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In today's NNERPP newsletter, we share new #edresearch from EPIC, Georgia Policy Labs, @iwerc.bsky.social, @tnedresalliance.bsky.social, and @uchiconsortium.bsky.social, as well as reading tips and more: us14.campaign-archive.com?u=ac4a754c92...

Excited and honored to be part of this event about #attendance and why it still matters!!

Our new report shows that attendance still matters for students’ academic achievement post-pandemic, and that schools can and do affect students’ attendance.

📗Read the report: consortium.uchicago.edu/publications...

✅Register for our webinar next week: uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Today I learned that I may not run again, and that my watch is too old to update. And I’m still 6 months away from turning 40…

Horrified. Glad my good friend is safe, but heartbroken for all who are not.

This fee would be devastating for rural school districts that have come to rely on foreign teachers, especially to fill special education posts. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/10/01/t...

Every time Butker misses a field goal, a woman gets a PHD.

U.S. Department of Education Announces Six New Agency Partnerships to Break Up Federal Bureaucracy ED announced six new interagency agreements to break up the federal education bureaucracy, ensure efficient delivery of funded programs, activities, and move closer to fulfilling the President Trump's...

Trump continues to dismantle Department of Education

Labor will now administer K12 education grants including Title I
(bc of course education is for the purpose of labor)

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Es rarísimo. Y más porque cuando les marco una sorpresa a mis sobrinos no es claro si quieren el mío o el de ellos (que no tienen porque son bebés) jajajaja

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I’m excited to share that I’ll be sharing more about our absenteeism work at #AERA2026 next April! @iwerc.bsky.social

I am the Ghost of Education Research, here to remind you that Standards for Excellence in Education Research exist.

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For every data a student is not in school, the student's test scores decline. School attendance is crucial for student learning. Read more at: go.illinois.edu/absent

Cover of the report: The relation between absenteeism and student learning in a post-pandemic context

💡 NEW REPORT! Read more about absenteeism and student learning in a post-pandemic context. dpi.uillinois.edu/applied-rese...

Coefficient results for each grade for each year of the relation between days absent and test scores

And using student fixed effects we show that the relationship between the number of days absent indeed change, and in fact, increased between 2019 and 2023. Into other word, for every additional day absent students in 2023 lose more in their test scores than they would in 2019, in ELA and Math.

Coefficients for SAT and number of days absent

However, we didn’t see significant changes in SAT scores from 2019 to 2023, but our models are different as we only see students in high school once. This does not mean that attendance does not matter, but rather, that we did not see any change.

Coefficient results for each grade for each year of the relation between days absent and test scores

And using student fixed effects we show that the relationship between the number of days absent indeed change, and in fact, increased between 2019 and 2023. Into other word, for every additional day absent students in 2023 lose more in their test scores than they would in 2019, in ELA and Math.

Graph describing the average number of days absent per grade

In this report, we describe the trends in the number of days absent across different groups, like grade. For example, we show that while all grades have higher average number of days absent high school grades show the largest increase

Report cover for absenteeism report

🚨My report on absenteeism is out today!

Go.illinois.edu/absent

More highlights from a thought-provoking SREE conference:

➡️ @marianabat.bsky.social shared how pandemic emergency spending related to achievement outcomes.

➡️Sarah Cashdollar provided research on robust and equitable dual credit in Illinois.

➡️Meg Bates participated in a panel on RPPs.

I have studied this for... 3 years now? Maybe more. Every month I ask AI to summarize two research papers, then I deep read those papers myself.

They do a bad job. Their summary always misses something... Pretty often something big. Some include false information, too.

It's not a summary.

Join us during #SREE week!!

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

In addition, she was the first woman researcher I knew of as a child, and I have to believe that influenced what I do today. #thankyouJane

🚨The PEER Center is hiring! We currently have two positions posted (details below). We're a #highered research center (led by @srcellini.bsky.social @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social) focused on generating actionable research for state, federal policy. Put your data skills to work for an important purpose!

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#Econsky check the Economics Department at the University of Arkansas is hiring two open-rank Economics professors, including an opening in public economics and public policy.

Public Economics/Public Policy:
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Macroeconomics:
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Education Research Analyst GS-1730-14 (DE) <p>There are two positions located in the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences in Washington, DC. The&nbsp;Assessment Development Expert and the Assessment Administration&nbsp...

The National Center for Education Statistics is seeking talented assessment professionals for a variety of roles providing technical direction and oversight for NAEP assessment content development, test administration, test design, and reporting and analysis.

www.usajobs.gov/job/844947600

Using IL student level data, we’ve warned about this for a long time. High school test scored had been declining even before the onset of the pandemic dpi.uillinois.edu/applied-rese...

Join us, University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, and an amazing group of panelists as we discuss the implications of research findings on the enduring economic value of the college degree and other pathways to work.

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