The University of Tennessee System authorized a $1.9 million settlement with a faculty member who was fired following comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder.

Unintended Consequences of Teacher Autonomy and Principal Leadership: Evidence from Teacher–Parent Communication and Teacher Well-Being journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... "These findings challenge the assumption that autonomy and leadership function as protective resources."

I'm mangling Maya Angelou a bit here, but when someone tells you they are a disingenuous hack, believe them! Literally anything I do today other than reading that thing will be more valuable to society.

I bought all the ice cream, sorry. But seriously, check out the tips here. TIL I learned about the limitations of fans. www.who.int/news-room/fa...

As a labor economist, I sometimes wonder if we focus too much on AI's potential to disrupt the labor market and too little on its potential to disrupt human capital acquisition

We have solutions!! Just need political will.

The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, and the Illusion of Learning arxiv.org/abs/2606.26181 "an unguarded AI helper left students about 17% worse on an unaided exam, while the same model rebuilt to withhold answers erased the harm, and a well-engineered tutor roughly doubled learning" #AIEd

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

As I write here, it's totally incoherent to immunize the president from prosecution on the theory that he can be held accountable through the political process — and then to suppress the information that might allow Congress and the public to actually hold him accountable.

This report is just so discouraging; Of the 72 FSA offices impacted by the RIF, 55 have 50 percent or fewer of their employees remaining and 32 offices have no employees remaining. FSA administers Pell Grants, Work Study Programs, FAFSA, & Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants

Quantitative Methodologists out there… we are hiring at the Assistant Professor level! Please consider joining our community! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

This looks like a good job - Museum of the City of New York is looking for a Director of Education. Hybrid position - $100,000 www.nyfa.org/jobs/job-inf... - Apply by 7/16

"We were unaware that an image of the Confederate flag was included in a video as part of this exhibit. We have withdrawn our participation. Our company stands on values of human dignity, opportunity, and freedom,” Mt. Olive Pickle Company wrote. #BlackskyNews #America250 www.aol.com/news/confede...

As a contrast/antidote to the Great American State Fair, I recommend the American Aspirations exhibit at the Smithsonian Castle, just steps away. It's a thoughtful, professionally curated exhibit that explores strivings towards American ideals: freedom, hope, democracy, fairness, and liberty.

"One or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies that are actively working with the federal government on critical mining deals" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

"raising children while simultaneously leading a public office is difficult, but there are many people who can help,” she said. “I hope they’ll raise their hands and offer that help.” If they're not going to offer help, STFU is also an option. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

🗣️ Published today in @aeajournals.bsky.social. Ethan Lewis and I use a visa lottery, as a nationwide randomized experiment, to test the effects of foreign labor on US firms and workers. doi.org/10.1257/app.... A concise summary from @nber.org —> www.nber.org/digest/20221...

From the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Education, a concise summary of the devastation: the Institute of Education lost at least 84% of its employees. Research in progress or nearly complete is just *poof* gone, a complete waste of Congress's investment. oig.ed.gov/sites/defaul...

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

One of the things I'm curious about is how to interpret findings when teacher practice changes but not student outcomes. Is professional learning focused on the wrong practices? Is the change not big enough to make a difference? Not targeted enough in terms of who engages?

The Imperial March is free speech 🎉 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

NC researchers discuss the potential of micro-credentialing for educators www.ednc.org/researchers-...

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Happy to share that my paper with @andrewmcamp.com and @jbmcgee.bsky.social “Untapped Potential? Understanding the Paraeducator-to-Teacher Pipeline and Its Potential for Diversifying the Teacher Workforce" is available at the American Education Research Journal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

11 years ago tonight, Obama illuminated the White House with the colors of the Pride flag after the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land.

Apparently I missed Cat World Domination Day, but that's every day in our home.

Ah look it's Friday late afternoon and the markets have closed.

I recommend starting with The Ten: Most bizarre verses in the Bible – Adventist Record record.adventistchurch.com/2020/08/30/t...

Fun! britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

AI tools are evolving rapidly, and schools are adopting them faster than researchers can evaluate them. In a new chapter, Cristina Barnard, Lily Fesler, and Susanna Loeb examine what we know about AI's role in K–12 schools and its effects. Learn more: livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...

if you haven’t commented on the OMB proposal to radically change how the US identifies, funds, & advances scientific research, please do if you have, thank you — please encourage the people in your life to weigh in our individual & collective knowledge, health, prosperity, & security are at stake

A 3-year-old giraffe has been missing for nearly two weeks in Texas

Grappling with this is a key challenge for #EdPolicy. On the one hand, we should be celebrating growth - it's likely a sign that *something* is working. On the other hand, it's reasonable to express concern about low levels of proficiency. What to keep, and what to change?

I've also viewed the NCLB-era enthusiasm with skepticism, but it's probably worth thinking about 1) what it was trying to accomplish and 2) what did we learn along the way? I have some thoughts, but would love to hear what others think. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

Disabled students in this country are about to get bounced between three different federal agencies just to get the education they’re legally entitled to.

I'm a proud co-author of this new report, "AI Policy in Virginia Public Schools: A Comparative Analysis" merc.soe.vcu.edu/reports/repo...

"We find that credit recovery assessments as executed lack rigor and validity, and that answers to most assessment items are readily available across multiple websites or platforms." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"Nine research sessions disappeared from the agenda of one of the nation’s most important early childhood education conferences less than a week before it was set to begin after an unprecedented intervention by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the conference sponsor."

The authors frame their findings more positively than I do. The concerns with the meta-analyses, and the individual study concerns the authors surfaced, make me hesitant to infer anything about the effects of project-based learning on achievement. doi.org/10.1016/j.ed...

When we invest in systems that give people choices (eg, market capitalism) but not systems that teach people critical thinking (eg, education), we end up with too many of the former and not enough of the latter.

I pitched the idea of extending our son's 5th grade science project by testing the water in the Reflecting Pool, but M won't do it without a hazmat suit.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads and moms trying to do it all, and the workplaces that are trying to help. How Remote Work Has Helped a Generation of Working Parents www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...

😂 happy father's day to all the awesome dads out there.

Considering a model of automation embedded in a political environment where workers can undertake a revolt, and greater inequality between capital and labor increases the likelihood of a revolt, from Daron Acemoglu, A. Arda Gitmez, and Mehdi Shadmehr www.nber.org/papers/w35336

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The mom and dad standing just outside remind me of parents supervising little kids on Halloween. "Just take one! Don't forget to say thank you."

Working on a long term project to answer just how much money was spent on anti-trans political ads between 2018-2025. The numbers on Meta are pretty staggering. Matt Walsh alone spent over $8 million on anti-trans ads followed by $3.5 million by the Daily Wire and $2.6 million by PragerU.

I have a whole speech I give on how it's definitely quasi-experimental, if and only if, you've perfectly deciphered and modeled the selection mechanism. Given the likelihood of that...