Are you a political scientist who studies/teaches education policy? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi. Are you an education researcher who studies/teaches politics? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.

@camarnzen.bsky.social and @chloeoneill.bsky.social explore how political science courses can better integrate education politics into the curriculum in “Teaching About Schooling: Integrating Education Politics into Political Science Curricula.” 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1551...

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

What are the tradeoffs of one-on-one vs. small group (3:1) tutoring in an online setting? We ran an RCT and surveyed tutors working in both conditions to find out. Now out in EEPA journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... @annenberginstitute.bsky.social working paper edworkingpapers.com/ai24-976 🧵

"it reframes the teacher shortage not only as a question of supply, but also as an issue of status and opportunity, raising important questions about how to recruit, support, and elevate teaching to make it both accessible and appealing to the next generation." edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Bathroom security or surveillance? @drsamviano.bsky.social & colleagues find that schools increasingly treat restrooms as sites of control, using vape detectors & staff patrols. Students are skeptical; administrators are supportive. 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1307

🚨New publication alert🚨 I'm thrilled Economics of Education Review has just published my work w/ @abbyfrancis.bsky.social: "School enrollment shifts five years after the pandemic" Abstract below, but read the next few posts for the story told via a handful of graphs. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Pleased to share that the Kennedy School has been authorized to conduct a faculty search in American politics This is as an extraordinary opportunity for us - please share widely with your networks and consider applying academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418

While I’m an ardent advocate for using the tools of science and social science to test the conventional wisdom (often confirming—but sometimes refuting—it), I can assure you that this particular hypothesis did not, in fact, need to be rigorously tested

Our Winter Education Politics & Policy Virtual Conference will take place on Wed. Feb 25, and Thurs., Feb 26, 2026 from 9am-12:30pm Pacific. We invite proposals from scholars at all stages of their careers. Please send us your proposal by Dec. 8th, 2025, using this form: forms.gle/2Ets9aj1YP9b....

Can someone explain to me why it’s good politics for a Republican administration to lay off the staff that enforces special education law? I was under the impression that party affiliation had a trivial relationship to having a child with special needs

Our annual open house for the education policy program at George Mason University is tomorrow evening. See below for more details.

I'm a fan of conferences without predetermined themes. Themes let elected leaders boost their own areas of research. Fine. However, themes can also discourage people working on non-theme topics, especially younger or less-connected scholars who don't know that most of us just ignore the themes.

Interested in studying education policy at George Mason University? Register for our virtual open house on Tuesday, October 21, 5:30 - 6:30pm ET: education.gmu.edu/education-po... (The registration link is near the top of the page) 1/2

"Also, individuals best suited for high-stakes decision-making roles are unlikely to be younger than 40 or older than 65."

New working paper on contemporary child labor in the U.S. and its impacts on school attendance ⬇️ edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1302 With absolute dream team @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @stevebholt.bsky.social & PhD student Ji Hyun Byeon

Amazing project (and amazing title)

Prospective PhD Students: I am planning to accept a PhD student for AY 2026-27 in the economics and education program at Teachers College. Apply if you want to use the economics of education to study immigration or politics/political engagement and public schools. :-)

Supported by both the Fordham Institute and @wallacefoundation.bsky.social, Michael Hartney and I explored the extent to which U.S. school board members are politically and demographically representative of the communities they serve. Here's a summary of our main findings: 1/12

And here's the link to the study via the Wallace Foundation: wallacefoundation.org/report/whos-...

I have a graduate student who is interested in studying how state-wide school voucher (and voucher-adjacent) programs have prompted the opening of new private schools. Does anyone know of a good (and reasonably recently updated) registry of private schools around the country?

Supported by both the Fordham Institute and @wallacefoundation.bsky.social, Michael Hartney and I explored the extent to which U.S. school board members are politically and demographically representative of the communities they serve. Here's a summary of our main findings: 1/12

Combining Cincinnati, Louisville, and St Louis into a shared region (the Ohio River Valley—the southernmost part of the Midwest) is a stroke of genius

New from Fordham, the Wallace Foundation, @dmhouston.bsky.social & Michael Hartney: Who’s on Board? School Boards and Political Representation in an Age of Conflict fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...

I finally wrote up my advice to PhD applicants in FAQ format. It's only my unofficial, personal perspective for folks interested in working with me at Harvard @harvardeducation.bsky.social. I also plug other measurement programs at @ncme38.bsky.social! andrewho.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...

Interested in studying education policy at George Mason University? Register for our virtual open house on Tuesday, October 21, 5:30 - 6:30pm ET: education.gmu.edu/education-po... (The registration link is near the top of the page) 1/2

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"test score declines were larger in districts where more of the 2020–2021 school year was remote or hybrid, where students had less access to broadband, where the pandemic led to larger disruptions, and where trust in government institutions was low." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Perhaps one way to evaluate the quality of a research article is to assess its teachability. Is the article clear about its identifying assumptions? Does it lay out the results clearly? Does it engage with its limitations transparently?

PSA: Our department of Curriculum & Instruction is hiring for an open-rank position in secondary literacy! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Not *my* department, but my College. So come work with me! (Or let me know if you want to talk about UIUC [which is great]!)

Hi everyone. Some exciting news. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Public Policy here at Rockefeller College. We are pretty flexible on topic areas. We have a great team here and Albany is a great place to live. #econsky #academicsky Posting: albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Please vote for which papers you’d like to see discussed in the next #EdWorkingPapers Webinar! My paper “Leveraging IEPs to Understand Special Education Services at Scale” (edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1249) is in the “Making Sense of IDEA: The Latest Evidence on IEPs and Special Education” group. 😀

If you're interested in education policy, vote below to hear more on our research about post-pandemic trends in public school enrollment. A great initiative by the Annenberg Institute, helping disseminate research in an innovative format.

Sign up and vote for the Annenberg EdWorkingPapers Webinar topic! My recent working paper, "New Places, New Players, a New Politics of Education," is in the Democracy and Its Discontents category.

Were you or your kids assigned full books to read in high school English — novels, nonfiction or plays from beginning to end — or mostly shorter excerpts? We are digging into this very controversial maybe-trend and need your help: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf

Blake Heller and I wrote an editorial about Trump’s proposals to end federal funding for adult education- whatever comes for FY 2026, it’s worth keeping an eye on this often overlooked part of our education sector @blakeheller.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/now-...

Great example of how careful qualitative research can challenge overly simplistic narratives born out of early quantitative research and can inform and sharpen subsequent large-scale data collection

A few strategies I use: 1. Talk with students about how: 1) AI tends to produce work that is at best mediocre and at worst just wrong, 2) using AI habitually weakens the critical thinking skills that make college valuable, and 3) AI exploits environmental resources and content creators.

🚨 Come join us in Ed Policy at @uwmadison.bsky.social! We're hiring an Asst/Assoc Prof studying the intersection of education and the environment. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

This is my last week at the Wall Street Journal. I'll be returning to Chalkbeat to launch a new section focused on the big ideas and debates in American education. More on this soon! You can sign up to keep following my work here: www.chalkbeat.org/newsletters/...

This method looks fantastic for using RD to evaluate effects of policies on inequality, without needing to know the X's that predict inequality.

Glad to see Senate discussing K-12 education live on the hill. My colleague Marty West is testifying. www.help.senate.gov/hearings/the... @harvardeducation.bsky.social