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

Join the Doctoral Student Community Group tomorrow at 2 PM ET for a panel discussion on navigating the academic job market. Gain valuable insights and practical strategies from experienced panelists. Register here: upenn.zoom.us/meetin...

"...embrace opportunities for quick and meaningful wins. These are the common-sense education initiatives that share three critical features: evidentiary support, low financial costs, and scalability." - @tomdee.bsky.social www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

Went to a talk today and people were interrupting with cogent questions. The speaker, accustomed, handled them with skill. I missed this so much.

Happy to share my new NBER working paper! www.nber.org/papers/w34216

An open-access version of the paper is available here: edworkingpapers.com/ai22-617

Postdoc opening in education for the upcoming year: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/592...

Are you a novice leader or looking to increase your capacity to support the implementation of IDEA? Apply for the free, yearlong Lead IDEA Leadership Academy: lead-idea.org/lead-idea-le...

FYI: I've updated my list of Useful Data Resources, primarily with a bunch of (20-ish?) new links to state-specific public school datasets and data repositories. go.illinois.edu/UsefulDataRe... Suggestions/corrections are always welcome.

Another academic job market is upon us. I'm happy to chat with anyone about having kids on the TT — the good, bad, and ugly. (If you don't want to talk, my main advice is: don't wait, don't hide it, but also don't assume you'll be accommodated.)

New from Jennifer Nelson, Marisol Jimenez, and me in AERA Open: Hiring Under Constraint: How School Administrators Perceive and Respond to Centralized Screening by the District doi.org/10.1177/2332... Open access!

learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/states-... From the Learning Policy Institute, showing the impact of the administration's reckless decision to withhold billions of critical education dollars. Vermont and DC are set to see over 20% of their federal school funding yanked. Over 10% in every state.

I'm cleaning out my office and need distraction. What's the worst sentence you've ever published?

www.nber.org/papers/w33904 whew. “We are well aware of the view held by many physicians that oxycodone is weaker than morphine. I do not plan to do anything about that.” (Purdue Pharma Company Exec)

Absolutely dreadful. Harmful to American universities, the students themselves, the other students who will be negatively affected by the loss, and everyone in American society who benefits from these students’ contributions to culture and the economy.

Review etiquette question: When hard-rejecting a manuscript, I typically check "no" when asked if I will review subsequent revisions. My reasoning is that if I think a study isn't salvageable, my recommendation won't change with a future revision. Is this rude? Does it make editors curse my name?

Opinion | How I Lost Faith in My University’s Mission Cynthia Stark explains why she is no longer proud to teach at the University of Utah. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4moJBDH

We registered our oldest for kindergarten in Charlottesville this morning, which is to say: This fall I'll be joining the University of Virginia as an associate professor of education. Excited (and still a bit in awe) to begin this new adventure.

Wrapping up the year with incredible EdD students.

Still at AERA? Come check out our symposium on the role of family-friendly policies for educators. 9:50 in Bluebird Ballroom 2C.

Still at AERA? Come to our mixed methods workshop tomorrow at 11:40! We will explore how MMR can be so much more than surveys+interviews.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Yay! @dave-woo.bsky.social knocked it out of the park and won the Early Career Outstanding Teaching Award!

Reminder: please consider applying to our education researcher position!

This is savage Reviewer 2 energy, just replace "papacy" with "scholarship" and "the Lord" with "the editor."

I am sad the Pitt is over. Watching complicated people be competent at their jobs for an hour each week was such a balm.

Can anybody recommend a textbook they actually like for teaching PhD intro to research methods/design class? This is for education leadership and policy, but the textbook need not be education-focused.

🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨 Join our team! We are hiring a non-tenure track research assistant professor to work on our Arkansas-focused projects. We have fantastic data and lots of interesting, policy-relevant projects

NEW and IMPORTANT: 17 University of Utah international students see visas revoked by Trump admin www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

How do you build a more effective, diverse school leaders? First you need to know who’s in the pipeline. Easier said than done… We look at barriers to (and possibilities for) districts’ use of human resources data to recruit, hire, and develop school leaders. ⬇️

Everyone loves to debate the lowest hanging fruit in school improvement. It's this: building coherent district data systems. (Especially now in the era of declining investment in fed and SLDS!) We wrote a fun commentary discussing this issue within the context of developing effective principals.

Trump's antisemitism agenda isn't about the Jews. I wrote about how the president and his allies are using the pretext of protecting Jews to protect their policies from criticism, while advancing an agenda that most American Jews oppose. Gift link:

AEFP has joined a challenge to the administration's actions as they relate to data and research infrastructure for education: www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit... AEFP affiliates--especially early career scholars and students--as a board member, please reach out if you have any questions or thoughts!

You don't need to have been a teacher/principal/whatever to study education. It's fine to disagree, but let's leave the no-true-Scotsman stuff behind.

The Research Associate will work directly with Annenberg Institute faculty such as Drs. Lindsay Page and Christopher Cleveland to advance a range of ongoing research projects related to educational opportunity and higher education policy topics. buff.ly/ihCRhU4

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

Husband's PSLF officially came through. Feels amazing.

We're also taught that the service load belongs primarily to women, often non-tenured. What really grinds my gears is how often bad service in academia is 110% rewarded with a cessation of service assignments. This cycle disproportionately affects women, and I hate it.

New from Jen Darling-Aduana, @dave-woo.bsky.social, and me: We observed lessons in an online charter school to understand instructional quality. Despite the school's marketing as an innovative, tailored alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar publics, teachers' instruction rarely reflected this.

Want to help save research using NCES restricted-use data? Here is a gdrive with actions, background, and context from my colleague sean reardon (sharing with permission): 1) actions 2) background 3) list of data files: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

More high-quality evidence that the world is not blind to race... absent intervention, there is not equality of opportunity. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...

If someone can bring me a large coffee with cream in the New York room I will legit venmo you $20. Not a joke!

May I suggest "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die!" as the theme for all education research conferences moving forward?

Objective, comprehensive, rigorous, timely, and useful: A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research. #EdResearch #EdPolicy livehandbook.org

What a surreal experience to be leading a workshop for education researchers on how to write about their research, in a building directly across from the US Capitol, and wake up to discover that the entire national education statistical staff has been fired.

This is so embarrassing.

A) this is unbelievably short-sighted; a huge waste of talent B) Local and state departments of education: you should be actively looking to hire right now. This is the time to build up your research and analytics departments.

It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.