Thanks, Abby!

Presenting this morning at #AEFP2026. Loved the conversation! Heading on the job market this fall and excited to keep this work going.

What do beginning teachers struggle with, what shapes their challenges, and does it relate to retention? Today at 10am #AEFP2026 I present dissertation work applying LLMs to teacher-written narratives. Stop by if you care about teacher turnover or ed data science!

@wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social

In just a few days, WEPC will be at this year’s Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Conference in Chicago! Stay tuned for info on the 15+ panels and presentations from our faculty and staff, and check out a full program below. bit.ly/WEPC-AEFP2026

#AEFP2026
@buwheelock.bsky.social

Great to connect @chloeneast.bsky.social ! Happy to share some of our preliminary findings and looking forward to learning more about your upcoming work!

Great job, Abby!

What the Department of Education actually does America’s least understood and most efficient agency, explained

An excellent overview of the Department of Education and what’s lost with it’s destruction from Ben Miller www.slowboring.com/p/what-the-d...

Great job @josefinasenese.bsky.social !

You nailed it, Abby! @abbyfrancis.bsky.social

#AEFP2025 has been quite a success. We're really proud of and excited by the work and thoughtful engagement in policy-relevant, rigorous research on display by all of our @buwheelock.bsky.social faculty, students, WEPC alumni, staff and partners. Thanks for a wonderful few days!

Thanks, Abby!

Ceci Rouse (my former boss at the CEA) is giving the @aefpweb.bsky.social keynote, including a history of federal student loans.

She notes that the whole system starts with the 1958 National Defense Education Act.

If only someone would write a paper on this. Oh wait, we just did!

It’s a fun yet challenging project, and one of the most memorable parts was digitizing a lot of historical records. If you’re interested, come chat with me! #AEFP2025

@joshua-goodman.com @cmulhern.bsky.social
@wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social

Two papers being presented now at #AEFP2025 on the Labor Market & Enrollment Trends (4.07) by @joshua-goodman.com & @mingyanma.bsky.social addressing #communitycollege and impact of historic federal investments from National Defense Student Loan Program

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@buwheelock.bsky.social at AEFP is off to a great start with a special pre-conference dinner with faculty, students and alumni.

We're geared up for next week's @aefpweb.bsky.social conference. WEPC faculty/students are presenting 15+ papers, chairing 5 sessions & hosting a can’t miss Policy Dialogue. Check us out! @joshua-goodman.com @lizbettini.bsky.social @oliviachi.bsky.social @piacar.bsky.social @christocleve.bsky.social

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Our BU Wheelock Education Policy Center is going to be everywhere at next week's AEFP conference!

Between our current faculty and PhD students and our alums, we'll be in 20+ sessions.

Here's what we're presenting:

wheelockpolicycenter.org/event/associ...

@wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social

President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists | OSTP | The White House Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outst...

Congratulations to WEPC faculty @lizbettini.bsky.social who received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers yesterday! Such well-deserved recognition.

www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

@buwheelock.bsky.social
@bostonu.bsky.social

It's not everyday that I wake up to a front page article in the Boston Globe featuring a colleague of mine, complete with photo shoot.

Today is that day! Fantastic coverage of the teacher workforce research that @oliviachi.bsky.social does here at BU Wheelock.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/14/b...

Inspiring and insightful—huge thanks to Toni Gordon, Matt Springer, @christocleve.bsky.social, @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social, @bethschueler.bsky.social, Ruhan Circi, and Bhashithe Abeysinghe for sharing their expertise!

Best #2024APPAM moments: the morning workshops—Job Market Documents in the American Professoriate and NLP & AI for Text Analysis.

Traveled with my wonderful colleagues and mentors to the Northeastern Economics of Education Workshop last Friday— many thanks to @barbarabiasi.bsky.social for the excellent organization!

I've created a starter pack I'm calling "Education economics and policy", based on folks I follow in this area.

Please let me know if I've missed you!

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It was a pleasure meeting Dr. Peter Blair and hearing his insights! We got another selfie with @hanyuncui.bsky.social, @oliviakm.bsky.social, and other doc students and RAs at @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social.

Boston crew at #SREE2024!

Many thanks to Drs. Giuseppe Migali and @colinpgreen.bsky.social for organizing everything and fostering a wonderful community. Also grateful to my fantastic advisor @joshgoodmanbu.bsky.social, who virtually introduced me to outstanding researchers before my journey to Italy.

Had an incredible time presenting my research with Dr. Marcus Winters on the effects of English learner reclassification at my first European conference IWAEE in late June! It was lovely catching up with old friend and mentors, and making new connections.

It's been an absolute pleasure working with such a dedicated and talented group of students. I'm truly honored to receive this beta hat!

Many thanks to my fantastic mentors and colleagues!!! See you in D.C. next year!