Christopher Harrison
@drharrison.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Education. Former UNC / MMSD admin / Research @ NCRPP & NCSU / Air Force. Thoughts are all me!
NO!!!!!
August 25, 2026 at 6:02 PM
NO!!!!!
Huge professional news. I’ve never played the Kingdom Hearts games and…I think I’m going to do it.
I’ve been alive for almost half a century. It’s time. Maybe if I get through the whole series I’ll add it to my tenure binder next year.
I’ve been alive for almost half a century. It’s time. Maybe if I get through the whole series I’ll add it to my tenure binder next year.
August 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Huge professional news. I’ve never played the Kingdom Hearts games and…I think I’m going to do it.
I’ve been alive for almost half a century. It’s time. Maybe if I get through the whole series I’ll add it to my tenure binder next year.
I’ve been alive for almost half a century. It’s time. Maybe if I get through the whole series I’ll add it to my tenure binder next year.
Man I am just super curious how much people got paid to produce blockbuster analysis like "I dunno man, it's possible that the beans really are magic, though!"
This seems like an extremely optimistic scenario ("grow into it"). Economies don't usually grow into bubble valuations. I guess more optimistic way of framing this is that it all comes down to bets on the future of AI. If it's right it's right. But sounds like a bubble. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
July 24, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Man I am just super curious how much people got paid to produce blockbuster analysis like "I dunno man, it's possible that the beans really are magic, though!"
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‘Say yes and never do it’
Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
![That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.
I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That’s great advice for life.
It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yvbszlkc7d75ixkid5g2zmw7/bafkreiar4z6n6pfk7wob2gznv6l6euw7ltxbetgto5drfd4wqzjalldp5m)
June 28, 2026 at 9:26 AM
‘Say yes and never do it’
Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
Yeah I mean as a faculty member in the South, like…100%. The thing is I’m not sure jobs in “blue” states are better. I see this as an outcome of institutional capture by an administrative class that is disconnected from the academic purpose of these schools. There’s a deeper rot we need to address.
"'I have no confidence, whatsoever, that my administration will support faculty if academic freedom is under assault,' one [survey response read]...'In the past few weeks, administrators have told faculty to not speak, teach or research certain things.'"
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Faculty Actually Are Trying to Flee Red States
Following a year of anecdotes about professors uprooting themselves from Republican-controlled states over academic freedom concerns, a new survey provides evidence that their experiences reflect a br...
www.insidehighered.com
April 24, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Yeah I mean as a faculty member in the South, like…100%. The thing is I’m not sure jobs in “blue” states are better. I see this as an outcome of institutional capture by an administrative class that is disconnected from the academic purpose of these schools. There’s a deeper rot we need to address.
Cool man, lived long enough to see the biggest dumbasses on the planet lock us into a WWI-esque escalation spiral. But hey, nothing to be done because literally everyone with an iota of institutional power has made the bet that no matter how bad things get, somehow they will remain untouched.
Trump: "Effective immediately, the US Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz...Additionally & at an appropriate moment, we are fully 'LOCKED AND LOADED,' & our Military will finish up little that is left of Iran!"
April 12, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Cool man, lived long enough to see the biggest dumbasses on the planet lock us into a WWI-esque escalation spiral. But hey, nothing to be done because literally everyone with an iota of institutional power has made the bet that no matter how bad things get, somehow they will remain untouched.
I'd be lying if I said this line of thinking hasn't been running through my head while I've been shepherding a 7-year-old these weeks.
I have a lot of dueling despondency and rage inside me right now and man, what do we even do with that.
I have a lot of dueling despondency and rage inside me right now and man, what do we even do with that.
April 8, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I'd be lying if I said this line of thinking hasn't been running through my head while I've been shepherding a 7-year-old these weeks.
I have a lot of dueling despondency and rage inside me right now and man, what do we even do with that.
I have a lot of dueling despondency and rage inside me right now and man, what do we even do with that.
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Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.
Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.
If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.
So must you.
Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.
If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.
So must you.
April 7, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.
Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.
If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.
So must you.
Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.
If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.
So must you.
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Me on social media vs me in the classroom
March 30, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Me on social media vs me in the classroom
Just to be clear, Lindsey was a JAG who never even sniffed combat because he was AD during the late ‘80s. So, you know, he didn’t “do” shit.
He sure is a fan of sending other people out into harm’s way, though!
He sure is a fan of sending other people out into harm’s way, though!
Lindsey Graham on Kharg Island: "We did Iwo Jima. We can do this."
