I enjoyed joining @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social to discuss the new mythologies of higher education. Net tuition is not soaring, the value of a degree is not plummeting and neither is four-year college enrollment. educationgadflyshow.substack.com/p/is-the-col...

It’s a good day for Valley Winter Song from @fountainsofwayne.bsky.social

Headed to #2025APPAM ? Come see our @bostoncollege.bsky.social colleagues doing policy research present their findings!! Including outstanding job market candidate @yerinyoon.bsky.social

🚨There is a lot of policy movement to expand career & technical Ed but little evidence of what to expect from such expansion. Our WP provides evidence from MA on take up & ➕impacts in the first 5 yrs after HS. #cte

What Makes Some CTE Programs Great While Others Fall Short? by Hannah Kistler, @doughesm.bsky.social & @annenberginstitute.bsky.social's Christina Claiborne www.the74million.org/article/what...

What makes a Career & Technical Education program more than a set of electives? New research synthesizes decades of studies to highlight what works—and what doesn’t—in CTE → buff.ly/luCPS7F

📢New working paper (a chapter from my dissertation), co-authored with @doughesm.bsky.social, is now posted at the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston! Does Expanding Access to High Quality Technical Education Induce Participation and Improve Outcomes? (1/n) www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

Looking at job postings helps define the counterfactual. I might be on my own, but I find this exercise helpful.

New publication showing how high school #CTE can help smooth the transition to the workforce for students with #Disability - Joint w/ @UConn colleagues & @CTTechHS doi.org/10.3102/0013... Excited to see this in print!

🚨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...

Ever closer to being a *former* Cowboys fan Sources: Cowboys are trading three-time All-Pro LB Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers. .

This isn't news to those in ed research, but is a critical reminder for policy and community folks whose academic pedigrees make them inclined towards one, non-representative view of college education: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

Today marks the start of my 13th year as a faculty member, and 17 years since choosing to leave my job as a K12 educator so that I could gain the skills to research the impact of policy and practice on outcomes. Grateful for for all of this.

I need to learn the 'hot keys' for exiting zoom and teams meetings. My cursor response time leaves me awkwardly lingering too often

“scandalous uninterest in the appearance of things isnt the price anyone should pay for policy achievements.The price our kids will pay is a degraded, embarrassing …oligarchic govt. It’ll be hard for them to be idealistic & brave w that around their necks” www.wsj.com/opinion/brok...

when the dual-factor authenticator asks if I am enjoying the app, why isn't there a third response option, "Necessary Evil"?

In a sea of bad takes & talking heads dunking on those out of power this is a great piece - as a graduate of a flagship and an elite uni, not really surprising, but it's solid work: www.educationnext.org/the-surprisi...

I appreciate this op-ed is staking out a position that honors a broader range of work than only occupations that require a college degree. It shouldn't be necessary, but it has been long in coming. However, we all suffer if we pretend to live in an either-or world. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...

From high school to the middle class - Not even out of high school yet, these shop students are already landing job offers in skilled trades that pay $70,000 a year www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

From high school to the middle class - Not even out of high school yet, these shop students are already landing job offers in skilled trades that pay $70,000 a year

📘The Handbook on Inequality and COVID-19 is just out! Excited to share that @doughesm.bsky.social, Hannah C. Kistler, and I contributed a chapter titled “Changes in Public School Enrollment: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” You can read the chapter here: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

If you have research dependent on these data here is my suggestion 1/N Big picture: Create a dataset of cell means (cells must be big enough to pass disclosure) - load these cell means into many, many tables & put through review -These cell means can then be used in OLS - which runs on means

Excited for #AEFP2025 starting Thursday! Our BC group will present papers on Catholic Ed and Career & Technical Education, plus @doughesm.bsky.social 's two special sessions. If you're interested in these topics, see you there! I'll be presenting on the impact of HS CTE expansion Friday morning.

At the close of CTE month, and amidst relative chaos in education, a reminder of shared values and how education connects to economic opportunity: Great reporting from ⁦‪@WSJ‬⁩ The Schools Reviving Shop Class Offer a Hedge Against the AI Future

The wealthiest have a responsibility to use their vast resources to do good and reduce suffering. This applies equally to individuals and nations. Religious or secular, this is broadly held as a value

Sport offers a chance for leadership and to build community

My feed is chock full of Philadelphia Eagles 🦅 coverage. Appreciate the excellence, joy, and passion exhibited by athletes and artists these last two Sundays. Kendrick and Jalen principle among them.

co-authors be advised: Other people can employ the word "utilize" in their writing, but I will not.

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.

Research helps us know what does (and does not) work. When done well, this applies across disciplines. In all fields, the private sector under-invests, and those market failures cost lives, learning, and economic output

What recent NAEP scores say about MA (from my friend and former colleague Marty West): "Massachusetts schools may be #1 for some students but not for all of them. Students’ skills are falling and growing more unequal. This has been true for more than a decade." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/10/o...

New evidence that IDR plans can improve human capital investments & that when administered by the Federal government can counteract expected moral hazard that private lenders could not avoid. www.nber.org/papers/w3341...

My favorite part of the dissertation process is when people who have nearly completed their doctoral training and prepared original research have to then spend 2 weeks figuring out how to meet the intricacies of the internal formatting guidelines. I'm sure there is a committee to fix that

Yesterday, there was irony in my email. Today, the chill meets that nip of the air outside:

A little levity: there is a certain hilarity to being notified by email that email is down

JM as MJ on #grammys was just right!

PSA: The easy part of the editorial process is getting good content, and finding referees. The hard part, getting massive, profitable publishing companies to give you 30 uninterrupted minutes to help get that work in print. It's a fragmented, off-shored, zero-accountability mess.

Observation: It's hard to promote AI as a tool that is central to the current and future workforce while simultaneously blocking use of these tools.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE for our special issue of JREE focused on using longitudinal data to address questions related to disability & education. Please submit or reach out before February 1: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Great Media Fellowship for journalists interested in higher ed and career-connected technical education in postsec: citizensandscholars.org/fellowships/...

Important report with some legendary histograms

What an honor and what good company to keep!

If we care about evidence being used in policy and practice, we should think about what questions policymakers and practitioners have. Some thoughts on how to get started in Democratizing the Development of Evidence journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

If you haven’t yet met @yerinyoon.bsky.social of the Boston College Lynch School you soon will. She just exemplified poise and sophistication of methods and presentation in only her 3rd year of doctoral study. Thanks to #2024appam and #sea2024 for these opportunities for her to showcase our work!

3 days left to apply! We are looking for an Assistant/Associate Professor in #HigherEducation at Florida State. @perezfelkner.bsky.social is chairing the search, and I’m also tagging our other Higher Ed faculty on Bluesky. ☺️ @cameroncarl.bsky.social @semcguinness.bsky.social #faculty #EduSky

Heading to #2024APPAM! Thursday morning, I’ll present two papers with @doughesm.bsky.social. If you’re interested in School Choice or Career & Technical Education, don’t miss these panels! Plus, as a 2024 Student Ambassador, I’ll co-lead an ignite chat on Building and Maintaining Networks. Join us!

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

I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ

The view from my perch

My grandfathers both served in WWII, my uncle in Vietnam, many of my former high school students, and my brother in law have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, and every day I’m grateful for their service and sacrifice.