Applications are now open for our Vision Grants program! This funding brings together teams to develop ambitious, large-scale research projects focused on transforming educational systems toward greater equity. Submit an Intent to Apply form by February 7. spencer.org/grant_types/vi…

Applications for NYU’s Arts & Sciences Faculty First Look Program are due January 15th. I was part of last year’s cohort and recommend if you’re about to go on the market. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/136575

“As a Black University of Washington historian and avid sports fan, I am struck by the historical significance of what a Michael Penix-led Mike Penix Jr. victory on Monday night would mean," says Chris Tounsel Christopher Tounsel associate professor of history at the UW. 🧵 1/3

"Few, if any, will admit that King was once the most hated public figure in the United States. He stood for justice and equality, championed the poor, and criticized American capitalism and the nation’s involvement in world-wide conflict."

Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech, like much of MLK’s legacy, is selectively remembered. It attacked the material roots of American racism, just as his anti–Vietnam War speech five years later excoriated American militarism. jacobin.com/2024/01/martin…

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Bold to invoke MLK’s teachings when you’re actively dismantling the very things he fought for and calling them “bordering on evil”. Let’s be real: if he were alive today, you would be telling him to disagree better.

💸🏫 School Finance Ss, WYA?! AEFP Please join us Feb 5th 4 PM ET as we host this wonderful panel to discuss some things that could be missing from the school finance convos. RSVP link: vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Josh B. McGee Dept. of Ed. Reform UW–Madison David Knight UW College of Education

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This is excellent, Ansley Erickson is ansleyerickson.bsky.social. The families who demanded redress paid dearly in the desegregation battles.

In the first (of who knows how may) official act(s) as EIC here @UGAPress, we've just opened a search for a new Acquisitions Editor to handle our award-winning (👋 National Book Critics Circle) literary studies, poetry, and CNF lists. DMs and email open for questions! ugajobsearch.com/postings/357403

Applications are open for the 2024-2025 Northwestern Libraries Travel Grants. The deadline to apply is April 1, 2024. library.northwestern.edu/libraries-coll…

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“The goal is to veto nothing.” -Gov Cox Some things NEED to be vetoed. #KingForUtah #ForTheBetter

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Where did #BlackHistoryMonth come from? Professor Jarvis Givens Jarvis R. Givens of Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Department of African and African American Studies writes about historian and educator Carter G. Woodson, founder of ASALH and the “father of black history." #Harvard harvardmagazine.com/2022/02/featur…

I'm grateful for the opportunity to speak about the importance of Black Studies curricula in schools for the White House Initiative for Black Americans.