I need a very long nap Or bath Or both

Popular discourse attributes falling college enrollments to the rising cost of four-year college. That story is wrong in multiple ways, as @mattbarnum.bsky.social points out in his latest roundup of the evidence (citing a new working paper of ours): www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...

New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...

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

Yay I can go to bed early 🥰

I’m copying this next year!

Our Halloween offerings this year.

Private nonprofits cannot replace federal food assistance, which is scheduled to run out this Saturday. But they can help soften the blow. I started a “virtual food drive” for City Harvest. Consider donating to this or another organization in your community. secure.cityharvest.org/site/TR/VFD/...

A few scenes from Times Square protest march today.

A new NBER working paper by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues shows that about two-thirds of the unexplained gap in post-college earnings by family income may be due to challenges in finding that first job. Family connections and resources matter.

🧵 New working paper! In joint work w/ @jscottclayton.bsky.social, Veronica Minaya, & Joshua Thomas, we use admin data from a large public univ system to examine earnings gaps for high- vs low-SES college grads 5 years out & the role of first jobs in explaining the gaps. 1/ www.nber.org/papers/w34366

This is the lesson of 2025

📢 New #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series summary features “The Net Benefits of Raising Bachelor’s Degree Completion Through The City University of New York ACE Program” by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues! 📄 edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract... #EdExchange

@jscottclayton.bsky.social quoted in this AZ Republic article on community-college loan repayment issues

Such a great resource w/ info related to early childhood, K-12, & higher ed....along w/ misc. cross-cutting topics like mine on research use. #education #edresearch #edpolicy #researchevidence @aefpweb.bsky.social @dbassok.bsky.social @carajackson.bsky.social. Check it out and share with others👇

This is at once the very most HOPEFUL (it has solidarity, insight, faith in learning) and the most DEVASTATING (look at what Trump has messed up for zero reason and largely by accident as he targeted elite unis) thing you can read about higher ed right now.

Referees make the journal system work. They are selfless in volunteering their time to ensure that our science continues to progress. All of the great referees out there please know that editors recognize your hard work and tireless effort. We do not always say it, but we do! Thank you.

Since NYT spends 99% of the time talking about elite colleges, its worth highlighting when they put out a great piece on community colleges. CCs are already under resourced, and the trump cuts to higher ed will limit opportunities for social mobility thru these institutions

Hassett went on TV and claimed you can’t trust the economic data anymore because all the recent revisions are partisan. A bald-faced lie. Every serious economist still in this administration should resign. They are actively underminding the US economy by lending their credibility to this horse****

A lot of stuff is crappy but it is an absolutely gorgeous day for summer street closures in NYC. Can’t wait to get outside!

I was a colleague of Erika's at CEA and can't think of a smarter, more honest person to run BLS. Which is why the president fired her. Fed govt data is going to be a lot harder to trust going forward.

Excited to announce the call for papers for the inaugural MidSouth Education Policy Workshop, October 16-17, in Lexington, KY! Send us your abstracts on all things econ of ed & ed policy by 8/27. Grad students & early career folks especially welcome! Info & link to submit here: bit.ly/44TdiGf

Grateful for colleagues speaking up. I have so many questions, but mostly frustration and sadness. And shame.

We each find our way through these times As an academic, I am doing this: Uplift those whose research you admire. Diversify the academy. Many ways to do this: -Nominate for awards (did 2 yesterday) -If you are in an academy, nominate to it (did 3 this month) -cite them in a paper and/or talk

I had the good fortune to attend the Late Show taping live just the day before the cancellation was announced. Colbert did an extended piece on Epstein and I was thinking this exactly - “as long as comedians can still do this, we’ve got a chance!”

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

Financial aid wonks: do you understand the effects of the new “no Pell if SAI>=2x max Pell” provision? Is this purely preventing min Pell awards for some students with quirky situations? Or is it *requiring a full SAI calc for students who otherwise would automatically qualify for max Pell?* 1/

Excellent story peeling back the curtain on some of the senseless destruction that has already happened at US Dept of Ed. More now surely to come.

Topically, OSHA is currently holding hearings about a proposed workplace heat exposure rule (www.osha.gov/heat-exposur...). Final rule will be out too late to protect people this summer, but weeks like this would be safer with a Federal backstop in the 43 states that don’t have their own standards.

On this very hot day, it’s important for people to know about this research from @ajsw.info and others

Yup: “…[T]he harassment allegations were not some side sin, but in line with everything else that had always been troubling and corroded about Cuomo’s leadership.”

I love ranked choice voting

Each year, the bill would kick off 1 in 3 parents who work 80+ hours per month in the most common low-wage jobs *even if they manage to fill out the paperwork*, our new research with w/Olivia Howard @hamiltonproject.org finds: www.brookings.edu/articles/wor... 2/n

International students on America's campuses are some of the world's brightest, most motivated, and most extraordinary people on earth.* They are one of the things that "makes America great" - they represent what makes America a singular and remarkable place. *Except me, I got in by mistake

Join a webinar tomorrow to preview new research on CUNY ASAP|ACE! I will present on joint work with colleagues at CU’s Center on Poverty & Social Policy to estimate the long-term net benefits of CUNY’s ACE program (the 4-year adaptation of CUNY ASAP). events.cuny.edu/cec/labor-ma...

Skies of NYC putting on a show this evening.

Lots of useful tips in this thread!

From Pope Francis’ Easter address: “On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas! For all of us are children of God!” 1/

the way I’ve been thinking about it is: if noncitizens face real danger for saying what they think, then it is the responsibility of citizens, who don’t yet face that same danger, to be even louder

This has been my concern for a couple of months. I'm really worried about the disbursement process come August.

The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all. 5/

I wrote about my dad, our government, and how we need each other to stay alive. Whether Trump, Musk, and the gang think so or not.

Social Qs is my favorite part of the Sunday NYT: “I think the way I can be most helpful here is by offering a different perspective on your behavior that hasn’t dawned on you yet….” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/s...

One thing life gave me is resilience. Resilience is, far and away, the single greatest factor to anything good that I have in my life. Someone recently asked me what I want for the kids in my life. It’s this. Resilience. Because life ain’t fair & you gotta live it anyway.

How federal investments in education research help students succeed www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

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My column on my illegal firing in a hometown Ohio newspaper: “As a check on the executive branch’s overreach, Congress should block the administration’s lawless destruction of the Education Department.” www.cantonrep.com/story/opinio...

Yes!! Some good news for NYC

Every day is a great day to celebrate the diversity of humanity! 🖤🩶🤍💜 And it’s never too late to learn about aro-ace. theechohsmse.com/2107/arts-an...

The NYC protest was both massive and intimate. Old and young. Sophisticated and crass. Angry and joyful. Signs were high art, quilted, scribbled, streaked with rain. Here are just a few.