Keith Herman
@kcherman6.bsky.social
Prevention scientist | School and counseling psychologist | Kennedy’s grown up
https://moprevention.org/
https://moprevention.org/
Conceptual and methodological advances for understanding contextual, identity, and cultural effects in intervention research: The Contextually Informed Research model @mopreventionsci.bsky.social
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October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Conceptual and methodological advances for understanding contextual, identity, and cultural effects in intervention research: The Contextually Informed Research model @mopreventionsci.bsky.social
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"A 5-min measure of student-teacher interactions revealed classroom disparities in student access to opportunities to respond (OTRs) based on their disability status. OTR disparities may serve as an objective indicator of culturally responsive practices." t.co/zLPjcJBQzf
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October 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"A 5-min measure of student-teacher interactions revealed classroom disparities in student access to opportunities to respond (OTRs) based on their disability status. OTR disparities may serve as an objective indicator of culturally responsive practices." t.co/zLPjcJBQzf
Want to learn more about the Early Identification System the universal SEB screening and implementation support system? Check out the new info tabs at @mopreventionsci.bsky.social
website: moprevention.org/eis/ with FAQs answered by our school partners moprevention.org/eis-faqs/
website: moprevention.org/eis/ with FAQs answered by our school partners moprevention.org/eis-faqs/
EIS | Missouri Prevention Science Institute
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August 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Want to learn more about the Early Identification System the universal SEB screening and implementation support system? Check out the new info tabs at @mopreventionsci.bsky.social
website: moprevention.org/eis/ with FAQs answered by our school partners moprevention.org/eis-faqs/
website: moprevention.org/eis/ with FAQs answered by our school partners moprevention.org/eis-faqs/
Check out this new tutorial by Nianbo Dong on causal moderation analysis: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lUol56ZNX...
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July 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Check out this new tutorial by Nianbo Dong on causal moderation analysis: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lUol56ZNX...
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The 6th Annual Center for Rural School Mental Health Conference may have been the best one yet! We learned so much from our school, youth, and university partners. Till next year. @mopreventionsci.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The 6th Annual Center for Rural School Mental Health Conference may have been the best one yet! We learned so much from our school, youth, and university partners. Till next year. @mopreventionsci.bsky.social
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Have several datasets you need to combine but are unsure how to combine them? This post might help.
cghlewis.com/blog/joins/
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Let's talk about joins | Crystal Lewis
An review of horizontal and vertical joins with examples from education research.
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May 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Have several datasets you need to combine but are unsure how to combine them? This post might help.
cghlewis.com/blog/joins/
cghlewis.com/blog/joins/
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Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order that formally restricts the unauthorized collection of autism-related data by state agencies.
Pritzker’s order responds to federal efforts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to create databases of personal information for those with autism.
Pritzker’s order responds to federal efforts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to create databases of personal information for those with autism.
Gov. JB Pritzker signs order protecting autism data in response to federal research plan under RFK Jr.
Pritzker’s order responds to federal efforts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to create databases of personal information for those with autism “without clear legal safeguar…
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May 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order that formally restricts the unauthorized collection of autism-related data by state agencies.
Pritzker’s order responds to federal efforts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to create databases of personal information for those with autism.
Pritzker’s order responds to federal efforts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to create databases of personal information for those with autism.
"The vast majority of teachers now recognize the term evidence-based interventions/practices . . . but teachers note the same barriers to implementing mental health supports as over a decade ago." @mopreventionsci.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
APA PsycNet
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May 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"The vast majority of teachers now recognize the term evidence-based interventions/practices . . . but teachers note the same barriers to implementing mental health supports as over a decade ago." @mopreventionsci.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Another free resource from @mopreventionsci.bsky.social and @ncrsmh.bsky.social: a Professional Development Hub ruralsmh.com/implementati.... Although designed for the Early Identification System, the tools are relevant for building capacity to implement any comprehensive approach in schools.
Training Library | Rural SMH Center Site
These courses were designed to help your school create a host environment that supports a comprehensive model to identify, prevent and intervene on student mental health concerns.
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April 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Another free resource from @mopreventionsci.bsky.social and @ncrsmh.bsky.social: a Professional Development Hub ruralsmh.com/implementati.... Although designed for the Early Identification System, the tools are relevant for building capacity to implement any comprehensive approach in schools.
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The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.
Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands for deep changes
The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.
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April 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.
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There are 32m small businesses in the USA
April 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
There are 32m small businesses in the USA
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Please take a second to read my statement on the termination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions. This is devastating to science but even more so to the youth impacted. Thank you
March 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Please take a second to read my statement on the termination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions. This is devastating to science but even more so to the youth impacted. Thank you
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Exactly!
The people who are being fired did everything right to achieve the American Dream. They worked hard to get qualifications for a career that gave them a decent living and, bonus, served the community. To see them discarded like this should outrage all of us!!
