Dave Marcotte
@davemarcotte.bsky.social
Professor @ American University School of Public Affairs
Studying, education, health and child/family well-being.
Also, dad jokes.
Studying, education, health and child/family well-being.
Also, dad jokes.
Good coverage of issues and open questions here
Suicide claims more Gen Z lives than previous generation stateline.org/2025/10/02/s...
Suicide claims more Gen Z lives than previous generation stateline.org/2025/10/02/s...
Suicide claims more Gen Z lives than previous generation • Stateline
For Gen Z adults, the oldest of whom are now reaching their late 20s, suicide is taking more lives than 10 years ago when millennials were the same age.
stateline.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Good coverage of issues and open questions here
Suicide claims more Gen Z lives than previous generation stateline.org/2025/10/02/s...
Suicide claims more Gen Z lives than previous generation stateline.org/2025/10/02/s...
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🚨The PEER Center is hiring! We currently have two positions posted (details below). We're a #highered research center (led by @srcellini.bsky.social @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social) focused on generating actionable research for state, federal policy. Put your data skills to work for an important purpose!
October 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🚨The PEER Center is hiring! We currently have two positions posted (details below). We're a #highered research center (led by @srcellini.bsky.social @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social) focused on generating actionable research for state, federal policy. Put your data skills to work for an important purpose!
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🚨Interested in a PhD focusing on quant methods and education & social policy? I'm recruiting this year at @bclynchschool in the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment program www.bc.edu/bc-web/schoo...
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment - Lynch School of Education and Human Development - Boston College
MESA has been training students to examine educational programs, design quantitative research studies, develop assessment instruments, and analyze educational data to help inform policy-making for ove...
www.bc.edu
August 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🚨Interested in a PhD focusing on quant methods and education & social policy? I'm recruiting this year at @bclynchschool in the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment program www.bc.edu/bc-web/schoo...
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The application for mentees for the APPAM Mentoring Program is now open--apply today through September 5th. Learn more: www.appam.org/career-educa...
August 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The application for mentees for the APPAM Mentoring Program is now open--apply today through September 5th. Learn more: www.appam.org/career-educa...
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House/Senate are set to eliminate Grad PLUS, and put in place loan limits that would dramatically restrict graduate borrowing. Media coverage emphasizes impact this may have on very expensive programs like Medicine and Dentistry, but @peerresearch.bsky.social finds impact will be much(!) broader 1/
July 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
House/Senate are set to eliminate Grad PLUS, and put in place loan limits that would dramatically restrict graduate borrowing. Media coverage emphasizes impact this may have on very expensive programs like Medicine and Dentistry, but @peerresearch.bsky.social finds impact will be much(!) broader 1/
A group at special risk. This is harm in the service of political gain
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
Trump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A group at special risk. This is harm in the service of political gain
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
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Harvard be like....
a woman in a striped shirt and tie stands in front of a black background that says lmx improv
ALT: a woman in a striped shirt and tie stands in front of a black background that says lmx improv
media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Harvard be like....
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For those interested in education policy and the economics of education, I've put together 4 starter packs:
Faculty and researchers 1: go.bsky.app/GHJzy4L
Faculty and researchers 2: go.bsky.app/TeqwuKM
PhD students & postdocs: go.bsky.app/FUjWT5E
Journalists and writers: go.bsky.app/3XhYmo3
Faculty and researchers 1: go.bsky.app/GHJzy4L
Faculty and researchers 2: go.bsky.app/TeqwuKM
PhD students & postdocs: go.bsky.app/FUjWT5E
Journalists and writers: go.bsky.app/3XhYmo3
May 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
For those interested in education policy and the economics of education, I've put together 4 starter packs:
Faculty and researchers 1: go.bsky.app/GHJzy4L
Faculty and researchers 2: go.bsky.app/TeqwuKM
PhD students & postdocs: go.bsky.app/FUjWT5E
Journalists and writers: go.bsky.app/3XhYmo3
Faculty and researchers 1: go.bsky.app/GHJzy4L
Faculty and researchers 2: go.bsky.app/TeqwuKM
PhD students & postdocs: go.bsky.app/FUjWT5E
Journalists and writers: go.bsky.app/3XhYmo3
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Material hardship is associated with wide-ranging harms for children and their caregivers; ensuring children have their basic needs met is a shared value that should supersede partisan disagreements. To help families thrive, we should make refundable tax credits more inclusive, not less. 🧵 1/
The House R Ways & Means tax plan would take the #ChildTaxCredit away from U.S. citizen children unless both parents have SSNs – even if both parents are in the U.S. lawfully.
May 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Material hardship is associated with wide-ranging harms for children and their caregivers; ensuring children have their basic needs met is a shared value that should supersede partisan disagreements. To help families thrive, we should make refundable tax credits more inclusive, not less. 🧵 1/
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OUT TODAY: @claremccann.bsky.social, @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social, and @tiacaldwell.bsky.social wrote about the House reconciliation package for #highered. Read the full piece here: www.american.edu/spa/peer/hou.... Follow @peerresearch.bsky.social for continued analysis of the bill! 1/
House Republicans’ Proposed Overhaul of Student Aid Would Reshape Federal Higher Education Policy
Earlier this month, House Republicans introduced a bill that, if enacted, would dramatically transform the federal government’s role in helping Americans pay for college. This piece provides an overvi...
www.american.edu
May 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
OUT TODAY: @claremccann.bsky.social, @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social, and @tiacaldwell.bsky.social wrote about the House reconciliation package for #highered. Read the full piece here: www.american.edu/spa/peer/hou.... Follow @peerresearch.bsky.social for continued analysis of the bill! 1/
Super proud of and hopeful for the future because of @vhgibney.bsky.social
Congrats to her and all @au-spa.bsky.social grads today!
