And I missed Zac Deibel (weird alphabetization process), who is doing a fascinating project on education during the American Revolution! naeducation.org/current-naed... #edpolicy #histed #history #education

"Why doesn't the US have national health insurance?" Fascinating new paper from Alsan and Neberai out in QJE @qjeharvard.bsky.social finds: rise of private health insurance in the US was enabled by 'strategic, interest group-financed effort to shape citizen views and influence policy' #EconSky

Reposting for no particular reason... ok, there is a reason.

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

And so many good people to do it with! ❤️ #SDPConvening

What steps can states take to reduce racial disproportionality in special education identification, placement and discipline, even as the federal government stops looking? Check out our fact sheet for state and district practices that work:

The Educational Opportunity Project now has updated data for school years 2022-2025. It’s a powerful illustration of why it’s important to look at growth, and not just achievement, to understand how schools are doing. edopportunity.org/trends/explo...

I've got a new report out about school district finances in California. It's part of the massive Getting Down to Facts III project out of the SCALE Initiative at Stanford University, and an update of my similar report in 2018. gettingdowntofacts.com/reports/dist...

Excited to be in a room full of data nerds just when this is released #SDP2026

A little snark to kick off Wednesday.

Oddly enough, this site will mainly be attractive to the folks who were wearing "I don't co-parent with the government" t-shirts a couple years ago.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

Very thoughtful coverage of our work on family income and disability identification in K-12 schools by Kevin Mahnken in @the74.bsky.social. Thanks for taking the time to chat with us. Check out the piece below! www.the74million.org/article/weal...

Well said, @bakerdphd.bsky.social. This is a great piece on the troubles with transparency in college admissions. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Out: East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry In: Harvard-Stanford nerd herd gatherings in spring #EdResearch #EdPolicy

📢 Calling all students still on the market for this fall. 🚨 Post-doc opportunity working on how to adapt interventions to different cultures, with Catherine Thomas at the University of Michigan. Due June 15: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... @iaccp.bsky.social @umich.edu @spspnews.bsky.social

Not to disrupt your post-Mother's Day glow, but kids? They are so damn expensive nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...

New @nberpubsb "Breaking the Early Bell: Lessons from the First Statewide Mandate on School Start Times" www.nber.org/papers/w3518... Fascinating results:

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

How did the US become a land of opportunity? The country's pioneering role in mass education was key to its rise in intergenerational mobility, from Lukas Althoff, Harriet M. Brookes Gray, and Hugo Reichardt www.nber.org/papers/w35152

This is Oliver. He might not be particularly enthusiastic about his birthday. But he will participate in the festivities. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: la_cabrita_kelly)

He's trying to upsell the war. All the guy has to do is stop shit posting on Truth Social, but he has too much pride so he's going to blow up the deficit and get people killed instead.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

I grew up in NYC in what used to be called a two-fare zone before the gold metrocard made that obsolete. Buses were my lifeline. A few years ago I wrote about how buses can be better and how we need to destigmatize them if we want people to ride transit.

AI industry giants owe their existence to taxpayer-funded, open research, but many have abandoned this collaborative model. I spoke to The Atlantic about how US science and tech leadership was built on shared knowledge. When companies hoard research, innovation suffers and accountability declines.

M, cynically: "David Brooks is going to defend what happened in Virginia." David Brooks: "This is how democracy ends." 😳

SBMs indicated a # of political challenges related to bread-and-butter issues in local ed governance (enrollment, fiscal strain, labor relations, interpersonal conflicts), and uncertainty re: recent federal policy shifts. Culture war issues were NOT a dominant source of tension in most communities.

We are glad to share a new report just released on the experiences of school board members in the diverse California context live-gdtf3.pantheonsite.io/reports/loca.... It's part of the "Getting Down to Facts III" initiative on the state of the state of CA's ed systems. live-gdtf3.pantheonsite.io

One of my colleagues said today "kids' time is not renewable" and this is something we should be paying a lot of attention to in #EdResearch #EdPolicy spaces.

Heads they win, tails you lose.

“The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself.” 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/federal...

Summary of public comments on the administration's proposed priorities for the Comprehensive Centers. Whatever org holds the National Center will have a lot of control over federal technical assistance related to ESEA. #EdPolicy www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

"Due to a reported global cybersecurity concern involving Canvas, and impacting numerous school systems, universities, corporations in Maryland, other states, and worldwide, thus access to myMCPS Classroom has been disabled."

Trump is DEFUNDING EDUCATION. (I have been saying that Dems need to say this over and over)

“Why Integrity > Fidelity in Research Implementation.” This School Perceptions Podcast features @carajackson.bsky.social discussing lessons from two decades of work in evidence in education. Includes a discussion on high-dosage tutoring implementation. www.schoolperceptions.com/Podcast.php

If you think administrative bloat or similar concerns is the cause of higher education’s financal woes, you should read this essay by @robertkelchen.com. Its among the most important essays on higner ed written in recent years www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

A bluejay for Bluesky. And my ducks are back!

New: Trump's OMB is withholding more than $2 billion Congress approved in February for K-12 and higher education. Advocates and experts weigh in on what this means and whether it's time to panic: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

This accurately describes most of the economists I know. Is that because they're all micro? Labor economists interested in education? I don't know, but they do thoughtful work.

@deldeib.bsky.social "spoke with 5 of those families, but none of them wanted to be identified publicly. The obituaries, social media posts and GoFundMe pages capture the utter despair... though none of them reckon with the decision not to get the vitamin K shot." www.propublica.org/article/more...

"In fiscal year 2025, the federal government committed about $793 billion on contracts, a $17.8 billion increase from fiscal year 2024 after adjusting for inflation." www.gao.gov/blog/snapsho...

@carajackson.bsky.social beat me to it! Really enjoyed getting her thoughts on how to make education research work in actual classrooms! Was def thinking about @jessicacalarco.com's reflections on research flexibility while I was editing this, too.

A functioning U.S. Education Department is crucial to protecting the rights of students with disabilities under IDEA. Read our fact sheet for more on how USED oversight supports students through monitoring, evaluation, and research:

"Michigan is not a finishing school" 👏👏👏 #GoBlue

If only we had evidence on the effects of abortion bans of migration for policymakers to consider… Oh wait, we do! www.nber.org/papers/w33328