Madeline Trimble
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I have never pursued an ADHD evaluation but I feel a little personally attacked that this thread goes on to describe EXACTLY the system I use for socks 😅
I can't find it due to search engines no longer working, but there's an old tumblr screenshot about ADHD evaluations where a person is asked whether they tend to lose socks.
And they go "Ah, no, I used to lose my socks all the time but I have Devised a System, allow me to explain it"
And they go "Ah, no, I used to lose my socks all the time but I have Devised a System, allow me to explain it"
July 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I have never pursued an ADHD evaluation but I feel a little personally attacked that this thread goes on to describe EXACTLY the system I use for socks 😅
Took my son to the #GoodTroubleLivesOn rally tonight. ✊
July 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Took my son to the #GoodTroubleLivesOn rally tonight. ✊
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Breaking news: The Trump administration announced a ban on travelers to the U.S. from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The ban takes effect June 9.
Trump administration reinstates and expands travel ban
The effort comes as the president has pursued a series of extraordinary measures to curtail both illegal and legal immigration.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Breaking news: The Trump administration announced a ban on travelers to the U.S. from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The ban takes effect June 9.
My husband's mom died within a month of his birth. Social Security kept him out of poverty.
My children were social security recipients after my husband died, until they were 18
I was a social security recipient from age 13 to 18.
April 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
My husband's mom died within a month of his birth. Social Security kept him out of poverty.
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The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.
April 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.
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Opinion | America’s Veterans Deserve Better
Higher ed can and must do more to support veterans, Daniel Braun, Catharine B. Hill and Emily Schwartz write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3GkALX0
Higher ed can and must do more to support veterans, Daniel Braun, Catharine B. Hill and Emily Schwartz write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3GkALX0
Higher Ed Can Do More for Veterans (opinion)
Higher ed can and must do more to support veterans, Daniel Braun, Catharine B. Hill and Emily Schwartz write.
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April 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Opinion | America’s Veterans Deserve Better
Higher ed can and must do more to support veterans, Daniel Braun, Catharine B. Hill and Emily Schwartz write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3GkALX0
Higher ed can and must do more to support veterans, Daniel Braun, Catharine B. Hill and Emily Schwartz write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3GkALX0
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Trump's Department of Homeland Security has sent a letter to Harvard threatening to revoke its eligibility to enroll international students unless it submits information on international students' disciplinary records and protest participation.
April 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Trump's Department of Homeland Security has sent a letter to Harvard threatening to revoke its eligibility to enroll international students unless it submits information on international students' disciplinary records and protest participation.
Come to our rally in Teaneck tomorrow! Because our federal government is worth standing up for.
Join us in Teaneck on Saturday from 11-1 when Bergen County says "Hands Off!" tinyurl.com/ysvy8msd Bring your friends, your signs, your passion for democracy!
April 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Come to our rally in Teaneck tomorrow! Because our federal government is worth standing up for.
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This excellent article by Diane Cheng of the Institute for Higher Education Policy explains why college data collected by the US Department of Education are essential tools in evaluating colleges, including by prospective college-going students: buff.ly/eFZPR2l #AcademicSky
The Case for IES Postsecondary Studies: How IPEDS Provides Key Consumer Information About College Costs, Outcomes, and More
The future of education tools that provide students, researchers, and policymakers with critical information about college costs, financial aid, and outcomes is now at serious risk. That’s because…
buff.ly
April 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This excellent article by Diane Cheng of the Institute for Higher Education Policy explains why college data collected by the US Department of Education are essential tools in evaluating colleges, including by prospective college-going students: buff.ly/eFZPR2l #AcademicSky
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AEFP has joined a challenge to the administration's actions as they relate to data and research infrastructure for education:
www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...
AEFP affiliates--especially early career scholars and students--as a board member, please reach out if you have any questions or thoughts!
www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...
AEFP affiliates--especially early career scholars and students--as a board member, please reach out if you have any questions or thoughts!
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Admin’s Dismantling of Institute of Education Sciences - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)…
www.citizen.org
April 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
AEFP has joined a challenge to the administration's actions as they relate to data and research infrastructure for education:
www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...
AEFP affiliates--especially early career scholars and students--as a board member, please reach out if you have any questions or thoughts!
www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...
AEFP affiliates--especially early career scholars and students--as a board member, please reach out if you have any questions or thoughts!
My heart breaks reading these accounts of the important research contracts that have been cancelled by the Trump administration (including research from CCRC <3 ).
These don't dominate headlines, but not having reputable research results will harm Americans and waste taxpayer $in the long run.
These don't dominate headlines, but not having reputable research results will harm Americans and waste taxpayer $in the long run.
Opinion | Grant Terminated
Researchers whose federal grants have been terminated since the start of the Trump administration describe some of the myriad impacts. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3E9lgAv
Researchers whose federal grants have been terminated since the start of the Trump administration describe some of the myriad impacts. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3E9lgAv
Federal Grant Cuts in Researchers’ Own Words (opinion)
Researchers whose federal grants have been terminated since the start of the Trump administration describe some of the myriad impacts.
bit.ly
April 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My heart breaks reading these accounts of the important research contracts that have been cancelled by the Trump administration (including research from CCRC <3 ).
These don't dominate headlines, but not having reputable research results will harm Americans and waste taxpayer $in the long run.
These don't dominate headlines, but not having reputable research results will harm Americans and waste taxpayer $in the long run.
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Trump claimed during the 2024 election that “we have to do something about the Dreamers.”
Oh, he’s doing something alright: continuing to attack them. He’s recently moved to strip them of their ACA coverage.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/daca-updat... #HomeIsHere
Oh, he’s doing something alright: continuing to attack them. He’s recently moved to strip them of their ACA coverage.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/daca-updat... #HomeIsHere
DACA Updates: Trump Seeks to Strip Dreamers of ACA Eligibility; Fifth Circuit Ruling Goes Into Effect
Two recent developments related to the DACA program stand to affect thousands of young immigrants who call the US their home.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Trump claimed during the 2024 election that “we have to do something about the Dreamers.”
Oh, he’s doing something alright: continuing to attack them. He’s recently moved to strip them of their ACA coverage.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/daca-updat... #HomeIsHere
Oh, he’s doing something alright: continuing to attack them. He’s recently moved to strip them of their ACA coverage.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/daca-updat... #HomeIsHere
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It’s #NationalPublicDefenderDay!
Today, we honor and celebrate the dedicated attorneys, investigators, and support staff who work to ensure all New Jerseyans have access to quality legal representation, regardless of their financial situation. Thank you for your work, #NJpublicdefenders!
Today, we honor and celebrate the dedicated attorneys, investigators, and support staff who work to ensure all New Jerseyans have access to quality legal representation, regardless of their financial situation. Thank you for your work, #NJpublicdefenders!
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It’s #NationalPublicDefenderDay!
Today, we honor and celebrate the dedicated attorneys, investigators, and support staff who work to ensure all New Jerseyans have access to quality legal representation, regardless of their financial situation. Thank you for your work, #NJpublicdefenders!
Today, we honor and celebrate the dedicated attorneys, investigators, and support staff who work to ensure all New Jerseyans have access to quality legal representation, regardless of their financial situation. Thank you for your work, #NJpublicdefenders!
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💯 This op-ed by ed research leaders made that essential point quite forcefully:
"Abruptly ending near-complete projects does not drive efficiency. Instead, it ensures that the public sees no benefit from the investments already made, converting what was productive spending into waste."
"Abruptly ending near-complete projects does not drive efficiency. Instead, it ensures that the public sees no benefit from the investments already made, converting what was productive spending into waste."
