Sure thing. Mackinac Island is excellent, but it’s far from the best we got. And the rocks… don’t get me started! This one is a crinoid, an ancient starfish. Fossils everywhere, like that’s normal. Wut.
You got UMich pals with lots of Up North and UP recs. Hit us up anytime!
Oh geez, glad you’re okay!!
Nice! Paper to share?
So proud of Jordy!!
POSTDOC OPENING! We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow for a mixed-methods project aimed at supporting and researching implementation of high-quality preschool curricula. The position is 1-2 years and can be in person or remote.
More details here: edpolicy.umich.edu/what-we-do/j...
How much time do Pre-K students spend learning different things? TLDR: It depends on how you measure it.
With @weilanch.bsky.social, Meghan McCormick, and Catherine Snow, we compared two classroom time-use instruments using the same classroom videos.
Read open access here: shorturl.at/LPnai
@weilanch.bsky.social comments on Michigan’s Tri-Share program. When discussing solving financial difficulties of paying for child care, Weiland says, “Tri-Share is never going to solve the problem.” Read her full thoughts here: https://myumi.ch/P3X2y
Congrats!! Say hi when you’re in town.
We’re hiring a Research Coordinator! Please share.
Important, clever paper by MI-based team.
@weilanch.bsky.social
Basically, most kids flagged for 3rd-grade retention in MI weren’t retained. But did get add’l supports—as did kids near the retention point.
Those supports spurred academic gains, raising doubts about retention impacts elsewhere.
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings" by Jiee Zhong. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
📢 New postdoc opportunity at Annenberg!
The Annenberg Institute is seeking a postdoctoral research associate for a 2‐year appointment to join a diverse community of scholars committed to educational equity and improvement!
More info here: annenberg.brown.edu/opportunitie...
Early education programs improve children’s readiness for kindergarten. Learn more about the elements that ensure high-quality ECE in Christina Weiland (@weilanch.bsky.social) and Paola Guerrero Rosada's (@paolaguerreror.bsky.social) chapter, Quality in ECE: livehandbook.org/early-educat...
The Fall Edition of the EPI Newsletter is here! mailchi.mp/umich.edu/ed...
Stay up to date with the latest in education policy research, events, & publications.
In this issue, you'll find:
📚 Research shaping education policy
📝 Publications and news
🤝 Research partnership updates
Welcome @edpolicyford.bsky.social to Bluesky!! Give a follow for research and happenings from our fantastic UMich faculty and students.
Ughh… the Child Care and Early Education Research Connections website and library will no longer be available after Sept. 30. Pull what you need!
researchconnections.org
If there is an effort to back it up underway, I’d love to know.
Philanthropic dollars aren’t remotely equally distributed. This is huge!
www.appalachiafunders.org/news-resourc....
Incredibly cool… Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is supporting the music program in my rural WV county:
wchstv.com/news/local/r...
📢 #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
Today is the final day of work for many dedicated, talented employees at the Institute of Education Sciences. I am thankful for their service, and I hope that they find new roles that continue their mission of supporting education research that serves as a public good.
Child playing with building blocks.
Researchers examine the impacts of transitional kindergarten, a publicly funded learning option that bridges prekindergarten and kindergarten, helping guide state programming and offering more information on the complicated early learning landscape.
➡️ bit.ly/3Sfrp1t
Big shout out to this amazing team, led by @weilanch.bsky.social
Want more details but don’t have time to read the paper? See thread from
@tiffanyxwu.bsky.social
A screenshot of the abstract of the working paper
Figure 1: School Enrollment Pathways for Lottery Winners and Control Group Students through 8th Grade. This figure represents school enrollment pathways across different school types (BPS, BPS Exam School, non-BPS district school, charter school, and other) for both lottery winners and the control group. The thickness of the lines represents the percentage of lottery winners/control group students that are enrolled in each type of school. Blue lines show the pathways taken by lottery winners, and BPS-specific school categories are highlighted in the light blue boxes. BPS = Boston Public Schools.
🤔 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 🧵👇
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!)
Does school funding actually improve outcomes? 🤔Join our first-ever #EdWorkingPapers webinar Wed 5/21 at 2pm ET with @emilyrauscher.bsky.social and @chriscandelaria.com to find out. buff.ly/TW1oFhu #research #schoolfunding
🧵 But since Head Start's inception, there have been disagreements about whether or not the program "works." So let's review what we know from rigorous research on Head Start's effectiveness, and let's start with what it means for the program to work. 🧵 1/n
How federal investments in education research help students succeed www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
Pre-K students walking on a path/bridge up and right to represent their path to kindergarten. Path transitions into dotted line to signify a disconnect
We asked 1,368 public school-based pre-K teachers across the country about the materials they use, their instructional resources and planning time, and how their programs align with elementary grades. Read more in my new co-authored report: www.rand.org/t/rra3279-3
