Great thread. Excellent work @matthewakraft.com !

Layoffs are coming in districts that added positions w/ onetime pandemic-era federal aid as enrollments ⬇️ and labor/healthcare costs ⬆️. This may temporarily relieve localized shortages, but not in the long run. A shrinking industry with seniority-based layoffs is not a magnet.

Postdoc opportunity 📢 IBES seeks candidates for distinguished Voss Postdoctoral Fellows in any field relevant to environmental research. Appointments start July 2027 with an expected term of two years. Submit step-one proposals by Sept 1! ibes.brown.edu/opportunitie...

🚨Our tutoring meta-analysis is now online at RER. @bethschueler.bsky.social, Grace Falken & I analyzed 263 RCTs. What we learned has important implications for the future of tutoring and the use of meta-analyses to inform policy. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... 🧵

So excited to visit the University of Stavanger in Norway and present at the Synapse Lab tomorrow!

Teacher union influence is waning. In A Crowded Table, @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social, Sandy Frost Waldron, and Rebecca Jacobsen rank union strength across all fifty states and D.C. and examine how the K–12 landscape has grown more crowded. Read the report: fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...

I've started a Substack! In "Probable Causation: The Newsletter," I'll share regular updates on what I'm thinking about in the evidence-based public safety space. Please subscribe and share! First post linked below.

Two examples of states stepping up to hold the line on instructional time by enforcing minimum hours requirements & blocking furloughs. Both of these moves also have major budget implications for districts. 1) Oregon: opb.org/article/2026... 1/2

I would camp out overnight to buy a book-length sociological treatise about the broader influence of Bloom's 2-sigma paper on research, culture, education and technology. Someone please write this book!

New WP: NAEP and State tests often disagree about educational progress. How much? What do we do? We show how to use these "two watches" to improve trend measurement whenever we have multiple trends. Our paper, including methods underlying our new SEDA/EOP data: edopportunity.org/papers/two_w...

Genuine question about #1 here: Does there exist anything empirical looking at how CAL compares to free reading in that free time space? Restated bluntly - how would computer-based enrichment compare to just reading a book?

#1 begins to move into the "media comparison study" space, which is really fraught. Tough to do well. @hassenrueb.bsky.social has a great article on why: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hi Matt. Have you read @dylanpkane.bsky.social’s writing on going tech free with his teaching? I think you will find it thought provoking. fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/tech-free-...

To make #2 more concrete, seems like there might be a place for CAL 1) when kids finish their work early and have down time in regular classes 2) for Tier I instruction in supplemental MTSS blocks when teachers are working with small groups to deliver Tier II interventions

My hot takes 1) Declining interest in the teaching profession is an important & under-recognized driver of test declines. 2) Condemning "screens" as universally bad is foolish. Online tutoring, computer adaptive learning can offer great differentiated instruction. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

Check out the highlights from our #SustainableED conference in @carolinepreston.bsky.social's round-up of the cutting-edge research happening at the intersection of EducationXClimate in the @hechingerreport.org. hechingerreport.org/data-centers... @edsustainable.bsky.social

📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join us on education research projects at Oxford @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social. Join me @gamblingondev.bsky.social @roccozizzamia.bsky.social on multiple exciting projects! Applications due June 7th. www.economics.ox.ac.uk/csae-postdoc...

Thank you to everyone who made our first annual SustainableED Conference a huge success! We're already excited to reconvene next year and encourage you to sign up for our newsletter to stay informed about future events: mailchi.mp/annenbergins... 📸 Annamaria Luecht

In honor of teacher appreciation day, I want to highlight the large but often hidden impact that teachers have on students through their informal mentorship. Students who have a teacher as their primary mentor are substantially more likely to go to college. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One of my undergraduate RAs/advisees gave me the best thank you note a professor could ever ask for. This is the way.

Folks, we are SOLD OUT!! Turns out you can just make up a conference out of the blue. So excited. If you missed us this year we'll be back in '27.

