Ellen Bryer
@ellenbryer.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Annenberg Institute at Brown. Philly -> Providence RI. I study higher education and economic inequality among young adults
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Brian Holzman@brianholzman.bsky.social · 4w agoIt 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.
A new study by @ellenbryer.bsky.social, @aizatnurshat.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social finds that data availability & local priorities shaped how colleges identified students, leading to very different approaches under the same policy. 🔗 buff.ly/YnMOo2G
Equity in Context: Institutional Agency in Targeting Student Supports in Massachusetts Community Colleges
How do related, but independent community colleges operationalize and implement an equity-oriented initiative? In 2021, Massachusetts established the SUCCESS initiative to provide nonfinancial…
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Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed. The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7mo agoIs there a version of the chart follow the dollar-value of the grants? Is it fewer-bigger grants or simply - as I would guess - straight up less money going out the door?
Great coverage of new work by my colleague Nick Graetz (and collaborators) showing the extent of credit score-based home insurance pricing. Pricing insurance by credit score is a proxy for pricing it by poverty. (Minnesota friends, note the two local examples)
How Rising Home Insurance Costs Are Linked to Your Credit History
In many states, homeowners with “excellent” credit scores are charged less for home insurance than those with worse scores, even if they live in a disaster-prone area.
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I learn so much from @katharinemeyer.bsky.social's context-rich and succinct summaries of higher ed policy issues!
Katharine Meyer@katharinemeyer.bsky.social · 8mo ago🚨Sharing my newest post - A coordinated retreat from college access: What TRIO and GEAR UP cuts reveal www.brookings.edu/articles/a-c...
thanks for doing this analysis @robertkelchen.com!
Annette Yoshiko Reed@annetteyreed.bsky.social · 9mo agoWhat is “Religious Studies”? An interesting example comes up in the initiative discussed in this article, which seeks to limit federal funds to programs based on average income after graduation www.chronicle.com/article/coll... +
An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.
The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
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It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
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New in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social: the rapid growth of the admissions consulting industry has raised questions about inequality, privilege, and merit. We combine two original data sources to ask how consultants make sense of their work. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
Inequality and moral meaning-making in the admissions consulting profession
Abstract. Prior research has described how middle-class and affluent families draw on private supplemental educational resources to help their children mai
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Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez. The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work. And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
🚨 New report! “The Road to SUCCESS” documents how Massachusetts built a statewide student support initiative across all 15 public community colleges. Comprehensive support services. Local flexibility. Rapid scale-up. Report 👉: annenberg.brown.edu/publications...
Our new working paper is out and free to access! The paper is about all of the the human collaboration that is working "behind the scenes" of a technology-based student-support intervention.
Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 11mo ago📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Behind the scenes of student success interventions: Faculty & staff collaborate and make key changes that strengthen low-touch supports 🔍@ellenbryer.bsky.social, @catherinematah.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1314
Hooray for my hometown!
Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · 11mo agoErica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania. The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown. 🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
I spoke w/ @npr.org's Here & Now about pronatalism. The conversation about low birth rates is really about creating a moral panic. Once folks are convinced that low rates cause major problems that can *only* be addressed through raising rates, it opens to door to all sorts of regressive policies.
The state of the pronatalist movement
The pronatalist movement, which claims to be rectifying what some of its members describe as the likely collapse of civilization due to population decline.
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Are you attending #SREE? #EduSky Join @ellenbryer.bsky.social for her presentation on 10/10 at 2:15 PM. We’re excited to see this work coming out! Ellen will share valuable insights on how faculty & staff collaborate to support student success @katharinemeyer.bsky.social @linzpage.bsky.social
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Do RCTs in higher ed risk contamination? From a large in-person college course intervention, @catherinematah.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social show when individual-level randomization is preferred 📄 Full paper here: edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1083
We've been having the same damn conversation coming on 9 years now. I feel pretty sure this is the #1 reason Trump won again (racism is up there, but this is #1). Men want #jobs back that don't exist anymore, and haven't existed for decades, and refuse to adapt to the #21st century
Why Men Don’t Want the Jobs Done Mostly by Women (Published 2017)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last yr.On this part: Also the transition from masculine jobs in rural areas to feminized ones in healthcare and service sector makes a lot of people willing to believe that Trump can bring coal back.
Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m 🧵 below:
In our polarized political environment, I’m excited to share my new ASR publication: “Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does Not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
JOB! Please RT. Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18. apply.interfolio.com/165892 Happy to answer questions.
columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
International student at Tufts University reportedly taken into federal custody – Boston 25 News
Tufts said they were told the student’s visa had been terminated.
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AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
What a surreal experience to be leading a workshop for education researchers on how to write about their research, in a building directly across from the US Capitol, and wake up to discover that the entire national education statistical staff has been fired.
Two new pieces in our series on why we have and need a US Department of Education! First up, from the past, current, and presidents-elect of AEFP and SREE - "Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient" www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...
Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient
Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
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Katharine Meyer@katharinemeyer.bsky.social · 2y agoWhy we have and need a US Department of Education 🚨 New from @brookings.edu scholars, an initiative to walk through the federal role in education, particularly the ongoing need for a Department of Education and all it does www.brookings.edu/collection/w...
Why we have and need a US Department of Education 🚨 New from @brookings.edu scholars, an initiative to walk through the federal role in education, particularly the ongoing need for a Department of Education and all it does www.brookings.edu/collection/w...
Why we have and need a US Department of Education
This series considers what the U.S. Department of Education does to shape education policy and practice in the United States.
brookings.edu
