--Teachers receiving training on curriculum materials (69%) and assessment data (66%) generally found it helpful; professional learning communities were more divided (but also more common!).

--Teachers using intentionally paired curricula and assessments were more likely to report assessments were well-aligned (not surprising!) but also that assessments were developmentally appropriate

--Most PreK teachers use multiple commercial curriculum materials, but also supplement with other materials (including ones they create)
--Use of curriculum and assessments was similar between part-day and full-day teachers, but part-day teachers reported less training and time for planning

If private is okay, Syracuse has a fantastic student newspaper that is open to non-journalism majors, and definitely has rec soccer. Law school has connections. Have to be okay with wind/winter...

There's a great scholarship for arts & sciences students: artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/admissions/u...

My sister-in-law (oldest of 4) does this with my kids! I don't, but I'm a younger sibling...

Great conference; flash talks were especially fantastic (and a wonderful way to advertise the Live Handbook!). Thanks to you and all of the organizers!

(I especially liked the bonus session where I was next to another AEFP attendee on the flight home, and we chatted all things ed policy!)

Follow up: @vgoodman.bsky.social's E is for Economics provided helpful fodder. The 2nd graders got the concept of externalities right away, which was way more than I expected!

We walked through a constrained choice exercise--what birthday dinner to request--and measured happiness in utils :-)

Many thanks to RAND's Institute for Civil Justice that provided funding for the study, and to participants at a RAND-UCLA conference and our reviewers for their helpful feedback!

One can argue whether more divorce or less divorce is the desired social outcome; we cannot tell whether the marriages that dissolve are irreparable or salvageable with counseling. But for some couples, access to a lawyer makes a profound difference in their future.

Our work is unique in its focus on the more-general population of low-income married individuals (prior work on access to divorce legal services focuses on the population already seeking to divorce).

We leverage geographic variation in divorce legal service provision to estimate that geographic access leads to 2.5 to 3.5 divorces per 1000 income-eligible individuals, an approx. 7 to 9% (not % pt) increase in divorce.

Ha! My husband is a former aerospace engineer who now does robotics. I really hope we don't end up with the same classes...