New working paper alert! Our team developed a web crawler to study the accessibility of information related to special education on school district websites in four states (MA, RI, IN, and FL). Read the full WP here: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1447 And check out Cam's thread below for more detail!

Cam Arnzen@camarnzen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm excited to share our latest EdWorking paper, "The Politics of Administrative Ease: Public Access to Local Special Education Information" (w/ @lindseykaler.bsky.social and co-authors). edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1447 #SpecialEducation #EdResearch @annenberginstitute.bsky.social

🚨New working paper alert! 🚨 The US spends huge $ on special education services for students with disabilities. Is that spending effective? Today we released a working paper suggesting it is. "Special Education Substantially Improves Learning: Evidence from Three States" Let me explain...

Lunch at #AEFP2026 with not one, not two, but THREE of my star former students! @jo-r-king.bsky.social @emmajlag.bsky.social & Brittany Lowe Truly an honor to play a small role in their journeys to becoming stellar researchers & wonderful humans 🥹

Dig into Arizona LEGO spending with this data vis! And yes, every item below was purchased with taxpayer $ - and entirely allowed by the program.

Arizona ESA LEGO Spending

A Flourish story by Jen Jennings

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Excited to release this policy brief exploring the college enrollment impacts of Massachusetts' recent dramatic expansions of free community college. TLDR: The clear messaging and simple design of MassReconnect & MassEducate sparked substantial increases in community college enrollment.

Wheelock Educational Policy Center@wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨New research looks at early impacts of MA’s free community college policies. Early evidence suggests expanded access & a reshaping of who shows up on campus. Full brief ➡️ bit.ly/wepcmassreco... @joshua-goodman.com, @doughesm.bsky.social, Morgan Fleming, Yunee H. Yoon @buwheelock.bsky.social

blizzard = wfh = cat on keyboard = no work accomplished

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer

Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...

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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1729

Trump Admin. Pulls Student Mental Health Grants, Restores Them a Day Later www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

Trump Admin. Pulls Student Mental Health Grants, Restores Them a Day Later

The Trump administration abruptly canceled a slate of mental health grants, only to reinstate them the next day.

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I volunteered with Prison Book Program who, until now, has provided books to incarcerated folks free of charge in all 50 states. AR came up at the last volunteer session and it seems like this is going into place under the guise of addressing contraband (lol) A quick thread. prisonbookprogram.org

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A ban on sending books and magazines to prisoners in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcerated

This new paper shows that shortening the length of parole supervision from 12 months to 6 months reduced prison readmissions within a year by ~45%, driven by reductions in technical revocations. This decrease in incarceration was achieved with no increase in new crime. ⬇️ www.nber.org/papers/w34663

The Impacts of Parole Supervision

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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They will murder unarmed citizens and then accuse them of wrongdoing. Zero sense of accountability or shame.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Kristi Noem accuses the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis of committing an act of "domestic terrorism"

We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area. More info here: wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...

I’m in Philly for #ASSA2026! I’ll be discussing and presenting, respectively, in these two sessions👇 Lots of great work will be shared in both, so come by if you’re around!

what a bar

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Grades are in, which means I’m officially done with the first semester on the tenure track 🤩 Doodle courtesy of a student’s final exam:

Update on JOE postings -- things are worse: paulgp.com/2025/12/10/q...

So happy that this paper has (finally) found a great home! It started as Jo’s @miamiecon.bsky.social master’s thesis when I was a first year AP and has been a joy to work on with them and Austin these past few years. See below for a 🧵 on our results!

Jo R. King@jo-r-king.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨New publication alert #econsky🚨 Thrilled to have “Suspended from Work and School? Impacts of layoff events and unemployment insurance on student disciplinary incidence” forthcoming at Labour Economics with @riacton.bsky.social and Austin Smith Paper thread incoming 🧵 tinyurl.com/susp-ws

🚨New publication alert #econsky🚨 Thrilled to have “Suspended from Work and School? Impacts of layoff events and unemployment insurance on student disciplinary incidence” forthcoming at Labour Economics with @riacton.bsky.social and Austin Smith Paper thread incoming 🧵 tinyurl.com/susp-ws

Suspended from work and school? Impacts of layoff events and unemployment insurance on student disciplinary incidence

We examine the impact of local labor market shocks and state unemployment insurance (UI) policies on student discipline in U.S. public schools. Analyz…

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Job market paper has R&R 🤩🥰🤪 Doing the R&R 🥴🫠🫩

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline. I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled: "Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids. In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor. Why would competition lead to stricter regulations? 🧵 john-fallon-econ.com (1/9)

I highly recommend this postdoc at the @annenberginstitute.bsky.social! If anyone is considering applying, I’m happy to chat about what the postdoc was like for me and what it’s been like living in Providence. Feel free to reach out!

Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📢 New postdoc opportunity at Annenberg! The Annenberg Institute is seeking a postdoctoral research associate for a 2‐year appointment to join a diverse community of scholars committed to educational equity and improvement! More info here: annenberg.brown.edu/opportunitie...

Happening in an hour! #2025APPAM

Jo R. King@jo-r-king.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Going to #APPAM2025? Come to our panel where @bertabartoli.bsky.social will present our paper on the impact of sleep and time policy on student disciplinary outcomes. Paper draft (with a title we are very proud of) linked ⏰Friday, November 14, 3:30 to 5:00pm 📍Room: 504 - Foss tinyurl.com/3earym6n

🚀 I'm excited to announce I'm on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study the dynamic treatment effects of student financial aid. 🎓💸 I find that student financial aid can crowd-in future aid, and that this drives a large part of its long-term benefit.

Re-upping this as job market season gets going! If you love teaching & working with undergrads, check out this position that my department is hiring this year 👇

Riley Acton@riacton.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#econsky #econjobs @miamiecon.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor this year! A great fit for someone who is passionate about teaching & advising undergraduates. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Coming to #APPAM2025 #2025APPAM? Hear what we've learned about ECE workforce compensation and financial support strategies in MA, IL, ME and DC. ⏰Friday, November 14, 8:30am 📍Room 708 (Sol Duc)

Danielle Graves Williamson (one of my students and a stunningly original scholar in history/labor, studying "segregation academies" in the US Deep South) bsky.app/profile/dani...

Danielle Graves Williamson@daniellecgw.bsky.social · 9mo ago

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

Going to #APPAM2025? Come to our panel where @bertabartoli.bsky.social will present our paper on the impact of sleep and time policy on student disciplinary outcomes. Paper draft (with a title we are very proud of) linked ⏰Friday, November 14, 3:30 to 5:00pm 📍Room: 504 - Foss tinyurl.com/3earym6n