I had what felt like my first authentic phone conversation with an AI-bot today. I was expecting a call from an organization and instead of a person it was a bot calling me (I asked and it confirmed) with specific questions for me based on my background. Three observations: 1/3

Happy Earth Day! 📚📰

Our full conference schedule is out and it is a banger!! Join us in RI on May 1st. 🌎+🎓

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

We’re live today with Dr. Claudia Persico to discuss the "invisible" factors affecting student performance: pollution and environmental health. Final call to join the seminar: buff.ly/qtjf7KU @edsustainable.bsky.social @matthewakraft.com

Congrats @matthewakraft.com on being named a Guggenheim Fellow! This is well deserved!

What a privilege to be among the amazing artists, scientists, and scholars named as 2026 Guggenheim Fellows. Feeling inspired and extremely grateful for all the wonderful people in my life. @guggfellows.bsky.social www.gf.org/stories/anno... 1/2

Join us on Wednesday for @claudiapersico.bsky.social's virtual seminar!

Two postdoc fellowships now open at @brown.edu Dept of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. One in ocean sciences (apply.interfolio.com/183855) and one in any field of geoscience (apply.interfolio.com/183852). Deadline May 1.

So honored to be inducted as an AERA Fellow this morning. @aeraedresearch.bsky.social #AERA2026

Join me at @aeraedresearch.bsky.social #AERA2026 for an amazing panel on "Schooling in the Anthropocene: Research Perspectives and Policy Priorities" Today @ 4:15 to 5:45pm PDT Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 306B I'll present our recent working paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1238

Friends - please help amplify and share in your networks. This small conference will convene multidisciplinary researchers w/ practitioners, non-profit organizers, & policymakers to share cutting-edge research on 🎓+🌎. We have only 25 spots left. Join us!

So exited to learn from @claudiapersico.bsky.social! Mark your calendars.

So exited to learn from @claudiapersico.bsky.social! Mark your calendars.

It's official! This Spring, #TheDoubleTax is back on the road and may be coming to a city near you. See you soon: Austin, Atlanta, Ann Arbor, Cambridge, Williamstown, and Boston! All tickets can be found at: annagifty.com/thedoubletax #womenshistorymonth #blacksky #booksky

A great read from @nymag.com about time in school. A few lines made me LOL! Determining which religious holidays to observe is challenging—but the bigger picture about how limited time in school affects student learning & working families cannot be ignored. nymag.com/intelligence...

Join us at Brown on May 1st for a first-of-its-kind research conference at the intersection of Education X Climate.

Yesterday, one of my students shared this reflection about her experience in higher education. It really struck me as having profound implications so I'm sharing it here. "We spend our time problematizing things but rarely looking for solutions"

Your friendly reminder that the catalyst of the high-dosage tutoring movement — MATCH Corps / SAGA Education — was a model where tutoring happened in a regular class every day of the week ~165 total hours. Most tutoring programs we are evaluating today provide 15-30 total hours AT BEST. #Dosage

Nice summary of my presentation at @ncstate.bsky.social. ced.ncsu.edu/news/2026/03...

I’ll bite: It will, but not the way you may be anticipating. While subbing middle school math last year, students entered their in-class assignment equations into copilot and got the answers in seconds. So teaching may have to respond to try to stay ahead of students’ AI knowledge and use.

That "in classrooms" emphasis seems important. My very preliminary guess is that the most likely places for AI-driven change seem to me to be in finding/generating instructional materials, handling grading and data analysis, and the IEP process.

When asked about AI and the future of K-12 teaching during a panel at #AEFP2026, I responded that I thought very little of what teachers do on a day-to-day basis *in classrooms* would change in the next 10 years. The reaction I got suggested this is a heterodox view. Am I wrong?

This @educationweek article highlights research led by Annenberg affiliate @matthewakraft.com regarding the impact of time spent in school and the difficulty of covering full curricula in a compressed timeframe.

Come see cutting edge evidence on pollution and learning outcomes, starting in just a few hours. My presentation might be the first academic talk that'll make you think "What a smoke show!"

And it's a blockbuster! All the papers in the session are both interesting and important. Hope to see you there.

The #SustainableED team is finishing strong at @aefpweb.bsky.social with two presentations as part of a panel on "The Educational Impacts of Pollution" along w/ @joshua-goodman.com & others. Join us at 11:45 in St. Gallen 3. #AEFP2026 @edsustainable.bsky.social

Join us on Saturday morning for an amazing panel on Teacher Effectiveness. 10 am in Vevey 2 @aefpweb.bsky.social #AEFP2026 I'll be presenting our new working paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1405