We're still the rising generation, right 😅

Totally, that was how I read it. I'll just say that I think the rising generation of scholars trained at ed schools are well trained and will shift this perception.

Mostly Harmless Econometrics From Joshua Angrist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Jörn-Steffen Pischke, an irreverent guide to the essentials of econometrics

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

I think the real problem this post highlights is the perverse incentives that exist for scholars who create their own educational materials or consulting firms to put their thumb on the scale of the evidence behind their products / viewpoints. I see this all the time in the private ed sector as well

Brendan - There is definitely a distribution in the rigor of quant ed research, but this is painting with a pretty broad brush. Most ed policy programs teach the standard toolkit of causal inference, and many complex questions in ed are best answered through multiple methodological approaches. 1/2

Our full conference schedule is out and it is a banger!! Join us in RI on May 1st. 🌎+🎓

Line graph showing monthly absence rates for the 2024-25 school year. Two lines track students born inside vs. outside the U.S. from September through May. Both groups follow similar patterns through the fall, but diverge sharply at a vertical dashed line marking the January 20th inauguration. After that point, foreign-born students' absence rates remain elevated while U.S.-born rates decline as expected, eliminating the pre-inauguration gap.

NEW PAPER: We study the effects of immigration policy on student attendance in 2025. Students born outside the U.S. were 2.2pp more likely to be absent after Jan 2025 (a 37% increase).

That's ~2 extra missed days per semester.

LINK: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1453
@annenberginstitute.bsky.social

We’re live today with Dr. Claudia Persico to discuss the "invisible" factors affecting student performance: pollution and environmental health.

Final call to join the seminar: buff.ly/qtjf7KU

@edsustainable.bsky.social
@matthewakraft.com

Thanks, Jen!! 😊

Many thanks, Bo! 😊

Thank you, Judy!!

Congrats @matthewakraft.com on being named a Guggenheim Fellow! This is well deserved!

Thanks so much, Scott! Still in shock.

My award was funded by the Estate of Geraldine Jonçich Clifford, a former fellow and pioneering historian of education.

I encourage you to read about her life and work
senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/in-memoriam/...

It reminds me of the trailblazing stories of my own mom and grandmother.

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What a privilege to be among the amazing artists, scientists, and scholars named as 2026 Guggenheim Fellows. Feeling inspired and extremely grateful for all the wonderful people in my life. @guggfellows.bsky.social

www.gf.org/stories/anno...

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Join us on Wednesday for @claudiapersico.bsky.social's virtual seminar!

Two postdoc fellowships now open at @brown.edu Dept of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. One in ocean sciences (apply.interfolio.com/183855) and one in any field of geoscience (apply.interfolio.com/183852). Deadline May 1.

So honored to be inducted as an AERA Fellow this morning. @aeraedresearch.bsky.social #AERA2026

Join me at @aeraedresearch.bsky.social #AERA2026 for an amazing panel on "Schooling in the Anthropocene: Research Perspectives and Policy Priorities"

Today @ 4:15 to 5:45pm PDT
Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 306B

I'll present our recent working paper:
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1238

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So exited to learn from @claudiapersico.bsky.social! Mark your calendars.

So exited to learn from @claudiapersico.bsky.social! Mark your calendars.

March 18- SXSW March 21- Spelman's Black Beauty STEMINIST Summit April 7- 2026 Mullin Welch Lecture with Cortney Sanders April 18 - Women in Power conference with Dr. Iris Bohnet April 22 - 2026 Public Affairs Forum at Williams College April 24 - Just Book-ish with The City of Boston

It's official! This Spring, #TheDoubleTax is back on the road and may be coming to a city near you. See you soon: Austin, Atlanta, Ann Arbor, Cambridge, Williamstown, and Boston!

All tickets can be found at: annagifty.com/thedoubletax

#womenshistorymonth #blacksky #booksky

A great read from @nymag.com about time in school. A few lines made me LOL!

Determining which religious holidays to observe is challenging—but the bigger picture about how limited time in school affects student learning & working families cannot be ignored.

nymag.com/intelligence...

Join us at Brown on May 1st for a first-of-its-kind research conference at the intersection of Education X Climate.

Yesterday, one of my students shared this reflection about her experience in higher education. It really struck me as having profound implications so I'm sharing it here.

"We spend our time problematizing things but rarely looking for solutions"

Your friendly reminder that the catalyst of the high-dosage tutoring movement — MATCH Corps / SAGA Education — was a model where tutoring happened in a regular class every day of the week ~165 total hours.

Most tutoring programs we are evaluating today provide 15-30 total hours AT BEST.

#Dosage

Brown University Professor Matthew Kraft at College of Education Research Celebration: ‘We Have Not Addressed the Root Challenge of Attracting More Individuals into the Profession’ Teachers in K-12 schools represent the largest sector of college-educated workers in the United States, with 4.2 million public and private school educators accounting for about 6% of the entire colle...

Nice summary of my presentation at @ncstate.bsky.social.

ced.ncsu.edu/news/2026/03...

I was thinking micro - but I think the macro questions are really interesting. What do you think?

I’ll bite: It will, but not the way you may be anticipating. While subbing middle school math last year, students entered their in-class assignment equations into copilot and got the answers in seconds.

So teaching may have to respond to try to stay ahead of students’ AI knowledge and use.