Rashawn Ray @sociologistray.bsky.social VP at AIR • Senior Fellow at Brookings • Sociology Professor at UMD • Articles in WaPo, NYT, Politico, The Hill, Guardian
https://linktr.ee/SociologistRay
Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social Yes, that Tracy Novick
she/her/hers
Education policy and finance
I speak here only for me/ nullius in verba
from the Heart of the Commonwealth
Sometimes random photos of the cat
linktr.ee/TracyNovick
Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social US cities & schools, historically.
Works: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem; nyccivilrightshistory.org.
Voted most likely to assign too much reading.
Also I♥️NYC and 🌱 🪴 and 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️.
Everything here is me, not my employer.
Kathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social Local Massachusetts elected official, family historian, lover of all dog and cat related content. And vaccines. All the vaccines. Posts and opinions mine, because how could they belong to anyone else?
Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social Attracted to public education by teaching in freedom schools and civil rights work 1964-1965 Tippah County Mississippi. Minnesota lawyer-- 15 years school board member: advocate for constitutional right to adequate education.
Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social Senior Director of the University of Mississippi's CETL & Assistant Professor of Teacher Education | Author: Failing Our Future (https://bit.ly/3UUdctd) and How Humans Learn (2018) | Speaker: http://bit.ly/jeyler | https://josheyler.wordpress.com | he/him
Mary Laski @marylaski.com Researcher working on ed policy & teacher workforce issues.
Research Assistant Professor at ASU
Research Principal at CRPE
Brown & HGSE alum
marylaski.com
Paige Kowalski @paigekowalski.bsky.social Data Quality Campaign’s EVP. Focused on state and federal education and workforce data policy. Your favorite data advocate’s favorite data advocate.
www.dataqualitycampaign.org
Biraj Bisht @birajbisht.bsky.social 
Marissa Thompson @marissathompson.bsky.social assistant professor of sociology at Columbia • researching inequality, education, race/ethnicity, & social policy • 26.2 x2, 13.1 x14 • 1913 | Γ • she/her • views mine
marissaethompson.com
John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science @ UMass Lowell.
“If you fail at something long enough, you become a legend.”
They call me “Bow tie Karen” in these skeets
All statements are personal opinions, not reflective of university positions.
Yerin Yoon @yerinyoon.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University
School & Program Choice | Transition into College & Workforce
https://www.yerinyoon.com/
@djacenba.bsky.social @djacenba.bsky.social 
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Nick Ainsworth @nick-ainsworth.bsky.social phd student @UCIeducation | interested in ece and sped policy | former k-2 sped teacher | @vanderbiltu @unlv alum | he/him 🏳️🌈 | www.njainsworth.com
Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social Writer, host. WAIT A SECOND POD, X-RAY VISION, THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THRONES HOTD, KOTSK POD
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Brittany Vasquez @brittanyvasquez.bsky.social Postdoc at UPenn GSE | Researching education finance & policy | 2022 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow | Wake Forest & UMich Ford School Alum
Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social Economist, public policy wonk, professor at UC Berkeley, faculty director of California Policy Lab & Center for Studies in Higher Education
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
Marnie Kaplan @marniekaplan.bsky.social Advocate for paid leave, early childhood education, & integrated schools; obsessed with books, storytelling, American history, & longreads; mom of 2.
Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social I am a pension fund monitor for Fremulon Insurance.
New Book "Big Fan" (with Joe Posnanski) available May 19. Preorder signed copies here: https://josephbeth.com/book/9798217045112
Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social Current: Staff Product Scientist @ Teamworks
Author: “The Midrange Theory”
Prev: Director of Basketball Research @
Milwaukee Bucks. Dir. N. American Sports @ StatsBomb. NBA analysis @ The Athletic. NBA DS @ Penn Entertainment.
Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app Harvard PhD candidate. #GodsPlan ☀️
Books: #TheBlackAgenda #TheDoubleTax
Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social Towards a big, efficient public sector that serves the least of us. Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School. United Campus Workers of Georgia. Father of 3. Chicago southsider. Proud 〽️ichigan alum. 🏀 nut.
Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social I’m an Econ AP at Brown: www.jessebruhn.com
My long term research agenda involves saying yes to everything and then repeatedly disappointing everyone who thought I’d make a good coauthor. 
Mike Elsen-Rooney @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social Covering NYC public schools for @chalkbeat.org
Debra Wexler @debrawexler.bsky.social Comms maven.
I live in Brooklyn and am passionate about improving education, NYC, and connecting with people working to make my city and our country more livable for all.
Obligatory: opinions mine.
Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.
Zoë McLaren, PhD @zoemclaren.bsky.social Visiting Scholar @NYUniversity. Associate Prof. @UMBCPubPolicy. Formerly @UMichSPH. Econ PhD @UMich. Health and economic policy to fight HIV, TB & COVID19.
Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/
Zach Bleemer @zbleemer.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton and NBER | Education and Economic Mobility
Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social Anything I ever do is to avoid doing something else
Stanford Economics PhD Student
lavaredmonds.com
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social I am a law professor. The Only Patent Habermasian. Dedicated to bringing a knife to a knife fight. Living, Laughing and Loving American Democracy. Running her own neighborhood on BlueSky. Branch of the CCB Tree.
Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social US historian at Boston College. Author of CRACKED FOUNDATIONS: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America (Penn Press, 2025): https://tinyurl.com/yc5evxeh
Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis.bsky.social Writer and podcaster at the @ringer • one of Cameron Crowe’s Uncool • taller than you think • author of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios for W. W. Norton
Annie Tan @annietan.com educator, activist, storyteller (she/her) #writing a #memoir #WIP #writersky! VT Studio Center, Tin House, & Bread Loaf '23! #AAPI #BLM annie@annietan.com
Most of my old posts were transferred & archived here from my old Twitter account annietangent, RIP
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Ed Fuller @edfuller.bsky.social Former HS math tchr
Ed Leadership & Policy Professor
Dad to 14 year old
Rsch: educator workforce issues in PA
Been in all major newspapers & on network news in Texas and PA
Cyclist
#EduSky #AcademicSky
My policy briefs: https://ceepablog.wordpress.com/
David Knight @dsknight99.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education Finance and Policy at the University of Washington College of Education
Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social #Notacourt but yes a law prof
Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social K-12 education policy person with a focus on school finance. Currently Director, Education Funding Equity Initiative @educationwork.newamerica.org. Formerly EdTrust, EdBuild. Parent. Order Muppet. Tired of all this.
Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com Husband | Dad | Designer | California Native | Lifelong Dem | Strategist
Douglas N. Harris @douglasharris9.bsky.social Tulane, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics.
Director, REACH Center
Director, State of the Nation Project
Editor, AEFP LIve Handbook of Education Policy Research
Linda Weber @lawebs.bsky.social Progressive Democrat, boy mom (ok, they're adults...), soon to be MIL, and other familial titles. Trying to figure out where to use my energy next in this fight. Happily wedded to @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social
Karen Benjamin @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social Historian at Elmhurst U, UW Madison + UT Austin alum
Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools: Selling Segregation before the New Deal available July 2025 from UNC Press 
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Dr. Jon Sawyer @jonsawyer.org Ph.D. | Visiting Assistant Professor (Clinical) at the University of Alabama (2027-2029) | Social & Cultural Studies in Education
Brian Holzman @brianholzman.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, College of Education & Human Development || Soc of ed, higher ed, ed policy, race/immigration/language, & RPPs || "a noted dog enthusiast"
www.brianholzman.com
Ericka (Wiggins) Weathers @erickaweathers.bsky.social Here as a well-balanced human with many identities. Posting my own views as my full self. K-12 Ed policy researcher. Mom |🪴🏀🏈 lover | Consumer of the Philly food scene | CT native | Hampton alum | 1913 🔺
Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social Professor @Cornell studying: people power, organizing, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing)|Builder|Leader|Believer
More here: www.jamilamichener.com
Walt Ecton @waltecton.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. Research on High School, College & Career. CTE. Politics & Econ of Ed. Former HS teacher. He/Him.🌈
Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social Associate Prof at American University SPA (formerly UW-Madison), NBER & IZA studying environmental, health & ed policy. PhD from Northwestern U. Thoughts are my own.
Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
UM-Flint College of Arts, Sciences & Education @umflintcase.bsky.social Join us as we explore and share the stories of our College's students, faculty, alumni, and community. #umflint
Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info
Center on Reinventing Public Education @crpe.bsky.social We research bold ideas to reshape K-12 education in the United States. Part of ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton College.
Find us here, on X (for now), on LinkedIn, and at crpe.org.
Emily Rauscher @emilyrauscher.bsky.social Professor @BrownSociology @PSTC_Brown @AnnenbergInst | Study education & inequality.
Octavia Butler & Patrick Rothfuss fan. From the sticks via financial aid.
C. Tocci @tocci.bsky.social "With fervency I spoke of that new world, blessed with plenty, purified by justice and sweetened by brotherly kindness, the world of which I had indeed but dreamed, but which might so easily be made real." - E. Bellamy
Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social nba stats, raptors | not all fun facts are fun, some are red flags | email: uthayakumar.keerthika@gmail.com
Josh Levin @joshuablevin.bsky.social Host of Replay Booth. Host of Slow Burn seasons on David Duke and Fox News. Creator of One Year. Author of NBCC winner THE QUEEN. https://www.josh-levin.com/
Matthew Di Carlo @mattdicarlo.bsky.social Senior research fellow at the Albert Shanker Institute in Washington, D.C. I have my moments.
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Claire Delcourt @cedelcourt.bsky.social Former Nashville MS & HS educator | Education Policy Ph.D. Student at Teachers College, Columbia University | @Ed_Cooperative | #quant4what | she/her
Education Finance and Policy Journal @efpjournal.bsky.social EFP publishes policy-relevant research papers concerning education finance, policy, and practice.
aefpweb.org
Yusuf Canbolat @ycanbola.bsky.social Ph.D. @IndianaUniv| Education Policy | @HarvardSDP Alumnus
Elizabeth DeBray @edebray.bsky.social Ed policy prof at UGA and Atlantan. #academicsky opinions mine
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Emily Penner @emilykpenner.bsky.social 
Laura Rogers @laurarogers.bsky.social Associate professor @uvaehd.bsky.social studying the people and policies that make school districts tick.
Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social I love James Harden & I write about abortioneveryday.com
substack.com/@kylietcheung / kyliewrites.net
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social Budget and tax policy and soccer (Fulham, Revs, USMNT, Levante). Director of Research at New Mexico Voices for Children
Andrea M. Headley, PhD @amheadley.bsky.social Associate Prof @Georgetown @McCourtSchool | Public management scholar studying racial equity and criminal justice organizations | Believer 🙏🏽
www.andreaheadley.com
Steve B. Holt @stevebholt.bsky.social Associate Professor. Public Management, Education Policy, Econometrics. https://stevebholt.github.io/
Abigail Francis @abigailfrancis.bsky.social Doctoral Student in Education Policy @BU Wheelock
https://www.abigailfrancis.com/
Michael Geiss @michaelgeiss.bsky.social Historian of education
Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social Constitutional law prof specializing in First Amendment, both speech & religion. Also repro
Likes: art,science, feminism, LGBTQ rights, CRT, separation of church & state
Things I've written: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=797431
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Vanessa Miller @vanessamiller.bsky.social Assistant Professor at FIU Law. Writing at the intersection of education and policing. Weightlifting at the intersection of metal and reggeaton. Miami born and raised.
Ben Lebovitz @balebo.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate | University of Wisconsin-Madison 🌈🏫
Education, Policy, and Politics. 🎶🎭🍷🪴
Free newsletter, QueerED: https://balebo.substack.com/
Jo R. King @jo-r-king.bsky.social ap @buwheelock.bsky.social | k-12 ed policy and cat pictures | paddington lover | opinions own | they/them
website: www.jo-r-king.com
Erica Litke @ericalitke.bsky.social Associate professor of math ed and socio-cultural and community based approaches to ed, ed policy adjacent. Philly public school parent. Teacher, Researcher. ⚽️ 🏀. I talk math w my kids. And other kids. A lot. She/her/hers.
David Houston @dmhouston.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy | George Mason University | Public Education and American Democracy
Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social VP, Education & Work, New America. Writes about education for the New York Times, Atlantic, Vox, etc. I’ve made my mind a sunless space.
Cam Arnzen @camarnzen.bsky.social 🗳️I study Politics, Education, & Public Policy. 🔎 Postdoc at Brown University | 📚 PhD from Columbia University | 🎓Duke & College of Idaho Alum | 🎶 Dedicated Swiftie | 🥔 Idahoan | 🏳️🌈
www.cameronarnzen.com
Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social Connecting people, evidence, and practice.
🔗 https://annenberg.brown.edu
Explore the EdExchange:
🔗 https://EdWorkingPapers.com
🔗 https://EdInstruments.org
🔗 https://EdResearchForAction.org
Sammie Marshall @samanthamarshall.bsky.social Associate Professor, Teacher Education and Learning Sciences, North Carolina State University
I study math teachers' learning, particularly of justice-oriented pedagogies. Current projects: go.ncsu.edu/awise & go.ncsu.edu/llm
Esther Quintero @equintero.bsky.social 
Albert Shanker Institute @shankerinst.bsky.social Non-profit think tank providing research and commentary on education, labor, and democracy.
Margaret Thornton @maggiethornton.bsky.social Appalachian expat in Philly doing what I can to stop school inequality. Ed leadership/policy assistant prof studying tracking and detracking. Blue skies are mine.
Sarah W. Lenhoff @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social Education policy researcher and professor at Wayne State University, DPSCD parent, neighbor, friend. Director of Detroit PEER: detroitpeer.org
The Education Trust–New York @edtrustny.bsky.social The Education Trust–New York works to close the gaps in opportunity and achievement, pre-K through college.
Equity-Driven • Data-Centered • Student-Focused
edtrustny.org
Isabel Clay-Frum @isabelclayfrum.bsky.social PhD candidate studying the policies and practices impacting the education of multilingual learners and ELs
Danielle Edwards @drdsedwards.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, Old Dominion University. I study geographic inequities in access to effective schools & teachers
New York City Independent Budget Office @nycibo.bsky.social Your go-to source for nonpartisan, data-driven insights on NYC’s budget, economy, and policy. We break down spending, tax revenues, housing, education, and more.
https://www.ibo.nyc.gov