Just finished my personal Winter Olympics (summer camp registration) with a sprint when I realized the members code I needed to register for the final daycamp was no where to be seen and called/emailed frantically to obtain it. I'd say🥈since I didn't get the preferred camp for 1/11 weeks.

MDRC has over two decades of experience conducting randomized controlled trials in higher education And, for some reason, we've decided to give away all our resources and best practices to help other researchers conduct high-quality, efficient RCTs Check out the website soft launch:

📢 Predoc Opportunity I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy. jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr... Please pass on to anyone who might be interested. #econsky #econ_ra

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

My 8yo and husband have become experts in curling, a sport we began watching 20 mins ago They are truly soulmates

Postdoc posting: Economics of education at Tufts with my colleague Elizabeth Setren. main.hercjobs.org/jobs/2203818...

me and @cmulhern.bsky.social's paper on school counselors is out in econ of ed review We find more funding for counselors in California in the 2000s increased grad rates, college enrollment & school climate in short: counselors improve student outcomes and we should invest more in them!

🚨📢 Call for papers - IV Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado 🇨🇱⛷️ 📅 August 18-21 📍Valle Nevado, Chile Keynotes by Josh Goodman ( @buwheelock.bsky.social ) and Chris Neilson (Yale) Submit by March 6 👇 bit.ly/49QSsd3 @joshua-goodman.com @christopherneilson.bsky.social

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!

What in the 1980’s are current blazer silhouettes?

Making the Implicit Explicit: An Experiment with Implicit Gender Stereotypes and College Major Choice edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1393 "interventions designed to 'de-bias' individuals can have unintended effects, sometimes reinforcing the very disparities they aim to reduce."

4th Workshop on Education Economics and Policy (WEEP) to be held 7th-8th September in Trondheim, Norway. sites.google.com/site/prgreen... Keynotes: Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth) and Björn Öckert (IFAU) Call for papers open soon Funded by EduGAP project samforsk.no/prosjekter/e... #EconConf

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Really important new work from my UAS research team using our probability-based national panel to look at parent AND teen support for cellphone policies in schools. High level: nearly everyone supports major restrictions. www.brookings.edu/articles/sur...

New research by @imbernomics.bsky.social and colleagues using Texas data dives into different economic returns to college majors by race and gender. There are differences in the share of students going into high-paying fields, as well as earnings within those fields.

This is a really incredible piece. Share it widely 🎁https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDn7xrpPNxSpotkNz_P27oI0

Snap elections, confidence votes, proportional representation, so many boring electoral mechanisms that I wish we had in this country

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

As a physician I can say with utmost confidence that the biggest threat to public health in our country at this point is our own fucking government.

At this point I think schools should open as warming centers and shift learning to a longer school year when -- please please please -- the occupation ends [I'm sure there are plenty of holes in the plan]

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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Plenty of good ideas here! I'm grateful to the hundreds of people who took time to submit thoughtful comments and, of course, to @betsyjwolf.bsky.social for the summary. IES made #EdResearch a public good. I'd love to keep it that way.

Thanks to the Worst Person in the World we had an interesting dinner conversation with our 8-year-old about a wide range of topics including: narcissism, territorial sovereignty, the Cold War, rules-based international order, the Northwest Passage, and climate change.

1/ A more serious MLK Jr. Day post: The article shows the bureaucratic absurdities associated with the administration’s request to collect admission data desegregated by test score race, and gender; it also reveals that the intent is to segregate higher education. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Kids enrolled in Medicaid: 📚 Miss fewer school days 🎓Are more likely to complete high school 💪🏽 Grow up to be healthier adults 👩🏼‍🔬 Earn higher wages Nearly *40% of births* and nearly *40% of children* in Ohio are covered by Medicaid. A good candidate for Governor would want to protect kids’ coverage.

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

I am so grateful to the thousands of incredibly brave people who are each doing their part to document, protest, support victims, sue, and speak up. It's time.

🚀 Postdoc in School Choice & Admissions Join our research team at Uni Copenhagen with @gandil.bsky.social, Neilson & Oosterbeek. Work with unique high-resolution admissions data, long-run outcomes, and a large-scale field experiment. 📅 Apply by Feb 8 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

To ring in the new year, I'm excited to announce the launch of the Politics of Education Lab (PEdL) at the Stanford GSE. The goal is to advance understanding of the political dimensions of education policymaking to help policymakers and practitioners strengthen school systems. pedl.stanford.edu

We’re hiring a Research Coordinator! Please share.

New article with Natasha Quadlin and Jordyn Wald. Regrets, she's had a few. Women with computer science and engineering degrees are unusually regretful of their major choice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nothing like lying on the living room doing your back stretches (40+ iykyk) only to have your 2.5 year old run up and yell “Muuuh baaaaack hurtssss!”

The worst thing is that it was me who snoozed those emails

"Gains were driven by improved school climate and teacher efficiency, not sorting." - fascinating new work from @cohodes.bsky.social

We're hiring! Senior position in the learning sciences. "We seek a scholar whose research has focused on the development & application of learning technologies to achieve just & equitable educational learning opportunities, teaching practices, policies, & systems." careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Pretty cool to have one of my papers listed as most cited in the Economic Reports of the President from the past 15 years. See the recent NBER working paper for the source on this: www.nber.org/papers/w34597

My 2-year-old believes books are written by Donald Crews or Someone Else

Just passed “Gaslight Village Assisted Living” Saying the quiet part out loud 👀

Intensive college advising is a cost-effective way to increase bachelor’s degrees among low-income students, say researchers at @tamuartsci.bsky.social & the University of Virginia. They say that advisors help students to enroll in higher-quality institutions. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/int...

How am I supposed to just… send my children to school? Attend the Hanukkah party at the synagogue this week? Go to my office, the building I teach in?

I encourage people to learn about what happened following the École Polytechnique massacre in Québec to see how much of this history repeating itself is very much preventable.

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org