Erika Lewy

Visit Dan McQuade's Memorial Website Take part in remembering Dan McQuade. Read his obituary, share your own memories, and learn about any funeral details on Ever Loved.

for those of you who dm'd me for ways to help dan's family

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gonna binge watch Baywatch in Dan's honor today. go birds

One Last Trip To Philadelphia’s Department Store Of Dreams | Defector My son was on a mission. Simon has been walking since December, and he’s getting more confident each day. He’d spotted something, and was scooting down the aisle as fast as he could towards it. He wan...

We're going to be featuring a lot of Dan's work the rest of this week, but this is one I especially enjoyed and which no one else could have written. He had a lot of those. defector.com/one-last-tri...

The Garden State Parkway's Jon Bon Jovi Rest Stop Is Playing Fast And Loose With Famous Quotes | Defector CHEESEQUAKE, N.J. — Have you ever scored a touchdown? I never played real football, so my own experiences have been pretty low-key, but man, did they feel great. I think I remember almost all of them—...

McQuade personally used the power of the press to get the Jon Bon Jovi Rest Stop to take down the "Acting is like scoring a touchdown" quote erroneously attributed to Ed Harris. What have you ever done?
defector.com/the-garden-s...

Dan McQuade Got Philly Like No One Else The writer, who died Wednesday, was one of the most gifted chroniclers of the Philadelphia experience.

One great writer's obituary for another.

Brian Howard on Dan McQuade.

"Nobody understood Philadelphia, and Philadelphians, like Dan."

www.phillymag.com/news/2026/01...

case to be made that no one has done more philly twitter propaganda on a national level than dan mcquade

RIP to Dan. His "A decade of Philly sports fans on the TV news" video from the other site is pure gold.

Livvy Rizzing Up Baby Gronk, Explained | Defector Did you hear the news? Livvy rizzed up Baby Gronk!!! Despite being a 40-year-old man, I am uniquely in tune with the younger generation because I go to the mall. I am more than happy to explain this a...

walking around muttering to myself "who is baby gronk dad" in memory of Dan defector.com/livvy-rizzin...

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nobody before could and nobody after ever will. we were blessed to share him while we did. but i am going to miss him very, very much.

A Mall I Loved Is Going Pitch Black | Defector The vote looked like a funeral. Residents showed up to the council meeting dressed in black, carrying prop tombstones. One carried drooping flowers. “I feel that what the council has just done has sen...

One of his best stories:

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from people magazine Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results The president predicted that Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam By Greta Bjornson | Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42 Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown By Bailey Richards Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

SERENITY NOW

The dismantling of NCES is insane and will critically hobble progress in improving education - this agency is so important it existed more than 100 years before the creation of Department of Education.

104 employees from IES
242 from OCR
325 from FSA

Core ED functions include: processing 17+ million FAFSAs, providing 6.4 million students with Pell Grants, disbursing 6.4 million student loans, and managing loan repayments for 43 million borrowers. None of this happens magically, without people.

I’ve heard from an extremely reliable source that the entire National Center for Education Statistics is **gone**

Whelp ed research orgs had mass lay-offs yesterday

Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem...

MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t...

NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga...

RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%...

Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat...

WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...

More than 50 talented MDRC technical + qualitative researchers, grant-writing specialists and editors were laid off Friday. Experts in housing policy, criminal justice, higher ed, workforce training and k12 education. If you know of places hiring for this kind of talent, hit me up. #MDRC #EduSky

AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

This is truly nuts... Even though we knew it was coming, it still feels like a shock to know that the major source of funding for high quality education research is just... gone. Anyone heard anything about IES grants? #EduSky

I somehow missed that MDRC started posting on Bluesky two weeks ago

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Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts.
WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders

Recently exploring higher ed in prison programs and campus-based programs and policies that impact students with a criminal record. #EduSky

Much of my work is evaluating programs that are meant to boost degree completion rates... I work on RCTs of student success programs and conduct exploratory research on postsecondary programs meant to help land students in good jobs....

Hey! I'm Erika-- an interdisciplinary social scientist. I mainly study higher ed access and completion for MDRC. I'm an implementation researcher and trained anthropologist.