Morgan Polikoff
@mpolikoff
🏳️🌈 Educational researcher. Professor at USC Rossier. Co-director of USC EdPolicy Hub ( These are my views, not those of my employer.
Gosh if only there was some body of individuals tasked with writing new laws to help solve our social problems.
Who could possibly have imagined except any person with a single functioning brain cell.
My annual week (slash month) of maximum homosexuality has come to end. The rest of the year I’ll just be very gay rather than exceptionally gay 🥲.
If you had given me just the names of the categories I could have told you this is what I was! But a cool quiz for funsies.
California Teachers Need More Curriculum-Related Support, Especially Coaching (and the state's own prior policies point the way toward a promising model).
California teachers perceive their existing instructional materials as inadequate, especially in terms of student interest, engagement, and curriculum relevance.
Three quick findings: California districts and California teachers don’t get much guidance about curriculum adoption or implementation. There is substantial room for both state and district leaders to exercise more authority over curriculum.
Sharing this picture from the AERA reception for no particular reason.
Excited to give the opening keynote at the LEAD Graduate School retreat. My second time visiting Germany and presenting to this wonderful group of scholars. Looking forward to the collaborations that ensue.
This graph from today's @mattyglesias.bsky.social post about women and marriage is amazing.
This email was not sent to me but was sent to someone else who was quoted in an article as being meh on cursive.
Cool great that was an excellent use of dozens of out of my time last year. Thanks DOGE!
Third, student engagement, grades, and mental health are strongly related to the amount of absences they have. For instance, kids flagged on a mental health screener report missing 50-100% more days than those not flagged.
Second, though there are some less common reasons for missing school, among children who miss at all for those reasons, they often miss many days. Teens who have to care for siblings for instance, or who are suspended, miss lots of days for those reasons.
Now the findings. First, virtually everyone misses some school for illness, but teens miss school for lots of different reasons, and simple excused/unexcused binaries miss a lot of important detail.
Here was the view from our rooftop this morning in the hills of Puerto Vallarta. Hoping this will all turn out ok and that there will be minimal loss of life and we will be able to get home soon.
When it’s Shrove Tuesday and your husband wakes you up saying “do you have the ingredients for pancakes?” you make do.
I spent four days in the cold and snow in NYC, barely escaping, and that was enough winter for me. Thank you, Los Angeles.
If you’re trying to set a new Sunday NYT crossword record, tomorrow’s is the one to do it (though I missed my best by a bit, I think only my second time sub-9).