🚨 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...

Few things are as persistent and widespread in U.S. education as shortages of special educators. As a former Pre-K and K teacher, I wish I'd had more training related to learning differences.

Consider nominating a colleague (or yourself) for one of the 2026 CEC-DR Awards! You have two months to think about it. Awards will be presented at the CEC Convention in Salt Lake City, UT in March 2026. Visit our website to learn more about each award: cecdr.org/cec-dr-awards

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Policy solutions can help stabilize and diversify the paraeducator workforce to improve #SpecialEducation outcomes. A recent paper by @lindseykaler.bsky.social and @roddy-theobald.bsky.social at @caldercenter.bsky.social examines turnover patterns in WA and offers suggestions for policymakers.

The Supreme Court is forging an America where weighing race can be used to harm minorities, but not to protect them.

The Trump administration says it will withhold $350 million in grants to hundreds of colleges that serve large populations of minority students, calling the decades-old programs discriminatory.

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

RFK Jr has promised to release a report on the causes of autism in September. To prepare, it's a good idea to make sure we know what the common types of observational research biases are. First up: confounding by indication. Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Come work with us! We’re really excited about our research on attendance and chronic absenteeism. And we’d be really excited to work with you! Reach out if you have any questions. Detroit-based preferred, but remote might be possible. Start as early as Dec 2025 or later in Spring/Summer 2026.

Today is the last day to nominate someone for a TED award!

🚨Interested in a PhD focusing on quant methods and education & social policy? I'm recruiting this year at @bclynchschool in the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment program www.bc.edu/bc-web/schoo...

Coding teacher interviews today & realizing just how messed up the phrase "make time" is - like, in this quote: "I do not have time dedicated for assessing students, I just make it." How do you "make" time? Do you stitch it? Nail it together? Is papier mâché involved?

This will be a great conversation and an example of how we can bridge the all-too-common silos in education. @wested.org

Excited to share a new publication with co-author Tiffany Lam- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Dual-Certification in Special Education and General Education. Read the full paper here- journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

SPARC Center Co-Directors @afgilmour.bsky.social and @lizbettini.bsky.social will join @aefpweb.bsky.social for a free forum on teacher shortages and vacancies on August 28 from 1–2pm ET. Register to attend: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...

New: The Education Department's cuts have left the niche, government-backed "industry" of education research in a dire state. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Given what we know about late teacher hiring, it's quite likely that late posting of teacher job openings indicate trouble for student achievement. We look at this phenomenon in Washington state using scraped job openings. 1/2

Our article examining the effects of nearly a nation-wide scale-up of state teacher evaluation reforms is now out in print at JPE: Micro. Check it out! Print version: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Open Access: static1.squarespace.com/static/6297c... @joshbleiberg.bsky.social

My department is hiring an assistant professor of educational psychology who researches and teaches motivation in schools! My contact info is in the job posting, please reach out if you have any questions. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/440...

Since NYT spends 99% of the time talking about elite colleges, its worth highlighting when they put out a great piece on community colleges. CCs are already under resourced, and the trump cuts to higher ed will limit opportunities for social mobility thru these institutions

Really excited to have another paper with the amazing @lindseykaler.bsky.social out in the world! Her research on the paraeducator workforce has really contributed to our broader understanding of the special educator workforce, and see below for her thread on this specific study!

New CALDER report by @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @afgilmour.bsky.social, Equia Aniagyei-Cobbold & Marcy Stein analyzes administrative, survey, & interview data related to 7 Attract Prepare Retain projects in PA, all targeting the special educator pipeline. Read 👉 caldercenter.org/publications...

In a recent @caldercenter.bsky.social study, @lindseykaler.bsky.social, @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, and @natejones.bsky.social show how #SpecialEducation teacher turnover negatively impacts test scores—making teacher retention a critical priority. 📄 Learn more

Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social‬. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: ‬ tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m 🧵 below:

In this BU Today article, BU Wheelock faculty and alum, share how PBS KIDS’ Lyla in the Loop helps children build problem-solving and computational thinking skills; making screen time a tool for learning. Read more: http://spr.ly/633264aQCn #BUWheelock #BostonUniversity #PBSKids

This provocative, data-infused essay by James Wyckoff — edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1197 — serves as a reminder that fully understanding the declines in student achievement requires us to look well before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This was such a great conversation about the impact of federal research funding. I think a lot of folks outside of academia don't realize the value or impact of federal research dollars- and they need to, if we want that funding to continue! Please listen & share!

