still probably was a good choice to buy a jet ski!

Congratulations! Wishing you all the best.

'Fighting misinformation in education: what works, what doesn’t, and what we still need to learn'

New on the Evidence & Policy Blog, by M Gopalan & F Lopez:

evidenceandpolicy.home.blog/2026/03/18/f...

@bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

Just released our 2025 rankings of think tanks (& individuals) in #EdPolicy based on influence & expertise. In many instances, influence is not particularly connected to expertise. education.indiana.edu/ceep/educati...

Just Education Policy

Just Education Policy is coming back! We’re excited to announce that we are planning for an *in-person* Just Education Policy Institute this Fall 2025. Applications & more details will be released in early May. For more info. about the Just Education Policy Institute, visit justeducationpolicy.org.

Very excited to host @rajdarolia.bsky.social next week and thrilled that he’s agreed to speak with our students & broader community as part of his visit!

lying is bad folks YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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New research in AERA Open on school board service amidst COVID, culture wars & privatization: doi.org/10.1177/2332...

Evidence-Based Education Policy Research | Live Handbook Explore evidence-based education policy research at our digital hub. Access data-driven insights to improve learning outcomes and shape effective policies.

Objective, comprehensive, rigorous, timely, and useful:
A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research.

#EdResearch #EdPolicy

livehandbook.org

I'm really sorry Cara.

Mass public education is one of our civilization's greatest accomplishments. It's worth fighting for.

Mathematica 65,991 followers 1d • • • • To our clients, partners, and peers: We want to let you know that we are reducing our workforce to align with the needs of our clients and ensure the continued, exceptional support we've offered for decades to the public, private, and philanthropic sectors. The staff we are letting go are skilled, experienced, and passionate about their work. Any organization would be fortunate to have them. Please don't hesitate to reach out if we can be of assistance.

Dan Gaylin • 2nd President and CEO, NORC 10h • 너 + Follow Like many of our peer organizations, this week NORC had to reduce our staff to ensure we are operating effectively and have the right mix of skills to align with client needs. The people departing NORC are highly talented and capable professionals, and they have made important contributions to our mission of delivering trustworthy and reliable data and analysis to inform society's most important decisions. They will be valuable employees and colleagues wherever their careers take them next. To each of you who are leaving, and on behalf of everyone at NORC, I offer our deepest thanks and appreciation for your dedicated service and the lasting impact you've made on our organization.

marc MDRC 15,135 followers 9h • 0 To our collaborators: Like many of our peer organizations, MDRC has had to reduce our staff in recent days, letting go of many talented and highly skilled professionals. Each of these colleagues would be an asset to another organization, and we encourage you to consider them for any career opportunities you may have. MDRC remains committed to our mission of learning what works to improve policy, practice, and people's well-being.

// Westat Westat 35,042 followers 22h • In light of recent industry changes, Westat is making strategic reductions to our workforce to better align with our clients' needs. The talented professionals who are leaving Westat have made significant contributions to our mission and embody our values of uncompromising excellence, client commitment, and innovation. They are current and future leaders in their fields and will undoubtedly be an asset to any organization they join. We remain committed to our mission to improve lives by delivering exceptional data-driven research and technical assistance, fostering insights and solutions to advance health, education, and social and economic opportunity.

Heartbreaking to see announcements of major layoffs at most research organizations that have played a vital role in supporting federal statistics for education and developing high-quality evidence about what policies/practices actually work.

Below are just a few examples from my LinkedIn feed.

DeWine's budget includes less money for Ohio's public schools, more for vouchers and charters An analysis of the numbers in Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's proposed budget shows there are cuts to K-12 public school funding, but increases for vouchers and charter schools.

OH GOP playbook for education:
1) introduce vouchers as an "equity" initiative,
2) gradually expand voucher budgets to all families with zero accountability for private schools,
3) slowly starve public education
4) slowly remove local control by state overreach

www.statenews.org/2025-02-19/d...

These attacks will devastate kids who've finally gotten the support they need to thrive in school.

The invisible work of knowledge brokers Critically important for building capacity for knowledge exchange, it's vital we recognise and understand their contributions

📣 New: The 'invisible work' of knowledge brokers - new study explores aims, roles and impacts.

✍️ @chriscvitanovic.bsky.social and @paulcairney.bsky.social discuss implications for practice

transforming-evidence.org/blog/the-inv...

AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

yeah, your thesis seems to have held up... 🤦

modeling how to tinker toward dystopia maybe?

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research ‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.

"Information pollution" is undercutting actual research.

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research theconversation.com/fake-papers-... @joelmalin.bsky.social

Find and contact elected officials | USAGov Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.

It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

Not just the National Institutes of Health, now the National Science Foundation is put on pause.
Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.

Comprehensive Guide Helps People Who Are Undocumented Deal with Deportation Issues Tens of thousands of undocumented people are deported to Mexico and Central America each year. With the recent US presidential election, those numbers could likely increase. The Education Justice Proj...

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the world (or at least, red states) would be my oyster right now if they had!

...too bad my profs at U of I didn't have the foresight to encourage me to become an early childhood public-school bible-based curriculum specialist!