Interesting explainer about comprehensive support from the Bipartisan Policy Center. Would be great if there were more research on this topic, including studies to track impacts by state and understand factors associated with better and worse outcomes bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/ar...

Are Programs Designed to Improve the Nation’s Lowest-Performing Schools Working?

Introduction The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to identify the lowest-performing 5% of their Title I schools for comprehensive support and improvement (CSI). The theory is that des...

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"Around 70 percent of this year’s voucher recipients were already enrolled in private or home- school. Vouchers are costing the state about a billion dollars this year alone, and could ultimately end up costing $4.4 billion annually."

Larry Ferlazzo@larryferlazzo.bsky.social · yesterday

The School Policy Scam Turning Voters Blue www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly@rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's absolutely bonkers to me that this image led directly to this tweet.

Interested in being funded under Arnold Ventures' K-12 State Policy RFP? Join our webinar next week to learn more about our priorities and have the opportunity to ask questions! arnoldventures.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Arnold Ventures: Causal Research on the Impacts of K-12 School Policies RFP. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webi...

Arnold Ventures’ Evidence + Evaluation team is hosting an interactive 45-minute webinar to share more about our grant funding opportunities. The next several years present an important opportunity t...

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Hoping there’s no one connecting from Irkutsk on this flight to LA from Sacramento.

I feel very happy for White Sox fans who have definitely earned some joy.

AI writing is present in almost a third of STEM PhD dissertations. www.nber.org/papers/w3585...

How Heavily Are PhD Students Offloading Their Scientific Writing to AI? Evidence from US STEM PhD Dissertations

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An accelerated middle school math sequence boosted student advanced coursetaking and some college outcomes, with the largest effects for students with higher cognitive abilities at baseline www.nber.org/papers/w3584...

Targeted Acceleration in Middle School Math: Impacts on College Entry, Degree Completion, and STEM

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Everyone knows school districts test a lot, but it can be hard to get them to reduce. Some interesting thoughts on why from the Center for Assessment. www.nciea.org/blog/school-...

Why School Districts Resist Test Reduction | Center for Assessment

Many districts conduct reviews to streamline their lineups of required assessments, but they resist eliminating tests. What’s behind that resistance?

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New Learning Heroes data finds a slight downtick in parents' reports of kids' grades. Is this part of a trend or a one-year aberration? Are districts doing something different to give parents a more accurate picture? Interesting discussion here www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

I like both Derek and Larry quite a lot, but the "you didn't spend X years as a teacher" line is, and has always been, an ad hominem. There are plenty of very good critiques of the actual ideas in the NYT piece, and in policy more generally.

Derek Gottlieb@derekgottliebphd.com · last wk.

I will say, you really can tell, with Ed policy researchers, which ones spent 5-10 years as classroom teachers before going back for a PhD, and which ones didn’t.

Hi, Los Angeles resident here. This does not seem to me to be in the top 100,000 most important issues relevant to the mayor of my city, which is [checks notes] 7500 miles away from Israel.

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · last wk.

Bass and Raman split on Gaza and the term genocide during Jewish Federation forum

ICYMI, our RFP on causal research on state policies is out! LOIs due November 13. Share and apply! www.arnoldventures.org/evidence-eva...

Arnold Ventures | Evidence & Evaluation Requests for Proposals

A list of the current Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from Arnold Ventures’ Evidence & Evaluation team.

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Morgan Polikoff@mpolikoff.bsky.social · last wk.

So excited to be launching this request for proposals on state policies to improve k-12 educational outcomes at Arnold Ventures. I'm stoked to be supporting the team in carrying out this RFP. Take a look, share, and send in an LOI www.arnoldventures.org/stories/what...

Our survey team recently tried to get parents to give us documents indicating children's attendance (to compare to their survey responses). We failed pretty miserably! But the failure conveys a bigger message about how badly we present information to parents www.laschoolreport.com/my-absenteei...

My Absenteeism Study Failed. The Reasons Are More Interesting Than Any Data | LA School Report

My research team from the Understanding America Study at the University of Southern California recently asked parents of school-aged children to upload a snapshot of their kids’ school attendance record from last year as part of a broader survey. The study failed — during the pilot phase, only 17% successfully completed the task. We pulled...

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“greater comfort” making the hierarchy explicit here. there are young people entitled to comfort, and others who are expected to supply it for them

The 74@the74.bsky.social · last wk.

The Department of Education on Monday officially rescinded the Biden-era Title IX rule, which extended protections to LGBTQ students. The move, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said, will give parents “greater comfort” www.the74million.org/article/educ...

17 states looked at quadrant 4 and said: i'll take that one. by 26-27, half of US K12 schoolkids will be eligible in a universal voucher state

Spent my whole life competently and efficiently managing my inbox and calendar; six weeks into my new gig and I am suddenly understanding why people need help with this.

📣 The first official post on my Substack, 📘The Blue Book📘, is up. I hope you'll read it, share it, and—if you like it—subscribe. I argue there is a bigger insight from the New York Times article ranking education reforms. matthewakraft.substack.com/p/the-implem...

And if you want an actual link to the RFP, it's here www.arnoldventures.org/evidence-eva...

Arnold Ventures | Evidence & Evaluation Requests for Proposals

A list of the current Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from Arnold Ventures’ Evidence & Evaluation team.

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Morgan Polikoff@mpolikoff.bsky.social · last wk.

So excited to be launching this request for proposals on state policies to improve k-12 educational outcomes at Arnold Ventures. I'm stoked to be supporting the team in carrying out this RFP. Take a look, share, and send in an LOI www.arnoldventures.org/stories/what...

So excited to be launching this request for proposals on state policies to improve k-12 educational outcomes at Arnold Ventures. I'm stoked to be supporting the team in carrying out this RFP. Take a look, share, and send in an LOI www.arnoldventures.org/stories/what...

Arnold Ventures | What State Policies Improve Student Outcomes in…

With student achievement still below pre-pandemic levels and states poised to remake key education policies, Arnold Ventures is launching a new request…

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Apropos of today's NYT piece, I had a really good time a few weeks ago on the Community Connections podcast, talking about bad ideas in education with Kim Marshall and the hosts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=epy8...

A Supposedly Good Idea Education Should Never Do Again: Morgan Polikoff & guest co-host Kim Marshall

YouTube video by The Community Connection

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This was a fun little exercise - interesting to see where I agree and disagree with the other experts.

Sarah Cohodes@cohodes.bsky.social · last wk.

Gift link to the article, where I was one of 37 "experts" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

If you listen to the “Were you raised by wolves” etiquette podcast, one of my questions made it on this week! See if you can spot it.

This is quite an anecdote about how our current Secretary of Education got the job. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“Our voucher school will absolutely make sure your child is learning. No, we don’t need to take the same test as your local public school to prove it to you.”

Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice

OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.

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I love New York because of course my martini at the Sri Lankan restaurant came with a dosa garnish.

Words to live by: “baby’s in his find out era.”

My feeling about this ridiculous story is that she is going to win the LGBT vote like 85/15 at least because we all know what the stakes are as much as anyone. And if her merch store sold a "fags for Peltola" t-shirt it would be sold out in five seconds.

PinkNews@pinknews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mary Peltola denies allegation she used the anti-gay slur “f*****” after former staffers described outbursts and offensi https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/09/25/mary-peltola-alaska-lgbtq-senate-slur/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=quill_queue&utm_content=p2