Fun read showing how aggregate test scores leave gains on the table for decision makers. Do Test Scores Misrepresent Test Results? An Item-by-Item Analysis www.nber.org/papers/w34484

Desperate housewives and Jane the Virgin are on the same wavelength

Most annoying part of a broken finger is when the splint gets wet 🤢🤢

Fresh off the presses today, new research on attendance from me and @npardo.bsky.social. We look at attendance by student group in NC and VA pre- and post-COVID, studying which groups saw the sharpest increases in absenteeism. We reach a few conclusions: www.aei.org/research-pro...

Food delivery robot fail

I proposed in my fourth grade notebook that recess should be shortened for more time for learning My first policy proposal

My husband informed me I was shouting about “statistics” in my sleep earlier this week Not quite sure what to make of this development

I want a methods rosetta stone

Something about JSTOR having ai based on its catalog feels icky

AERA proposal submitted straight to a table in Vegas

FYI: I've updated my list of Useful Data Resources, primarily with a bunch of (20-ish?) new links to state-specific public school datasets and data repositories. go.illinois.edu/UsefulDataRe... Suggestions/corrections are always welcome.

Death, taxes, and...

The CCD data is moving to the IES website…. Interesting

Check out my team’s new working paper - we have some interesting findings on pandemic and post-pandemic academic achievement

Got screamed at by a man on an e-bike for *checks notes* Walking on the sidewalk

The complete dismantling of national data systems has already, and will continue to, compromise what we can know and do about education Suddenly sacked hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

A photo from my wedding last month to celebrate 10 years of same sex marriage across the US

I enjoyed tom Clancys division (and to some degree the second) but ghost recon is fantastic

If you drive a minivan and park in a compact spot you should get towed. Or keyed

The current wave of federal immigration raids began in January with a “rogue” operation in California’s Central Valley. My new study finds these raids increased school absences by 22%—a leading indicator of the resulting family stress & lost learning opportunities👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

longevity runs on both sides of my family. My great aunt was 103. My great grandmother 99. Almost all the other old ladies have made it to the 90s. The men on the other hand drop in their 60s. I hope that’s all the liquor and cigars and not some sort of feeble man gene

Finally tried an olipop. The cherry cola is expensive and gross

Mexican sushi truck spotted This is a crime against sushi for the simple act of coming from a truck

Chronic Absenteeism’s Post-COVID ‘New Normal’: Research Shows It Is More Common, More Extreme www.the74million.org/article/chro...

Even a broken clock is right twice a day www.brookings.edu/articles/let...

If you're in DC, join me and an all-star team of researchers on May 30 to hear fresh new research on the patterns, causes, and consequences of the student absenteeism crisis @aeieducation.bsky.social www.aei.org/events/addre...

🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired. In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.” High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

*Sigh* unsurprisingly the threat of hardline immigration enforcement that can go into schools deters attendance

I really, REALLY, hate pigeons. They are my least favorite city trait. Their wings flapping, how close they get. 0/10

Today's Something Censored - A 20 page report from the Obama administration's Dept of Labor on LGBTQI+ equity at work. It outlined progress made towards equality for LGBTQI+ families, trans employees, and more. It shared relevant court cases and quotes from key leaders like President Obama.

“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.”

They shouldn’t be able to send you a bill months after a doctors appt

Returning from AERA feels like a hard reboot

Burbank is much more hassle-free than LAX

Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The idea that Harvard should have asked if they meant to send the letter is laughable. As is the idea that the letter was an oopsie www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

Drag race is on at my gym today, very LA

Follow-up questions are very important. My brother said he got jumped at school. What he /meant/ was someone jumped on him He doesn’t realize there is a meaningful distinction

What my computer sees when I run a do file for the 100th time

Me and messy data have an ongoing one-sided feud

That's been my angle with them as well, comparing returns to either increasing funding by billions with 70% going to kids already in private schools (and the rest going toward tanking outcomes for switchers), versus the known return on putting same $$ into high poverty public districts.

Damn

DDMF

I'm hoping mandated double-sided conference tags with your name on both sides gets into the reconciliation bill.

Got an (admittedly fairly convincing) April fools email declaring Rick Caruso the new USC president

A completely nonsensical rug pulling. When you grant an extension plans are adjusted and district rely on this for budgeting. Slow spending to churn through ESSER doesn’t mean it’s bad spending, and frankly it’s hard to ramp up spending for one-time increases

My cable is in use once again

They instituted a new requirement then got rid of all the staff overseeing the requirement to get reimbursed (for things the states already purchased!!)