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Nell W.
@nell-hypothesis.bsky.social
Education policy researcher; also open to discussing Jane Austen and cats
Opinion | Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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🚨Organizing a paper swap for early career edu policy researchers.🚨
Share a nearly-complete draft, exchange feedback, and connect with peers.
Great if you’ve got a lingering project or diss chapter that could use feedback and soft deadlines to move it forward this summer.
Sign up & learn more here:
Education Policy Early Career Paper Swap
The goal is to create an opportunity for early career scholars and recent Ph.D. graduates to connect with peers at similar stages and receive constructive feedback on article-length drafts they’re pre...
docs.google.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
My next-door neighbor, Judge Geoff Crawford, ordered that Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was ambushed at his citizenship appointment and arrested by immigration agents, be released on bail. So proud to have my roots in this community.
April 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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"Money for the Head Start program, which provides early child care and education for low-income families and is funded by HHS’s Administration for Children and Families, would be eliminated."

Ghoulish.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts
HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Chart: The states and school systems that rely the most on federal K-12 educational aid

In Mississippi, South Dakota, Montana, Alaska, Arkansas and North Carolina, more than 20% of school funding comes from federal sources.

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
March 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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New Statement from @apduorg.bsky.social on Education Research & Data. "NCES is mandated by law to report on the condition of education annually, collect and disseminate key education data, and support state and local education agencies." apdu.org?p=5812775 Spread the word #SaveEducationData
APDU Statement on Education Research and Data – Association of Public Data Users
apdu.org
March 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Yes, your local public school is at risk. What happens next:
1) No personnel left to administer categorical K-12 funding
2) Those funds get block granted
3) Red states funnel the money into vouchers instead of supporting America’s most disadvantaged kids
March 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This was easy to miss in the chaos today, but sound yet another alarm: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...
‘Final Mission’ for Education Dept. Begins Now, McMahon Says (Gift Article)
President Trump has said he wants to do away with the department, and in her first hours as education secretary, Linda McMahon indicated she would follow his lead.
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department
Secretary Linda McMahon would be directed to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”
www.wsj.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
March 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
February 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟

#EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC
educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
Education Data Explorer
Explore education data
educationdata.urban.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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How much funding would public schools in your state lose if Title I programs were cut? Use ELC's new advocacy tool to explore the impact of potential federal revenue losses. edlawcenter.org/research/tru...
February 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM