Cara Jackson
@carajackson.bsky.social
Devoted to development & use of evidence to improve educational policy, practice, & outcomes. Evidence Use in Education, LLC. Past president https://aefpweb.org/. Co-editor: http://rb.gy/ipo4d5 & https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED603550
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Democratizing the Development of Evidence - Cara Jackson, 2022
This essay offers a framework for broader community involvement as a means of increasing the relevance and usefulness of evidence developed. This essay begins b...
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If we care about evidence being used in policy and practice, we should think about what questions policymakers and practitioners have.
Some thoughts on how to get started in Democratizing the Development of Evidence
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Some thoughts on how to get started in Democratizing the Development of Evidence
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The face of someone waiting silently, like a Seal Team 6 member, to make his move for Thanksgiving food.
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The face of someone waiting silently, like a Seal Team 6 member, to make his move for Thanksgiving food.
Things I overheard at Thanksgiving:
"Where did I put the turkey?"
"Is that your wine glass on the floor?"
"It's not like we used a lot of dishes."
We used every dish in the house. I am now convinced that just as men are more likely to be color blind, they may also suffer from dish blindness.
"Where did I put the turkey?"
"Is that your wine glass on the floor?"
"It's not like we used a lot of dishes."
We used every dish in the house. I am now convinced that just as men are more likely to be color blind, they may also suffer from dish blindness.
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Things I overheard at Thanksgiving:
"Where did I put the turkey?"
"Is that your wine glass on the floor?"
"It's not like we used a lot of dishes."
We used every dish in the house. I am now convinced that just as men are more likely to be color blind, they may also suffer from dish blindness.
"Where did I put the turkey?"
"Is that your wine glass on the floor?"
"It's not like we used a lot of dishes."
We used every dish in the house. I am now convinced that just as men are more likely to be color blind, they may also suffer from dish blindness.
Of course she waited until one minute before I was supposed to start peeling vegetables to come sleep on top of me.
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Of course she waited until one minute before I was supposed to start peeling vegetables to come sleep on top of me.
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Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Let’s all take a moment to be thankful for the things that are truly important in life… mashed potatoes and scalloped potatoes and potatoes au gratin and tater tots and baked potatoes and sweet potatoes and also family or whatever idk
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Let’s all take a moment to be thankful for the things that are truly important in life… mashed potatoes and scalloped potatoes and potatoes au gratin and tater tots and baked potatoes and sweet potatoes and also family or whatever idk
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
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This looks cool and promising.
New paper out in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social !
We (@kwinter.bsky.social, @kaiepstude.bsky.social , Bob Fennis and I) found that encouraging counterfactual thinking reduces engagement with conspiracy theories (i.e., clicks on, and reading times for, conspiracy articles).
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We (@kwinter.bsky.social, @kaiepstude.bsky.social , Bob Fennis and I) found that encouraging counterfactual thinking reduces engagement with conspiracy theories (i.e., clicks on, and reading times for, conspiracy articles).
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November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This looks cool and promising.
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Retractions in medical journals disproportionately less likely to include women authors. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Retractions in medical journals disproportionately less likely to include women authors. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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This Thanksgiving, I’m sending deep gratitude to all my friends and neighbors in Maryland’s beautiful Eighth District, including more than 50,000 besieged federal workers, for their ongoing contributions to our community and our nation. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This Thanksgiving, I’m sending deep gratitude to all my friends and neighbors in Maryland’s beautiful Eighth District, including more than 50,000 besieged federal workers, for their ongoing contributions to our community and our nation. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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Nearly every mechanism that made my career possible—Ford, NSF, Harvard BiGS—is gone or on the way to the chopping block.
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Nearly every mechanism that made my career possible—Ford, NSF, Harvard BiGS—is gone or on the way to the chopping block.
Cheese and wine for dinner, not sure if this is Pre-Thanksgiving or if I'm at a conference with my relatives.
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Cheese and wine for dinner, not sure if this is Pre-Thanksgiving or if I'm at a conference with my relatives.
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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This whole article is insane
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This whole article is insane
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NEW RESOURCE: The current administration took down many federal #EnvironmentalJustice & #ClimateJustice databases.