March 22, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Just to be clear, Lindsey was a JAG who never even sniffed combat because he was AD during the late ‘80s. So, you know, he didn’t “do” shit.
He sure is a fan of sending other people out into harm’s way, though!
He sure is a fan of sending other people out into harm’s way, though!
I cannot believe we’re going to do this shit AGAIN, I haven’t even finished my mid-life crisis yet.
I better see all the assholes who voted for this - particularly the ones who sat out round 1 - strapping up. No more cheering from the sidelines and listening to podcasts tell you how brave you are.
I better see all the assholes who voted for this - particularly the ones who sat out round 1 - strapping up. No more cheering from the sidelines and listening to podcasts tell you how brave you are.
Comer on "boots on the ground" in Iran: "Sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this"
March 4, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I cannot believe we’re going to do this shit AGAIN, I haven’t even finished my mid-life crisis yet.
I better see all the assholes who voted for this - particularly the ones who sat out round 1 - strapping up. No more cheering from the sidelines and listening to podcasts tell you how brave you are.
I better see all the assholes who voted for this - particularly the ones who sat out round 1 - strapping up. No more cheering from the sidelines and listening to podcasts tell you how brave you are.
There are lots of days that I'm like "am I doing enough? Am I good enough?" but then I remember that I'm not in front of Congress today being like "yeah I lied about going to pedo island, I went with my kids BUT DIDN'T LEAVE ANY" and I'm like...you know, it's okay, you can watch a movie today.
February 10, 2026 at 5:18 PM
There are lots of days that I'm like "am I doing enough? Am I good enough?" but then I remember that I'm not in front of Congress today being like "yeah I lied about going to pedo island, I went with my kids BUT DIDN'T LEAVE ANY" and I'm like...you know, it's okay, you can watch a movie today.
Something that leaders in higher education might learn from - sometimes the right answer when they come to rip out every value and norm that undergirds your institution is to say “fuck you, fire me”.
You know, the opposite of institutional awe! (Credit to John Warner for the term).
You know, the opposite of institutional awe! (Credit to John Warner for the term).
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Something that leaders in higher education might learn from - sometimes the right answer when they come to rip out every value and norm that undergirds your institution is to say “fuck you, fire me”.
You know, the opposite of institutional awe! (Credit to John Warner for the term).
You know, the opposite of institutional awe! (Credit to John Warner for the term).
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The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
January 24, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
Man at some point, if we get the chance, we really need to think hard about how the dumbest assholes alive got so much money and power.
I mean I know, neoliberalism and unfettered capitalism BUT STILL
I mean I know, neoliberalism and unfettered capitalism BUT STILL
October 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Man at some point, if we get the chance, we really need to think hard about how the dumbest assholes alive got so much money and power.
I mean I know, neoliberalism and unfettered capitalism BUT STILL
I mean I know, neoliberalism and unfettered capitalism BUT STILL
Cool to see the administration essentially stealing millions of dollars from Central Florida - an outcome I assure you has absolutely nothing to do with these districts doing anything resembling “woke”.
Just the rich stealing from the rest, same as it ever was
Just the rich stealing from the rest, same as it ever was
Yesterday, I shared my @educationwork.newamerica.org team's district impact analysis of the $6+ billion that the Trump admin is refusing to disburse to schools (link in 2nd post). Now, @edweek.org has published our funding figures for ALL districts in the US for which we have data. Search for yours↓
See How Much Federal Money Trump Is Holding Back From Your District
Hundreds of districts will lose more than $1 million each, according to a new analysis.
www.edweek.org
July 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Cool to see the administration essentially stealing millions of dollars from Central Florida - an outcome I assure you has absolutely nothing to do with these districts doing anything resembling “woke”.
Just the rich stealing from the rest, same as it ever was
Just the rich stealing from the rest, same as it ever was
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AERA, in partnership with the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education over the unlawful dismantling of the Institute of Education Sciences. www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
AERA Files Lawsuit Against Education Department
www.aera.net
April 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
AERA, in partnership with the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education over the unlawful dismantling of the Institute of Education Sciences. www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
I think we dramatically underestimate how important faith is to educating. March captured this idea when he talked about “irrational optimism”. And buddy…I’m having like the biggest crisis of faith right now. Hard to preach the gospel of human potential when you’re starting to root for the meteor.
February 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I think we dramatically underestimate how important faith is to educating. March captured this idea when he talked about “irrational optimism”. And buddy…I’m having like the biggest crisis of faith right now. Hard to preach the gospel of human potential when you’re starting to root for the meteor.
