In the last school year, after years of controversy, San Francisco schools fielded pilots that reintroduced Algebra to 8th grade. A preregistered, quasi-experimental study by Elizabeth Huffaker and me indicates the major pilots were largely successful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

San Francisco Killed 8th-Grade Algebra. Now It’s Set to Come Back.

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I vibe coded an early literacy app called Adventure Readers using Claude code. I was curious what a teacher (or former teacher like me) could produce with access to these tools in ~1 day - I was pretty amazed!

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here! New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more! edopportunity.org/segregation/

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project

Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

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Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections

The measles​ cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.

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To ring in the new year, I'm excited to announce the launch of the Politics of Education Lab (PEdL) at the Stanford GSE. The goal is to advance understanding of the political dimensions of education policymaking to help policymakers and practitioners strengthen school systems. pedl.stanford.edu

The Politics of Education Lab

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Fabulous postdoc opportunity at Stanford to work on the politics of education with one of the best @bethschueler.bsky.social postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

@stanford.edu University invites nominations & applications for the position of Dean of @stanfordeducation.bsky.social. We seek individuals with outstanding scholarly & professional careers who have demonstrated potential for academic & administrative leadership. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37933847...

Very concerned how these federal policy changes will impact vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks — with consequences to child health, parental workforce participation, and schooling. See our working paper for impact of recent measles outbreak on student absences: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1358

The West Texas Measles Outbreak and Student Absences

Declining child-vaccination rates are driving a measles resurgence in the US, yet little evidence documents how these outbreaks may disrupt schooling. Using daily absence data from a school district a...

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Apoorva Mandavilli@apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 7mo ago

BREAKING: Federal health officials on Monday announced dramatic revisions to the slate of vaccines recommended for American children, reducing the number of diseases prevented by routine shots to 11 from 17. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...

For context, this drop in attendance rates related to the measles outbreak (about 93% to 90%) is almost as large as the initial drop in TX attendance rates from pre-pandemic to post-pandemic (95% in 2018-19 to 91% in 2021-22). (TX attendance trends over time here: www.aei.org/research-pro...)

Sofía Wilson@sofia-wilson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We provide early evidence on the impact of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks on learning opportunities, and the schooling disruptions that the growing number of low-coverage communities could face if outbreaks continue to spread. See working paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1358

Public health policy is #EdPolicy

Sofía Wilson@sofia-wilson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We provide early evidence on the impact of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks on learning opportunities, and the schooling disruptions that the growing number of low-coverage communities could face if outbreaks continue to spread. See working paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1358

In 2000, measles was declared eradicated in the U.S. Today, declining child-vaccination rates are driving the largest measles resurgence we've seen in 3+ decades. How do these outbreaks impact schooling? @tomdee.bsky.social and I examine this question in West Texas, the country's largest outbreak.

Great coverage of my new report highlighting ICE's disproportionate targeting on Latinos in New York and around the country.

Gothamist@gothamist.com · 8mo ago

Latinos in NY bearing brunt of immigration arrests statewide, report says https://gothamist.com/news/latinos-in-ny-bearing-brunt-of-immigration-arrests-statewide-report-says

Woah. Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success. The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points. The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.

Nationwide, the supply of infant and toddler #ECE does not meet demand, and the costs of care are #unaffordable for many #families. Curious about the status in your state? Check out our new @urbaninstitute.bsky.social snapshots! www.urban.org/data-tools/s...

State Snapshots of Infant and Toddler Early Care and Education

State-by-state breakdowns of the supply, demand, affordability, and licensing requirements for early child care and education.

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Excited to see everyone in Chicago for #AEFP2026!

AEFP@aefpweb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Did you submit a proposal for #AEFP2026? Keep an eye out for #AEFP2026 decisions in your inbox 👀

I 💙 you california

Pleased to see our research on the pandemic’s unequal impact on girls’ and boys’ test scores covered by The Harvard Gazette. The math gender gap is now larger than at any point in the past 50 years. Our evidence points to out-of-school factors as potential drivers: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Girls fell further behind in math during, after pandemic — Harvard Gazette

Leading sociologist says emotional, family, social disruptions likelier cause than school closures.

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👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse. 👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...

Deeply concerned about the trauma and developmental harm this admin is inflicting on students. Local news reporting absenteeism rate post ICE raid doubled relative to its rate from prior year in Charlotte. What @tomdee.bsky.social found in Central Valley, CA occurring in many cities throughout US.

Tyler Kingkade@tktk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...

Girls’ test scores dropped more than boys’ post pandemic—but not everywhere. We use 15 years of data from 7k+ districts to understand why, and what this might teach us about how societal shocks impact gender disparities in ed outcomes. Hear sean present our findings tomorrow: lnkd.in/eEe-DTND

Why have girls' test scores declined relative to boys' in recent years? Next Tuesday (11/18) at 4 pm, join the PIER Public Seminar series for a conversation with Stanford University's sean...

Why have girls' test scores declined relative to boys' in recent years? Next Tuesday (11/18) at 4 pm, join the PIER Public Seminar series for a conversation with Stanford University's sean reardon, wh...

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Fascinating, important work with novel dataset.

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 🧵 -->

Why is this economics? We show how backlash to the most significant social policy since the abolition of slavery -- school integration --reshaped markets, reallocated resources, and reduced human capital. Read the paper 👇 (P.S. I'm presenting this at APPAM this weekend! Come say hi!) 12/12

Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...

ICE arrests could hurt student test scores, study says — and not just for immigrants

A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also oc...

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Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk

Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week. As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).

Excited to head to Seattle this week for #APPAM2025. I’ll be presenting my work on how universal pre-K expansions affect public school system enrollment. If you're interested in spillover effects of early childhood policies, get in touch & hope to see you in Seattle!

I'm on the job market! My JMP studies the role of high school teachers in preparing students for college success I find significant positive effects of high school teachers on 🔹College admissions test scores 🔹College enrollment 🔹College performance 🧵(1/10)

Published in Economics of Education Review! Building on @joshua-goodman.com's post, we find public school enrollment declines are concentrated in higher-income districts, middle grades, and among White and Asian students. I hope these findings support discussions on the shifting education landscape.

Joshua Goodman@joshua-goodman.com · 10mo ago

🚨New publication alert🚨 I'm thrilled Economics of Education Review has just published my work w/ @abbyfrancis.bsky.social: "School enrollment shifts five years after the pandemic" Abstract below, but read the next few posts for the story told via a handful of graphs. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Know any aspiring PhD students interested in quant studies in education? Please direct them to our programs in ed policy, econ of ed, or ed data science! I hope to welcome an energetic & ambitious student to join me in our new building 🌴☀️ Applications due November 17 ed.stanford.edu/admissions/a...

This is my last week at the Wall Street Journal. I'll be returning to Chalkbeat to launch a new section focused on the big ideas and debates in American education. More on this soon! You can sign up to keep following my work here: www.chalkbeat.org/newsletters/...

Hi Bluesky! I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)! It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D). Thread below 👇 (1/)