The Relationship Between Student Attendance and Achievement, Pre- and Post-COVID journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We invest 9X less per child-year in care & education in the first 5 years of life than the next 13. This gap in public investment is why K12 is free for parents & early care & education is expensive. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

🚨Interested in a PhD focusing on quant methods and education & social policy? I'm recruiting this year at @bclynchschool in the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment program www.bc.edu/bc-web/schoo...

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: How can we measure student behavior at scale? @tiffanyxwu.bsky.social, @weilanch.bsky.social, @mattadiemer.bsky.social, Rebecca Unterman, @annakshapiro.bsky.social, & Thomas Staines use PCA and factor analysis to build behavior composites from admin data. 📄 bit.ly/4ofre5b

🔥What’s the only thing hotter than this week’s weather?🔥 Our new @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social working paper: “School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic” In it, BU Wheelock PhD @abbyfrancis.bsky.social and I ask: Has the pandemic permanently changed families' schooling choices?

If we're heading into summer that means academic job market season is looming. As a reminder, my collected tips are here (along with my standing offer to set up time to chat with folks): www.paul-bruno.com/2021/07/tips...

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

🤔 What kind of Pre-K experience sets students up for long-term success? Our new working paper offers important new evidence to help answer this question! 🔗 edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai25-1194.pdf And 🧵👇

🚀 Launching the EdWorkingPapers Policy & Practice Series! Too much good research never reaches the people making real decisions. Our new series changes that. Each 2-pager highlights key findings from #EdWorkingPapers, made for busy leaders and policymakers. 📄 Read the first three: bit.ly/3Z1Kok2

Using data from Michigan, we find that third grade retention for struggling readers may be a much less important component of the benefits of literacy reforms than previously understood. (Thx, @annenberginstitute.bsky.social, for the dissemination bump!)

Wow! Each $1 spent on Universal Pre-Kindergarten generates between $3-$20 dollars in aggregate earnings. That's enough to offset the costs of Universal Pre-Kindergarten through higher tax revenues.

Thing I just learned in #rstats: unz() lets you connect to a .zip and load files from inside it without actually unzipping it (great for a file I'm working with that's 30 MB zipped and 1+ GB unzipped, with multiple CSVs in it)

I hope it is not lost, in all of the chaos at the federal level, that there are many longstanding, discretionary programs that are on the Administration's chopping block, either directly or through the erosion of agency staff, expertise, and capacity. Programs enacted and reauthorized through...

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

If you have research dependent on these data here is my suggestion 1/N Big picture: Create a dataset of cell means (cells must be big enough to pass disclosure) - load these cell means into many, many tables & put through review -These cell means can then be used in OLS - which runs on means

Objective, comprehensive, rigorous, timely, and useful: A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research. #EdResearch #EdPolicy livehandbook.org

New preprint! A general overview of stats in public policy research with this (oversimplified but still helpful) separation of methods into description, explanation, and prediction #policysky HTML/PDF: stats.andrewheiss.com/snoopy-spring/ SocArXiv: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

this from a representative at American Institutes for Research about DOGE/Trump cancelling IES contracts is spot on (& good on them for speaking out clearly about this)

🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟 #EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer

a bit more #Severance data please enjoy all analyses equally 👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr-website/ and for my #rstats friends: 👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr/

"Data is carved out of the world, by someone, for some purpose, with some limits."

If you/ your students are interviewing for PhD psych programs in US (especially social psych), check out the resource page on my website. There are guides prepped by grad students + questions to ask faculty etc. Good luck! www.pbandjlab.com/resources

Meet gander, a chat interface for R data scientists🪿 gander automatically incorporates context from your #rstats environment and surrounding code and can be used with any model supported by ellmer in either RStudio or Positron. Read more: simonpcouch.github.io/gander/

New paper 'mapping' the settings, students, and outcomes in the What Works Clearinghouse evidence base. 🧵https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19345747.2024.2427762

@tiffanyxwu.bsky.social, a former public high school teacher in the South Side of Chicago, is using the Sarri Family Fellowship to advance research for educational equity. Learn more about this work and fellowship now open for applications: https://buff.ly/4247VTt

Indeed! We found Detroit’s citywide asthma rate was > other major cities, which helps explain its high absenteeism rate; and asthma rates are strongly correlated with other citywide measures of inequality like poverty, segregation, and population loss over time. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

High-quality curricula can move the needle on early learning, but implementation varies widely. We’re excited to start 2025 off with a new effort to systematically measure implementation readiness & target supports at baseline: fordschool.umich.edu/news/2025/u-...

Can artificial intelligence (AI) reliably identify K–12 students at risk of dropping out? Learn more about Nevada’s experience and what role AI could play in education processes in a new Urban Wire piece.

The course websites for my Spring 2025 causal inference and data visualization classes (both with #rstats) are live! evalsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com datavizsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com

If your New Year's resolution is to learn #datascience w/ #rstats + #tidyverse + #quarto, check out www.coursera.org/specializati... -- covering data transformation, visualization, importing + data science ethics. Two additional courses (on modeling + inference) to be added in 2025.

Reminder that this wonderful tool exists to quickly list all the dates your class will meet in the spring. Such a life-saver 🛟 wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

It's always Datapalooza at @casbsstanford.bsky.social 1. @annowens.bsky.social has assembled "school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991." edopportunity.org/segregation/... #econsky

The lesson here, which is important for students, is that science is never wrapped up in a nice clean bow. We never "have the answer". We are always working towards more accurate and more complete explanations.

📊 #dataviz A couple of years old, but still worth reading-- The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works A very thorough review of ideas and evidence by @SteveFranconeri, @LacePadill and others. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Striving to be the type of person Bluesky thinks I am 🦋 For a dose of AI fun today, check out blueskyroast.com by @fekri.io ✨ Your ego will thank you (or not).

"The extent of the decline seems to be driven by the lowest performing students losing more ground, a worrying trend that predates the pandemic." www.chalkbeat.org/2024/12/04/t...

1st post on bsky - about bsky! I was fascinated with academic starter packs and made an interactive network to see academic communities and how they connect - a map of knowledge! link to an interactive & searchable network: ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade...

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

Now updated with more resources, and the ability to search and filter by different categories! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-science... #RStats #DataScience

From the archives: Have you (like me!) wondered what the ATT means and how it's different from average treatment effects? I use #rstats to explore why we care about (and how to calculate) the ATE, ATT, and ATU #polisky #episky #econsky www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/03...

At APPAM today? See @paolaguerreror.bsky.social in action! Count Me in? Identifying Factors That Predict Centers’ Application to Boston’s Mixed-Delivery Universal Pre-K Program 1:45-3:15pm, National Harbor 6, 2nd Floor Ballroom Level, Gaylord National Harbor

𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out! It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG. And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

📝In a new blog, Jenna Fowler uses #MachineLearningmodels to explore factors predicting under-registration for #FreeSchoolMeals at the local authority-level. Read the full blog here: epi.org.uk/publications... Continue 👇

What states get the biggest benefit from the US Department of Education (@usedgov)

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