Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
@kageceratops.bsky.social
🐚🌻
2nd gen Pinay wandering the earth | assistant profe @CalLutheran | Carson, CA raised | community college transfer from @LBCC & HigherEd alum @UHManoa @UNLV
2nd gen Pinay wandering the earth | assistant profe @CalLutheran | Carson, CA raised | community college transfer from @LBCC & HigherEd alum @UHManoa @UNLV
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Remember the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds (HEERF)? There were three waves (HEERF I, II, and III) 🌊
🚨🚨 NOW AVAILABLE: "Minority-Serving Institutions and the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds: Federal Funding Allocations and Policy Considerations" in Education Finance & Policy 🚨🚨
🚨🚨 NOW AVAILABLE: "Minority-Serving Institutions and the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds: Federal Funding Allocations and Policy Considerations" in Education Finance & Policy 🚨🚨
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
No one is maing the faculty teach so if state sets minimum requirements people will rebuild trust? I call bullshit. open.substack.com/pub/brendanc...
The rationales for state regulated teaching loads are B.S.
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Megan Zahneis has a story reporting on efforts advanced by conservative groups and red state legislators to regulate faculty teaching loads.
open.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM
No one is maing the faculty teach so if state sets minimum requirements people will rebuild trust? I call bullshit. open.substack.com/pub/brendanc...
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
In this @insidehighered.com op-ed, Julie J. Park (@univofmaryland.bsky.social) examines UC San Diego’s experience with test-free admissions and responds to critics who say that the policy is setting up students to fail.
🔗🔗 Read: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
🔗🔗 Read: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
UCSD Can Live Without the SAT (opinion)
Selective institutions like the University of California, San Diego are well-positioned to address preparation gaps—after admission.
www.insidehighered.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
In this @insidehighered.com op-ed, Julie J. Park (@univofmaryland.bsky.social) examines UC San Diego’s experience with test-free admissions and responds to critics who say that the policy is setting up students to fail.
🔗🔗 Read: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
🔗🔗 Read: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Incredibly excited to be part of the 2026 @scholars.org ETSP cohort 3! Y’all. My cohort is inspiring. Watch out for us!
📚📢 We’re kicking off the year by welcoming the 2026 cohort of the Education Scholars Training Program! In collaboration with @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social & @bezosfamilyfoundation.org, we're launching a year-long initiative to provide support to 16 education scholars.
👉 Meet them: scholars.org/ESTP
👉 Meet them: scholars.org/ESTP
January 31, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Incredibly excited to be part of the 2026 @scholars.org ETSP cohort 3! Y’all. My cohort is inspiring. Watch out for us!
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...
minnesotareformer.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
Remember the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds (HEERF)? There were three waves (HEERF I, II, and III) 🌊
🚨🚨 NOW AVAILABLE: "Minority-Serving Institutions and the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds: Federal Funding Allocations and Policy Considerations" in Education Finance & Policy 🚨🚨
🚨🚨 NOW AVAILABLE: "Minority-Serving Institutions and the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds: Federal Funding Allocations and Policy Considerations" in Education Finance & Policy 🚨🚨
January 25, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Remember the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds (HEERF)? There were three waves (HEERF I, II, and III) 🌊
🚨🚨 NOW AVAILABLE: "Minority-Serving Institutions and the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds: Federal Funding Allocations and Policy Considerations" in Education Finance & Policy 🚨🚨
🚨🚨 NOW AVAILABLE: "Minority-Serving Institutions and the Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds: Federal Funding Allocations and Policy Considerations" in Education Finance & Policy 🚨🚨
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) represent about 1 in 5 colleges and universities in the U.S. And did you know: 1 in 5 of those HSIs are “dual-designated” w/ another classification?
Read Dra. Stephanie Aguilar-Smith (UGA) and my recently released brief: www.acenet.edu/Documents/In...
Read Dra. Stephanie Aguilar-Smith (UGA) and my recently released brief: www.acenet.edu/Documents/In...
September 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) represent about 1 in 5 colleges and universities in the U.S. And did you know: 1 in 5 of those HSIs are “dual-designated” w/ another classification?
Read Dra. Stephanie Aguilar-Smith (UGA) and my recently released brief: www.acenet.edu/Documents/In...
Read Dra. Stephanie Aguilar-Smith (UGA) and my recently released brief: www.acenet.edu/Documents/In...
It’s public 📰
We were selected for the Association for Institutional Research 2025 Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award
…and it absolutely doesn’t escape me how in this moment, this recognition affirms the role/continued importance of critical data collection and analyses 📊
lnkd.in/gt8-7-w5
We were selected for the Association for Institutional Research 2025 Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award
…and it absolutely doesn’t escape me how in this moment, this recognition affirms the role/continued importance of critical data collection and analyses 📊
lnkd.in/gt8-7-w5
May 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It’s public 📰
We were selected for the Association for Institutional Research 2025 Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award
…and it absolutely doesn’t escape me how in this moment, this recognition affirms the role/continued importance of critical data collection and analyses 📊
lnkd.in/gt8-7-w5
We were selected for the Association for Institutional Research 2025 Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award
…and it absolutely doesn’t escape me how in this moment, this recognition affirms the role/continued importance of critical data collection and analyses 📊
lnkd.in/gt8-7-w5
It’s out 🎙️“Solidarity Across Multiple MSI Designations"
Even though we recorded this in Feb, this reminder of solidarity, esp. in these times, remains: We need to resist and rise together now... and it all needs to be rooted in relationship.
Spotify:
lnkd.in/gZyu45t7
YouTube:
lnkd.in/gdzmaHfA
Even though we recorded this in Feb, this reminder of solidarity, esp. in these times, remains: We need to resist and rise together now... and it all needs to be rooted in relationship.
Spotify:
lnkd.in/gZyu45t7
YouTube:
lnkd.in/gdzmaHfA
May 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It’s out 🎙️“Solidarity Across Multiple MSI Designations"
Even though we recorded this in Feb, this reminder of solidarity, esp. in these times, remains: We need to resist and rise together now... and it all needs to be rooted in relationship.
Spotify:
lnkd.in/gZyu45t7
YouTube:
lnkd.in/gdzmaHfA
Even though we recorded this in Feb, this reminder of solidarity, esp. in these times, remains: We need to resist and rise together now... and it all needs to be rooted in relationship.
Spotify:
lnkd.in/gZyu45t7
YouTube:
lnkd.in/gdzmaHfA
what’s your istorya (story)
April 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
what’s your istorya (story)
greeting the start of the spring conference season with the green power suit 💅🏼
April 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
greeting the start of the spring conference season with the green power suit 💅🏼
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
Surveillance is *not* safety!
NEW: Yesterday, a T-Mobile tracking app for children began showing parents the exact real-time locations and images of random kids, and showed the locations of their own kids to other random adults:
www.404media.co/t-mobile-sho...
www.404media.co/t-mobile-sho...
T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children
"I would log in and I couldn’t see my children but I could see a kid in California. I refreshed and would see a different child.”
www.404media.co
April 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Surveillance is *not* safety!
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
A week after cutting half its staff, the Education Department reversed course and asked dozens of laid off workers to come back.
It's one of many details staff shared with me about a "chaotic" process they say has paralyzed what's left of the department.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
It's one of many details staff shared with me about a "chaotic" process they say has paralyzed what's left of the department.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Education Department Staff Struggle After Mass Layoffs
The Trump administration said its sweeping cuts would eliminate bloat at the department. Staff say the “chaotic” process has stalled essential functions and left remaining employees with unmanageable workloads.
www.insidehighered.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A week after cutting half its staff, the Education Department reversed course and asked dozens of laid off workers to come back.
It's one of many details staff shared with me about a "chaotic" process they say has paralyzed what's left of the department.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
It's one of many details staff shared with me about a "chaotic" process they say has paralyzed what's left of the department.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
Hours before he was killed by Israel, Hossam Shabat filed his last report for @dropsitenews.com, “Report from the Frontline of Israel’s War of Annihilation.”
We are publishing Hossam’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by Sharif Abdel Kouddous:
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
We are publishing Hossam’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by Sharif Abdel Kouddous:
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
Hossam Shabat’s Last Article
Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.
www.dropsitenews.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Hours before he was killed by Israel, Hossam Shabat filed his last report for @dropsitenews.com, “Report from the Frontline of Israel’s War of Annihilation.”
We are publishing Hossam’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by Sharif Abdel Kouddous:
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
We are publishing Hossam’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by Sharif Abdel Kouddous:
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
Education researchers seriously doubt that the Education Department will be able to maintain the federal data sets after half the agency’s staff was fired. chroni.cl/4bTbeQk
‘I Want to Stand Up for Higher Ed’: Protesters Rally Against Education Dept. Cuts
As demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., researchers met across town to discuss the toll that drastic reductions at the agency would have on their work.
chroni.cl
March 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Education researchers seriously doubt that the Education Department will be able to maintain the federal data sets after half the agency’s staff was fired. chroni.cl/4bTbeQk
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
"[Baker] began her [chair comments] by acknowledging that the US 'no longer has an effective federal apparatus for education policy' and discussed how a diminished department will affect the policy implications outlined in the papers presented at her session."
www.chronicle.com/article/i-wa...
www.chronicle.com/article/i-wa...
‘I Want to Stand Up for Higher Ed’: Protesters Rally Against Education Dept. Cuts
As demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., researchers met across town to discuss the toll that drastic reductions at the agency would have on their work.
www.chronicle.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"[Baker] began her [chair comments] by acknowledging that the US 'no longer has an effective federal apparatus for education policy' and discussed how a diminished department will affect the policy implications outlined in the papers presented at her session."
www.chronicle.com/article/i-wa...
www.chronicle.com/article/i-wa...
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
When people ask me why the framing of ed policy issues matters, I often share work like this from Quinn (Experimental Effects of “Opportunity Gap” and “Achievement Gap” Frames in Sociology of Education)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
March 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
When people ask me why the framing of ed policy issues matters, I often share work like this from Quinn (Experimental Effects of “Opportunity Gap” and “Achievement Gap” Frames in Sociology of Education)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
With the continuing attacks on education & attempts to dismantle universities, I’m reminded of a 2020 Georgetown Center on Education & the Workforce report that highlights the importance of higher education for combatting authoritarian views. Education is powerful. cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/...
The Role of Education in Taming Authoritarian Attitudes - CEW Georgetown
Postsecondary education can play a critical role in protecting democratic republics against the threat of authoritarianism.
cew.georgetown.edu
March 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
With the continuing attacks on education & attempts to dismantle universities, I’m reminded of a 2020 Georgetown Center on Education & the Workforce report that highlights the importance of higher education for combatting authoritarian views. Education is powerful. cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/...
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
I'm downloading data from Office of Civil Rights, after a meeting on how to support disabled students if Dept of Ed is eliminated, trying to figure out which grants support incarcerated youth & supporting students on campus who are afraid. tell me again how government shutdown is scary for dems
a woman in a pink jacket is saying " i 'm just here to listen "
Alt: a Black woman in a pink jacket is saying " i 'm just here to listen "
media.tenor.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I'm downloading data from Office of Civil Rights, after a meeting on how to support disabled students if Dept of Ed is eliminated, trying to figure out which grants support incarcerated youth & supporting students on campus who are afraid. tell me again how government shutdown is scary for dems
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
I sat in a meeting last week where someone had the absolute gall to tell others to comply and keep their head down so they can make it to the other side. The other side of what?!
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Education Department to reduce staff by half
Ahead of the announcement, the department told staff that DC offices would be closed on Wednesday and reopen Thursday for “security reasons.”
www.insidehighered.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I sat in a meeting last week where someone had the absolute gall to tell others to comply and keep their head down so they can make it to the other side. The other side of what?!
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
You messed with Peggy Carr. Bold move. Now you’ve got the entire education research community coming for you.
I feel for everyone facing these arbitrary firings, as well as the targeted ones.
This one stings. I saw Peggy Carr present her work - decades of careful, critical stewardship of the nation's education data. Public knowledge depends on people like her. Another Black woman displaced.
This one stings. I saw Peggy Carr present her work - decades of careful, critical stewardship of the nation's education data. Public knowledge depends on people like her. Another Black woman displaced.
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...
February 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
You messed with Peggy Carr. Bold move. Now you’ve got the entire education research community coming for you.
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
Breaking story early this evening, NCES Commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr was placed on administrative leave, as a further blow to this statistical agency's capacity to collect, analyze, and report on high quality education data with objectivity and integrity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Courts rule on Trump administration initiatives including DOGE, DEI
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Breaking story early this evening, NCES Commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr was placed on administrative leave, as a further blow to this statistical agency's capacity to collect, analyze, and report on high quality education data with objectivity and integrity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Kristine Jan C. Espinoza
The indiscriminate slashing by DOGE is wasteful and damaging to our efforts to improve education. We spend way less than we should on education research in this country--a minuscule amount that is truly a rounding error in the federal budget, let alone as a fraction of total education spending.
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...
Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient
Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
www.brookings.edu
February 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The indiscriminate slashing by DOGE is wasteful and damaging to our efforts to improve education. We spend way less than we should on education research in this country--a minuscule amount that is truly a rounding error in the federal budget, let alone as a fraction of total education spending.
while we don't know where Minority-Serving Institutions yet stand, I remain steadfast
thank you @saraweissman.bsky.social for covering --- and helping the SHEEO white paper (and the MSI Data Project dataset) live on!
sheeo.org/wp-content/u...
thank you @saraweissman.bsky.social for covering --- and helping the SHEEO white paper (and the MSI Data Project dataset) live on!
sheeo.org/wp-content/u...
February 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
while we don't know where Minority-Serving Institutions yet stand, I remain steadfast
thank you @saraweissman.bsky.social for covering --- and helping the SHEEO white paper (and the MSI Data Project dataset) live on!
sheeo.org/wp-content/u...
thank you @saraweissman.bsky.social for covering --- and helping the SHEEO white paper (and the MSI Data Project dataset) live on!
sheeo.org/wp-content/u...