Having a really good time as the person who teaches sociology and politics in my school. Really good times.
Happily, I long ago accepted the gospel and wisdom of dasharez0ne into my heart and it guides my responses to a number of hurdles these days.
Happily, I long ago accepted the gospel and wisdom of dasharez0ne into my heart and it guides my responses to a number of hurdles these days.
January 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Having a really good time as the person who teaches sociology and politics in my school. Really good times.
Happily, I long ago accepted the gospel and wisdom of dasharez0ne into my heart and it guides my responses to a number of hurdles these days.
Happily, I long ago accepted the gospel and wisdom of dasharez0ne into my heart and it guides my responses to a number of hurdles these days.
It seems obvious in retrospect because we’re living in a world defined by ubiquitous institutional collapse, but I don’t think there’s a work with more daily relevance to my life than Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. Just living every day with this meme in my head:
December 4, 2024 at 6:08 PM
It seems obvious in retrospect because we’re living in a world defined by ubiquitous institutional collapse, but I don’t think there’s a work with more daily relevance to my life than Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. Just living every day with this meme in my head:
My administration, facing down a hurricane, went with "let's just swap to remote classes!"
Have we done this for past storms? No. Is there a plan for if power is out? Internet? Nah. Have students received instructions re: tech? Lol. Faculty just have to make it happen, using their own resources.
Have we done this for past storms? No. Is there a plan for if power is out? Internet? Nah. Have students received instructions re: tech? Lol. Faculty just have to make it happen, using their own resources.
September 24, 2024 at 8:29 PM
My administration, facing down a hurricane, went with "let's just swap to remote classes!"
Have we done this for past storms? No. Is there a plan for if power is out? Internet? Nah. Have students received instructions re: tech? Lol. Faculty just have to make it happen, using their own resources.
Have we done this for past storms? No. Is there a plan for if power is out? Internet? Nah. Have students received instructions re: tech? Lol. Faculty just have to make it happen, using their own resources.
Think I'm finally hitting the point where it's time to bail on higher ed and go back to K-12. For all the incredible challenges of the K12 system, it is still humanizing at its best. I don't rightly know what HE is anymore, but it isn't humanizing.
At this point it's all just feels like extraction
At this point it's all just feels like extraction
September 1, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Think I'm finally hitting the point where it's time to bail on higher ed and go back to K-12. For all the incredible challenges of the K12 system, it is still humanizing at its best. I don't rightly know what HE is anymore, but it isn't humanizing.
At this point it's all just feels like extraction
At this point it's all just feels like extraction
Heeeeey I don't know if we do this anymore but we just published an article in AJE looking at some of the underlying politics of improvement research in education!
If that's the kind of thing that you're into check it out and if you're paywalled, just lmk! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
If that's the kind of thing that you're into check it out and if you're paywalled, just lmk! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Warrants for Action: An Agenda for Continuous Improvement Research in Education | American Journal of Education: Vol 130, No 4
Purpose: Recent reports by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have ignited a new wave of discourse regarding the future of education research and reinvigorated calls for educa...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
August 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Heeeeey I don't know if we do this anymore but we just published an article in AJE looking at some of the underlying politics of improvement research in education!
If that's the kind of thing that you're into check it out and if you're paywalled, just lmk! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
If that's the kind of thing that you're into check it out and if you're paywalled, just lmk! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
I made the mistake of looking up admin salaries at my small private college where they stopped cleaning the classrooms this semester and…I’m going to have one of those veins popping out of my forehead all day now
February 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM
I made the mistake of looking up admin salaries at my small private college where they stopped cleaning the classrooms this semester and…I’m going to have one of those veins popping out of my forehead all day now
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🚨 Out now in Ed Researcher @aeraedresearch.bsky.social a new study with @bakerdphd.bsky.social Karly Ford&Marc Johnston-Guerrero 🚨
We coded a census of original research from AERA journals (2009-19) to surface hidden patterns in authors use racial terminology
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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We coded a census of original research from AERA journals (2009-19) to surface hidden patterns in authors use racial terminology
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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February 19, 2024 at 10:41 PM
🚨 Out now in Ed Researcher @aeraedresearch.bsky.social a new study with @bakerdphd.bsky.social Karly Ford&Marc Johnston-Guerrero 🚨
We coded a census of original research from AERA journals (2009-19) to surface hidden patterns in authors use racial terminology
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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We coded a census of original research from AERA journals (2009-19) to surface hidden patterns in authors use racial terminology
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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