Smart students - they are probably trying to avoid too much of a good thing!

Congrats, Todd!

I think my take is a bit more nuanced than yours here given the variation in policy/implementation. I tried to capture that in the piece, you should read it.

Michigan study is important, here are my thoughts on it:

If you are trying to make sense of the recent evidence on test-based retention, this might help!

Congrats, Riley!

You never know...there is no causal link yet :)

Congrats!

Has anyone written a paper about the effects of receiving a "best reviewer" award on the number of review requests?

I would definitely read it :)

Great work by @jieezhong.bsky.social!

If you are trying to make sense of the evidence on test-based grade retention policies, I have a new chapter that just came out @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social:

livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...

🚨Ed policy researchers, look at the newest special call!

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And declines in student achievement among Hispanic and Spanish-speaking students, both U.S. and foreign born.

www.nber.org/papers/w34452

DO NOT check silver!

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🎯 Essential takeaways from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series!

A summary of “The Impact of Cellphone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida” by David Figlio and @uozek.bsky.social

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Pretty well established finding that immigration raids of workplaces reduce student test performance for nearby schools, including for non-vulnerable students. The general DHS surge appears to be doing the same for student performance. www.nber.org/papers/w34452

Congrats, @jieezhong.bsky.social!

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: How does the surge in US immigration enforcement affect students?

David Figlio and @uozek.bsky.social find that heightened immigration enforcement in 2025 reduced test scores for both US-born and foreign-born Spanish-speaking students.

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Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here.

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...

New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning

drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQ...

(Extremely) proud musician husband moment!!

New Paper 📝📢
"The Impact of Cellphone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida"
✍️ David N. Figlio @uozek.bsky.social

The study highlights that cellphone bans have a greater effect in middle and high schools, where smartphone ownership is more common.
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School cellphone bans have spread with little hard data. A new study finds benefits and costs. Researchers studying a large urban district in Florida found modest improvements in test scores after schools banned cellphones. They also saw suspensions rise.

New study on the impact of cellphone bans from Figlio & @uozek.bsky.social - evidence backs MCPS policy.

Featured in @chalkbeat.org www.chalkbeat.org/2025/10/20/n...

Paper in @nber.org www.nber.org/system/files...

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The Impact of Cellphone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New study on student cellphone bans finds short-term increases in discipline issues but ultimately improvements in both attendance and student achievement. www.nber.org/papers/w3438...

Cellphone bans can help kids learn — but Black students are suspended more as schools make the shift Thirty states now limit or ban cellphone use in classrooms, and teachers are noticing children paying attention to their lessons again. But it’s not clear whether this policy — unpopular with students and a headache for teachers to enforce — makes an academic difference. If student achievement goes up after a cellphone ban, it’s tough to know if the ban was the reason. Some other change in math or reading instruction might have caused the improvement. Or maybe the state assessment became easier to pass. Imagine if politicians required all students to wear striped shirts and test scores rose.

Cellphone bans can help kids learn — but Black students are suspended more as schools make the shift

Thirty states now limit or ban cellphone use in classrooms, and teachers are noticing children paying attention to their lessons again. But it’s not clear whether this policy — unpopular with…

Main takeaway:

"...cellphone bans could improve student outcomes, yet these benefits come at the cost of elevated suspension rates in the short term. The challenge that educators face is to minimize these short-term adverse effects until a new status quo is established in schools."

"In fact, our exploratory analysis suggests that nearly half of the test score effects of the ban in middle and high schools in the first two years can be explained by the effect of the ban on unexcused absences."

We found evidence the ban significantly reduced unexcused absences in both first and second years, especially for students in middle and high schools, providing suggestive evidence that improved student engagement and school climate could be important factors behind the observed test score benefits

Well done, Kaiser Permanente...hope to hear similar news from other insurance providers.

Nice summary of this paper by @futureedgu.bsky.social

www.future-ed.org/research-not...

I am so sorry for your loss, Daniel...

Like Chris, I am from a country with two inflation numbers - the official one and the unofficial one that is significantly higher.

I hope we can avoid that here in the U.S.