A paper published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications had quickly become one of the most cited studies supporting the use of ChatGPT in education. It was retracted today via @nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... #edtech #GenAI #ailiteracy #aiready #aifluency #edpolicy #edresearch

1/ Important new investigative report from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social about "Maestro," advertised as "the AI University" on TikTok, that turns out to be a chatbot bolted onto a failing for-profit business school in order to illegally harvest Pell grants. www.newamerica.org/insights/the...

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

The Economic Cost of DHS Attacks on Immigrants @epi.org webinar with @chloeneast.bsky.social, me, and Erica Williams us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I very mildly helped (along with many others) this Brookings piece on Promise programs: www.brookings.edu/articles/get...

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

Our research center CADRE is hiring a Research Associate. Posting here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... Please don't hesitate to ask if you have questions, and share widely!

Our research center CADRE is hiring a Research Associate. Posting here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... Please don't hesitate to ask if you have questions, and share widely!

Random data question. In CO I have data with an ACT high school code. I want to link this to NCES to say something about the high school they attend. ACT won't give us a crosswalk. Anyone have access to something like this? Thoughts?

My response to the "Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences" report. It didn't have to be this way: betsyjwolf.substack.com/p/reimaginin...

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Random question: can anyone point me to recent high quality articles that show AI use can be detrimental to learning (on any dimension). I'm finding that googling is hard to find them, though I've seen them around.

2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide. This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...

Deadline approaching! Apply for a postdoc role studying the politics of education policy at Stanford GSE: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

This video shows ICE holding children hostage to bait parents out of their homes. Just unspeakable levels of cruelty and inhumanity.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

Not quite "minor" but when I was on Wheel of Fortune Vanna came backstage and said to the contestants (they film multiple a day) "I'm really rooting for you all to win a bunch of money" and I said sarcastically "Thanks! I hope you get paid well for what you do to" and she shot me a withering look.

"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!

I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

Happy to have @aefpweb.bsky.social @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social share key details from my chapter on grant aid from the AEFP Live Handbook. As these are intended to be "live" free free to share additions or disagreements as you see fit!

Deleted my post about Excel vs Sheets. As expected, it was some weird decimal rounding thing that was unobserved.

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!

📢 New postdoc opportunity at Annenberg! The Annenberg Institute is seeking a postdoctoral research associate for a 2‐year appointment to join a diverse community of scholars committed to educational equity and improvement! More info here: annenberg.brown.edu/opportunitie...

Have any NCES data users gotten a disclosure review approved for a paper/report since spring? I've been waiting for 6+ months 😞

Former EdSec @arneduncan.bsky.social is wrong. Govs likely won't be able to "ensur[e] that the students with the greatest needs are prioritized" by Trump's SGO/voucher program. wapo.st/3LkhIP7. Welner explains why: nepc.colorado.edu/publication/.... @joshcowenmi.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social

We wrote up a Brookings Post related to my recent paper with Ari Anisfeld, @drelizabethbell.bsky.social, and Dennis Kramer: www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")? Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event. Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Please share with your networks: The California Policy Lab is hiring a policy director to amplify our policy impact in Sacramento. We're looking for a seasoned policy professional with deep experience in California state government. First review date is Oct. 10th: capolicylab.org/careers/poli...

The White House has withdrawn its nomination of a woefully unqualified partisan hack — EJ Antoni — to be BLS Commissioner, and sometimes the system actually works. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

When will these people stop spamming my phone? ;) @joshcowenmi.bsky.social

My paper with Ari Anisfeld, @drelizabethbell.bsky.social, and Dennis Kramer now accepted in Econ of Ed here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

A little help: I want to know about what is affecting higher education changes that are NOT part of federal legislation (but could be federal actions). For instance: $100K H1s; cancelling research grants; firing ED dept staff; changes to PSLF qualifications; changes to undoc in-state tuition, etc.

A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America. Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7

How much could an H1 cost Michael? $100,000?

An international student left the country and came back in with no problems and I breathed a sigh of relief. Sad state of affairs.

Nothing new, but If I was writing this while this *stuff* was happening, I might have thought a little deeper.

I wrote about the significant technical problems with the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) survey component that ED wants to IPEDS. A couple quick points from the piece: 🧵 bit.ly/4mQRfX0

Anyone know of good estimates of the effect of BBB on college enrollment? Ideally by state? Thanks!

Reading the Project 2025 doc for the first time. I know irony is dead, but in the education section writing "Stopping executive overreach. Congress should set policy—not Presidents through pen-and-phone executive orders, and not agencies through regulations and guidance." is...

REQUEST: I will be on a CU panel about the feds and higher education - where are we going, etc. I have not followed the day to day "policy" re: feds. If you have anything that you've read that you think is good - incl. things that are not policy per se but about our context - plz share!

For 6 months, I’ve followed ELLIS, a Bronx HS for newcomers, to understand what it means to educate immigrant students in Trump’s second term. Proud to share the 1st of 2 stories about ELLIS, Bridget, an undocumented teen, & the fight to keep her education alive. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Look at how Trump's tariffs are affecting retail prices.

It’s time to purchase tickets for our two LA shows coming up Friday and Saturday. PRR is tiny, the Smell is big. www.thesmell.org/eventtickets... dice.fm/event/eoq99o...