Our new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social lifts up various efforts that have republished those vital data & visualization tools:
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/106
#SciEd #TeachClimate
Our new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social lifts up various efforts that have republished those vital data & visualization tools:
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/106
#SciEd #TeachClimate
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
NEW RESOURCE: The current administration took down many federal #EnvironmentalJustice & #ClimateJustice databases.
Our new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social lifts up various efforts that have republished those vital data & visualization tools:
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/106
#SciEd #TeachClimate
Our new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social lifts up various efforts that have republished those vital data & visualization tools:
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/106
#SciEd #TeachClimate
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My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.
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Why impact evaluations are so important: not everything that sounds like a good policy actually has the desired impact. While many interventions are highly effective, others don't work at all:
Examining the One Laptop Per Child program in Peruvian rural primary schools finds no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative ones on grade progression, from Cueto, Beuermann, Cristia, Malamud, and Pardo www.nber.org/papers/w34495
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Why impact evaluations are so important: not everything that sounds like a good policy actually has the desired impact. While many interventions are highly effective, others don't work at all:
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Short, funny, and, at this point, sad to read. It was Jan. 19, 2017, and Trump was about to be inaugurated. So we wrote him a Constitution in tweets and hashtags. Starts out this way: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Short, funny, and, at this point, sad to read. It was Jan. 19, 2017, and Trump was about to be inaugurated. So we wrote him a Constitution in tweets and hashtags. Starts out this way: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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You're kidding me. We only rate dogs. This is a rainbow bagel. I really need you all to start sending us dogs, because we only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: mrpeanutbutter.69)
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You're kidding me. We only rate dogs. This is a rainbow bagel. I really need you all to start sending us dogs, because we only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: mrpeanutbutter.69)
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email : Webview : Save the Date - Third Annual Education Law Symposium (March 23, 2026)
t.e2ma.net
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
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The good news: the president has pardoned the turkey.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The good news: the president has pardoned the turkey.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby — theonion.com/white-house-...
White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby
WASHINGTON—Describing the practice as a “fun little side project” rather than an occupation, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced Monday that nursing would be reclassified as a hobby under new ...
theonion.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby — theonion.com/white-house-...
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Are the tech firms as bad as, say, Standard Oil was? Acemoglu says no, worse!
1) tech firms valuations much higher
2) tech firms span sectors, control direction of technological change (“real worry”)
3) tech firms’ “secret sauce” is controlling info, provides excess power over competitors
1) tech firms valuations much higher
2) tech firms span sectors, control direction of technological change (“real worry”)
3) tech firms’ “secret sauce” is controlling info, provides excess power over competitors
I joined @utopiaspodcast.bsky.social for a conversation on Ramesh's podcast Utopias with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan. We discussed the power of Big Tech, the dangers and opportunities of AI, and much more. Listen to our full conversation here: www.buzzsprout.com/2272465/epis....
25. Daron Acemoglu - Utopias with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan
Daron Acemoglu is an acclaimed economist, author, and professor at MIT. In 2024, he received the Nobel Prize in Economics and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences. His research focuses on ...
www.buzzsprout.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Are the tech firms as bad as, say, Standard Oil was? Acemoglu says no, worse!
1) tech firms valuations much higher
2) tech firms span sectors, control direction of technological change (“real worry”)
3) tech firms’ “secret sauce” is controlling info, provides excess power over competitors
1) tech firms valuations much higher
2) tech firms span sectors, control direction of technological change (“real worry”)
3) tech firms’ “secret sauce” is controlling info, provides excess power over competitors
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Breaking News: Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre who testified a century later in Congress to the terror she witnessed in the hope of winning reparations, died at 111. nyti.ms/4or9B1e
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Breaking News: Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre who testified a century later in Congress to the terror she witnessed in the hope of winning reparations, died at 111. nyti.ms/4or9B1e
I just really want this segment to come with the sad trombone sound. Is that too much to ask?
CNN: Breaking news… this is big, we have learned that the justice department's case against former FBI director Jim Comey and the New York attorney general have both been dismissed
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I just really want this segment to come with the sad trombone sound. Is that too much to ask?