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Call for Submissions! Behavioral Medicine: Special Issue on Terminated Grants. Submit by June 30 at 5PM ET. Learn more here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Evidence shows that stable, quality #childcare is the backbone of a thriving #economy. Urban researchers provide more insights based on #DC’s Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund in a new testimony.

Several months in, the devastating repercussions at research organizations from abrupt contract and grant cancellations continue apace. There are fewer public announcements now, but several larger firms have laid off a third or more of their employees and small businesses have been even harder hit.

So concerned about the effects of this bill for TX.

Are different types of childhood adversities correlated within and across time? A comparison of data on adversity co-occurrence from three longitudinal birth cohort studies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

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!)

According to a 2021 report, the University of California system: • generated $82B in economic activity in California • supported 529K jobs in the state • generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.

New Mexico made childcare free for most families, lifting 120,000 people out of poverty and cutting poverty among providers nearly in half. Funded by oil/gas revenue, it’s a generational investment in kids, parents, and the economy. buff.ly/mKg3Ywj #pedsky #edusky 🛟

2/ All data is free to download for non-commercial use. Plus, the WIID Explorer tool lets anyone easily visualize and analyze inequality over time. 🔗 WIID Explorer: www4.wider.unu.edu?ind=1&type=C...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

Once again begging media reports to get the math right. For example, cutting a $5M five-year grant in year 4 isn't saving $1M, but it is wasting the $4M already spent. Stop letting this administration get away with so many lies.

Dear Social Scientists, Just a reminder: Amidst attacks on the social sciences & higher ed, now is a very good time to be posting here &/or elsewhere abt your latest research, topics in the news that hit on your expertise, or both. If you believe your field has public value, show it. sociology

NAACP Legal Defense Fund sues Dept of Education over ongoing destruction of data infrastructure 💪🎉 Suit is on behalf of National Academy of Education & National Council on Measurement in Education LDF has a long and storied history. So honored they are representing NAEd, of which I am a fellow

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...

I've added 43 new tips to my book, bringing the total to 140. You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the accompanying .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati....

This is what an 1800 page book looks like. The table shakes when you put it down! Congrats to all the authors on this @aeraedresearch.bsky.social *Handbook of Education Policy Research,* and to editors @janellescott.bsky.social , Peter Youngs, and Lora Cohen-Vogel.

NAGB just voted (reluctantly) to kill several NAEP exams over the next 10 yrs. Cuts: 1) No Long-Term Trend NAEP at all until 2033. 2) No 4th grade science in 2028 and no 12th grade science in 2032. 3) Writing scrapped altogether. 4) No 12th grade history in 2030 (1/3)

Immigrant women make up 20% of early educators — and with an even higher numbers in cities like New York and Los Angeles — and are just as vital in long-term care, making up nearly a third of home care workers and 21% of nursing home workers.

Talent Analytics in Ed issue! What Educator Applicants’ Short Essays Tell You about Their Potential Job Fit & Performance by @emilykpenner.bsky.social & others School Districts’ Use of Talent Analytics: Barriers & Possibilities by @laurarogers.bsky.social et al. utppublishing.com/toc/jehr/43/2

Breaking Bad/Good? Patterns and Correlates of Public School Teachers’ Multiple Jobholding journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3... "teacher multiple jobholding has been remarkably stable over time"

Come join us! @aefpweb.bsky.social We'll discuss the unique experiences and needs of the ECE workforce and strategies for supporting them. We'll also reflect on how to leverage the broader evidence base on supporting educators and the workforce. #AEFP2025

If you're running state or local government, now’s your chance to scoop up the immense talent fired from Ed. 📍 Locations of those let go below

Data is a powerful social lever. And even when re-building will take time, we are trained to re-do, improve, grow.

Check out the livehandbook.org, an open-access resource that will be continuously updated to serve as a hub of policy relevant #educationresearch. @weilanch.bsky.social and I coauthored a chapter on ECE quality. This kind of initiatives bring me hope in challenging times for the education field.

At @EFPJournal, we’re committed to rigorous yet efficient peer review—targeting a 90-day turnaround. We’re also working to expand the journal’s reach through digital platforms. More visibility, more impact! We are also on X, LinkedIn and BlueSky! #EducationFinance #AcademicPublishing

We *need* robust state testing systems, even if ED backs off their commitments. This is a great brief from the Center for Assessment making the case for the importance of well-designed state testing systems: www.nciea.org/wp-content/u...

They won’t Most of these datasets are public w small subset of vars restricted One strategy is to write the paper around the unrestricted vars, referring to the restricted findings that are in an appendix. Submit only that appendix for review This ain’t perfect, asking for ideas

The NCES websites are still working, but Education data was one of our first rescue targets. If you are looking for NCES data, much of it is available on DataLumos. You can see what we and others have rescued on our DR Tracker: baserow.datarescueproject.org/public/grid/...

Working on a paper about eviction moratoria and food insufficiency — would love to join an eviction/housing policy panel proposal for APPAM (@appam.bsky.social) if anyone has leads!

As universal prekindergarten (UPK) expands, understanding which community-based organizations (CBOs) apply—and why—matters for equity and access. With @weilanch.bsky.social, Meghan McCormick, Catherine Snow. Read more: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1151 #ECE #UPK #EquitableECE #EduSky #WomaninQuant

How much federal funding are Donald Trump and Elon Musk threatening to take away from your local public schools? A great tool to find out the answer and use it in your advocacy.

As universal prekindergarten (UPK) expands, understanding which community-based organizations (CBOs) apply—and why—matters for equity and access. With @weilanch.bsky.social, Meghan McCormick, Catherine Snow. Read more: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1151 #ECE #UPK #EquitableECE #EduSky #WomaninQuant

🌟 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

Back by popular demand! We just released another call for proposals using RCTs and quasi-experiments. 3-page LOIs are due March 14. Details here: bit.ly/4ambjv3 (1/2)

The American Community Survey (ACS) is used for so many basic, fundamental statistics, like: How many people live in each state or congressional district? Are they married? Do they have children? Are they employed? What's their income? What health insurance do they have? And now it’s offline

Coaches and teachers share their experiences with the Essential Literacy Practices in Puerto Rico to an audience of +1,300 teachers. This is a dream. Teachers owning their work, sharing innovation, and finding proud on their quality improvement process. @edusky.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social

#stopS5384 Here for reference: www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

Catch me here talking about international students concerns over upcoming changes to immigration policy (I also talked a little about my university’s lack of response so far to reassure students but that didn’t make it in.) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Come join us at 1:45! #APPAM2024

Hadn’t seen a women in education policy research starter pack yet. Please let me know if I missed you… still getting my bearings in the new place. go.bsky.app/PixwBrM

The idea that Bluesky is insular and X is a place for diverse views is a fallacy. X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right. Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.

We made an R package to easily create effect size distributions for a given research field to more accurately determine what constitutes a small, medium, and large effect size. We also include a correction for publication bias osf.io/preprints/ps...

Now more than ever community and support is needed. That’s why @sylviapperry.bsky.social and I are happy to solicit applications for the 3rd annual CASBS Summer Institute on Diversity. If you're a pre-tenure prof studying diversity, apply & repost! Apps due: Dec 11 casbs.stanford.edu/call-applica...

I'm honestly so hyped about the surge on this platform this weekend. Surviving a time of authoritarianism will require a lot of small victories. This is a good start.