Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out. Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.

A quick bump on this ask, re: supporting international students in higher ed. I'm serving on a department committee trying to understand this better.

Mark Chin@mememedianmode.bsky.social · 3d ago

Colleagues: what are your institutions doing to support international students given the threat to F-1 Duration of Status (D/S) and new CPT restrictions? I’m especially concerned about impacts on PhD timelines and optional summer internships. Would value hearing how others are responding.

Related to this- I would love learn more about how your international student receive financial support (if at all) when they are working abroad.

Mark Chin@mememedianmode.bsky.social · 3d ago

Colleagues: what are your institutions doing to support international students given the threat to F-1 Duration of Status (D/S) and new CPT restrictions? I’m especially concerned about impacts on PhD timelines and optional summer internships. Would value hearing how others are responding.

Colleagues: what are your institutions doing to support international students given the threat to F-1 Duration of Status (D/S) and new CPT restrictions? I’m especially concerned about impacts on PhD timelines and optional summer internships. Would value hearing how others are responding.

For decades, some Boston students have traveled to suburban schools through Metco. New research finds strikingly large benefits years later.

How a school integration program transformed students’ odds of graduating college

For decades, some Boston students have traveled to suburban schools through Metco. New research finds strikingly large benefits years later.

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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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NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running a private school. But to show you just how easy it is to start one, we decided to test the process ourselves.

Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

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Good news! The #AEFP2027 submission deadline has been extended! You now have until Monday, October 12, at 11:59 PM PT to submit your proposal. Read the full call: aefpweb.org/callforp...

PUBLICATION ALERT! But not my own. :) Proud of my partner, who has put together an awesome collection of short stories + a novel. Her very first publication landed at the Colorado Review, a top tier literary fiction journal. No idea how she does it- this isn't even her full time job!

Shoutout to the 🐐GOAT🐐, respect greatness www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...

Ellora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow

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K-12 researchers! Take a look at the new Arnold Ventures RFP supporting causal research on the impacts of K-12 school policies. LOIs are due Nov. 13. Please share widely!

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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My department and college are searching for FOUR new tenure-track assistant professor colleagues! Please share, and application reviews begin October 15.

This is about publishing in economics journals but I found it fascinating and probably applicable in other fields/areas- about why/how two papers asking the same question with the same answer might have very different landing spots in terms of a journal jasonmfletcher.substack.com/p/how-to-wri...

How to Write a Top 5 Paper: A Case Study

Two teams, nearly the same question, nearly the same data—and a revealing difference in what the papers ask the evidence to do

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One of the biggest joys of being a professor that I could not have foreseen those last few years of mucking through my PhD is doctoral advising. It has been an extraordinary privilege to support my advisees on their incredible research. I can't wait for y'all to hear more about their work.

Our department is hiring an assistant/associate professor of higher education policy!! I am not on the search committee this time, but am happy to chat with those who are interested about our amazing departmental community and Vanderbilt. Please help circulate! apply.interfolio.com/193891

Next week, we'll be hosting an informational webinar all about applying to the Minority Dissertation Fellowship! Join us September 23 at 1pm. Register here! aera.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AERA Informational Webinar on 2027–2028 Minority Dissertation Fellowship on September 23. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joi...

The fellowship supports graduate students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in education research—including, but not limited to, African Americans, Alaskan Natives, American ...

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Do you have questions about navigating AI? Silly question - of course you do! Join Brian Heseung Kim of Open Augments for his Virtual Office Hours. Bring your questions, concerns, or ideas, regardless of your skill level, & get practical guidance. Register: https://www.appam.org/events/ai-expert/

🚨 Announcing OpenCensus, a new project with @ezrakarger.bsky.social : We are transcribing the historical US censuses and releasing them as open data 2.6 million people so far in 1940, browse here: opencensus.us

It appears the IES Restricted Use Data License program is continuing. But the annual cost is now $3500--nearly 9X costlier than the $400 I paid before. I've been operating under the assumption the whole program would end, and have adjusted my research around that. This just solidifies my decision.

The General Social Survey, American National Election Study, & Panel Study of Income Dynamics are funded by NSF-SBE. It's not just individual grants at risk. It's irreplaceable data infrastructure that provides nonpartisan, gold-standard info on who we are, where we've been, & where we are headed.

Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA)@cossa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Have you taken a quick moment to submit an action alert letter? It is especially important that Congress hear from the research community NOW. 🚨 Call on your Members of Congress to contact NSF immediately and urge them to abandon plans to dismantle the SBE directorate ➡️ cossa.org/action-cente...

I am sad to share that Project Implicit, my first non-profit and foundation of my career, is closing. The IAT website will continue, managed by the next generation of leaders in implicit bias research. Here's the statement I posted to LinkedIn. It didn't vibe right as a bsky thread.

Follow the Money: Opening 56 Years of the Fiscal Record of Our Democracy The U.S. Census Bureau has recorded what every state, county, city and township raises and spends since 1967, and it has been effectively out of reach. Today we are re-releasing it as a free API, an interactive explorer... 🔗

Follow the Money: Opening 56 Years of the Fiscal Record of Our Democracy

The U.S. Census Bureau has recorded what every state, county, city and township raises and spends since 1967, and it has been effectively out of reach. Today we are re-releasing it as a free API, an interactive explorer and a bulk download, aligned across 56 years so a query returns a continuous series. It is a record you can contribute to.

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@nwarikoo.bsky.social explains the resilience of the fight for justice, equality, equity, despite the aggressive push against those ideals from the Trump administration. newrepublic.com/article/2150...

Transcript: Trump Hasn’t Killed DEI in America

Author Natasha Warikoo says that most Americans believe in achieving greater diversity and equity and that the Trump administration has not permanently defeated those causes.

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For those in Nashville: Dialogue Vanderbilt is featuring a conversation on September 21 between Roland Fryer of Harvard and my colleague Carolyn Heinrich on "What Works in Education - and Why is it so Hard to Scale?" This event is open to the public. Register here: web.cvent.com/event/599554...

PLEASE BEWARE OF THE (tiny, old, harmless) DOG

Very, very excited about this collaboration: If you’re an Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management member and/or planning to attend their Fall Conference, I’m going to be offering: (1) My intro series of workshops for attendees on responsible AI for policy research...

Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139

Times are tough in education research and academia. With that context in mind, what should prospective PhD applicants be thinking about? My latest, at the EdPolicy Hub Substack edpolicyhub.substack.com/p/curiosity-...

Curiosity is King: What I Wish Applicants Thought About Before Starting a PhD

Morgan Polikoff

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***NEWLY ACCEPTED PAPER*** I have a new short paper with Margaret Leighton We use decades of data (HERI) on incoming college freshmen to show that students' life goals have changed dramatically over time. Students really are very different than they were in the past! Here are the key findings: