New, from me // Most Americans Don't Know a Trans Person. That Explains a Lot. edpolicyhub.substack.com/p/most-ameri...

Most Americans Don't Know a Trans Person. That Explains a Lot.

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New Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/

Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?

We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...

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Today I get to write the acknowledgements section of my book. It doesn’t get much better than this.

Teacher "strikes more than double the probability that congressional candidates air education campaign ads. Strikes also shape broader support for education funding, resulting in more than $600 increases in district revenues and expenditures per pupil." jhr.uwpress.org/content/61/4...

Teacher Strikes as Public Signals

Teacher strikes are tactics that unions use to influence contract negotiations, and high-profile actions that have the potential to signal the need for policy change. We study the political economy of...

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Want to see in real time what's been happening to public school enrollment in your school district? Through @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social, we've just released a school enrollment tracker for Massachusetts, allowing you to explore the data yourself. wheelockpolicycenter.org/high-quality...

Massachusetts School Enrollment Dashboard

This interactive dashboard examines the gap between the predicted and actual enrollment in Massachusetts public, private, charter, and home schools.

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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Education and Partisanship" by Daniel Firoozi.

Education and Partisanship

(Forthcoming Article) - Education weakens the historical link between income and partisanship across democracies, challenging classical models of political economy. Using administrative data on millions of voters exposed to discontinuities in compulsory schooling laws and college admissions in Florida and California, I show that both the extensive margin of years of high school education and the intensive margin of college selectivity can reduce Republican Party affiliation. Effects generalize across generations (1969 to present), settings, and institutions. Results are consistent with peer socialization shaping sociocultural attitudes alongside career-path mechanisms, rather than deliberate instructor-driven persuasion.

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This is one of my favorite papers I've handled at JHR. Timea Molnar provides some of the most compelling evidence about the impacts of redshirting (holding kids back a year before starting kindergarten). Boys benefit substantially from this, so redshirting helps them catch up with girls.

The JHR@j-humanresources.bsky.social · last wk.

Age eligibility does not always equal #school readiness, especially for boys. @molnartl.bsky.social found that late entry for non-school-ready children narrows the high school completion #GenderGap by up to 60%, among other benefits. #AcademicRedshirting works. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

"Segregation academies ought to be a thing of the past, but they could experience a resurgence—paid for with taxpayer dollars—under the new federal private school voucher scheme" Important new report from @halleypotter.bsky.social tcf.org/content/comm...

A New Federal Voucher Program Poised to Ramp Up School Segregation

In rural Northampton, North Carolina, a private Christian school called Northeast Academy is 99 percent White in a county that’s 40 percent White. It

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🧵 1/ Many of us tuned in to the World Cup finale. More households certainly watched Super Bowl LX this past winter. But did you know in 1977, a larger % of households tuned into the finale for a TV miniseries- on the transatlantic slave trade and the multigenerational impacts of racial injustice?

If you have experience as an educator in any capacity and love working with data, I hope you'll consider applying. We start reviewing applications on Monday.

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🚨 I'm hiring for a (Senior) Research Associate position to work with me on a broad research agenda focused on teacher labor markets. Great opportunity to be a part of the vibrant @annenberginstitute.bsky.social community of researchers at Brown University. Links in reply Please spread the word

Men still out-resource women on nearly everything known to predict voting: income, jobs, political interest. Except education, where women have pulled way ahead. @cohodes.bsky.social and I show how the education gap explains about half of why young women now outvote young men. 🔗 Link: bit.ly/4wwcd21

Education and the gender voting gap in U.S. presidential elections

Women in the United States have outpaced men in both voter participation and educational attainment in recent decades. Since education is closely tied…

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a historical polling romance novel where she likes to weight by propensity scores, but he's a rake

AI tools are evolving rapidly, and schools are adopting them faster than researchers can evaluate them. In a new chapter, Cristina Barnard, Lily Fesler, and Susanna Loeb examine what we know about AI's role in K–12 schools and its effects. Learn more: livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...

📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑‍🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! Come join our team as junior faculty: www.ifo.de/en/job-offer... Application deadline: July 22

Every now and then I still publish peer-reviewed journal articles. This one is a first for me in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. We examine attitudes toward LGBT issues in schools and relationships with respondents' social networks. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

🚨 I'm hiring for a (Senior) Research Associate position to work with me on a broad research agenda focused on teacher labor markets. Great opportunity to be a part of the vibrant @annenberginstitute.bsky.social community of researchers at Brown University. Links in reply Please spread the word

New publication in Publius! My article examines the federalism implications of the ongoing effort to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. academic.oup.com/publius/adva...

