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Sacred Heart is looking for an Associate Professor and Department Chair to lead the Department of Educational and Literacy Leadership.
FWIW, I didn't come here *only* bc there are five beaches in town, but there are five beaches.
us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...
Job opportunity at Sacred Heart University - Educational & Literacy Leadership - Associate Professor
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March 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
📢 Join Our Department! 📢
Sacred Heart is looking for an Associate Professor and Department Chair to lead the Department of Educational and Literacy Leadership.
FWIW, I didn't come here *only* bc there are five beaches in town, but there are five beaches.
us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...
Sacred Heart is looking for an Associate Professor and Department Chair to lead the Department of Educational and Literacy Leadership.
FWIW, I didn't come here *only* bc there are five beaches in town, but there are five beaches.
us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...
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Great read on what U.S. Dept of Ed actually does
“For every $1 ED gets from Congressional approps, it spends ~ 3.4 cents to make money flow, enforce the law, & ensure someone picks up phone when one of the tens of millions of student loan borrowers needs help”
www.slowboring.com/p/what-the-d...
“For every $1 ED gets from Congressional approps, it spends ~ 3.4 cents to make money flow, enforce the law, & ensure someone picks up phone when one of the tens of millions of student loan borrowers needs help”
www.slowboring.com/p/what-the-d...
What the Department of Education actually does
America’s least understood and most efficient agency, explained
www.slowboring.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Great read on what U.S. Dept of Ed actually does
“For every $1 ED gets from Congressional approps, it spends ~ 3.4 cents to make money flow, enforce the law, & ensure someone picks up phone when one of the tens of millions of student loan borrowers needs help”
www.slowboring.com/p/what-the-d...
“For every $1 ED gets from Congressional approps, it spends ~ 3.4 cents to make money flow, enforce the law, & ensure someone picks up phone when one of the tens of millions of student loan borrowers needs help”
www.slowboring.com/p/what-the-d...
As fat cats who have never set foot inside of a public school work to convince us that public schools are a failure, we need to question who is shaping our ideas about the state of our schools. @lutzfernandez.bsky.social @michaelcralph.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
As fat cats who have never set foot inside of a public school work to convince us that public schools are a failure, we need to question who is shaping our ideas about the state of our schools. @lutzfernandez.bsky.social @michaelcralph.bsky.social
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These two pieces pair nicely together:
February 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
These two pieces pair nicely together:
Is Facebook making us hate our schools? Here, I share some key findings from my recently published work:
sites.psu.edu/ajeforum/202...
sites.psu.edu/ajeforum/202...
Is Facebook Making Us Hate Our Schools? by Ashley Carey – AJE Forum
sites.psu.edu
February 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Is Facebook making us hate our schools? Here, I share some key findings from my recently published work:
sites.psu.edu/ajeforum/202...
sites.psu.edu/ajeforum/202...
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"Even in the midst of a raging culture war, Americans are still pragmatic people who maintain practical interests in their communities and the institutions that anchor them ... The trick, then, is to sound an alarm now that can be heard across the partisan divide."
February 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Even in the midst of a raging culture war, Americans are still pragmatic people who maintain practical interests in their communities and the institutions that anchor them ... The trick, then, is to sound an alarm now that can be heard across the partisan divide."
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If you have extra funds and want to support an org doing essential work to fight the actions against public education and ed research of this administration, @edlawcenter.bsky.social is doing hard, critical work and could use anything you can contribute.
February 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
If you have extra funds and want to support an org doing essential work to fight the actions against public education and ed research of this administration, @edlawcenter.bsky.social is doing hard, critical work and could use anything you can contribute.
"The chaos in Washington isn't just in Washington," Leeper said "The dollars they are cutting are dollars that come to us, the taxpayers. This is our money that they are stealing from us, and they are crippling our future by making these radical and short sighted choices."
February 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"The chaos in Washington isn't just in Washington," Leeper said "The dollars they are cutting are dollars that come to us, the taxpayers. This is our money that they are stealing from us, and they are crippling our future by making these radical and short sighted choices."
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"Federal law prohibits federal officials from telling schools what they can and cannot teach." www.chalkbeat.org/2025/01/29/t...
Trump looks to withhold school aid over lessons on equity and gender. Can he?
The federal government is barred by law from mandating what curriculum schools use. But Trump’s order about “discriminatory equity ideology” and “gender ideology” indicates he wants to use his adminis...
www.chalkbeat.org
January 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"Federal law prohibits federal officials from telling schools what they can and cannot teach." www.chalkbeat.org/2025/01/29/t...
