Thank you to all who joined the EdWorkingPapers webinar with @tomdee.bsky.social and featuring @andrewmcamp.com, Jeremy Singer, and their co-authors. Join our email list to make sure you hear when the next webinar is announced: mailchi.mp/annenbergins...

My expectations for tomorrow's Congressional hearing with district superintendents are not high: “Some members of Congress, especially in an election year, would rather talk about anything other than their unrelenting support for an unpopular president and an unpopular war and economic precarity."

Congress to Grill San Francisco Schools Chief Maria Su About Gender, Ethnic Studies | KQED

Republican lawmakers are likely to ask about rules related to parents’ rights, race and sexuality in the city’s K-12 public schools.

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Register now for the June 17 EdWorkingPapers webinar facilitated by tomdee.bsky.social and featuring @andrewmcamp.com, Jeremy Singer, and their co-authors. edworkingpapers.com/webinar-series

I‘m really excited to talk about our research on attendance with @andrewmcamp.com, @tomdee.bsky.social, and our colleagues!

Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 The votes are in! EdWorkingPapers readers chose “Improving Student Attendance in the ICE Era” as the topic for our webinar on June 17. See who’s speaking and register >> brown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Looking forward to sharing some of my recent work + learn from some fantastic researchers in just 2 weeks! Check it out, sign up, and join us ⬇️

Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 The votes are in! EdWorkingPapers readers chose “Improving Student Attendance in the ICE Era” as the topic for our webinar on June 17. See who’s speaking and register >> brown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📵 This just in: results of the first large study of cell phone bans in U.S. schools, from SIEPR's Hunt Allcott, @tomdee.bsky.social and Matthew Gentzkow. Key findings + links to @nytimes.com exclusive + study ⬇️ #EducationPolicy

School phone bans are popular with parents, teachers, & policymakers. But are they working? Using national data on the sale of lockable pouches to schools, our new study indicates they sharply reduce phone use but have mixed effects on outcomes. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...

Did School Cellphone Bans Work? New Study Finds Mixed Results.

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Quantitative research in education is scandalously bad

Karen Vaites@karenvaites.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This week’s absolute must-read, and the most important thing @kelseypieper.bsky.social has written about education. www.theargumentmag.com/p/education-...

I'm pleased to be in DC today to speak at a congressional briefing on safe and supportive school environments and particularly to underscore the research on how recent immigration raids are influencing students and schools.

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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The steep ⬇️ in U.S. public school enrollment during the pandemic has not reversed, SIEPR's @tomdee.bsky.social tells @theguardian.com in a fascinating story about the difficult. choices cash-strapped schools now face. "There are no free lunches," Dee says. Link 👇 #PublicEducation #EduSky

I spoke with The Minnesota Star Tribune about the research evidence, mine and others, which indicates the many ways in which aggressive immigration enforcement harms children, schools, and communities. www.startribune.com/coronavirus-...

Perry: The learning loss from the ‘ICE pandemic’

"As Trump’s virus lurked around Minnesota schools looking to kidnap children and their parents, many children quite reasonably went into hiding," David M. Perry writes.

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Glad to see @tomdee.bsky.social and Elizabeth Huffaker's work on accelerating opportunity in Algebra I out of the working papers and into @aeraedresearch.bsky.social! doi.org/10.3102/0002...

Accelerating Opportunity: The Effects of Instructionally Supported Detracking - Thomas S. Dee, Elizabeth Huffaker, 2026

The pivotal role of algebra in the educational trajectories of U.S. students continues to motivate high-profile policies focused on when students access the cou...

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📢 Call for papers: CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford) 🏛️ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich 🧑‍🏫 Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social 👉 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... ⏰ Deadline: 11 May 2026 🖼️ Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

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

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.

Our preregistered study of mental-health co-responders—now out in Nature Human Behaviour (doi.org/10.1038/s415...) —finds positive benefits in terms of significant reductions in psychiatric detentions and future mental-health crises relative to police-only responses.

The aggressive immigration raids we now see across the nation began 10 months ago in California's Central Valley. Their impact on children, families, and communities is an important & active area of research I'm pleased my study of the initial raid's early impact on students is now out in @pnas.org

Empirical evidence and conceptual reasoning suggest quasi-experimental studies—the most common form of studies making causal claims—have a "p-hacking" problem. My essay on this and the case for adapting & adopting QED preregistration is now published in Evaluation Review. doi.org/10.1177/0193...

Such a warm, engaging, and informative visit! My thanks to the @annenberginstitute.bsky.social at Brown University for inviting me to give the Annenberg 2025 Distinguished Lecture.

I'm honored to give the Annenberg 2025 Distinguished Lecture next week and looking forward to being in conversation with this outstanding community.

Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Join us for the Annenberg 2025 Lecture with @tomdee.bsky.social, Barnett Family Professor at Stanford University, on understanding and addressing chronic absenteeism. 🗓️ October 22, 4:00 PM EDT 📍 MacMillan Hall, Room 117, Brown University. Register: buff.ly/U8JtaAO

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...

🚨Do you know a school, system, or network doing amazing work in support of student success in high school, particularly through a continuous-improvement approach? Let's recognize them! Encourage them to apply for the Carnegie Award for Impact (cfdn.at/4o4gp58). Applications due on November 10.

I have watched states delay releasing test scores for months as they work to message results and hope no one is paying attention.

Axios@axios.com · 11mo ago

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

It's gratifying to see my recent immigration-raid research actually being used. wapo.st/42mWdTn

Teachers sue over Trump's immigration crackdown, saying students are staying home

Labor unions representing educators and school employees are suing President Donald Trump’s administration over its immigration crackdown

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"Educators should also understand the limitations of research evidence. Rigorous impact evaluations...can only tell us what has worked someplace at some time—not what will work universally for educators facing specific challenges." - @tomdee.bsky.social www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? (Opinion)

The connection between education research, policy, and practice is broken. Here’s what it would take to fix it.

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Why aren't practices based on research implemented in schools? @tomdee.bsky.social has insights, and ideas for change. www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? (Opinion)

The connection between education research, policy, and practice is broken. Here’s what it would take to fix it.

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"...embrace opportunities for quick and meaningful wins. These are the common-sense education initiatives that share three critical features: evidentiary support, low financial costs, and scalability." - @tomdee.bsky.social www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? (Opinion)

The connection between education research, policy, and practice is broken. Here’s what it would take to fix it.

edweek.org

Just out in @edweek.org's #K12BigIdeas, I criticize the quality & connectedness of education research, policy, & practice and discuss what it would take to do better. www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? (Opinion)

The connection between education research, policy, and practice is broken. Here’s what it would take to fix it.

edweek.org

Have we given too much "credit" to the pandemic for learning losses? Almost 50% of the post-pandemic decline in achievement on 8th grade NAEP was to be expected (without the pandemic!), simply using the same rate of declining achievement that began unfolding starting in 2013!

Thomas S. Dee@tomdee.bsky.social · last yr.

This provocative, data-infused essay by James Wyckoff — edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1197 — serves as a reminder that fully understanding the declines in student achievement requires us to look well before the COVID-19 pandemic.