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Kelly Purtell
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Associate Professor, HDFS, Ohio State. Early education, policy, and poverty.

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · Jan 16
Why I like preregistration (and it’s not about p-hacking). When done right, it unifies the substance of science with the scientific method.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/01/16/w...
Why I like preregistration (and it’s not about p-hacking). When done right, it unifies the substance of science with the scientific method. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Scien...
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Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social · Dec 18
Please circulate: we have an open PhD-level (education, developmental psychology, sociology, economics, or other social science) research position in the Center for Thriving Children for someone cityconnects.applytojob.com/apply/eDFIzj...
Researcher - City Connects, Center for Thriving Children - Career Page
Apply to Researcher at City Connects, Center for Thriving Children in Boston, MA.
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · Nov 17
Expectations about effect sizes are a key challenge to bridging the #EdResearch and policy / practice communities.

Many educators read Visible Learning and believe that 0.4 SD being the "hinge point" - a marker of some practice being worth doing. But that's very misleading 1/2

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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · Dec 4
Demographically adjusted NAEP scores for 2022 just dropped.

How did your state do? www.urban.org/research/pub...
States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2022 Nation’s Report Card
www.urban.org

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David Purpura @davidjpurpura.bsky.social · Dec 3
HDFS @ Purdue is hiring a research professor (assistant/associate level) focused on early childhood education. This position is a non-tenure, but promotable, track. View the ad and submit your materials at: careers.purdue.edu/job/Professo.... We will begin reviewing applications after January 2nd.

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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · Nov 25
Mississippi's literacy promotion policy did boost student achievement on national tests: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Comprehensive early literacy policy and the “Mississippi Miracle”
In 2013, Mississippi ranked 49th in fourth grade reading achievement on the National Assessment of Education Progress. By 2019, the state ranked 29th.…
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Rachel G. Payne (she/they) @rpayne.bsky.social · Nov 23
Hey #ece educators, I’m writing about #HeadStart for School Library Journal. If you work in Head Start, I’d love to hear about collaborations you have with the local public library. Also, tell me about how you are feeling about potential cuts from the new administration. DM’s ok #ecesky #edusky #edu

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Thomas S. Dee @tomdee.bsky.social · Nov 21
At today's #2024APPAM Rossi Award Lecture, I’ll argue the substantial impact of open-science practices has been far too narrow.

It’s time to adapt & adopt open-science practices—especially
preregistration—for quasi-experimental designs (QEDs).

#EconSky #EduSky #APPAM2024 @appam.bsky.social

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Christine Dickason, PhD @christinedickason.bsky.social · Nov 19
Corporal punishment has long been banned in prisons. But 70,000 kids still receive corporal punishment in our nation’s schools. My new piece, with John Bellaire, explores the state of this practice in our country and its impact on students. #EduSky bellwether.org/blog/corpora...
Corporal Punishment in K-12 Public Schools: Where Does It Stand in 2024? | Bellwether
In October 1970, Willie Wright, a middle school principal in Florida, used a wooden paddle to strike his 8th-grade student James Ingraham more than 20 times. Ingraham subsequently sought medical treat...
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Lucy Sorensen @lucy-sorensen.bsky.social · Nov 18
First new working paper thread on Blue Sky! 🧵

In this study, Moontae Hwang, Marzuka Ahmad Radia, and I look at the impacts of school building HVAC system conditions on student outcomes in New York State . . .

edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1093
A screenshot of the title and abstract of the paper, also available on the link

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Theresa Anderson @theresamanderson.bsky.social · Nov 18
I guess I'll start by sharing some neat data. Because in the policy research world, that's a polite way to say hello.

Nearly 1 in 5 US undergraduate students have dependent children. 70% of those student parents are women. Helping them complete degrees pays off big, for them and their children.
When a mom enrolls in college...and completes a degree: Payoffs for mothers who reenroll in school include earnings gains of $2,732/year on average. But when mothers reenroll and complete a college degree their earnings gains average $8,934/year. Children of mothers who reenroll and complete a degree experience gains in reading and verbal scores, are 9% more likely to complete high school, 21% more likely to enroll in college, and 38% more likely to get a college degree; and those children experience earnings gains of $5,400/year in early adulthood. Source: Theresa Anderson. 2022. What if Mom Went Back to School? Washington, DC: Urban Institute. Dollar values are update from the original brief to 2024 US dollars.

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Kelly Purtell @kmpurtell.bsky.social · Nov 18
Important ideas for other states in here too!

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Pia Caronongan @piacar.bsky.social · Nov 18
Massachusetts has made big investments in ECE but there’s still much to uncover about how to better support early educators. Wrote about what we know so far, key questions to answer, and potential for building capacity to do so. #EduSky #ECEsky 👇🏽

wheelockpolicycenter.org/partnerships...
Early Education Workforce Supports at Scale: How state-level data and research could improve innovations and investments in Massachusetts
Massachusetts lacks foundational insights and a comprehensive understanding of the Early Childhood Education (ECE) workforce. The persistence of these blind spots will undoubtedly constrain continued ...
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Nov 18
Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Nov 18
Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research

Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it

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The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price NBER Working Paper No. 33164 November 2024 JEL No. 123, 124, N32 ABSTRACT We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.

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Christina Weiland @weilanch.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hadn’t seen a women in education policy research starter pack yet. Please let me know if I missed you… still getting my bearings in the new place.

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Pia Caronongan @piacar.bsky.social · Nov 13
Very helpful summary here of the results of various ECE-focused ballot measures across the country hechingerreport.org/how-child-fo...
Voters support ballot measures for child services - The Hechinger Report
Voters across the country showed overwhelming support for ballot measures for child care and other services
hechingerreport.org

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Sean Corcoran @seanpcorcoran.org · Nov 12
My colleague Cynthia Osborne is seeking a strong writer for her PN-3 Policy Impact Center at Vanderbilt who can translate complex research findings for a broad audience. Details below and please feel free to share! ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Sr. Communications Specialist (Writing and Translation)- Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center
The Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, aims to accelerate states’ implementation of evidence-based policies that help ...
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Kelly Purtell @kmpurtell.bsky.social · Jun 13
Congrats!