The people who are being fired did everything right to achieve the American Dream. They worked hard to get qualifications for a career that gave them a decent living and, bonus, served the community. To see them discarded like this should outrage all of us!!
March 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Exactly!
The people who are being fired did everything right to achieve the American Dream. They worked hard to get qualifications for a career that gave them a decent living and, bonus, served the community. To see them discarded like this should outrage all of us!!
The people who are being fired did everything right to achieve the American Dream. They worked hard to get qualifications for a career that gave them a decent living and, bonus, served the community. To see them discarded like this should outrage all of us!!
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The IES Practice Guides and resources inform every single literacy course & training for pre-service & in-service teachers. Any literacy intervention that has evidence behind it has evidence because the studies were funded by IES, OSEP, or by NIH. Every $ spent on IES research saves tax payer $.
Educators Kata Solow & @callielowenstein.bsky.social urge everyone in the Science of Reading movement to band together to defend IES & reading research and to protect our children’s education.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@thereadingleague.org
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Stand Up for Reading Research
Stand Up for Reading Research
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March 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The IES Practice Guides and resources inform every single literacy course & training for pre-service & in-service teachers. Any literacy intervention that has evidence behind it has evidence because the studies were funded by IES, OSEP, or by NIH. Every $ spent on IES research saves tax payer $.
Just curious is anyone aware of NCEs being granted for any federally funded grant (NIH, IES, NSF, DOJ) since 2/1? I’m aware of a lot of submitted requests but not aware of any approved so far!
March 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Just curious is anyone aware of NCEs being granted for any federally funded grant (NIH, IES, NSF, DOJ) since 2/1? I’m aware of a lot of submitted requests but not aware of any approved so far!
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If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.
Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.
Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.
Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
March 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.
Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.
Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.
Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
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Hi everyone! The Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University is searching for a Chair and Professor to join our faculty in the summer of 2026.
Please share with your networks and happy to chat with anyone interested! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37806156...
Please share with your networks and happy to chat with anyone interested! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37806156...
Chair and Full Professor of Special Education - Nashville, Tennessee job with Peabody College of Education and Human Development | 37806156
We are seeking an incoming Chair who will collaborate with our faculty to determine the trajectory of the department and lead an innovative future.
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March 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Hi everyone! The Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University is searching for a Chair and Professor to join our faculty in the summer of 2026.
Please share with your networks and happy to chat with anyone interested! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37806156...
Please share with your networks and happy to chat with anyone interested! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37806156...
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If you need help explaining to people what the Department of Education does and why it matters, this, from Ben Miller (hosted by @mattyglesias.bsky.social) is as good as it gets open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...
What the Department of Education actually does
America’s least understood and most efficient agency, explained
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March 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you need help explaining to people what the Department of Education does and why it matters, this, from Ben Miller (hosted by @mattyglesias.bsky.social) is as good as it gets open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
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He's a eugenicist.
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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Good explainer. "UNC-Chapel Hill stands ready to collaborate on the development of a modernized indirect cost model. A new model should reduce inefficiencies and duplication in mandatory regulations and harmonize them across agencies." research.unc.edu/2025/03/13/u...
The “A” in “F&A:” Understanding the Value of Research Administration - UNC Research
Research administration at UNC-Chapel Hill highlights the University's stewardship of financial resources and commitment to compliance that yields the highest quality research with real world impacts.
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March 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Good explainer. "UNC-Chapel Hill stands ready to collaborate on the development of a modernized indirect cost model. A new model should reduce inefficiencies and duplication in mandatory regulations and harmonize them across agencies." research.unc.edu/2025/03/13/u...
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New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
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That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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March 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
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That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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This is the narrative 👇. We need to tell the stories again & again of how NIH & NSF funding benefits our neighbors. 🧪 #scicomm
99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Comparison of Research Spending on New Drug Approvals by the NIH vs the Pharmaceutical Industry
This cross-sectional study examines National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical industry investments in recent drug approvals.
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March 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is the narrative 👇. We need to tell the stories again & again of how NIH & NSF funding benefits our neighbors. 🧪 #scicomm
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In my inbox today: Shallow Meritocracy
March 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
In my inbox today: Shallow Meritocracy
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I had the opportunity to create 23 FREE and DOWNLOADABLE modules for the teaching of math. Over the next few months, I'll highlight these! First up, place value! Check out these lesson guides, problem sets, and vocabulary cards! https://buff.ly/4bkxpyQ
February 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I had the opportunity to create 23 FREE and DOWNLOADABLE modules for the teaching of math. Over the next few months, I'll highlight these! First up, place value! Check out these lesson guides, problem sets, and vocabulary cards! https://buff.ly/4bkxpyQ
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The Department of Education is too small for a label.
Here's what the entire federal workforce actually looks like. It's mostly doctors, nurses and healthcare workers in VA hospitals, the military, and then everything else.
February 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The Department of Education is too small for a label.