Sean Corcoran

This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

A three-judge panel has dismissed the suit against the state of Tennessee on its private school voucher program apparently not buying that the constitutions "system of free public schools" doesn't mean supporting two separate systems with entirely different rules nashvillebanner.com/2026/10/21/t...

Attended a birthday party this evening. Fun to celebrate 10 years with all our partners in bringing evidence to policy for Tennessee education.

Re-upping this faculty position in our department at the assistant or associate level. Applications close in 10 days! Please share widely!!

The *median* daily high temperature for Nashville (BNA) in September 2026 was 95 degrees (+7 over 2025). There were 22 days over 90 degrees and 16 over 95 degrees. To date, October's median is +5 over 2025. Nashville can be warm, but this is not Arizona.

my colleague @jenjennings.bsky.social explaining how school choice turns a public shortage of good schools in NYC into a private struggle, benefiting families with the time and resources to navigate the system: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/o...

Saw my first #Waymo fail IRL yesterday - a traffic light was stuck on yellow for some reason, so the two Waymos at the front of a long line of traffic were dutifully waiting it out

“Transitioning out of her role”

The Zacharia firing is really a loss for the comedy world generally, and for SNL specifically

I find it a bit odd that there is a roughly equal probability that my NYT news alert will be a massive earthquake somewhere, a terrorist attack, etc., or Selma Blair acted unruly on a plane, the principal from Saved by the Bell died, etc.

Hi Mike Rogers. Here’s a message from me and 783 of my friends in R+32 Ionia County. Good luck out there, habibi.

A half-a-million dollar share of a Nobel might seem like a nice surprise on its face but actually Hall has had it in his budget forever.

If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.

A quick bump on this ask, re: supporting international students in higher ed. I'm serving on a department committee trying to understand this better.

For those who follow elite high school admissions in #nyc @mdarisse.bsky.social (on the job market!) has written the most rigorous analysis to date of the Discovery Program which sets aside seats for low-income students who missed the test cutoff for admission: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1607

Grateful to Oracle for stepping in and fixing (for now) an unfortunate situation

NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running a private school. But to show you just how easy it is to start one, we decided to test the process ourselves.

Looking forward to Senator Schmitt's next big reveal

17 states looked at quadrant 4 and said: i'll take that one. by 26-27, half of US K12 schoolkids will be eligible in a universal voucher state

This truly is horrifying. Not only is he unlawfully spending OUR money on a political ad, the whole point of the ad is that roughly half of the country consists of enemies who must be conquered.

Nashville folks: FYI the Nashville Opera is extending its "Dolly Day" promotion with 25% off tickets to their production of Tosca on October 8 and 10. Use code DOLLY925. Posting as a supporter. nashvilleopera.org/tosca/

You don’t gut the country's capacity to measure what's happening in its schools because you care about improving them. Guardian article below.

In April, the Republican state assembly in Tennessee enacted a law requiring all public schools observe a “victims of communism” day in November

Our department at Vanderbilt is seeking an assistant/associate professor of higher education policy. The position is intended for a quantitative researcher with a PhD in a social science, public policy, or education. Please circulate and let me know if you have questions! apply.interfolio.com/193891

Way to go Hannah!

If you want to learn more about how Black families choose schools, here are resources from me and others that provide important context, nuance, and deep analysis: 4/

JD Vance Booed  By Own Reflection  In Mirror https://theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-reflection-in-mirror/

I’m excited to share that The Scarcity Loop: How School Choice Reshapes the Rationing of Public Education is officially out in the world. It seemed important to find a slice.

Is the investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh for mortgage fraud officially underway?

I always get the best fall fashion ideas from the NYT Style Magazine. I’m thinking of going with morbidly obese nun

Excellent

The 2025 PISA results webinar hosted by IES, OECD, and @vupeabody.bsky.social is now available for viewing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuLS...

Voucher-accepting TN school pushes out 8-year-old because of his hair. What Friedman forgot to mention is that the invisible hand for school choice is holding hair clippers.

My favorite doorknobs are the ones the New York City public schools installed at the turn of the 20th century. You can still occasionally find one on eBay!

For those in Nashville: Dialogue Vanderbilt is featuring a conversation on September 21 between Roland Fryer of Harvard and my colleague Carolyn Heinrich on "What Works in Education - and Why is it so Hard to Scale?" This event is open to the public. Register here: web.cvent.com/event/599554...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk https://theonion.com/report-you-to-be-fired-for-reading-this-headline-about-charlie-kirk/

Excellent @edweek.org summary of yesterday's PISA 2025 webinar co-hosted by IES, OECD, and Vanderbilt Peabody College www.edweek.org/leadership/3...

Wow, this is wild stuff. Inside the school Texas taxpayers will be funding as part of their statewide voucher program

Join Vanderbilt and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on Tuesday September 8 from 2-3 pm ET for the live webinar release of results from the 2025 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and a live discussion of the findings. Register: vanderbilt.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Finally read this article on the rapid growth of the Alpha School under the Texas school voucher program--only after the state's charter board rejected its (dubious) model. ProPublica is really doing outstanding work on how voucher programs are actually playing out on the ground.

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Remember when the White House was cool? Did you know that only 11 years ago Barack Obama was still the president? youtu.be/CZ2o5CWCOgk?...

Today, I started the day debate prepping with my team, then watched my daughter’s soccer game, went grocery shopping, watched my son’s football practice, and made us all dinner. But yeah, I’m totally a “radical lunatic.”