Ryan M. Good

Urbanist, planner, and geographer. Studying schools, neighborhood politics, and community development.

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

@DanMCohen @c3ponder @AkiraDrake @GeogNicole @EeSeulYoon @BBFarhadi @oildefon @SolGamsu @KaitPopielarz Yay Akira! Looks fantastic, as usual.

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

@DrChezareWarren Also, this piece I worked on with Katharine Nelson on the role of private fundraising for public schools—and the intersections of those processes with geographies of displacement: https://t.co/4FWu0zd2Re

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

@DrChezareWarren https://t.co/nKFt4uIgng

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[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

Amen @AkiraDrake! Planners and community development practitioners need to acknowledge the deep inherent intersections of their work with public schools and the policy that shapes the education landscape. I make just that argument in JPER here: https://t.co/1O1yJfyzla

[@akirarodriguez.bsky.social 🦋 @AkiraDrake]

What I’m requesting is that planners bring public schools into the conversation more !

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

Proud to be part of this special issue. Really important set of papers drawing out the ways neoliberal school policies reproduce existing racial and economic inequalities.

[Urban Affairs Association @UAAnews]

Special Issue, Unequal Schools and Communities: A Critical Examination of Neoliberal Education Reform (Journal of Urban Affairs) https://t.co/ahWPaQSKNv

[@akirarodriguez.bsky.social 🦋 @AkiraDrake]

Really needed work by @arielbphd @ElaineSimon1 @GoodRyanM @sally_nuamah about the necessity of schools in communities for education, social services, political and civic engagement - and how COVID exacerbates these needs

[Education Week Opinion @EdWeekOpinion]

Four researchers explore the consequences of #schoolclosures and how they affect the well-being of many students and families. #EWopinion #coronavirus https://t.co/fhupW4fuy4 @sally_nuamah @GoodRyanM @arielbphd @ElaineSimon1

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

"The fact that our most vulnerable neighbors are reliant on schools for meeting basic physical, social, and emotional needs makes clear that our social safety net is woefully inadequate to mitigate the consequences of rapidly escalating inequality..."

[Education Week Opinion @EdWeekOpinion]

On top of racism & COVID-19, low-income Black and Brown students are facing a third pandemic: school closures, write researchers @sally_nuamah, @GoodRyanM, @arielbphd, and @ElaineSimon1. https://t.co/fhupW4fuy4 #EWopinion

[Education Week Opinion @EdWeekOpinion]

“There are actions that federal & local policymakers can take to mitigate the harms, both immediately and once this pandemic ends,” write four school closure researchers. #EWopinion @sally_nuamah @GoodRyanM @arielbphd @ElaineSimon1 https://t.co/fhupW4x5WE

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

Closing schools for COVID does more than disrupt learning. For Black and Brown communities closures deactivate a key pillar of the social safety net, compounding vulnerabilities now laid bare by the pandemic. See our EdWeek OpEd

[Education Week Opinion @EdWeekOpinion]

Schools are one of the last social safety nets many families have left, say four school closure researchers. What happens when they close for good? #EWopinion @sally_nuamah @GoodRyanM @arielbphd @ElaineSimon1 https://t.co/fhupW4fuy4

[Sally A. Nuamah @sally_nuamah]

Please don't forget that along with racism and COVID, Black and Brown children in America are *also* facing the temporary and permanent closure of their schools.

We teamed up with Edweek to explain why the effects of these closures ARE 👏🏿NOT 👏🏿 A 👏🏿GAME. https://t.co/bc6tET6plc

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

Thanks @Kate_Howell_Phd! Excited about the breadth and relevance of this issue. Schools and communities are so critical in this moment and as we work to move forward

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

@JUAurban spec iss brings community lens to injustices of ed reform Honored to guest edit with @JuliaSassRubin & Michelle Fine "these articles reveal the consequences, the resistance, and the alternatives, infused with a sense of outrage, equity and hope" https://t.co/WUt4B15NxQ

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

Follow-up in the conversation on our study of 'friends' orgs supporting schools in Philly This time on the Inquirer opinion pg and with more nuance than could be managed in the WHYY piece last week. Thank you @jmhornstein for reflective engagement https://t.co/z5GI0OSYHR

[Stephen Danley @SteveDanley]

Amen. *good works within an unjust system* is such an important topic

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

WHYY story picked up our recent study of Friends orgs supporting public schools in Philly. I'm struck by the challenge of constructively framing the complicated outcomes of 'good works' within an unjust system. https://t.co/YWIoGrU4Mv

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

@whyy story on our study of friends orgs supporting public schools in Philly. I'm struck by the challenge of constructively framing the complicated outcomes of "good works" within unjust systems. https://t.co/YWIoGrCtnV

[Ryan M. Good @GoodRyanM]

The critical question re: friends orgs supplementing inadequate public school funding: "What obligation does a school district have to redistribute private investment in individual schools to support the larger public school system?" https://t.co/wIhIbMlEQu

[Emily Rosenman @EmilyRosenman]

Check out this new paper on fundraising by "friends of" school organizations in Philadelphia. Devolution, the shadow state, and how privileged groups work outside public school funding to claim even more privilege for their children - it's all in here.