This morning, Chair Cassidy released a Request for Information on how to increase college cost and value transparency for students and families. Please share with your networks and consider submitting a response by the October 24 deadline: www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom...

Chair Cassidy Requests Information on Improving Transparency in Higher Education, Lowering Costs for Students | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested...

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Starting on Monday, I will be on leave from Urban for a year to serve as a fellow with the Senate HELP committee (majority staff). I don't expect to post much on here. To keep up with Urban's education work, follow @maggiereeves1.bsky.social & @kblagg.bsky.social!

It was incredibly energizing to get the Student Upward Mobility Initiative’s first cohort + friends together in DC! Follow along as we learn from researchers, field leaders, and practitioners on our blog www.tfaforms.com/4644066/?tfa...

House Republicans are reportedly considering changes to which schools are eligible to provide free meals to all students through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). Urban's Emily Gutierrez runs the numbers on how many students and schools would lose CEP: www.urban.org/research/pub...

How Many Students Would Lose Access to Free Meals under House Republicans’ Proposed Changes to the Community Eligibility Provision?

Congressional Republicans are reportedly considering spending cuts to balance the cost of extending the tax cuts they enacted in 2017.

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🌟 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

In 2022, the Florida legislature expanded college tuition exemptions for homeless students and former foster youth. Did these policies reach the intended beneficiaries? Carrie Henderson and Katie Grissom look at newly available data in a recent Learning Curve essay: www.urban.org/research/pub...

The Role of State Policy in Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness and Former Foster Youth in Higher Education

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How does your state really stack up on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)? www.urban.org/research/pub...

States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress

Earlier today, the federal government released the 2024 scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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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

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Demographically adjusted NAEP scores for 2024 coming later this morning!

Urban's transition memo to the Trump Administration includes recommendations from Sandy Baum, Jason Delisle, & me on fixing student loan repayment: www.urban.org/research/pub...

Opportunities for the New Administration to Improve Americans’ Well-Being

As the Trump transition team prepares for the incoming administration, Urban experts offer several recommendations where our work may be relevant to the new administration’s policy goals.

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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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Since I throw shade when the government posts years-old education data, have to give props to NCES for getting the 2023-24 CCD posted in 2024:

Or just wait a few months for the Education Data Portal to take care of it for you!

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Happy IPEDS data release day! The newest year of graduation rates, admissions, and financial aid data just dropped. And, as always, go back to revise last year's file with the newly updated data.

Demographically adjusted NAEP scores for 2022 just dropped. How did your state do? www.urban.org/research/pub...

States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2022 Nation’s Report Card

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And here is the official @urbaninstitute.bsky.social starter pack! go.bsky.app/Cb5Cw8y

Follow my @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues! bsky.app/starter-pack...

GA passed a $6,500/student/year voucher this year for tuition, tutoring, some transportation, or occupational, speech, behavioral, or physical therapy. Up to 1% of the state education formula (QBE) can be spent. Newly issued program rules got me interested but I’m left with more ?s.

New @urbaninstitute.bsky.social brief from Jason Cohn looks at how college graduates' earnings evolve over time and what that means for accountability policy: www.urban.org/research/pub...

How Do College Graduates’ Earnings Change over Time?

To inform policies that measure earnings after students complete a credential, I examine average earnings trajectories for 25 years after graduation for associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, and professi...

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What happened after California banned suspensions for willful defiance in grades K-3? Short answer: suspensions didn't decline faster than they already had been, and large disparities by race/SES/IEP remained. Longer answer: read the newest Learning Curve essay! www.urban.org/research/pub...

Has Ending Suspensions for Willful Defiance Improved Discipline Disparities? Evidence from California

In 2013, the California state legislature took steps to narrow disparities in exclusionary discipline between student groups, especially for students with disabilities and students of color.

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My daughter had a palatal expander installed a week ago. She still only eats chicken nuggets and pasta. What gives?

How did rural students' postsecondary attainment change following the new high school curriculum requirements put in place by HB5 in Texas? Check out @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social & team's Learning Curve essay: www.urban.org/research/pub...

House Bill 5 Expands Postsecondary Pathways for Rural Texas Students

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Excited to announce the first grants from the Student Upward Mobility Initiative! $3.5 million will support 16 projects that connect PK-12 measures to long-term success or develop new measures of skills that drive economic mobility. A quick overview🧵 studentupwardmobility.urban.org/student-upwa...

How Our First Grants Will Help Us Understand What It Takes to Move Students from Poverty to Prosperity

The Student Upward Mobility Initiative’s first funded projects span three drivers of economic mobility: academic skills, career preparation, and nonacademic factors.

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$3M for measurement research & development from the Urban Institute! I provided some feedback on this RFP, and I love its focus on developing mobility-relevant measures in line with modern measurement standards. LOIs due 4/30. RFP here: studentupwardmobility.urban.org/sites/defaul...

Matt Chingos@chingos.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm excited to share the initiative my team at Urban Institute has been developing for 2+ years! The Student Upward Mobility Initiative will catalyze a new generation of R&D on PK-12 skills/competencies that drive economic mobility. 1st RFP (due 4/30) opens today! studentupwardmobility.urban.org

I'm excited to share the initiative my team at Urban Institute has been developing for 2+ years! The Student Upward Mobility Initiative will catalyze a new generation of R&D on PK-12 skills/competencies that drive economic mobility. 1st RFP (due 4/30) opens today! studentupwardmobility.urban.org

Student Upward Mobility Initiative

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The Learning Curve essay series launched our 2024 call for proposals today! This year's CFP is focused on local policies and programs, such as those funded by ESSER and HEERF. Selected authors receive $2,500 honoraria. Read more and apply here: www.urban.org/policy-cente...

Learning Curve 2024 Call for Proposals: Early Evidence on Local Policies and Programs

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Join DC Education Research Collaborative staff on Thursday (2/29) at 3pm ET to hear how their research-practice partnership is empowering high school students' youth-led investigations into school-level issues. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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We hope you will join us for this month's NNERPP activities! If you would like a calendar invitation to any of our events, please complete the form below. Please note that activities with an asterisk ...

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Glad to see this out! ➡️ In the context of suspension restrictions, funding for RPs did not provide differential reductions in suspension rates. ➡️ Importantly, this does *not* mean RPs are ineffective! We have credible evidence that they are beneficial for other key outcomes. 1/4

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How did restrictions on suspensions and a restorative justice pilot in New York City affect discipline rates and disparities? New Learning Curve essay by Jo Al Khafaji-King: www.urban.org/research/pub...

How did restrictions on suspensions and a restorative justice pilot in New York City affect discipline rates and disparities? New Learning Curve essay by Jo Al Khafaji-King: www.urban.org/research/pub...

Suspension Restrictions and Restorative Justice Funding in New York City: Interactions between Program and Policy Reforms

Whether it is a change to policy or the implementation of a new program, suspension reforms must balance the need to reduce suspensions’ concentrated negative impacts on students with the need to ensu...

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Directly funding class size reduction in New York City would reduce funding equity. Funding it through an equitable formula would mitigate some of this harm, but would cost a lot more. Our latest analysis for the Learning Curve: www.urban.org/research/pub...

Please share with junior crime/CJ researchers: AV-SSRC Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowships 3-year postdocs $120k/year (+ benefits if in the US) Work on your own research (75%) and policy analyses that AV is interested in (25%) www.ssrc.org/programs/arn...