Ana Whitaker
@anawhit.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UDel in HDFS. Early care and education policy researcher.
Honored to receive the Mangone Young Scholars award from the University of Delaware. I'm lucky to be supported by incredible colleagues and to be in a department that encourages and values early career researchers. 🩷
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Whitaker and Kunjapur named Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholars | UDaily
Young, promising scholars recognized for their outstanding research
www.udel.edu
September 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Honored to receive the Mangone Young Scholars award from the University of Delaware. I'm lucky to be supported by incredible colleagues and to be in a department that encourages and values early career researchers. 🩷
www.udel.edu/udaily/2025/...
www.udel.edu/udaily/2025/...
Excited to share our new publication in JPAM - "Why are preschool programs becoming less effective?"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#EdPolicy #EarlyChildhood #QuantResearch #RCTs
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#EdPolicy #EarlyChildhood #QuantResearch #RCTs
Why are preschool programs becoming less effective?
Public preschool programs are heralded as an effective policy tool for promoting the development and lifelong well-being of children from low-income families. Recent preschool evaluations report dive....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Excited to share our new publication in JPAM - "Why are preschool programs becoming less effective?"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#EdPolicy #EarlyChildhood #QuantResearch #RCTs
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#EdPolicy #EarlyChildhood #QuantResearch #RCTs
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Developing a syllabus for the upcoming academic year? Consider including the AEFP Live Handbook. It provides a dynamic, evolving collection of insights from education finance and policy experts. A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research: livehandbook.org/
Evidence-Based Education Policy Research | Live Handbook
Explore evidence-based education policy research at our digital hub. Access data-driven insights to improve learning outcomes and shape effective policies.
livehandbook.org
August 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Developing a syllabus for the upcoming academic year? Consider including the AEFP Live Handbook. It provides a dynamic, evolving collection of insights from education finance and policy experts. A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research: livehandbook.org/
Our paper empirically examining the early childhood education structure-process-outcome model is out now in Developmental Psychology.
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APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
July 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Our paper empirically examining the early childhood education structure-process-outcome model is out now in Developmental Psychology.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...
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July 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...
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Great flash talks this morning from @chloergibbs.bsky.social and @anawhit.bsky.social about the impacts of early childhood education policies, part of the new AEFP Live Handbook! #AEFP2025
March 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Great flash talks this morning from @chloergibbs.bsky.social and @anawhit.bsky.social about the impacts of early childhood education policies, part of the new AEFP Live Handbook! #AEFP2025
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Objective, comprehensive, rigorous, timely, and useful:
A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research.
#EdResearch #EdPolicy
livehandbook.org
A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research.
#EdResearch #EdPolicy
livehandbook.org
Evidence-Based Education Policy Research | Live Handbook
Explore evidence-based education policy research at our digital hub. Access data-driven insights to improve learning outcomes and shape effective policies.
livehandbook.org
March 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Objective, comprehensive, rigorous, timely, and useful:
A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research.
#EdResearch #EdPolicy
livehandbook.org
A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research.
#EdResearch #EdPolicy
livehandbook.org
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Absolutely freakish by Darnold. How did he keep his eyes down field? How did he escape? Goodness gracious
December 8, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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📢 Another new post-doc position at @UChicago! The Committee on Education seeks an early childhood development scholar from any relevant discipline. EOE/Vet/Disability. Work with us @HarrisPolicy @HarrisBIPLab among other units.
voices.uchicago.edu/coed/about-ies
voices.uchicago.edu/coed/about-ies
About IES | Committee on Education
voices.uchicago.edu
November 21, 2024 at 5:41 PM
📢 Another new post-doc position at @UChicago! The Committee on Education seeks an early childhood development scholar from any relevant discipline. EOE/Vet/Disability. Work with us @HarrisPolicy @HarrisBIPLab among other units.
voices.uchicago.edu/coed/about-ies
voices.uchicago.edu/coed/about-ies
Yes! Please share! Twitter was helpful in introducing me to new research and I’m hopeful we build that same vibe over here too.
No need to apologize for promoting your work here.
Who better to tell us about it? Who knows it sooner or better?
Who better to tell us about it? Who knows it sooner or better?
November 19, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Yes! Please share! Twitter was helpful in introducing me to new research and I’m hopeful we build that same vibe over here too.
Here's a good read for those intro to research/grad school courses.
Community has been essential to my success and something I strive to promote and create in the spaces I join.
Community has been essential to my success and something I strive to promote and create in the spaces I join.
November 18, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Here's a good read for those intro to research/grad school courses.
Community has been essential to my success and something I strive to promote and create in the spaces I join.
Community has been essential to my success and something I strive to promote and create in the spaces I join.
We are hiring in our brand new Social Work program!
Happy to answer any questions about UD's College of Education and Human Development. I have really fabulous colleagues :)
Check out the position in the link below.
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Happy to answer any questions about UD's College of Education and Human Development. I have really fabulous colleagues :)
Check out the position in the link below.
