Berta Bartoli
@bertabartoli.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Psychology and Social Intervention at NYU | researching parental decision-making in context | 🇻🇪
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Anyone wishing to pontificate about changes in the demand for a college education should be forced to stare at this graph for a bit first
We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges.
But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.
But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Anyone wishing to pontificate about changes in the demand for a college education should be forced to stare at this graph for a bit first
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Excited by the prospect of Mamdani bringing his communication skills to talking about basic public functions and the people that provide them.
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Excited by the prospect of Mamdani bringing his communication skills to talking about basic public functions and the people that provide them.
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👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
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Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.
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“Sleep and circadian experts generally advocate for permanent Standard Time… Change between Standard Time and DST is not simply loss/gain of sleep, but rather misalignment between circadian and social clocks…”
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Sleep and circadian experts generally advocate for permanent Standard Time… Change between Standard Time and DST is not simply loss/gain of sleep, but rather misalignment between circadian and social clocks…”
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Immigrant Student Enrollment Is Dwindling at Schools Amid Stepped-Up Enforcement: In many school systems, the biggest factor is that far fewer families are coming from other countries.
Immigrant Student Enrollment Is Dwindling at Schools Amid Stepped-Up Enforcement
In many school systems, the biggest factor is that far fewer families are coming from other countries.
www.edweek.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Immigrant Student Enrollment Is Dwindling at Schools Amid Stepped-Up Enforcement: In many school systems, the biggest factor is that far fewer families are coming from other countries.
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This is correct! Researchers find that a) most people underestimate the administrative burdens of immigration, and b) when informed about these burdens become more supportive of immigration.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is correct! Researchers find that a) most people underestimate the administrative burdens of immigration, and b) when informed about these burdens become more supportive of immigration.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
If you missed our panel, go check out the manuscript on the conference website! Feel free to send us thoughts and ideas — timely feedback always welcome 😉
Going to #APPAM2025?
Come to our panel where @bertabartoli.bsky.social will present our paper on the impact of sleep and time policy on student disciplinary outcomes. Paper draft (with a title we are very proud of) linked
⏰Friday, November 14, 3:30 to 5:00pm
📍Room: 504 - Foss
tinyurl.com/3earym6n
Come to our panel where @bertabartoli.bsky.social will present our paper on the impact of sleep and time policy on student disciplinary outcomes. Paper draft (with a title we are very proud of) linked
⏰Friday, November 14, 3:30 to 5:00pm
📍Room: 504 - Foss
tinyurl.com/3earym6n
APPAM Fall Research Conference 2025
convention2.allacademic.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you missed our panel, go check out the manuscript on the conference website! Feel free to send us thoughts and ideas — timely feedback always welcome 😉
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Columbia sociologist of science Jonathan Cole gets it right:
“If we don’t resist collectively by all legal means, & by social influence and legislative pressure, we are apt to see the destruction of our most revered institutions and the enormous benefits they accrue to America.”
“If we don’t resist collectively by all legal means, & by social influence and legislative pressure, we are apt to see the destruction of our most revered institutions and the enormous benefits they accrue to America.”
Opinion | Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away.
The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Columbia sociologist of science Jonathan Cole gets it right:
“If we don’t resist collectively by all legal means, & by social influence and legislative pressure, we are apt to see the destruction of our most revered institutions and the enormous benefits they accrue to America.”
“If we don’t resist collectively by all legal means, & by social influence and legislative pressure, we are apt to see the destruction of our most revered institutions and the enormous benefits they accrue to America.”
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1/ Our department has been thinking about how NCES data access will be disproportionately affecting our doctoral students. Other proactive things I'm considering that your institution/department might do if you are hoping to support early career scholars/students:
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...
1) actions
2) background
3) list of data files: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
March 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
1/ Our department has been thinking about how NCES data access will be disproportionately affecting our doctoral students. Other proactive things I'm considering that your institution/department might do if you are hoping to support early career scholars/students:
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The news over the weekend and this morning have been terrifying. I'm dismayed at the total lack of action but I also have no idea how to act. I can't believe I'm watching America as I know it collapse in front of my eyes.
