🍎🦡 I'm recruiting a PhD student in Ed Policy (fall '26) at @uwmadison.bsky.social! Come work with me on college access, admissions, & fin aid in our top-ranked, fully-funded program. I’m especially excited for this student to immediately join our direct admissions RCT team.

Want to see how potential changes to #education Title funding might affect #K-12 districts? Check out this nifty data tool from @kblagg.bsky.social and me! You can choose your own scenarios and see projected impacts to keep up with the policy proposals from Congress. www.urban.org/research/pub...

Haven't been on Bluesky in awhile, but popping in to say I wrote a policy piece based on my transfer paper for @brookings.edu Chalkboard! Many thanks to @econsarahreber.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social, & Michael Hansen for the opportunity and the editing. www.brookings.edu/articles/com...

📣📣📣The Student Upward Mobility Initiative's RFP will be launched later this month. Sign up for our webinar to learn more: www.urban.org/events/stude...

College and #career readiness measures help students highlight skills and guide colleges & employers in #student selection, advancement, and more. A new Urban #research report reviews 12 key benchmarks and offers a framework for policymakers.

New at @pseocoalition.bsky.social, @julia-turner.bsky.social & I have a new report on grad school debt & earnings over the medium term. For some key professional fields (🩺⚖️🦷💊🐾), we show the varied patterns both within & across areas of study, looking at the first decade of earnings after graduation

1/ I have a new brief looking at the House reconciliation bill's proposed risk-sharing formula for higher education. I dig into the formula and analyze the incentives it creates: www.urban.org/research/pub...

My colleagues Jason Cohn, Jason Delisle, and I have a new brief out looking at the House Republicans' proposed Repayment Assistance Plan for student loans: www.urban.org/research/pub...

Financial aid administrators are sounding the alarm about how staffing cuts at Federal Student Aid are already negatively affecting students. The bigger changes are likely with the 2026-27 aid cycle, so stay tuned.

NEW: TPC has scored the May 19 House Rules Committee OBBBA tax plan. tpc.io/4klTnVi

Excited to share this new Philly Fed working paper with Tomas Monarrez: We study how the Great Recession affected college enrollment, student loan borrowing, repayment, and default. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

It was incredibly energizing to get the Student Upward Mobility Initiative’s first cohort + friends together in DC! Follow along as we learn from researchers, field leaders, and practitioners on our blog www.tfaforms.com/4644066/?tfa...

Georgetown has put together resources for federal workers who may be facing a transition in jobs. These include various seminars and workshops, as well as tuition scholarships providing a discount on many master's programs and certificates. Please spread the word to anybody who might benefit.

An excellent overview of the Department of Education and what’s lost with it’s destruction from Ben Miller www.slowboring.com/p/what-the-d...

House Republicans are reportedly considering changes to which schools are eligible to provide free meals to all students through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). Urban's Emily Gutierrez runs the numbers on how many students and schools would lose CEP: www.urban.org/research/pub...

Why we have and need a US Department of Education 🚨 New from @brookings.edu scholars, an initiative to walk through the federal role in education, particularly the ongoing need for a Department of Education and all it does www.brookings.edu/collection/w...

Dismantling the Dept of Ed could have major implications for students with disabilities @alexis-weaver.bsky.social www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟 #EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer

How does your state really stack up on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)? www.urban.org/research/pub...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 A field experiment w/ 13M federal student loan borrowers at risk of delinquency shows we can meaningfully reduce delinquencies with well-designed reminders. Work led by Rob Kuan (of Wharton). Read paper in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... What reminder ingredients matter?🧵

📈📉New Census Working Paper: "Potential Bias When Using Administrative Data to Measure the Family Income of School-Aged Children" by Leah R. Clark (@leahclark.bsky.social) and Renuka Bhaskar www.census.gov/library/work...

Education scholars heading to #APPAM2024 - @christocleve.bsky.social and I are organizing an informal happy hour meet up Thursday night 11/21 at The Brass Tap, 7pm! Would love to reconnect with folks while we're all together next week. Please amplify and feel free to invite others!