So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

#EdResearch folks - early bird registration for the annual Association for Education Finance & Policy conference ends TODAY! Join us in Chicago for lots of great discussions about the research and policy. aefpweb.org/2026conference

Happy to have this descriptive piece with @camilantmorales.bsky.social, Kalena Cortes, @julia-turner.bsky.social, & @loismiller.bsky.social out! Look for more causal work on this topic from our team in the near future 👀

#QJE Feb 2026, #8, “Marginal Returns to Public Universities,” by Jack Mountjoy: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

Immigration policy is #EdPolicy 😞

📣 EPI is hiring a full-time Research Coordinator! We’re excited to announce an opening for a Research Coordinator to join our team! If you’re interested in contributing to meaningful research and working with a dedicated team, we’d love to hear from you. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Fabulous postdoc opportunity at Stanford to work on the politics of education with one of the best @bethschueler.bsky.social postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

Ok higher education students and adjacent people, what’s new to read?

CSHPE was a wonderful interdisciplinary home for me and would benefit from having this expertise! The community and opportunities to collaborate across education, public policy, and data science to study education are exceptional.

So much for teaching the Great Books of the Western Canon...

We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area. More info here: wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...

Contrary to fears of indoctrination www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

This !@#$% year in review: the wrecking ball that was February 2025 brought the abrupt end to many Institute of Education Sciences contracts for data collection, evaluation and research. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut... 🧵

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨ And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes! Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc... Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR) #NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

A short piece on the tragedy at Brown University—and why we must refuse to accept mass school shootings as normal. matthewakraft.substack.com/p/the-insani...

1/ On Bluesky I often see people say that arts and humanities programs are being slashed in higher ed for ideological reasons. Maybe that’s true. It’s plausible. But I haven’t seen any data or studies on program closures that would support or refute it. Please link to any evidence you know about.

Outside funding by conservatives in higher ed has mostly targeted law and economics because they view these two fields as the most influential on policy. And its worked pretty well. Half of federal judges went through programs with a conservative law and economic training, changing their views.

🚨New publication alert #econsky🚨 Thrilled to have “Suspended from Work and School? Impacts of layoff events and unemployment insurance on student disciplinary incidence” forthcoming at Labour Economics with @riacton.bsky.social and Austin Smith Paper thread incoming 🧵 tinyurl.com/susp-ws

Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez. The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work. And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!

The Department of Education shared data today on IHEs where, 4 years after earning a credential, graduates earned less than peers with only a high school diploma. What ED didn't shout out was just how many of those institutions are for-profits. So I got the data. jamessmurphy.com/2025/12/09/w...

Bumping this earlier post - we are still accepting applications at Vanderbilt for a tenure-track assistant professor in higher education! Review begins next week. Let me know if you have any questions about the position and/or our wonderful department! apply.interfolio.com/177753

In case you're wondering, the Chronicle of Higher Ed story about this doesn't mention that the GA is transgender until the 17th paragraph and everything up to that and after is a normal discussion of grading rubrics. www.chronicle.com/article/a-co... In other words, the Chronicle fell for the trap.

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline. I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled: "Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby — theonion.com/white-house-...

Strangling the world-beating export industry which cross-subsidizes higher education for Americans. The White House says that's good news!

Hi! I’m Mary and I’m on the #EconJobMarket this year. Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them. JMP 🧵:

Come join us at Annenberg! I cannot speak highly enough of the community and this postdoc as a place to develop as a researcher.

ChatGPT has fallen millions of students must learn

"information about potentially adverse effects of unstructured AI use negatively shifts beliefs about the merits of AI, but does not change demand...highlights social pressure driving individual technology adoption despite widespread support for restricting its use." www.nber.org/papers/w34488

I'm committed to fully enjoying my weekend but lord I am excited to read this when I have time arxiv.org/abs/2511.044...

Attending #APPAM2025? I’m excited to present the first paper from an emerging project documenting the Trump administration’s unlawful erasure of data, information, and resources across federal agencies. Hope to see you on Saturday morning! 👋

Hi #APPAM2025 #2025APPAM folks - live today, our department at Vanderbilt is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor higher education scholar this cycle! Find the posting here: apply.interfolio.com/177753 Let me know if you're in Seattle and want to chat at all about the position/department.

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week. As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).

Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy. These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure). And now onto the scholars... 👇

Come check out our panel this Friday!! Very excited to share some new work at #APPAM2025

Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

Hot damn yall look at this abstract

🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨 For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse! www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Our new working paper is out and free to access! The paper is about all of the the human collaboration that is working "behind the scenes" of a technology-based student-support intervention.

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

The @aefpweb.bsky.social LGBTQ+ Community Group is looking for folks interested in participating in our annual mentoring program! If you're a PhD student or looking for your first job, you can sign up here: bit.ly/AEFPMentee.