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Anika Alam
@anikaalam.bsky.social
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AI in education researcher. PhD in Education Policy. Former teacher. She/her.
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edsi-umd.bsky.social
🎓 Can machine learning help provide equitable predictions for high school dropout?
@anikaalam.bsky.social's dissertation digs deep into algorithmic bias, revealing how models can unintentionally disadvantage students from marginalized backgrounds.

🔍Read more: www.proquest.com/docview/3217...
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August 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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edsi-umd.bsky.social
🚀 Excited to team up with @UBuffalo’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science to host a workshop on automated speech recognition (ASR) in education! 🎙️📚

We'll dive into how ASR can support learning and provide hands-on training focused on children’s speech.

#childASR #edtech
July 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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paul-bruno.com
Universal Pre-K as Economic Stimulus: Evidence from Nine States and Large Cities in the U.S. www.nber.org/papers/w3376...

"Notably, each dollar spent on UPK generated between 3 to over 20 dollars in aggregate earnings – enough that tax revenues might fully cover costs."
Universal Pre-K as Economic Stimulus: Evidence from Nine States and Large Cities in the U.S.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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May 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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carajackson.bsky.social
New dashboard explores some of the factors impacting students’
opportunities to learn and the disparities in opportunity to learn experienced by Black and white students in a given state.

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May 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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ericahgreenberg.bsky.social
🌟What if early educators were paid like K-12 teachers? New evidence from Washington, DC shows what would happen: more stability in the child care workforce, higher-quality caregiving, and greater mental health and financial well-being for early educators.🌟

#EduSkyECEC

www.urban.org/research/pub...
Wage Enhancements Benefit Child Care Staffing in DC
In this summary, we provide sustained evidence of the benefits of the District of Columbia’s wage enhancement program for early childhood educators, the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, to ch...
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May 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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maggiereeves1.bsky.social
Hey #edusky and #econsky - the Education Data Portal has been updated with IPEDS fall data collection, CCD, CRDC (through 20), and SAIPE through 2023. Have at it and know further updates to CRDC and IPEDS are forthcoming!
educationdata.urban.org/documentatio...
The Urban Institute’s Education Data Portal offers users the ability to view data endpoints and select summary endpoints directly in their web browser. Users can access this application programming interface (API) by directly hitting a URL endpoint or by using Stata or R. All data are returned in JSON format and can be viewed directly in a web browser.
educationdata.urban.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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andrewdeanho.bsky.social
Want to help save research using NCES restricted-use data? Here is a gdrive with actions, background, and context from my colleague sean reardon (sharing with permission):
1) actions
2) background
3) list of data files: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
March 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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carajackson.bsky.social
Objective, comprehensive, rigorous, timely, and useful:
A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research.

#EdResearch #EdPolicy

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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
anikaalam.bsky.social
Could not have been possible without my awesome cohort mates!
brandonjharrison.bsky.social Brandon J. Harrison @brandonjharrison.bsky.social · Mar 5
Super proud of my multi-institutional* cohort mate @anikaalam.bsky.social for passing her defense today. Congrats Dr. Alam!!!
*From @teacherscollege.bsky.social to @penngse.bsky.social to 🎓
March 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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jenjennings.bsky.social
What kind of research was cancelled by Dept of Ed?
Bread & butter work to improve kids' achievement & lives:
🚸Enhancing math & writing instruction
🚸Helping kids w disabilities transition after HS
🚸Reducing teacher shortages
Mathematica statement on the cancellation of Regional Educational Laboratories
Mathematica statement on the cancellation of Regional Educational Laboratories The Congressionally mandated Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) supported the work of state and local education age...
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February 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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dynarski.bsky.social
FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
February 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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doughesm.bsky.social
Knowing what works, for whom, and under what conditions is one of the most powerful tools I can imagine in public policy. Adding cost effectiveness analysis can improve efficiency while understanding context supports generalizability.
February 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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debrawexler.bsky.social
Education scholar friends: People don’t necessarily understand the value of education research in the same intuitive way they understand the value of research into cancer, etc. Drop examples of high-impact edu research in the thread below. #edusky
apple.news/Atlzcr6jARYG...
Education Department slashes funding for research contracts, grants — POLITICO
About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were targeted.
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February 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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annowens.bsky.social
Another great resource: the Segregation Tracking Project. We built off NCES data to create Longitudinal Imputed School Database. Race/eth and free lunch data for every school in the US 1991-2022. We impute erroneous/missing data but retain original CCD values.

edopportunity.org/segregation/
February 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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ericahgreenberg.bsky.social
🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟

#EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC
educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
Education Data Explorer
Explore education data
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February 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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ericahgreenberg.bsky.social
Great coverage of new findings from our DC Pre-K study c/o @conorpwilliams.bsky.social!

@anikaalam.bsky.social @justinbdoromal.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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chingos.bsky.social
Demographically adjusted 2024 NAEP scores, hot off the presses! www.urban.org/research/pub...
States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress
www.urban.org
January 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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ericahgreenberg.bsky.social
New evidence confirms what we know well: starting early is best for students, families, and education systems.

Great new essay from @anikaalam.bsky.social and our DC PreK study team published by the Learning Curve @urbaninstitute.bsky.social.

#edusky #edpolisky #eduskyecec
December 18, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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chingos.bsky.social
The latest Learning Curve essay looks at how DC's prek program for 3-year-olds mitigated school enrollment declines during the pandemic.

Read more from @anikaalam.bsky.social @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social & colleagues: www.urban.org/research/pub...
How Public PK3 Mitigated School Enrollment Declines during the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted student learning and the delivery of public education. Across the United States, most public K–12 schools saw widespread enrollment declines during the 2020–21...
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December 18, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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ericahgreenberg.bsky.social
Sometimes researchers are lucky enough to study solutions.

Our work on DC's Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund is 2 years in the making and findings are clear.

We know now what a big change it has brought to people's lives. It was long overdue.

www.npr.org/2024/12/12/n...
How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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carajackson.bsky.social
"A key implication for researchers is to appreciate that methodological expertise alone is insufficient, and that practitioners’ and families’ experiences with the education system and knowledge of local contexts constitute valuable forms of knowledge" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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December 5, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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joshua-goodman.com
I'm thrilled to see this site building a serious community of researchers, writers and policymakers focused on education policy and economics.

Below are links to 3 Starter Packs I've made to help you connect with such folks.

Please let me know if I've missed you. The volume of requests has been 😮
November 13, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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weilanch.bsky.social
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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November 18, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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jeremylsinger.bsky.social
This is really important new evidence on early warning systems for absenteeism in action. Identifying students is a good first step but it still requires follow up resources and practices that adequately address their barriers to attendance!

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February 7, 2024 at 1:28 PM
anikaalam.bsky.social
Summer EBT programs are essential for child and family well-being. We can and must do more to combat food insecurity.

"Nearly 10 million children won’t get summer food benefits as states opt out of new federal program."
Here’s why at least 13 states won’t be offering new $120 food benefit to kids this summer
Some states said they didn’t have enough time or money to get Summer EBT up and running this year, while others seemed to oppose the program for political reasons.
www.chalkbeat.org
January 11, 2024 at 6:22 PM