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
March 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
💯 This op-ed by ed research leaders made that essential point quite forcefully:
"Abruptly ending near-complete projects does not drive efficiency. Instead, it ensures that the public sees no benefit from the investments already made, converting what was productive spending into waste."
"Abruptly ending near-complete projects does not drive efficiency. Instead, it ensures that the public sees no benefit from the investments already made, converting what was productive spending into waste."
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“DIGITAL BOOK BURNING”: This phrase captures the import of what is going on across numerous agencies. Yes, there are real, specific consequences of degraded or manipulated data in each case- but even those costly losses pale alongside the big picture consequence: rapid descent into authoritarianism.
Look ma, no data!
On Trump’s digital book-burning: wapo.st/3XF0wqH
On Trump’s digital book-burning: wapo.st/3XF0wqH
Opinion | How Trump is reshaping reality by hiding data
Sweeping statistical purges are part of a broader attempt to reinvent “truth.”
wapo.st
March 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“DIGITAL BOOK BURNING”: This phrase captures the import of what is going on across numerous agencies. Yes, there are real, specific consequences of degraded or manipulated data in each case- but even those costly losses pale alongside the big picture consequence: rapid descent into authoritarianism.
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If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.
March 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.
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All IES program officers are gone
How they will be able to administer grants that are already disbursed?
Spend it fast if you can
How they will be able to administer grants that are already disbursed?
Spend it fast if you can
March 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
All IES program officers are gone
How they will be able to administer grants that are already disbursed?
Spend it fast if you can
How they will be able to administer grants that are already disbursed?
Spend it fast if you can
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“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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Also, I'm not a lawyer, but I highly doubt that a memo like this is sufficient to actually declare any of these things illegal. And it seems ripe for a challenge in the courts. But there's always the risk that schools will preemptively comply.
February 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Also, I'm not a lawyer, but I highly doubt that a memo like this is sufficient to actually declare any of these things illegal. And it seems ripe for a challenge in the courts. But there's always the risk that schools will preemptively comply.
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Don’t know if anyone else read the letter and caught that it contradicts the majority opinion in SFFA, which allows discussion of racial identities in essays to be used as a factor in admissions.
They’re trying to rewrite an already very conservative SCOTUS opinion
www.ed.gov/media/docume...
They’re trying to rewrite an already very conservative SCOTUS opinion
www.ed.gov/media/docume...
February 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Don’t know if anyone else read the letter and caught that it contradicts the majority opinion in SFFA, which allows discussion of racial identities in essays to be used as a factor in admissions.
They’re trying to rewrite an already very conservative SCOTUS opinion
www.ed.gov/media/docume...
They’re trying to rewrite an already very conservative SCOTUS opinion
www.ed.gov/media/docume...
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"... slashing and burning won’t improve matters. It’s just going to weaken the foremost truth squad in American education, the chief sponsor and funder of rigorous analysis, reliable data, and clear-eyed evaluations in a realm that needs more of those things, not less."
Easy, DOGE. IES matters.
The federal role in education dates to 1867 when President Andrew Johnson signed legislation creating the first “Department of Education” for the purpose of:
fordhaminstitute.org
February 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"... slashing and burning won’t improve matters. It’s just going to weaken the foremost truth squad in American education, the chief sponsor and funder of rigorous analysis, reliable data, and clear-eyed evaluations in a realm that needs more of those things, not less."
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My very first job out of college was working as an RA at MDRC on the Career Academies evaluation, funded by Dept of Ed. I got to meet the first IES director when my boss let me tag along for a presentation in DC. Here’s a blurb on the program, the study and its impact www.mdrc.org/work/project...
February 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
My very first job out of college was working as an RA at MDRC on the Career Academies evaluation, funded by Dept of Ed. I got to meet the first IES director when my boss let me tag along for a presentation in DC. Here’s a blurb on the program, the study and its impact www.mdrc.org/work/project...
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AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts
AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts
www.aera.net
February 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...