I'm excited to share our latest EdWorking paper, "The Politics of Administrative Ease: Public Access to Local Special Education Information" (w/ @lindseykaler.bsky.social and co-authors). edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1447 #SpecialEducation #EdResearch @annenberginstitute.bsky.social

New working paper alert! Our team developed a web crawler to study the accessibility of information related to special education on school district websites in four states (MA, RI, IN, and FL). Read the full WP here: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1447 And check out Cam's thread below for more detail!

NEW PAPER: We study the effects of immigration policy on student attendance in 2025. Students born outside the U.S. were 2.2pp more likely to be absent after Jan 2025 (a 37% increase). That's ~2 extra missed days per semester. LINK: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1453 @annenberginstitute.bsky.social

There is in fact a lot of very high-quality education research out there. Just peruse one of the biggest repositories of empirical evidence here: edworkingpapers.com. The typical paper does *not* look anything like Jo Boaler's work.

Cheapskin Effects? The Heterogeneous Value of Industry-Recognized Certificates Earned by High School Student Looks like @joshua-goodman.com has competition for best titles! edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1412

New paper looks at the effects of merit-based free community college in Chicago Unsurprisingly, students were diverted from universities to community colleges. But, surprisingly, they were just as likely to earn a bachelor's degree within six years. edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1426

Cited in PR Newswire, an #EdWorkingPaper by @linzpage.bsky.social and Catherine Mata at the Annenberg Institute shows that when paired with human-centered outreach, AI tools can meaningfully improve student outcomes. buff.ly/XPjEt9D

Out today, a short and accessible policy and practice summary of our new working paper "Is Teacher Effectiveness Fully Portable?" Via the @annenberginstitute.bsky.social edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...

New report by @mmilleradams.bsky.social and Jennifer Iriti on Promise scholarships that looks at how communities redesign Promise programs when funding and local conditions change. Useful lessons for anyone studying place-based financial aid. research.upjohn.org/reports/321/

Are Work-Based Professional Skills Associated with Postsecondary Entrance and Persistence? Novel Evidence from the Cristo Rey Network edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1419

Very much enjoying this new paper showing that: 1) Massachusetts high schools differ dramatically in their impacts on students' earnings 2) More effective high schools are those that tend to raise test scores the most www.nber.org/papers/w34913

Excited to share a new EdWorkingPaper on the relationship between family income and disability ID. 🧵 TLDR: Low-income students are much more likely to receive SPED services while high-income students are more likely to get 504 plan accommodations. edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1374

Working paper #4 Across Head Start RCT clusters, we observed 40% persistence for cog skills, 20% for soc-emo skills @ 1yr follow-up. We found some (but not stat sig) support for transfer processes from effects on cog skills to effects on soc skills. edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1369

Working paper #3 Using cluster RCTs of a math intervention, we tested whether student characteristics, fidelity, & elementary contexts affected persistence. 40% persistence at 1yr follow-up. Impacts faded faster in elementary contexts where students learned more. edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1365

Working paper #2 We set out to find all RCTs reporting initial & adult effects, and found 29. Fadeout didn't preclude adult effects. On average, adult impacts were similar in size to faded child impacts (~.05 SD). Some, but weak, links b/w initial & adult effects. edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1367

Working paper #1 Across 87 RCTs, we found that fadeout was fairly ubiquitous. Though there was variation in persistence, fadeout was observed across 12 theoretically salient intervention dimensions (e.g., age, breadth, duration). ~46% persistence @ 6-12mo follow-up. edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1366

Happy to share this new paper co-authored with many of my colleagues We study how college enrollment changed in 2024 after SCOTUS's ruling in SFFA v. Harvard using data on millions of SAT/PSAT/AP exam takers linked to college enrollment records 👇 Check it out! edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1392

Stunning work: "Currently, 6.1 percent of K-12 students in the United States receive gifted education ... Under 4 percent of students in the lowest income percentile are identified as gifted, compared with 20 percent of those in the top income percentile." edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1375

Check out this great overview in @the74.bsky.social of our recent paper examining the scale and scope of students' potential exposure to industrial pollution and toxic sites while at school. #SustainableED @AnnenbergInst WP: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1384 www.the74million.org/article/mill...

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Nearly 1 in 12 U.S. schools is located within a quarter mile of an environmental hazard site. Sohil Malik, @matthewakraft.com & Grace Falken finds stark racial and socioeconomic inequities in schools’ exposure to pollution risks. #SustainableED 📄https://bit.ly/49YdXsA

How did college enrollment change after SFFA v. Harvard? Michael Bloem & coauthors find that in the first year after the 2023 Supreme Court ruling, high-achieving URM students were substantially less likely to enroll in highly selective colleges. #EdWorkingPapers 📄https://bit.ly/4tgdSIt

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Bullying doesn’t end in childhood. A new review shows that exposure to bullying is linked to worse mental health, lower human capital accumulation, and poorer labor market outcomes in adulthood. 🔍 Matias Martinez, Qinyou Hu & Jonathan Schaefer 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1389

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Tyler Watts, @emmarosehart.bsky.social, & @drewhalbailey.bsky.social analyze 87 RCTs & find that fadeout is common across most programs. Intervention characteristics explain only a small share of differences in persistence. 📄 bit.ly/4aGrXY4

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Analyzing RCTs of a preschool math curriculum, Tyler Watts & colleagues find that immediate impacts are strong forecasters for follow-up effects. Settings promoting more learning post-intervention also produce more fadeout as control groups catch up faster. 📄 bit.ly/4c3YQzp

Join us in congratulating @linzpage.bsky.social on her promotion to full professor! Her research on college access and student success is shaping policy and practice nationwide.

