This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here): Last-mi…

This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/04/21/t...

For the Monday crowd: please circulate this widely.

It may be hard to find the perfect candidate (an experienced data engineer/architect generalist with an interest in cultural heritage willing to take a state salary), but it's a great group/mission/city and we know the right person is out there.

The study was funded by @accelerate-us.bsky.social, and would not have been possible without the leadership of Dr. Erin Phillips. It can be a PITA for district leaders to spend time with researchers, but it was so valuable to learn from her about what was happening on the ground.

Curricular alignment lacks clear empirical support, according to @nssaccelerator.bsky.social's research agenda nssa.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...

We leveraged variation in schools' available curriculum materials to assess the impact of instructional coherence in tutoring. #EduSky #EdResearch

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

This was a great research project funded by @accelerate-us.bsky.social and it wouldn't be possible without Erin Phillips: district leaders are so essential to evidence building. Also, xoxo to my colleague Ayman and to TNTP, which did really fantastic work with the district around data use.

What the difference between a ‘silent e’ and a ‘magic e’ can reveal about effective tutoring Struggling students can get lost when tutoring uses different terminology and approaches from their core classroom instruction. A recent study found students tutored using more-aligned materials made ...

Some students get tutoring but end up as ‘intervention lifers.’ This common sense tactic could help. - via @ericameltzer.bsky.social

#EdResearch #EdPolicy #EduSky

www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/20/t...

This happened at my kid's school and let me tell you, I really miss the days when the Lice Letters were the worst thing you heard from the school.

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The Alex Pretti nursing scholarship is being created. An endowed scholarship awarded to a student with financial need. Preference will be given to students with an interest in supporting America's veterans. Link below. Thank you.

Current Opportunities at Vanderbilt Vanderbilt is committed to providing a meaningful, robust experience for postdocs. Below is a list of currently available postdoctoral opportunities. Postdocs interested in applying for a specific pos...

Vanderbilt seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar to support two grant-funded initiatives: the Improvement Scholars Network & the Network Health Project. Focuses on advancing improvement research & studying the development and effectiveness of education improvement networks. www.vanderbilt.edu/postdoc/pros...

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COMMENTARY: AI in schools could be a disaster, but it doesn’t have to be We need leaders at all levels — but especially at the state level where policy is usually made — to offer districts clearer support and guidelines about appropriate and inappropriate uses.

My newest, at @edsource.org--I really worry about the impact of AI on k-12 schools. Here, I talk about my concern, drawing on our recent survey data, and offer a couple ideas for what leaders can do to support educators and reduce the risks of disaster edsource.org/2026/ai-revo...

Yes! This is becoming a theme across a bunch of things I'm working on.

Yes - the infrastructure to support education leaders in demanding better evidence for what they're buying is incomplete. Like maybe one pillar of a really long bridge has been built, and we need a lot more investment to facilitate the connections between research and practice.

Yes, this is a huge issue in evidence use. The Prevention Services Clearinghouse has a process for comparing program versions to assess whether substantive changes have been made. It'd be very helpful to see something similar in education. I'd welcome more transparency about program components.

If you wonder if some program has causal evidence, you can check ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/ or www.evidenceforessa.org

Not being in those evidence clearinghouses could just mean the program hasn't been reviewed, but it's also a sign you should be asking more questions. #EdResearch #EduSky

she probably wants to be preemptively pardoned for something.

Trump Administration to Begin Refunding $166 Billion in Tariffs

"only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money...the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices — are not able to apply for direct relief." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

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"Silicon samples" are becoming more and more common in research and polling.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

The updated version of this preprint is now online!

THREAD🧵

arxiv.org/abs/2509.13397

Maryland moves to make AI deepfakes a crime after Baltimore County school scandal The 2024 incident at Pikesville High School showed the law hadn’t caught up with technology, one Maryland senator says.

By @kris10griffith.bsky.social; Maryland moves to make AI deepfakes a crime after Baltimore County school scandal. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Iowa went all-in on school choice. It's hurting this city's public schools With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market.

Great long form article on Cedar Rapids, which includes a peek at private school tuition effects after 3 years of ESAs + reporter Cory Turner gets a principal on record about tuition hikes - Jedi mind trick caliber reporting.

I would definitely order a bunch to give away as swag at the next AEFP conference!

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I'm just here to complicate everything!

I've worked with some wonderful economists but agree with your concern about college ROI. We're a humanities family lol.

Totally makes sense - I was an RA on a project with history majors since the focus was historical writing.

My #EdPolicy dissertation committee included a sociologist, a political scientist, an economist, and a psychometrician. As an undergrad I studied psychology and worked in a cognitive science lab. That's 6, what other fields would you all add?

Agreed. Any time there's a marketplace for ideas, whether from pharmaceuticals or education programs, someone has a profit motive. They're not necessarily manipulating findings, but we should consider what guardrails were in place (like preregistration) when results are communicated.

We're working on this! @viviancwong.bsky.social @lmiratrix.bsky.social @betsyjwolf.bsky.social

What a story. What a blessing she was to the fight.

"At that first meeting, Dr. Long realized that the activists needed a guide who was fluent in science to help them expedite the approval of drugs to treat AIDS & the H.I.V. virus that causes it.

“She was their scientific North Star."

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