{"id":1421,"date":"2008-08-25T06:32:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T10:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2008-08-25T06:32:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T10:32:26","slug":"eduwonkette-is-a-graduate-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Eduwonkette is a graduate student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who says that students are powerless? <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/eduwonkette\/2008\/08\/eduwonkette_unmasked.html\">Eduwonkette is Jennifer Jennings<\/a>, a doctoral sociology student at Columbia University. In retrospect, it makes an enormous amount of sense, and &#8220;grad student at Columbia&#8221; was one of the categories Leo Casey and I tossed around this spring as a possibility for Eduwonkette&#8217;s identity. Jennings has worked with demographer Andy Beveridge of Queens College, and on the blog she&#8217;s used maps to illustrate the relationships between social class and various measures of educational opportunity in New York. Her first article (<i>several<\/i> years ago) was about focusing on the &#8220;bubble kids&#8221; in Texas, and she&#8217;s written consistently with the same concerns on the blog. (It&#8217;s a very good article, and I cited it in <i>Accountability Frankenstein<\/i>.) I suppose I could say, &#8220;Yes, of course I knew it was her! I was just being polite by not mentioning it!&#8221; But that would be stupid. <\/p>\n<p>For a variety of reasons, her becoming public\/non-anonymous now is good timing. She&#8217;s poked at the soft underbelly of the Klein et al. publicity\/power machine, and I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anything the machine can do to her. And if it tries, it&#8217;ll look very silly. Welcome to public blogging, Ms. Jennings. I think you&#8217;ll find you enjoy it as much as being the caped crusader. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says that students are powerless? Eduwonkette is Jennifer Jennings, a doctoral sociology student at Columbia University. In retrospect, it makes an enormous amount of sense, and &#8220;grad student at Columbia&#8221; was one of the categories Leo Casey and I tossed around this spring as a possibility for Eduwonkette&#8217;s identity. Jennings has worked with demographer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-and-editing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-mV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}