⚡ Key takeaways from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series! A summary of “Making the Implicit Explicit: An Experiment with Implicit Gender Stereotypes and College Major Choice” by Stephanie Owen and Derek Rury 📄 edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract... #AnnenbergEdExchange

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: What are schools actually doing to improve attendance? @jeremylsinger.bsky.social & coauthors find that in Michigan and Georgia, schools rely on communication-based strategies while efforts to remove barriers or improve student experiences are less common. bit.ly/4abAWPG

🚨 New working paper on chronic absenteeism from IES Predoctoral Fellow Tiffany Wu and co-authors, Professor Christina Weiland and EPI Data Analyst, Thomas Staines! Read the paper here: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1380

Transferring to a better college does not necessarily work out better for the students: edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...

Many public schools are located dangerously close to toxic sites, and students of color are overwhelmingly more likely to be in these exposed schools edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1384

"high-achieving underrepresented minority college-goers were up to 10 percentage points less likely to enroll in highly selective colleges... “cascading” down the college selectivity distribution into less selective colleges with lower graduation rates and earnings." edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1392

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."

Classroom Composition Affects Teacher Performance Ratings edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1395 "teachers with higher-achieving and less disruptive students, holding constant the teacher and school, receive systematically higher performance ratings"

And that experience, which many kids have had, seems to speak to the need for studying what to do instead. The Access, Detracking, and Tracking SIG is actually hosting a webinar about this paper next week. edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...

Fans of value added when they read this paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1395

We provide early evidence on the impact of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks on learning opportunities, and the schooling disruptions that the growing number of low-coverage communities could face if outbreaks continue to spread. See working paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1358

Creating Coherence: Does Instructional Alignment Affect the Impact of Tutoring? edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1332 was featured in Overdeck's Five Studies That Inspired Our Thinking in 2025! 🎉 overdeck.org/news-and-res...

"Eliminating a graduate degree wage premium for teachers led to a 27% enrollment decline in education fields alone .... This drop subsequently reduced institutional tuition revenue and related state funding." @taylorodle.bsky.social edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1364

Useful working paper overall. Compositional effects feel attenuated to me because the comparison is public institutions in states with pre-existing bans (meaning places like Texas A&M are incorrectly coded as allowing race-conscious admissions). edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1392

How can we stop "Summer Melt" & increase student enrollment? From @NCANetwork: Annenberg members @linzpage.bsky.social, @aizatnurshat.bsky.social, @ellenbryer.bsky.social, & Christina Claiborne offer evidence-based strategies to support students transitioning from K-12 to college. buff.ly/e0TWM7e

📣 New from the Annenberg EdExchange: Our first-ever Evidence Hub is LIVE—focused on improving middle & high school math pathways. Research syntheses, emerging studies, and data tools all in one place. 🔗 Explore the Evidence Hub now: annenbergexchange.org/math-pathway...

We are pleased to announce the 2026 EdWorkingPapers Board, which reviews submissions & helps guide the scholarly & strategic direction of the series. We welcome new members @dbassok.bsky.social, @drflorespolicy.bsky.social, Jennifer Jennings, & Constance Lindsay! 🔗 edworkingpapers.com/board-members

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Can shorter courses help community college students succeed? @kmatheny.bsky.social and colleagues find that condensed courses boost grades and reduce withdrawals at Tennessee’s community colleges, though effects on persistence are more mixed. 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1346

Student mental health needs are rising, but staffing shortages and crisis response dominate many schools’ efforts. Research shows better organization—not just more staff—can make a difference. Learn how in our new brief. #EdResearch4Action 🔗 buff.ly/SS5qOzA

⚡Key takeaways from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series! A summary of “Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment” by @joshua-goodman.com and Joseph Winkelmann 📄 edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract... #AnnenbergEdExchange

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: How do predictive analytics companies sell student success? Catalina Vasquez & colleagues analyze 15 vendors’ marketing materials & find that tools framed as equity-oriented often center on institutional finances & are misaligned with the problems they define. 📄 bit.ly/4a0BXvD

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Valerie Bostwick & Tuan D. Nguyen analyze 10+ years of data from a large Midwestern university and find that students in triweekly classes earn lower grades and are less likely to continue in the subject, particularly in STEM. 📄 Read more: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1363

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @taylorodle.bsky.social & @isabelmcmullen.bsky.social evaluate Advise TN’s expansion across 33 communities and find the program increased college enrollment by 6%. 📄 Read more: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1371

Now posted on @annenberginstitute.bsky.social EdWorkingPapers: What are schools doing to improve attendance? Based on school leader surveys in MI and GA, we describe the prevalence of various attendance practices and organizational systems. We find little variation, both between and within states.