Meg Caven

Sociologist studying education, social inequality, ed policy, and school discipline. Mixed methods. Community engaged scholarship.

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

Excited to present our work on continuous improvement in juvenile justice education alongside practitioners, researchers, and policy scholars at #AERA2024. 4/13. 11:25 Convention Center 117

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

I know a lot of you wanted a technical breakdown of this meme so here it is!

I don't think you will find this level of detail anywhere else so keep reading if you don't want to miss out.

[Kimberlé Crenshaw @sandylocks]

Being Black and poor in America should not be crimes punishable by vigilante death. Jordan Neely did not just deserve to live. He deserved to live a better life than what our society decided to afford him. We are devastated by his loss. @AAPolicyForum's full statement:

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

It is time to really engage students and communities in planning, implementing, and evaluating strategies that enable schools to be not only holistically safe - but also incubators of justice, joy, and freedom. @BSACbuzz @BostonEdJustice

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

Tomorrow, @BOSCityCouncil has a hearing on improving school safety in @BostonSchools. The challenge is wrongly framed as one of law enforcement: police don't make schools safer. https://t.co/11VOz8hNr0

[MA Appleseed Center @MassAppleseed]

If you have time to read one thing today, make it @cfjjma's latest newsletter on school safety.

It's time to stop the criminalization of students and demand solutions that actually work.

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

Instead, the council should be promoting evidence-based, culturally responsive, and systemic solutions that address the root causes of violence and victimization. Tellingly, session sponsors say nothing about mental health, restorative justice, or school climate initiatives.

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

and another one by Crosse, Gottfredson, and others. Are Effects of School Resource Officers Moderated by Student Race and Ethnicity? https://t.co/ziIdCZuhq8

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

More importantly, police in schools exacerbate racial inequality by placing Black students at higher risk of suspension and arrest.

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

Strong evidence of disproportionality by @EmilyMHomer and @BenFisherUW
Police in schools and student arrest rates across the United States: Examining differences by race, ethnicity, and gender https://t.co/tweZyOL9YX

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

Completely aligned with the findings of our 2021 @REL_NEI report, which - using a nationally representative sample-found that the single strongest predictor of educator turnover in ECE centers was how much teachers were paid.

[daphna bassok @daphnabassok]

New @BrookingsEd piece about the risk in raising training/educ requirements for early educators without addressing the v. low pay and high turnover rates that are so common among child care teachers.

w/ @laurabellows @ajmarkowitz & @k8millerbains

https://t.co/vY9TdwEm4r

[IntegratedSchools @integratedschls]

"I've always known that one of the reasons White and or privileged folks won't want to integrate global majority schools is because they'll use the “safety” argument. And, you know, anti-Blackness is just hard." - @ValeriaBrownEdu

https://t.co/M70RWjkZtJ

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

For a more obsessively-edited and less boisterous version of some of these thoughts, you can also check out this piece in https://t.co/I3enhoBvoO @pdkintl

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

School safety is an equity issue. It's also an issue that requires a wider lens and a more nuanced conversation. I'm grateful to have been invited to discuss with the incredibly thoughtful team @integratedschls @ValeriaBrownEdu @alefkowits

[IntegratedSchools @integratedschls]

"...And in an effort to increase school safety, you have also made schools less equitable, more racially unjust for the majority of public school students in the country...." -@megcaven
https://t.co/M70RWjkZtJ

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

@cara__jackson On another project that surveys youth in juvenile justice settings, we held on to the neutral category as a way offer “space” and to avoid “forcing” youth into an answer - more based in CRREE principle than evidence-based practice - but I’d accept evidence if you have it.

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

@cara__jackson I just helped build a survey that used a 4 point (agree/disagree) likert scale, plus an “I don’t know” option. For our purpose, “I don’t know” is less a neutral category, and more a data point.

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

@Southlake4All @daphnabassok @NPRCodeSwitch Absolutely agree - not progress and I didn’t mean to characterize it as such. It was an effort to advance racial equity - met with vociferous, coordinated backlash. Not a surprising story, but a well-documented one.

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

@lindaholmes I’m loving School Colors

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

"That money should be used to fund not police, but programs like advanced classes and sports, which are sorely lacking in schools where students of color are the majority." #policefreeschools 3/

👊🏽🔨by @Cal4Justice-https://t.co/waUNOdPCHW and @AQE_NY-https://t.co/qMrvIlbMtQ

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

Brilliant youth @desiivv and Alex Sosa in @hechingerreport: "Safety goes beyond masks and social distancing...having police in our schools is a threat to our health and well-being. We want an education system in which we can freely laugh and learn." 1/ https://t.co/DL1HsaV7WQ

[Meg Caven @megcaven]

"And now is the time. School districts have an unprecedented opportunity to invest deeply in our schools. The American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) is the single largest infusion of federal money into schools in history..." 2/