📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @taylorodle.bsky.social & @isabelmcmullen.bsky.social evaluate Advise TN’s expansion across 33 communities and find the program increased college enrollment by 6%. 📄 Read more: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1371

"Eliminating a graduate degree wage premium for teachers led to a 27% enrollment decline in education fields alone .... This drop subsequently reduced institutional tuition revenue and related state funding." @taylorodle.bsky.social edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1364

Congrats to IDS affiliate @taylorodle.bsky.social on making EdWeek's list of the top 200 education scholars in the U.S.! www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

All rankings have their pros and cons, but it was a very special surprise to be included this year! My goal has always been to do good work—and get that work into the hands of policymakers. | @edweek.org www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Submitted a paper 41 days ago to an AERA journal—still "awaiting editor assignment." Please prioritize pre-tenure folks (and grad students)! 🫠

Does Free College “Work” for Adults? Enrollment Impacts of Michigan Reconnect journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3... "increased adult enrollment in community colleges by 38%, with larger gains among women and younger adults...entirely driven by growth in part-time students"

Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week. As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).

I better not see one more request in my inbox...

Just gonna drop this right here 😅 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🍎🦡 I'm recruiting a PhD student in Ed Policy (fall '26) at @uwmadison.bsky.social! Come work with me on college access, admissions, & fin aid in our top-ranked, fully-funded program. I’m especially excited for this student to immediately join our direct admissions RCT team.

📢 New from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series: A summary of “Comparative Cost Analyses of Community College Student Success Initiatives” by @taylorodle.bsky.social! 📄 buff.ly/byZLKhG #AnnenbergEdExchange

🚨 Come join us in Ed Policy at @uwmadison.bsky.social! We're hiring an Asst/Assoc Prof studying the intersection of education and the environment. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

In a @pbswisconsin.bsky.social interview, DSI Affiliate @taylorodle.bsky.social discusses the impacts of the Direct Admit Wisconsin and Wisconsin Guarantee programs on UW system admissions of WI high school students.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 @uwmadison.bsky.social educational policy professor @taylorodle.bsky.social describes the impacts of the Direct Admit Wisconsin and Wisconsin Guarantee programs on UW system admissions of high school students from the state.

Enjoyed chatting with @pbswisconsin.bsky.social about UW's Direct Admit program / The Wisconsin Guarantee, my work on direct admissions, and early fall enrollment figures. @uwmadison.bsky.social pbswisconsin.org/watch/here-a...

IDS affiliate @taylorodle.bsky.social talked with @pbswisconsin.bsky.social about Direct Admit programs at the Universities of WI, and how they're making college more accessible to qualified low-income students, students of color, and those from rural backgrounds. pbswisconsin.org/news-item/ta...

🏆 Nominate a student (or yourself) for the @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @aeradivjgradnet.bsky.social Dissertation Award! Deadline is Nov 1.

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: What do community college success programs really cost? @taylorodle.bsky.social presents the first comparative cost analyses of 6 common initiatives, finding costs range from $570 to $1,320 per student, with wide variation in reach. 📄 Full paper here: buff.ly/LfYRaWo

“…the most innovative college access program in the nation.” Aww, shucks — thanks, @completecollege.bsky.social! 🤗 || @uwmadscience.bsky.social @harvardeducation.bsky.social @luminafoundation.bsky.social @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social @kresge.org

🚨 We're excited to launch TN Direct Admissions, the nation's first program to simplify college admissions + financial aid! Our pilot will provide students upfront college admissions offers alongside personalized commitments of financial aid—no applications, no fees, no BS.

Y’all 👏 15 nuggets from @tacobell.bsky.social (just drink A LOT of water 😂)

"The UW system just started automatically accepting students. How's that going?" 🙅‍♂️ Not well because the program requires students *and* their high schools to opt-in (even by May 1 of their *junior* year)! Make everyone eligible—and address costs of attendance while you're at it!

Top-tier journal: “Great paper! Right on the margin for us. Would do very well at X [2nd-tier].” Second-tier X: “This is the worst paper we’ve ever read. Super reject.” I referee the worst papers (and have trouble placing my own) in 2nd-tier outlets. First, third, or bust.

UW-Madison Ed Policy PhD student Sky Duke presenting a new predictive model and typology for identifying and classifying institutions that propel low-income student outcomes! 👏 #AERA2025

AERA Undergrad Fellow and UW-Madison/WCER rockstar Shelby Jantz presenting her work at #AERA2025! 👏 Watch out for her — headed to Northwestern SESP this fall!

Anyone looking to do an APPAM panel rather than a single listing @taylorodle.bsky.social ???

Students come to me all the time with these kinds of stories. Too many in our field either perpetrate these acts themselves or tolerate them. It should be a great shame for the academy.

I’ve been bullied and exploited by a senior scholar since I was an early PhD student and am now helping guide more junior folks experiencing the same across our field. In 2028, I’ll be tenured or not—and, either way, it’s going to be a rough year for them. This has to stop.

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

Any ED, IES, and related friends who are willing to (even anonymously) speak with reporters, please DM me. Folks want to hear from you!

How can one simultaneously (1) direct the Secretary to cycle down ED and distribute its functions while (2) needing ED to complete neg reg [a 1-2 year process] and then (presumably) implement those rules? 🤔

Great talking to Danielle at @washingtonpost.com about the rapid growth in direct admissions, what we know, and where to go! Check out her piece and stay tuned for some exciting news on the next evolution of these programs (coming soon!). @uwmadison.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

🚨 New paper with @jwrightkim.bsky.social and Beto Castrejón (my rockstar PhD student - his first pub!) in The Journal of Higher Ed. doi.org/10.1080/0022...

Knowing what works, for whom, and under what conditions is one of the most powerful tools I can imagine in public policy. Adding cost effectiveness analysis can improve efficiency while understanding context supports generalizability.

Fab quote from @taylorodle.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

It’s hard to overstate the contribution of IES to improving education research - and through it, education - in the United States. Its destruction for purely partisan ends is a national catastrophe, and Schneider of all people should know that.

$900 Million in Institute of Education Sciences Contracts Axed The National Center for Education Statistics has been hit hard while researchers say grant review panels have been halted. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3QdLZ15

lmao ok

My thoughts on cuts to science via NIH and IES It is: ILLEGAL: the funding has been congressionally mandated IDIOTIC: the multiplier effects of R&D are big in the moment (local econs) and huge in the long run (innovation) IMMORAL: knowledge is—hear me out—good; chaos and destruction are bad

From a colleague: Someone needs to explain to the public that these cuts to higher ed can affect COLLEGE FOOTBALL!

People don’t understand education research. They also don’t understand how universities work or what these cuts mean in the real world. We need folks sharing their stories to the general public so Americans can understand the crippling effects of these cuts.

Was feelin really good about my IES proposal… 😅

Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

Signing on to ask editors to please be more liberal with desk rejections. 😅

🚨 Our paper on same-race matching in college is now online at Economics of Education Review! We talk a lot about the benefits of same-race matching in K-12 and higher ed but haven't stopped to ask: Who even has access to same-race matching/how often (and where) does it occur?

What even is a "gentle" reminder?

👏 Proud advisor day: One of my PhD students got an acceptance at The Journal of Higher Ed and the other got an R&R at Ed Researcher! 👏