March 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The news over the weekend and this morning have been terrifying. I'm dismayed at the total lack of action but I also have no idea how to act. I can't believe I'm watching America as I know it collapse in front of my eyes.
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One thing everyone should understand is that DOGE has created the least efficient conditions for government I've ever seen.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
“Nobody feels like their job is safe. Everyone is on edge,” said Kim Hasenkrug, an NIH scientist emeritus… “Even the top people can’t keep track because they’re hiring and firing so much. Direct supervisors of those who were terminated didn’t even know that it was happening.”
At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control
As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.
www.statnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
One thing everyone should understand is that DOGE has created the least efficient conditions for government I've ever seen.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
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If you have research dependent on these data here is my suggestion
1/N
Big picture:
Create a dataset of cell means (cells must be big enough to pass disclosure)
- load these cell means into many, many tables & put through review
-These cell means can then be used in OLS - which runs on means
1/N
Big picture:
Create a dataset of cell means (cells must be big enough to pass disclosure)
- load these cell means into many, many tables & put through review
-These cell means can then be used in OLS - which runs on means
Research with restricted-use data is more precise, powerful, and relevant. Faculty and staff will be working through the weekend to answer important research questions before we no longer can. This is not normal, necessary, or efficient.
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
March 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
If you have research dependent on these data here is my suggestion
1/N
Big picture:
Create a dataset of cell means (cells must be big enough to pass disclosure)
- load these cell means into many, many tables & put through review
-These cell means can then be used in OLS - which runs on means
1/N
Big picture:
Create a dataset of cell means (cells must be big enough to pass disclosure)
- load these cell means into many, many tables & put through review
-These cell means can then be used in OLS - which runs on means
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Here Vox's explainer for just what is going on at the Department of Education which includes me saying I don't have faith in financial aid disbursement next year and, oh yea, I think we're in a constitutional crisis
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
March 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Here Vox's explainer for just what is going on at the Department of Education which includes me saying I don't have faith in financial aid disbursement next year and, oh yea, I think we're in a constitutional crisis
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
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I appreciate this point! If we scrutinize the exclusionary dimensions of school choice, magnet schools should be part of the conversation.
That said, my research highlights stratifying role of geog/transportation & social networks, not just admissions criteria: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
That said, my research highlights stratifying role of geog/transportation & social networks, not just admissions criteria: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
February 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I appreciate this point! If we scrutinize the exclusionary dimensions of school choice, magnet schools should be part of the conversation.
That said, my research highlights stratifying role of geog/transportation & social networks, not just admissions criteria: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
That said, my research highlights stratifying role of geog/transportation & social networks, not just admissions criteria: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.
February 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.
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If your state just handed $447M to vouchers for kids already in private school, spare me the "it’s too much money" excuse when it comes to educating undocumented immigrant students. Follow the law of the land—Plyler still stands.
Lawmakers introduce bill to keep undocumented students out of public schools
https://www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2025/02/05/republican-lawmakers-introduce-bill-keep-undocumented-students-out-of-school/
https://www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2025/02/05/republican-lawmakers-introduce-bill-keep-undocumented-students-out-of-school/
Tenn. lawmakers introduce bill to keep non-citizens out of public schools
With a measure antithetical to a legal precedent established more than 40 years ago, leading state Republicans move to let school boards ban children from attending public schools based on citizenship status.
www.chalkbeat.org
February 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If your state just handed $447M to vouchers for kids already in private school, spare me the "it’s too much money" excuse when it comes to educating undocumented immigrant students. Follow the law of the land—Plyler still stands.
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“Don’t let National School Choice Week fool you. Behind the banners extolling the virtues of vouchers, charter schools, homeschooling…a small group of wealthy heirs is using their vast sums to undermine support for public schools and the vital role they have played in our culture and economy.”
The Uber Rich Are Funding “National School Choice Week” to Attack Public Schools truthout.org/articles/mil...
The Uber Rich Are Funding “National School Choice Week” to Attack Public Schools
The school privatization PR stunt is a pet project of the Gleason family and Koch family fortunes.
truthout.org
January 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“Don’t let National School Choice Week fool you. Behind the banners extolling the virtues of vouchers, charter schools, homeschooling…a small group of wealthy heirs is using their vast sums to undermine support for public schools and the vital role they have played in our culture and economy.”
