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I recall and I was 5 in 1988!
My response to the "Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences" report. It didn't have to be this way: betsyjwolf.substack.com/p/reimaginin...
For those interested in an IES-funded PhD alumni network the LinkedIn group below is active:
www.linkedin.com/groups/8540416
Thanks to @drconstance.bsky.social and @lizalbro.bsky.social!
lol hi Jordan
Is there an alumni group for IES-funded PhD’s?
IES supposedly funded over 1000 PhDs, of which I am apparently one of the last. With the training grants dying, it’d be great to have a formal alumni network where we could share jobs, grant opportunities, etc.
There are some good ideas in here, including things that were already in progress before DOGE cuts. But I don't understand why much of the research workforce had to lose their jobs this past year to implement these changes, and I don't see how some of these changes are possible without researchers.
Are you aware of the Urban Institute Education Data Explorer? educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
I am excited to share that this fall I will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College! 🎊
As a proud graduate of a liberal arts college, I’m happy to be heading to an institution committed to rigorous, democratic, and student-centered education.
Congrats! Swarthmore is a really special place.
The ! means coordinated snow days are better than weather related absences.
Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard.
Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".
Whew! Great perspective.
Just finished my personal Winter Olympics (summer camp registration) with a sprint when I realized the members code I needed to register for the final daycamp was no where to be seen and called/emailed frantically to obtain it. I'd say🥈since I didn't get the preferred camp for 1/11 weeks.
MDRC has over two decades of experience conducting randomized controlled trials in higher education
And, for some reason, we've decided to give away all our resources and best practices to help other researchers conduct high-quality, efficient RCTs
Check out the website soft launch:
📢 Predoc Opportunity
I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy.
jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr...
Please pass on to anyone who might be interested.
#econsky #econ_ra
I tried to make a joke about this to our movers: “yeah, you think we have enough books?” And they just rolled their eyes and said yes. 🤷🏻♀️
What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.
NBC is gonna call for color commentary
My 8yo and husband have become experts in curling, a sport we began watching 20 mins ago
They are truly soulmates
Postdoc posting: Economics of education at Tufts with my colleague Elizabeth Setren.
main.hercjobs.org/jobs/2203818...
me and @cmulhern.bsky.social's paper on school counselors is out in econ of ed review
We find more funding for counselors in California in the 2000s increased grad rates, college enrollment & school climate
in short: counselors improve student outcomes and we should invest more in them!
🚨📢 Call for papers - IV Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado 🇨🇱⛷️
📅 August 18-21
📍Valle Nevado, Chile
Keynotes by Josh Goodman (
@buwheelock.bsky.social ) and Chris Neilson (Yale)
Submit by March 6 👇
bit.ly/49QSsd3
@joshua-goodman.com @christopherneilson.bsky.social
Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $
NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$
Harvard: no
Trump: 1B
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations intensify
Trump: 200 million
NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal
Harvard: no
Trump: 0$
Harvard: ok
NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses.
Trump: How about 1B$
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations resume!
What in the 1980’s are current blazer silhouettes?
Making the Implicit Explicit: An Experiment with Implicit Gender Stereotypes and College Major Choice edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1393
"interventions designed to 'de-bias' individuals can have unintended effects, sometimes reinforcing the very disparities they aim to reduce."
4th Workshop on Education Economics and Policy (WEEP) to be held 7th-8th September in Trondheim, Norway.
sites.google.com/site/prgreen...
Keynotes: Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth) and Björn Öckert (IFAU)
Call for papers open soon
Funded by EduGAP project
samforsk.no/prosjekter/e...
#EconConf
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