Congrats to her and all @au-spa.bsky.social grads today!
May 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Super proud of and hopeful for the future because of @vhgibney.bsky.social
Congrats to her and all @au-spa.bsky.social grads today!
Congrats to her and all @au-spa.bsky.social grads today!
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The new newsletter from the PEER Center has really become my one stop shop for higher ed policy news and I've appreciated how it removes some of my stress trying to keep up with everything (full disclosure: I'm on the advisory board but this is not sponcon)
www.american.edu/spa/peer/
www.american.edu/spa/peer/
Postsecondary Education & Economics Research (PEER) Project
Homepage for The Postsecondary Education & Economics Research (PEER) Center
www.american.edu
May 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The new newsletter from the PEER Center has really become my one stop shop for higher ed policy news and I've appreciated how it removes some of my stress trying to keep up with everything (full disclosure: I'm on the advisory board but this is not sponcon)
www.american.edu/spa/peer/
www.american.edu/spa/peer/
Kristi Noem's Diary
Ruin a movie with one Trump official
When Stephen Miller Met Sally
When Stephen Miller Met Sally
May 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Kristi Noem's Diary
Sometimes, good things happen for good people. So happy for @rnajam.bsky.social on next steps and all the good work ahead
I will be joining the Department of Public Policy at the @PublicPolicyUNC @UNC this summer as an Assistant Professor of Public Policy (TT). Grateful to the many incredible people who made this possible—my advisors (@toddpugatch.bsky.social, Alison, Paul, Patrick)
April 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Sometimes, good things happen for good people. So happy for @rnajam.bsky.social on next steps and all the good work ahead
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Continue the conversation: Major changes by Trump admin. Join SPA Profs. @milleridriss.bsky.social & Bryan Arva in conversation w/ @hannahallam.bsky.social for political violence protections in 🇺🇸 after the Jan. 6 pardons. 🗓️Tue, 4/29 🕑 6:30PM📍Kerwin 301
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April 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Continue the conversation: Major changes by Trump admin. Join SPA Profs. @milleridriss.bsky.social & Bryan Arva in conversation w/ @hannahallam.bsky.social for political violence protections in 🇺🇸 after the Jan. 6 pardons. 🗓️Tue, 4/29 🕑 6:30PM📍Kerwin 301
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NSDUH is one of the only ways we can track trends in substance use in the US. NSDUH is one of the only ways we can track adolescent mental health problems in the US.
We cannot afford to fly blind on these critical issues.
We cannot afford to fly blind on these critical issues.
The entire SAMHSA staff that manages the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been terminated. This is the only survey that tracks mental health and substance use trends in the US.
We really are flying blind now.
We really are flying blind now.
April 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
NSDUH is one of the only ways we can track trends in substance use in the US. NSDUH is one of the only ways we can track adolescent mental health problems in the US.
We cannot afford to fly blind on these critical issues.
We cannot afford to fly blind on these critical issues.
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Have you read my research on pollen and behaviors? You should also take care of your mental health, avoid driving, and avoid calling emergency services (they’ll be swamped).
March 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Have you read my research on pollen and behaviors? You should also take care of your mental health, avoid driving, and avoid calling emergency services (they’ll be swamped).
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I’ll scream this till I’m blue in the face: FEDERAL CONTRACTORS ARE IN THE SAME BOAT. I was laid off and I still don’t know how I was selected- it’s beyond demoralizing and embarrassing. The person in the piece summed it up well “They took my job and my life from my hands without any reason.”
‘I Am Going Through Hell’: Job Loss, Mental Health, and the Fate of Federal Workers - KFF Health News
Since the Trump administration began firing federal workers, they say they feel overwhelmed, have obtained or considered seeking psychiatric care and medication, and are anxious about paying their bil...
kffhealthnews.org
March 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I’ll scream this till I’m blue in the face: FEDERAL CONTRACTORS ARE IN THE SAME BOAT. I was laid off and I still don’t know how I was selected- it’s beyond demoralizing and embarrassing. The person in the piece summed it up well “They took my job and my life from my hands without any reason.”
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Hey folks, if you are in Ann Arbor next Monday (3/31, 4-5.30) please join me as I interview Dan Honig on his very timely new book "Mission Driven Bureaucrats." Free and open to the public, and would love to see a free-wheeling discussion about govt capacity. fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/e...
March 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Hey folks, if you are in Ann Arbor next Monday (3/31, 4-5.30) please join me as I interview Dan Honig on his very timely new book "Mission Driven Bureaucrats." Free and open to the public, and would love to see a free-wheeling discussion about govt capacity. fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/e...
www.chronicle.com/article/brea...
All of us who use and value NCES data are distraught. No one more than @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social who understands the work being lost and implications better than anyone.
All of us who use and value NCES data are distraught. No one more than @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social who understands the work being lost and implications better than anyone.
‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of Education Dept.’s Data Warehouse
Fired NCES and IES employees describe a mad dash to save data that has informed higher education policy and practice since the days of Abraham Lincoln.
www.chronicle.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
www.chronicle.com/article/brea...
All of us who use and value NCES data are distraught. No one more than @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social who understands the work being lost and implications better than anyone.
All of us who use and value NCES data are distraught. No one more than @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social who understands the work being lost and implications better than anyone.
March 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
March 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
March 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM