DrNope
@hegemom.bsky.social
Applied sociologist; rural and education research; BLM; Appalachian; sci fi fan; I’ve been called cerebral but that implies a level of seriousness that I lack
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GRANTIFA (!!!)
My favorite sign today: “Old? Pissed off? Welcome to Grantifa!” held by an old guy
April 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
GRANTIFA (!!!)
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“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
March 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
My favorite contemporary sociologist is back on bsky!
I left this site to yall so you had a safe space to talk shit about me. I think that’s important for a public figure to do. I won’t be searching or anything but do us both a favor and issue an anticipatory block.
March 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
My favorite contemporary sociologist is back on bsky!
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Trump Education Department decimates office serving 5 million English learners in public schools
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/21/trump-education-department-dismantles-office-for-students-learning-english/
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/21/trump-education-department-dismantles-office-for-students-learning-english/
Upheaval at Education Department office sparks concern about services for English learners
The Trump Education Department says changes to the Office for English Language Acquisition will not affect funding or federal programs for students. But experts and others worry that the quality of their education and training for their teachers could suffer.
www.chalkbeat.org
March 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump Education Department decimates office serving 5 million English learners in public schools
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/21/trump-education-department-dismantles-office-for-students-learning-english/
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/21/trump-education-department-dismantles-office-for-students-learning-english/
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I'm super excited to share this short brief on who has power over the Department of Education, what the ED Sec can do, and what Executive Orders can do.
There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...
There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...
March 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'm super excited to share this short brief on who has power over the Department of Education, what the ED Sec can do, and what Executive Orders can do.
There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...
There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...
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Not sure it will matter, but I'm glad to see that the situation at IES is getting attention and the quotes from across the ideological spectrum.
March 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Not sure it will matter, but I'm glad to see that the situation at IES is getting attention and the quotes from across the ideological spectrum.
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One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
March 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
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AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
March 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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BREAKING: Parents sue the Trump administration for decimating the Education Department’s civil rights office in violation of their children’s rights.
@propublica.org reporting:
www.propublica.org/article/depa...
@propublica.org reporting:
www.propublica.org/article/depa...
Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
The class-action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the F...
www.propublica.org
March 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
BREAKING: Parents sue the Trump administration for decimating the Education Department’s civil rights office in violation of their children’s rights.
@propublica.org reporting:
www.propublica.org/article/depa...
@propublica.org reporting:
www.propublica.org/article/depa...
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This is who was fired from the union workforce at the Department of Education yesterday. Every single number is a person who served the nation and whose life was wrongly disrupted. That's the first tragedy, but it's clearly not the only one.
March 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This is who was fired from the union workforce at the Department of Education yesterday. Every single number is a person who served the nation and whose life was wrongly disrupted. That's the first tragedy, but it's clearly not the only one.
The Department of Education is a civil rights project. That’s why they’re dismantling it.
March 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The Department of Education is a civil rights project. That’s why they’re dismantling it.
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THIS
As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.
Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him
Pro-Israel Jewish groups targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, days before ICE agents arrested him.
forward.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
THIS
ERIC—the free online database of peer-reviewed and gray literature on education—“will be significantly reducing the number of records we index going forward. We expect to be reducing the collection by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025” to comply with EO 14222.
March 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
ERIC—the free online database of peer-reviewed and gray literature on education—“will be significantly reducing the number of records we index going forward. We expect to be reducing the collection by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025” to comply with EO 14222.
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Columbia professor Joseph Howley (@illdottore.bsky.social) says he and many colleagues have been warning that suppression of the Palestine solidarity movement is part of a larger right-wing attack on education, only to be ignored by the Columbia administration.
March 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Columbia professor Joseph Howley (@illdottore.bsky.social) says he and many colleagues have been warning that suppression of the Palestine solidarity movement is part of a larger right-wing attack on education, only to be ignored by the Columbia administration.
March 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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We have to remember that the American public being misinformed and lacking knowledge of what’s happening right now is only their fault *to an extent*
Our entire media ecosystem has been purchased and controlled by billionaires and oligarchs.
A misinformed public is MANUFACTURED AND INTENTIONAL.
Our entire media ecosystem has been purchased and controlled by billionaires and oligarchs.
A misinformed public is MANUFACTURED AND INTENTIONAL.
March 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We have to remember that the American public being misinformed and lacking knowledge of what’s happening right now is only their fault *to an extent*
Our entire media ecosystem has been purchased and controlled by billionaires and oligarchs.
A misinformed public is MANUFACTURED AND INTENTIONAL.
Our entire media ecosystem has been purchased and controlled by billionaires and oligarchs.
A misinformed public is MANUFACTURED AND INTENTIONAL.
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Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man
“If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.”
“If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.”
Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment
“I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.”
“I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.”
March 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
😏
What I just posted to LinkedIn:
Fortuitous timing aside, this isn’t an April Fools joke. I’m retiring from ICF on April 1, and maybe also from research and evaluation, because our entire enterprise* is being wantonly dismantled.
Fortuitous timing aside, this isn’t an April Fools joke. I’m retiring from ICF on April 1, and maybe also from research and evaluation, because our entire enterprise* is being wantonly dismantled.
March 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
What I just posted to LinkedIn:
Fortuitous timing aside, this isn’t an April Fools joke. I’m retiring from ICF on April 1, and maybe also from research and evaluation, because our entire enterprise* is being wantonly dismantled.
Fortuitous timing aside, this isn’t an April Fools joke. I’m retiring from ICF on April 1, and maybe also from research and evaluation, because our entire enterprise* is being wantonly dismantled.
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I think about this 2 minute speech a lot. Ella Baker with no time for applause and agreement, only time to remind everyone about what organizing and solidarity require
Ella Baker speaking in Puerto Rico at a Solidarity Rally (1974)
YouTube video by Heber Brown, III
youtu.be
March 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education is a direct attack on the nation’s children and teachers. Today’s Executive Order will hurt public schools in both red and blue states, and across urban, rural, and suburban communities.
March 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education is a direct attack on the nation’s children and teachers. Today’s Executive Order will hurt public schools in both red and blue states, and across urban, rural, and suburban communities.
Thread about the world I work in. For the moment.
I wrote a short blog post about the tragedy currently unfolding in the evaluation industry. Trump is destroying vital research capacity and decades of instructional knowledge for pocket change. 1/x
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
The Irreparable Damage Being Done to Federal Policy Research and Evaluation - Roosevelt Institute
Though their goals obviously differed, Republican and Democratic administrations have for decades relied on the work of social scientists both within and outside the government to conduct research on ...
rooseveltinstitute.org
March 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Thread about the world I work in. For the moment.
Welp…
Update: I'm told the EO eliminating the Dept. of Education will be dropping tomorrow mid-afternoon. Even though McMahon ended up sending her email to staff with no mention of the EO, it's still very much coming.
SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education.
I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.
Here is a portion:
I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.
Here is a portion:
March 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Welp…
RIP
Department of Education seeks to get out of the "education" business.
SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education.
I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.
Here is a portion:
I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.
Here is a portion:
March 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
RIP