It takes a certain kind of…narcissistic nihilism to look across the country at people self-organizing against something that is generally a fairly good material symbol of the intangible class warfare that has alienated them and say, “what a silly distraction from what *really* matters.” And yet…
UNC spent $1.2 million, over 6 months, to investigate its School of Civic Life. It won’t release findings. 🤔
@ncaaup.bsky.social
Our UNC students continue to lead the way: Check out this amazing teach-in this week from transparUNCy about Campus surveillance and the crackdown on academic freedom
Interested to learn your thoughts, informed by research and/or recent experience, for a monograph about explaining ideals of social justice teacher unionism to ed activists who never knew schools or teaching without the neoliberal reforms, testing especially. Replies and DMs work. Thanks!
"In a rapidly evolving situation, the best way to assess the specific challenges+ leverage that workers have is to go out to our departments or labs to figure out who is currently working, what their jobs are, obstacles they might face, and what next steps workers could collectively build towards."
Tennessee wants to ban undocumented children from access to a free public education, and turn school administrators into immigration informants. The Heritage Foundation wants to take that plan national. Read my latest for @theintercept.com:
Looking forward to it!
Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not think registration / application opens until April?
🚨 BREAKING: Duke University raises minimum wage to $20/hr after organizing by Durham Rising.
Workers spoke up and won. But with rising rent and living costs, the fight continues: $25/hr for Durham workers. ✊🏽#DurhamRising #OrganizeTheSouth
The curriculum in what is known as the “Bluebonnet” textbook is among Republican-led efforts in the U.S. to incorporate more religious teaching into classrooms.
Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.
This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.
"From public syllabi to surveillance, universities across the country are embracing unprecedented policies that professors say are undermining their academic freedom. And North Carolina is front and center."
www.wunc.org/podcast/the-... | @wunc.org
One huge problem here is that the child, or children who were deprived of education (because this is how the money was spent) have no legal recourse for those damages - quantifiable, life long damages due to deprivation of education. All in the name of "parent empowerment"
“Academic freedom —the ability to research, teach, & learn without interference is essential to the quality of education we offer in North Carolina.
Do we want UNC to go in the direction of Texas or Florida or we do we want to uphold the reputation, standards & quality that it has for decades?”
The moment many of us in #edresearch have been waiting for...
Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences has been released.
ies.ed.gov/ies/2026/02/...
I've been so focused on my new book that I forgot to share a recent pub w/@marloreeves.com! "Navigating white space: how Black and Latine youth deepen their understanding of race and space through community-based education and youth workers as spatial guides" url: academic.oup.com/sf/article-a...
Important read for people writing about NC's "bathroom bill" from 2017ish.
Let Faculty Teach!
Let Students Learn!
The UNC Board of Governors just voted to rewrite the definition of academic freedom to effectively limit students' ability to fully engage in a variety of scholarly topics & limit open inquiry & academic debate in NC higher education.
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RIGHT NOW: The NC AAUP is at the UNC Board of Governors meeting fighting back against attempts to squash open inquiry & academic debate in higher education.
This political interference is part of a broader effort to restrict what faculty can say & do in their classrooms.
@ncaaup.bsky.social
the license criminalization scheme in Kansas...stripping immigrants of their legal status...
all of this shows, and is meant to show, that the legal rights of disfavored groups are conditional and can be rescinded at will
such discriminatory chaos is incompatible with a real inclusive democracy
It's so distressing that the grassroots energy in the district right now is deeply anti data center and one of the biggest villains in the "stealing all my shit industry" might pull off buying the race.
The UNC Board of Governors is rewriting the definition of academic freedom, which threatens to limit critical inquiry and chill speech across campuses.
@ncaaup.bsky.social is fighting back: over 1,300 signed the petition demanding the BOG drop this policy.
Add your signature and share widely!
The latest issue of History of Education Quarterly is out. Here's a thread with open-access links to all of the articles...
I want to be clear, @aaup.org stands with our HBCUs. At the same time, what Virginia State University did by laying off 6 tenured/tenure-stream faculty, for NO CAUSE, & threatening them with trespass breaks every norm. It is shameful. Reinstate the Fired Six! SIGN & SHARE
tinyurl.com/9r864kmf
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
February's NEPC Talks Education podcast is here! @cmsaldana.bsky.social interviews @ericaoturner.bsky.social and @bryanmann.bsky.social about how demographic change is reshaping American schools and how current policy responses can promote equity and integration. bit.ly/3OjNEEO
I just signed the @ncaaup.bsky.social petition calling on the UNC Board of Governors to Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising the UNC System Code.
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Join @ncaaup.bsky.social in opposing major restrictions on academic freedom in the UNC System--sign the petition actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
