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Dave Marcotte

@davemarcotte.bsky.social

Professor @ American University School of Public Affairs Studying, education, health and child/family well-being. Also, dad jokes.

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Shaun M. Dougherty@doughesm.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨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...

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vhgibney.bsky.social@vhgibney.bsky.social · last yr.

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/

Shelby Gonzales @shelbytgonzales.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Postsecondary Education & Economics Research Center@peerresearch.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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Ezra Golberstein@egolberstein.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

@reginalabelle.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS@bethlinas.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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Dave Marcotte@davemarcotte.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

‘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.

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