@Samuel_Abrams

Director, IPSEP, @CUBoulder; Visiting Scholar, @UniTurku; author, "Education & the Commercial Mindset" @Harvard_Press

 New York/Turku, Finland
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Joined June 2016
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"The market needs a place, and the market needs to be kept in place," wrote Arthur Okun @TeachersCollege: youtu.be/Dk2Wi2xljj4

Samuel Abrams - Education and the Commercial Mindset

Samuel E. Abrams is the director of the National Center for the Stu...

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École ensemble@EcoleEnsembleJul 9
«ᴜɴᴇ ᴇᴄᴏʟᴇ ǫᴜɪ ʀᴀᴘᴘʀᴏᴄʜᴇ» En rappel, notre étude lancée le mois dernier qui démontre tous les bénéfices potentiels en terme de bien-être des élèves et d'environnement d'une idée toute simple: aller à l'école près de chez soi ! 📙ecoleensemble.com/uneecolequ…
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École ensemble@EcoleEnsemble2 Dec 2025
⚡️ Belle rencontre hier avec la ministre de l'Éducation @slebel19 . Nous avons pu discuter avec elle de notre proposition pour permettre au Québec de se doter d'une école commune. Merci à la ministre et son cabinet pour cette disponibilité exceptionnelle. ecoleensemble.com/reseaucomm…
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In “The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms,” Katharina Sass rigorously documents how #Germany & #Norway developed distinct #education systems. In this @PSQuarterly review, I explain Sass’s analysis & its implications. @CambridgeUP @UniTurku academic.oup.com/psq/article…

Can Nations Achieve Both Educational Excellence and Equity?

Abstract. Largely obscured in the rankings of national education systems is the concept of equity. In addition to fair funding, sustained comprehensive ins

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Educational Researcher - Editors@ERjournal_AERA6 Mar 2025
How Free Market Logic Fails in Schooling — And What It Means for the Role of Government: Take a look at @Tulane's @douglasharris99's article from the March 2024 Issue of Educational Researcher. #ThrowbackThursday ➡️bit.ly/3DmjYSn @AERA_EdResearch @SageEducation
Cover of the AERA Educational Researcher Journal, Volume 53, Number 2.

ALT Cover of the AERA Educational Researcher Journal, Volume 53, Number 2.

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Voucher spending in Ohio neared $1B for the 2023-2024 school year. Read this one-page excerpt from a PFPS research report by @Samuel_Abrams and @SKoutsav to learn about the growth of vouchers in the state. pfps.org/assets/uploads/Ohio…
Jan Resseger@JanResseger29 Oct 2024
Voucher Explosion Threatens Funding for Public Schools that Serve 90% of Ohio Students janresseger.wordpress.com/20… via @janresseger

Voucher Explosion Threatens Funding for Public Schools that Serve 90% of Ohio Students

Ohio’s outrageous voucher growth this year didn’t quite cost the state a billion dollars, as public school educators and parents had feared, but the amount the state diverted to voucher…

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#NewPost: Resilience, Trust, and Change: Tapio Lahtero on the work of the principal in Finland during and after COVID (Part 3) internationalednews.com/2024… via @intl_ed_news @RaisaAhtiainen @helsinkiuni @viikinnorssi @pasi_sahlberg @Samuel_Abrams @HargreavesBC
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#NewPost: Sustaining teacher education and supporting student mental health: Tapio Lahtero on the work of the principal in Finland during/after COVID (Part 2) 🧑‍🏫🏫❤️‍🩹 internationalednews.com/2024… via @intl_ed_news @helsinkiuni @viikinnorssi @pasi_sahlberg @Samuel_Abrams @HargreavesBC
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#NewPost: Leading when following is not required: Tapio Lahtero on the work of the principal in Finland during and after COVID (Part 1) internationalednews.com/2024… via @intl_ed_news @RaisaAhtiainen @helsinkiuni @viikinnorssi @pasi_sahlberg @Samuel_Abrams @HargreavesBC
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In repudiating the use of public money to fund vouchers for enrollment in white academies in the wake of “Brown v. Board," Oliver Hill, the great NAACP attorney, said, “No one in a democratic society has a right to have his private prejudices financed at public expense.” 1/2
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In channeling Hill, I contend in this CNN story about vouchers at religious fundamentalist schools that barring people in the LGBTQ community from enrollment and employment is reprehensible. 2/2 xitter.cf/AC360/status/180395879…
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Rene Marsh joins Anderson to explain how a CNN investigation found taxpayer dollars are helping to teach right-wing views at private schools in Arizona.
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William Doyle@williamdoylenyc9 May 2024
3 Finnish math experts agree: massive digitalisation of mathematics teaching hurts math learning. @pasi_sahlberg @alexstubb @anna_maja @ir_rkp @minnakelha @Samuel_Abrams helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/matem…
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One-page excerpts from PFPS's report, "The Fiscal Consequences of Private School Vouchers," by @Samuel_Abrams and @SKoutsav now available: pfps.org/research/

