Right now it’s it’s baby/beta stage it progresses by skill (not by grade-level), starting with letter sound recognition and moving to CVC blends, then introducing more complex sounds (digraphs, welded sounds) with more blends. Kids read sentences by unit 2. It’s best for kids just getting started!

San Francisco Killed 8th-Grade Algebra. Now It’s Set to Come Back.

In the last school year, after years of controversy, San Francisco schools fielded pilots that reintroduced Algebra to 8th grade. A preregistered, quasi-experimental study by Elizabeth Huffaker and me indicates the major pilots were largely successful.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

I’m a baby PM (I guess we all are now!) & welcome feedback! This was fun to play around with.

Try it here: adventure-readers.vercel.app

GitHub to customize: github.com/sofia-wilson/a…

Anyone can try or duplicate & customize for their own needs. My teacher friend made superhero theme for her class; I made space transformers theme for another in 5 mins.

I had a vision for scope & sequence based on my teaching years. I wanted the sound pronunciations, ordering, & blends to be pedagogically correct. I also wanted option for parent/teacher to customize with their voice to encourage the young reader.

I vibe coded an early literacy app called Adventure Readers using Claude code. I was curious what a teacher (or former teacher like me) could produce with access to these tools in ~1 day - I was pretty amazed!

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!

New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!

edopportunity.org/segregation/

ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections The measles​ cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.

Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

The Politics of Education Lab

To ring in the new year, I'm excited to announce the launch of the Politics of Education Lab (PEdL) at the Stanford GSE. The goal is to advance understanding of the political dimensions of education policymaking to help policymakers and practitioners strengthen school systems.

pedl.stanford.edu

Fabulous postdoc opportunity at Stanford to work on the politics of education with one of the best @bethschueler.bsky.social postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

@stanford.edu University invites nominations & applications for the position of Dean of @stanfordeducation.bsky.social. We seek individuals with outstanding scholarly & professional careers who have demonstrated potential for academic & administrative leadership. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37933847...

Very concerned how these federal policy changes will impact vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks — with consequences to child health, parental workforce participation, and schooling. See our working paper for impact of recent measles outbreak on student absences: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1358

Thank you for adding this context, @jeremylsinger.bsky.social!

For context, this drop in attendance rates related to the measles outbreak (about 93% to 90%) is almost as large as the initial drop in TX attendance rates from pre-pandemic to post-pandemic (95% in 2018-19 to 91% in 2021-22).

(TX attendance trends over time here: www.aei.org/research-pro...)

thank you, @jenjennings.bsky.social!

thanks @jeremylsinger.bsky.social! -- and yes, your avd daily absence change is roughly in line with our calcs as well.

Public health policy is #EdPolicy

Measles outbreak led to outsized jump in student absences, Stanford research finds A new study shows that school absences from a major outbreak in Texas were 10 times higher than expected for the number of reported cases.

And grateful for coverage by Stanford GSE: ed.stanford.edu/news/measles...

The West Texas Measles Outbreak and Student Absences Declining child-vaccination rates are driving a measles resurgence in the US, yet little evidence documents how these outbreaks may disrupt schooling. Using daily absence data from a school district a...

We provide early evidence on the impact of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks on learning opportunities, and the schooling disruptions that the growing number of low-coverage communities could face if outbreaks continue to spread. See working paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1358

The impact on absences is 10x greater than would be expected from known measles cases alone. This suggests absences extended far beyond confirmed cases, likely reflecting precautionary decisions to keep children home.

When measles hit West Texas, school absences soared and it wasn't just sick kids who were out When a measles outbreak hit West Texas this year, school absences surged far beyond the number of children who likely became sick.

We find that a major measles outbreak in West Texas increased student absences by 41 percent. Absences increased among students across all grade levels, with the greatest impact among the youngest students. apnews.com/article/meas...

In 2000, measles was declared eradicated in the U.S. Today, declining child-vaccination rates are driving the largest measles resurgence we've seen in 3+ decades. How do these outbreaks impact schooling? @tomdee.bsky.social and I examine this question in West Texas, the country's largest outbreak.

Great coverage of my new report highlighting ICE's disproportionate targeting on Latinos in New York and around the country.

Woah.

Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success.

The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points.

The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.

State Snapshots of Infant and Toddler Early Care and Education State-by-state breakdowns of the supply, demand, affordability, and licensing requirements for early child care and education.

Nationwide, the supply of infant and toddler #ECE does not meet demand, and the costs of care are #unaffordable for many #families. Curious about the status in your state? Check out our new @urbaninstitute.bsky.social snapshots!

www.urban.org/data-tools/s...

Excited to see everyone in Chicago for #AEFP2026!

I 💙 you california

Girls fell further behind in math during, after pandemic — Harvard Gazette Leading sociologist says emotional, family, social disruptions likelier cause than school closures.

Pleased to see our research on the pandemic’s unequal impact on girls’ and boys’ test scores covered by The Harvard Gazette. The math gender gap is now larger than at any point in the past 50 years. Our evidence points to out-of-school factors as potential drivers: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Abstract for "The truly isolated: Spatial isolation of advantage in the United States" by Shannon Rieger, Angela Li, and Patrick Sharkey, published at Urban Studies

👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.

👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...