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I'm not saying a shutdown will definitely happen. I *am* saying that if one happens and you didn't grab that one census file or download the ipeds data you needed, you're gonna be mad.
Regarding a potential government shutdown, loving reminder from your neighborhood policy scholar to check and make sure you have all the data you need for the foreseeable future by Friday
December 19, 2024 at 10:11 PM
I'm not saying a shutdown will definitely happen. I *am* saying that if one happens and you didn't grab that one census file or download the ipeds data you needed, you're gonna be mad.
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The "every-bro-for-himself mentality" nails the education policy ethos of universal voucher states
Little regulation, no transparency, no accountability, no attention to inequality.
Little regulation, no transparency, no accountability, no attention to inequality.
Helpful taxonomy of 3 kinds of school choice billionaires via @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social. Another thing Christian Nationalist crew, *no government* gang, & tech bros have in common is a view that inequality is natural - why so many tech bros have a taste for *race science* pfps.org/three-kinds-...
Three Kinds of Voucher Billionaires—and Other Big Questions
pfps.org
December 16, 2024 at 9:14 PM
The "every-bro-for-himself mentality" nails the education policy ethos of universal voucher states
Little regulation, no transparency, no accountability, no attention to inequality.
Little regulation, no transparency, no accountability, no attention to inequality.
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The way to tell vouchers are a private school subsidy above all is:
The private schools retain the right to choose students and have no performance assessment or financial 🔎.
A child-centered voucher scheme would require open admissions, quality control, and $$ oversight
The private schools retain the right to choose students and have no performance assessment or financial 🔎.
A child-centered voucher scheme would require open admissions, quality control, and $$ oversight
“Best fit for their child’s needs” is campaign-style messaging meant for editorial boards and elite Dem-types.
The real school voucher goal is and has always been subsidizing religious education. It’s not more complicated than that.
Via Concord Monitor
www.concordmonitor.com/education-fr...
The real school voucher goal is and has always been subsidizing religious education. It’s not more complicated than that.
Via Concord Monitor
www.concordmonitor.com/education-fr...
Inside EFAs: A quarter of all Education Freedom Account tuition dollars went to five Christian schools, Monitor analysis finds
Editor’s note: Inside EFAs is a new occasional Monitor series that will examine New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account program from multiple perspectives over the coming months.The vast majority of...
www.concordmonitor.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:29 PM
The way to tell vouchers are a private school subsidy above all is:
The private schools retain the right to choose students and have no performance assessment or financial 🔎.
A child-centered voucher scheme would require open admissions, quality control, and $$ oversight
The private schools retain the right to choose students and have no performance assessment or financial 🔎.
A child-centered voucher scheme would require open admissions, quality control, and $$ oversight
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My adviser when I signed up for another new project:
December 10, 2024 at 6:43 PM
My adviser when I signed up for another new project:
Helpful for anyone thinking about how AI could be used as a tool in the classroom. It’s encouraging to see the nuance of both children and teachers’ perspectives — student-teacher conversations about AI in the beginning of the school year are probably a good approach.
We asked kids if it was ethical for teachers to use AI to grade. They had thoughts. #edusky
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/l...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/l...
What Students Are Saying About Teachers Using A.I. to Grade
Teenagers and educators weigh in on a recent question from The Ethicist.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Helpful for anyone thinking about how AI could be used as a tool in the classroom. It’s encouraging to see the nuance of both children and teachers’ perspectives — student-teacher conversations about AI in the beginning of the school year are probably a good approach.
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New, from @giannella.bsky.social & I: It is very likely that the Trump administration will add administrative burdens to safety net programs.
What can state and local govts do? We talk about one simple innovation to increase SNAP take-up.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
What can state and local govts do? We talk about one simple innovation to increase SNAP take-up.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Making SNAP Interviews More Flexible Increases Take-up
A tangible thing that state and local governments can do to maintain safety net access
open.substack.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:40 PM
New, from @giannella.bsky.social & I: It is very likely that the Trump administration will add administrative burdens to safety net programs.
What can state and local govts do? We talk about one simple innovation to increase SNAP take-up.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
What can state and local govts do? We talk about one simple innovation to increase SNAP take-up.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...