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Independent research has shown students participating in school voucher programs perform lower academically than those in public schools. Find out how school vouchers impact communities.

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Read an excerpt from PFPS's report by @Samuel_Abrams and @SKoutsav to learn more about the growth in voucher spending in Georgia: pfps.org/assets/uploads/Geor…
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Ohio voucher data shows many families already enrolled in private schools cleveland.com/news/2024/03/f…

Fleeing troubled public schools? Ohio voucher data shows many families already enrolled in private...

The legislature expanded the EdChoice - Expansion private school scholarship program so that all families are now eligible for at least a partial voucher, regardless of income.

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This funding of religious education comes w/out the regulation central to European voucher systems, I maintain in this article, and more fundamentally, erodes the common ground public schools, however imperfectly, have long afforded this country. @DianeRavitch @pasi_sahlberg
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TC's @Samuel_Abrams talks potential outcomes around school voucher expansion. — via @AP. apnews.com/article/religious…

Voucher expansion leads to more students, waitlists and classes for some religious schools

After last year's wave of wins for the so-called school choice movement, some religious schools in those states are seeing enrollment rise and are planning for a fuller future.

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David Crary@CraryAP3 Mar 2024
Voucher expansion in many states leads to more students, waitlists and classes for some religious schools (from @AP Religion Team’s ⁦@HollyAMeyer⁩ ) apnews.com/article/d63c25b7c…

Voucher expansion leads to more students, waitlists and classes for some religious schools

After last year's wave of wins for the so-called school choice movement, some religious schools in those states are seeing enrollment rise and are planning for a fuller future.

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Scores Plummet Around the World: Scanning the Headlines on the Release of the 2022 PISA Results 📌 buff.ly/3GH2OwL via @intl_ed_news @dennisshirley @Samuel_Abrams @TeachersCollege @EdChangeSIG @ICSEIglobal @JPCCJournal @arceducation1 @JournalEdChange
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William Doyle@williamdoylenyc12 Dec 2023
Replying to @Samuel_Abrams
@Samuel_Abrams got it right. Also fix distracting class use of laptops for entertainment/social media w/screens facing away from teacher, may be out of control for many students in Finland + beyond. @pasi_sahlberg @Screensandkids @leoniehaimson @DianeRavitch @anna_maja @ir_rkp
Samuel E. Abrams@Samuel_Abrams5 Dec 2023
Hate to say I told you so, but Finland's plunge of 30 points in reading on PISA 2022 (≈1 year of learning) accords with my warning in this 2017 "Helsingin Sanomat" article that cell phones in schools spelled big trouble (@TeachersCollege @utueducation): hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005044…

Huippututkija kehuu Suomen kouluja, mutta murehtii nuorten kykyä keskittyä – ”Ei voi tulla hyväksi...

Suomessa on maailman paras koulujärjestelmä, muistuttaa amerikkalaisen huippuyliopiston tutkija Samuel Abrams. Yksi selitys heikommille oppimistuloksille voi löytyä älypuhelimista, hän arvelee.

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#ICYMI- TC's @Samuel_Abrams analyzes the ongoing legal battle in America's first-ever religious charter school. #privatization #polarization tc.columbia.edu/articles/202…

What Will Happen to the Religious Charter School in Oklahoma?

TC’s Sam Abrams, an expert on school privatization, weighs in on the ongoing legal battle

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What will happen to America's first-ever religious charter school? TC's @Samuel_Abrams weighs in on the ongoing legal battle. #privatization #inclusivecurriculum tc.columbia.edu/articles/202…

What Will Happen to the Religious Charter School in Oklahoma?

TC’s Sam Abrams, an expert on school privatization, weighs in on the ongoing legal battle

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