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As we prepare (/brace ourselves) for the new presidential administration, what do we know about how presidential engagement in K-12 education policy shapes the politics of education?
Alyssa Barone and I are thrilled to announce our new article (online early) in Education Finance and Policy 🧵
Alyssa Barone and I are thrilled to announce our new article (online early) in Education Finance and Policy 🧵
January 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
As we prepare (/brace ourselves) for the new presidential administration, what do we know about how presidential engagement in K-12 education policy shapes the politics of education?
Alyssa Barone and I are thrilled to announce our new article (online early) in Education Finance and Policy 🧵
Alyssa Barone and I are thrilled to announce our new article (online early) in Education Finance and Policy 🧵
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“Data from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights show that, nationally, public schools employ more security guards and school resource officers (SRO) than counselors, nurses, psychologists, and social workers combined.”
www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...
www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...
The Cumulative Costs of Gun Violence on Students and Schools | CEA | The White House
Children and adolescents are dying from gun violence at alarmingly high rates in the United States, with firearms now the leading cause of death among youth ages 1 to 19 (figure 1). The threat of gun ...
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January 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
“Data from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights show that, nationally, public schools employ more security guards and school resource officers (SRO) than counselors, nurses, psychologists, and social workers combined.”
www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...
www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...
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Not only (1) a great contribution to the lit on the info environments that influence school choice but also (2) a great example of crisp, clear, and accessible academic writing
Flag this article for your ed policy syllabi’s week on school choice
Flag this article for your ed policy syllabi’s week on school choice
So excited to share my first solo-authored article! I find that FB presents an accessible tool for special interest actors to disrupt public education. Viral algorithms give Comment Cathy more power than ever to shape knowledge about local public schools: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
“That Middle School Is Trash!!!” Public Knowledge about Local Schools on Social Media | American Journal of Education
Purpose: Americans frequently turn to online social networking sites (OSNs) as a source of news and information. Yet the role of OSNs in knowledge formation about local public schools remains underexa...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
January 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Not only (1) a great contribution to the lit on the info environments that influence school choice but also (2) a great example of crisp, clear, and accessible academic writing
Flag this article for your ed policy syllabi’s week on school choice
Flag this article for your ed policy syllabi’s week on school choice
Exactly! There are not enough hours in the day to add context to all the misleading posts about local schools. And community members don't contribute their own positive experiences with schools because they fear backlash from Comment Cathy. All this makes FB such an effective tool for disruptors.
I sincerely doubt community notes are going to help with this important work from Ashley!
So excited to share my first solo-authored article! I find that FB presents an accessible tool for special interest actors to disrupt public education. Viral algorithms give Comment Cathy more power than ever to shape knowledge about local public schools: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
January 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Exactly! There are not enough hours in the day to add context to all the misleading posts about local schools. And community members don't contribute their own positive experiences with schools because they fear backlash from Comment Cathy. All this makes FB such an effective tool for disruptors.
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This is fascinating and certainly seems to match my anecdotal experience.
So excited to share my first solo-authored article! I find that FB presents an accessible tool for special interest actors to disrupt public education. Viral algorithms give Comment Cathy more power than ever to shape knowledge about local public schools: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
“That Middle School Is Trash!!!” Public Knowledge about Local Schools on Social Media | American Journal of Education
Purpose: Americans frequently turn to online social networking sites (OSNs) as a source of news and information. Yet the role of OSNs in knowledge formation about local public schools remains underexa...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
January 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is fascinating and certainly seems to match my anecdotal experience.
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Absolutely fascinating article about how few (white) actors with hidden agendas use social media to trash public schools and prop up private and charter options. Also, this type of behavior is pervasive across political contexts (here's looking at you, DC Urban Moms and Dads).
So excited to share my first solo-authored article! I find that FB presents an accessible tool for special interest actors to disrupt public education. Viral algorithms give Comment Cathy more power than ever to shape knowledge about local public schools: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
“That Middle School Is Trash!!!” Public Knowledge about Local Schools on Social Media | American Journal of Education
Purpose: Americans frequently turn to online social networking sites (OSNs) as a source of news and information. Yet the role of OSNs in knowledge formation about local public schools remains underexa...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
January 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Absolutely fascinating article about how few (white) actors with hidden agendas use social media to trash public schools and prop up private and charter options. Also, this type of behavior is pervasive across political contexts (here's looking at you, DC Urban Moms and Dads).