🎓 Can machine learning help provide equitable predictions for high school dropout? @anikaalam.bsky.social's dissertation digs deep into algorithmic bias, revealing how models can unintentionally disadvantage students from marginalized backgrounds. 🔍Read more: www.proquest.com/docview/3217...

🚀 Excited to team up with @UBuffalo’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science to host a workshop on automated speech recognition (ASR) in education! 🎙️📚 We'll dive into how ASR can support learning and provide hands-on training focused on children’s speech. #childASR #edtech

Universal Pre-K as Economic Stimulus: Evidence from Nine States and Large Cities in the U.S. www.nber.org/papers/w3376... "Notably, each dollar spent on UPK generated between 3 to over 20 dollars in aggregate earnings – enough that tax revenues might fully cover costs."

New dashboard explores some of the factors impacting students’ opportunities to learn and the disparities in opportunity to learn experienced by Black and white students in a given state. opportunitytolearn.info

🌟What if early educators were paid like K-12 teachers? New evidence from Washington, DC shows what would happen: more stability in the child care workforce, higher-quality caregiving, and greater mental health and financial well-being for early educators.🌟 #EduSkyECEC www.urban.org/research/pub...

Hey #edusky and #econsky - the Education Data Portal has been updated with IPEDS fall data collection, CCD, CRDC (through 20), and SAIPE through 2023. Have at it and know further updates to CRDC and IPEDS are forthcoming! educationdata.urban.org/documentatio...

Want to help save research using NCES restricted-use data? Here is a gdrive with actions, background, and context from my colleague sean reardon (sharing with permission): 1) actions 2) background 3) list of data files: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Objective, comprehensive, rigorous, timely, and useful: A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research. #EdResearch #EdPolicy livehandbook.org

Could not have been possible without my awesome cohort mates!

What kind of research was cancelled by Dept of Ed? Bread & butter work to improve kids' achievement & lives: 🚸Enhancing math & writing instruction 🚸Helping kids w disabilities transition after HS 🚸Reducing teacher shortages

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Knowing what works, for whom, and under what conditions is one of the most powerful tools I can imagine in public policy. Adding cost effectiveness analysis can improve efficiency while understanding context supports generalizability.

Education scholar friends: People don’t necessarily understand the value of education research in the same intuitive way they understand the value of research into cancer, etc. Drop examples of high-impact edu research in the thread below. #edusky apple.news/Atlzcr6jARYG...

Another great resource: the Segregation Tracking Project. We built off NCES data to create Longitudinal Imputed School Database. Race/eth and free lunch data for every school in the US 1991-2022. We impute erroneous/missing data but retain original CCD values. edopportunity.org/segregation/

🌟 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

Great coverage of new findings from our DC Pre-K study c/o @conorpwilliams.bsky.social! @anikaalam.bsky.social @justinbdoromal.bsky.social

Demographically adjusted 2024 NAEP scores, hot off the presses! www.urban.org/research/pub...

New evidence confirms what we know well: starting early is best for students, families, and education systems. Great new essay from @anikaalam.bsky.social and our DC PreK study team published by the Learning Curve @urbaninstitute.bsky.social. #edusky #edpolisky #eduskyecec

The latest Learning Curve essay looks at how DC's prek program for 3-year-olds mitigated school enrollment declines during the pandemic. Read more from @anikaalam.bsky.social @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social & colleagues: www.urban.org/research/pub...

Sometimes researchers are lucky enough to study solutions. Our work on DC's Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund is 2 years in the making and findings are clear. We know now what a big change it has brought to people's lives. It was long overdue. www.npr.org/2024/12/12/n...

"A key implication for researchers is to appreciate that methodological expertise alone is insufficient, and that practitioners’ and families’ experiences with the education system and knowledge of local contexts constitute valuable forms of knowledge" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I'm thrilled to see this site building a serious community of researchers, writers and policymakers focused on education policy and economics. Below are links to 3 Starter Packs I've made to help you connect with such folks. Please let me know if I've missed you. The volume of requests has been 😮

Hadn’t seen a women in education policy research starter pack yet. Please let me know if I missed you… still getting my bearings in the new place. go.bsky.app/PixwBrM

This is really important new evidence on early warning systems for absenteeism in action. Identifying students is a good first step but it still requires follow up resources and practices that adequately address their barriers to attendance! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Summer EBT programs are essential for child and family well-being. We can and must do more to combat food insecurity. "Nearly 10 million children won’t get summer food benefits as states opt out of new federal program."

Ready for some good #education news? Our new study finds CA's lawsuit-driven effort to bring the "Science of Reading" to its lowest-performing elementary schools is working (doi.org/10.26300/jnm...). @snovicoff.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/u...

100x performance improvement for the Callaway-Sant'Anna DiD estimator. Super impressive. github.com/TsaiLintung/... #EconSky

Excited to be at @appam.bsky.social 2023! I will be presenting work with Brooks Bowden on how to preemptively identify vulnerable students. Come say hi and check out our poster on Saturday!

Heading to the APPAM conference this week? Check out the events that Kathryn Edwards and I are leading for Women in Economics Community! Join this fun, supportive and helpful group! Information Meetup--Thursday 1:45-2:45pm HH w all the Communities--Friday 5:30-6:30pm

Great article. The authors use a critical lens to investigate the glitz & glamor of an education intervention. Love that the article cites @nber.bsky.social papers! #edpolisky

Hello, Bluesky! I am a 3rd year doctoral candidate at Penn GSE. I apply machine learning & causal inference methods to better understand policies, programs, and support that ⬆️ student achievement. I also engage in economic evaluation as an RA at Penn’s CBCSE.