An Education in Devolution? Lessons in Federalism from the Elimination of the US Department of Education

Abstract. The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to dismantle the US Department of Education marks the most significant federalism development in educat

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🚨Our tutoring meta-analysis is now online at RER. @bethschueler.bsky.social, Grace Falken & I analyzed 263 RCTs. What we learned has important implications for the future of tutoring and the use of meta-analyses to inform policy. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... 🧵

The Choice-in-Context Model: An Interdisciplinary Theory of Decision-Making in School Choice Contexts journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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We find that female instructors close ~40% of the gender gap in advanced econ course-taking. The effect is concentrated in students’ first intro econ instructor, suggesting that first impressions in the field can matter a lot. edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1498

First Impressions Matter: Instructor Gender and Women’s Persistence in Economics

Using near-random assignment of students to instructors in introductory economics at a broad-access public university, we study how instructor gender affects women’s persistence in economics. Female i...

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New research from Jon Valant, Ariell Bertrand, Rachel M. Perera, and Nicolas Zerbino examines how COVID, culture-war conflicts, and political tensions have impacted America's school boards—and how board members themselves feel about serving during this pivotal moment.

America's school boards | Brookings

A look at the America's most accessible political institutions in an era of conflict and partisan division.

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" Since 2015, growing attention to K-12 education from the executive branch and increasing partisan polarization around culture war issues have eroded the accountability regime." edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...

“Salinger’s remarks indicate states will not be able to shape the program as they see fit, contradicting the administration’s promise to “return education to the states.””

Andrew Ujifusa@andrewujifusa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“This is money that, instead of going to the federal government, could come to our state.” www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/11/t... from @ericameltzer.bsky.social

"These changes have produced policy regime decay and little consistency or direction for state and local policymakers in K-12 education." #EdResearch #EdPolicy edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1492

The Fall of Accountability: Federal Education Politics in an Era of Polarization and Regime Decay

Twenty-five years ago, the United States was on the cusp of a major expansion of the federal government’s role in K-12 education policy. The No Child Left Behind legislation passed with bipartisan sup...

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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Geography matters even within partisanship. Cameron Arnzen & David Houston find that some rural Republicans show distinct views on charter schools, vouchers, testing, and national standards compared to their non-rural counterparts. 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1481

Are Rural Republicans Different When It Comes to Public Opinion on Education Policy?

Conservative education policy in the United States increasingly emphasizes school choice, decentralization, and parental authority. This chapter examines whether these priorities resonate equally acro...

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Cam Arnzen@camarnzen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As conservative education politics increasingly focuses on school choice, privatization, and parental authority, my new @annenberginstitute.bsky.social paper w/ @dmhouston.bsky.social explores whether rural Republicans think about ed policy in similar ways as non-rural Republicans. shorturl.at/pHvko

In college, the CD player in my busted-up Honda Civic had an issue. It wouldn't eject its contents, and it wouldn't stop playing. "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" played on repeat for 2 years. Best soundtrack ever. This news is very important to me 👇

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wu-Tang Clan will reportedly perform at Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals Game 4 halftime show

Wu-Tang Clan will reportedly perform at Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals Game 4 halftime show

Exclusive | Wu-Tang Clan will perform at Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals Game 4 halftime show

Page Six can reveal that the hip-hop group will take the court during halftime of the New York Knicks vs. San Antonio Spurs matchup at Madison Square Garden.

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I wrote about the quiet erosion of the five day school week. Take Wake County Public Schools, for example, where students will experience only two uninterrupted five-day instructional weeks in Sept, Nov, Dec, and Mar next year. I worry we haven't fully considered the costs of this policy choice.

@jeremylsinger.bsky.social talked to me about his report with @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social on which attendance strategies are working in Michigan schools — it was super fun!

39. What Works to Address Absenteeism?

Podcast Episode · The School Perceptions Podcast · June 9 · 1h 1m

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Friends - please help amplify and share in your networks. This small conference will convene multidisciplinary researchers w/ practitioners, non-profit organizers, & policymakers to share cutting-edge research on 🎓+🌎. We have only 25 spots left. Join us!

SustainableED@edsustainable.bsky.social · 4mo ago

‼️ REGISTRATION NOW OPEN ‼️ Limited spots are now available to attend the SustainableED Conference on May 1 in Providence, RI! Join us for an intimate event connecting ed x climate research to practice. Register: bit.ly/41D3Bcx More info: bit.ly/4lYQfAG