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
University of Delaware - Details - Assistant Professor, Master of Social Work
careers.udel.edu
November 18, 2024 at 2:35 AM
We are hiring in our brand new Social Work program!
Happy to answer any questions about UD's College of Education and Human Development. I have really fabulous colleagues :)
Check out the position in the link below.
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Happy to answer any questions about UD's College of Education and Human Development. I have really fabulous colleagues :)
Check out the position in the link below.
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
Going to #APPAM2024? Check this out!
I'm hoping to stop by this happy hour. If you are going to APPAM and want to connect, send me a chat/email!
I'm hoping to stop by this happy hour. If you are going to APPAM and want to connect, send me a chat/email!
Education scholars heading to #APPAM2024 - @christocleve.bsky.social and I are organizing an informal happy hour meet up Thursday night 11/21 at The Brass Tap, 7pm! Would love to reconnect with folks while we're all together next week.
Please amplify and feel free to invite others!
Please amplify and feel free to invite others!
November 15, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Going to #APPAM2024? Check this out!
I'm hoping to stop by this happy hour. If you are going to APPAM and want to connect, send me a chat/email!
I'm hoping to stop by this happy hour. If you are going to APPAM and want to connect, send me a chat/email!
Starter packs are a really smart idea. Makes this site much less daunting/easier to navigate. Also really helpful to share with students and for them to build their online community.
November 15, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Starter packs are a really smart idea. Makes this site much less daunting/easier to navigate. Also really helpful to share with students and for them to build their online community.
Want to give a good scientific talk? TELL A GOOD STORY. don’t show the audience every result, don’t give us one slide on every paper you’ve ever published. If I want to read your resume, I will. Teach me something, tell me a story.
November 15, 2024 at 2:18 PM
ECE folks - reach out to Pia to get added to the starter pack!
Thanks for continuing to spread the word, Ana! I did just add my Bluesky handle to the description so people can contact me if they want to be included.
November 14, 2024 at 4:24 PM
ECE folks - reach out to Pia to get added to the starter pack!
Given the new followers (hello 👋!), I want to reshare this starter pack on ECE policy and research.
This list is full of really smart, thoughtful folks and I expect the group to just keep growing!
go.bsky.app/SpVmXZP
This list is full of really smart, thoughtful folks and I expect the group to just keep growing!
go.bsky.app/SpVmXZP
November 14, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Given the new followers (hello 👋!), I want to reshare this starter pack on ECE policy and research.
This list is full of really smart, thoughtful folks and I expect the group to just keep growing!
go.bsky.app/SpVmXZP
This list is full of really smart, thoughtful folks and I expect the group to just keep growing!
go.bsky.app/SpVmXZP
Well this is great news!
Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Well this is great news!
Thanks to @piacar.bsky.social for putting this early care and education policy and researcher starter pack together!
Glad we are continuing a community in a new space
go.bsky.app/SpVmXZP
Glad we are continuing a community in a new space
go.bsky.app/SpVmXZP
November 12, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Thanks to @piacar.bsky.social for putting this early care and education policy and researcher starter pack together!
Glad we are continuing a community in a new space
go.bsky.app/SpVmXZP
Glad we are continuing a community in a new space
go.bsky.app/SpVmXZP
On a brighter note: I have 2 recent working papers to share, both led by PhD students!
Paper 1: we examine how redshirting patterns changed during the pandemic. We find increased redshirting, particularly among groups not previously likely to redshirt.
edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1038
Paper 1: we examine how redshirting patterns changed during the pandemic. We find increased redshirting, particularly among groups not previously likely to redshirt.
edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1038
Changes in Kindergarten Redshirting During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study examined the impact of COVID-19 on academic "redshirting" in kindergarten, the practice of holding a child back for a year and enrolling them in kindergarten at age 6, using student-level d...
edworkingpapers.com
November 12, 2024 at 1:18 PM
On a brighter note: I have 2 recent working papers to share, both led by PhD students!
Paper 1: we examine how redshirting patterns changed during the pandemic. We find increased redshirting, particularly among groups not previously likely to redshirt.
edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1038
Paper 1: we examine how redshirting patterns changed during the pandemic. We find increased redshirting, particularly among groups not previously likely to redshirt.
edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1038
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
Here's a great starter list - just followed it!
Here is a public policy starter list. Mostly people who are studying the social safety net.
go.bsky.app/6W6j6oS
go.bsky.app/6W6j6oS
November 11, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Here's a great starter list - just followed it!
Finally making the full transition over here from Twitter.
Any starter packs that are a must in the education, early childhood, social policy worlds?
Looking forward to engaging with everyone here💙
Any starter packs that are a must in the education, early childhood, social policy worlds?
Looking forward to engaging with everyone here💙
November 11, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Finally making the full transition over here from Twitter.
Any starter packs that are a must in the education, early childhood, social policy worlds?
Looking forward to engaging with everyone here💙
Any starter packs that are a must in the education, early childhood, social policy worlds?
Looking forward to engaging with everyone here💙