There’s a new bill that would make it harder for millions of eligible Americans to vote & increase costs for IL. Join me and @standupamerica.bsky.social in urging Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act: act.standupamerica.com/letters/no-o...
TIL that “Rent Now, Pay Later” loans exist and I’m furious about it.
Predatory lending—whether it’s Pay Day, Title, or now Rental Contract/Leasing Loans—extracts funds from the most vulnerable populations with no real benefit to anyone but the lenders.
Congratulations to our very own Dr. Cherie M. Avent for receiving the AEA Marcia Guttentag Promising New Evaluator Award! Dr. Avent received her award plaque at the 2025 #AEA Conference in Kansas City, MO. 🔷📚🔶
#Illinois #EducationalPsychology #Evaluation
University of Illinois System One System, Statewide Impact $24.9B in economic impact Supports 1 in 37 Illinois jobs. 500,000 Alumni in Illinois
We power progress across Illinois. 💪
With our $24.9B annual impact, we fuel jobs and opportunity while providing significant return on investment for residents, partners, and students. 📈
Drill down into the myriad ways our system boosts the state economy: https://economicimpact25.uillinois.edu
The comparisons of edtech rollout for virtual learning during covid to generative AI today ignores the trauma teachers, students, & parents were all dealing with at the time.
We now have other types of stress, but focus on grades is a persistant stressor. How do we reduce that? #AIAndStudents
Going on Now: A new direction for AI and students: Findings from the Brookings Global Task Force on AI and Education www.brookings.edu/events/a-new...
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Requirements: 18+ | in US | English fluent
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Considering the ads we are bombarded with during cyber Monday, this is an interesting read... www.brookings.edu/articles/equ...
When we avoid data on race, gender, & other traits, we lose the ability to keep people, organizations, & systems accountable in the age of Big Data & algorithms.
SNAP is likely not to be funded for November.
I wrote an article to help people that rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to afford groceries find food in their communities: blogs.uofi.uillinois.edu/view/7550/49...
Please share to help fight funger.
“Sometimes, science involves asking weird questions and getting unexpected answers…” - John Oliver, Last Week Tonight
youtu.be/xk94il8L820?...
Tuition paid by international students is a driver of the American economy. Yet, the $44-billion case for foreign education doesn’t seem to resonate anymore. Why? chroni.cl/45AzOE9
Why do qualitative methods papers always like to refer to data quality in terms of “richness and thickness”?
It just makes me hungry for really decadent desserts… that sugar crash is not gonna help me finish these revisions.
#QualitativeResearch #PhDStudentThoughts
Voting with your dollars can include supporting organizations working on things you care deeply about…
For example, you can make a donation to the
@ACLU
today and fuel the fight to protect free speech, equality, and justice for all.
action.aclu.org/give/protect...
I listened to the FLEC meeting today and tweeted some highlights for anyone interested: x.com/apelleg3/sta....
My #FinLit following is much stronger there than here, but I hope it's helpful to anyone interested in Measuring Effectiveness of Financial Literacy Programs. 😃
Anyone else pumped for the first Financial Literacy and Education Commission (FLEC) Public Meeting?
WEBCAST LINK: usdotyorktel.rev.vbrick.com#/events/78e3...
Goes til 1:45 PM CT.
Reviewing job applications that are primarily generated with AI is absolutely mind numbing.
Pro tip: When you use AI to draft responses to questions in an application or your cover letter, it reads like literally every other application.
So don’t.
*Draft it yourself.*
Then use AI for corrections
AERA and Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Ask for Injunction to Protect Institute of Education Sciences democracyforward.org/updates/expe...
It’s been a while since I posted a Friday frog feeding video.
#DartFrogs #amphibians #FrogFeedingFriday
ERIC!
“ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added.”
Colleagues, this is catastrophic for educational research.
www.governing.com/policy/major...
Green grass and a large magnolia tree on the west lawn of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s College of Education.
3 people with backpacks walk along a sidewalk on Peabody Drive, south of the School of Art + Design in Champaign, IL
A goose nesting on a lawn in front of a brick building with blue skies and some clouds overhead.
Red, yellow, and purple tulips!
My walk home from campus included blue skies, a honk, and some flowers which was a lovely distraction to share.
I’ve felt for a long time that researchers and academics are viewed as elite and out of touch by much of society because they fail to spread knowledge to the public in plain language terms.
I’m glad one thing coming from this horrible attack on science is improvement in science communication.
This article links to specific guidelines, including from NSF and DOE, for challenging grant terminations. #StandUpForScience #Academia #AcademicChatter
Tom Skilling got a hero's welcome in Chicago — and raised the alarm about cuts at the National Weather Service.
The beloved weatherman said the president's mass layoffs of researchers amid climate change shows “a level of scientific ignorance.” buff.ly/0mKMrGp
"These guys don't give a f**k about free speech--they care about THEIR speech." Jon Stewart on the right's free speech crusade
DoE doesn’t even service loans. They have contracted servicers to do that. Right now, there are 7 different servicers student loan borrowers could be assigned to.
SBA won’t be able to handle servicing either so they will also need to contract with external servicers.
studentaid.gov/manage-loans...
DoE tried a program similar to the SBA process for small businesses called FFEL.
It was retired in 2010 and borrowers who’ve been paying on those loans for over 10 years are often still confused on their rights. www.nerdwallet.com/article/loan...