Okay y’all, gather round for a chat. It’s been a roller coaster, and I thought I’d share what we’ve learned. 🧵 (1/16) bsky.app/profile/luck...

At the Science Fair for canceled grants, I had the privilege of speaking with @naomicaselli.bsky.social. Her team (which includes deaf researchers) were making breakthroughs to better identify & address language deprivation — when the Trump administration terminated their grant.

Last week just-out work by @joshua-goodman.com & @abbyfrancis.bsky.social was featured on the @educationnext.bsky.social podcast. Listen for interesting convo of key insights and implications. www.educationnext.org/the-educatio... Full policy brief at: wheelockpolicycenter.org/high-quality...

ICYMI!

Check out the key take-aways from our recent webinar on using state longitudinal data systems to study the special education teacher workforce!

I hope the many reporters digging into the school voucher issue for the first time know to consult AEFP's live handbook that summarizes the research on lots of subjects in education, including vouchers! livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...

New: Schools and education leaders are in a bind this summer after learning last week that several billion dollars of federal funding may not show up after all. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

@hannahmmathews.bsky.social, @lindseykaler.bsky.social, & Mal conducted such an incredibly thoughtful analysis in this paper! We find that teachers' conceptions of students' disability shaped how they viewed the purpose of special ed & their own roles.

This is a backhanded move to push transgender and gender non-conforming teachers out of the classroom. At a time when Florida's schools are already facing shortages of thousands of teachers across the state.

$107M from Massachusetts #MAEdu

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!

ICYMI!

New pub alert! 🎉 Check out our new paper in EC, in which we use DisCrit to examine special educators' beliefs about students labeled with EBD. I loved working with @hannahmmathews.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, @katiekat.bsky.social, and Mal Ragunathan on this one! doi.org/10.1177/0014...

🔥What’s the only thing hotter than this week’s weather?🔥 Our new @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social working paper: “School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic” In it, BU Wheelock PhD @abbyfrancis.bsky.social and I ask: Has the pandemic permanently changed families' schooling choices?

If you love #EdResearch & #EdPolicy, you should check out the Live Handbook! livehandbook.org This research did not grow on trees! Much of it was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, either directly or through investments in education research infrastructure (training, standards, etc.)

Disabled students are about to see deep cuts in their services through the republican tax and budget bill. Here are the top 5 ways they will be hurt, written by Weade James and I. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

🌍 Join us for the first webinar by the #SustainableED team! We'll introduce the initiative and present new research on the connections between education and climate change. 📅 Tues. 7/15 at 1 pm ET 🔗 buff.ly/xbcXnIF @matthewakraft.bsky.social @edsustainable.bsky.social

It's here! The newest issue of @edpsychjournal.bsky.social asks: why aren't you including students with disabilities in your research? Then, an amazing group of scholars demonstrate how and why they DO. I want to highlight a few aspects of the special issue in particular:

OMG THIS WAS SO GOOD Y'ALL!!! Beyond the janky hotel lobby wifi trying to hold me back, this was full of tons of really great information for starting a career in consulting. I'll make sure to share whenever we get the video up.

Interested in recent changes in public school enrollment patterns but don't have time to read? Here's the podcast version, via @educationnext.bsky.social: Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/26fO... SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/education-ex...

Everyone who follows me should call their Senator this morning to urge them to vote in favor of Wyden’s point of order and remove the Medicaid funding ban for transgender care from Trump’s horror bill.

@hannahmmathews.bsky.social, @lindseykaler.bsky.social, & Mal conducted such an incredibly thoughtful analysis in this paper! We find that teachers' conceptions of students' disability shaped how they viewed the purpose of special ed & their own roles.