Interested in some highlights from our latest paper about the effects of Ethnic Studies while it scales district-wide?
Our friends at EdWorkingPapers have you covered.
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This is a devastating analysis of the impact of the NIH's policies in fiscal year 2025 on the research project grant investigator pool.
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If we treated poor people as full humans worthy of dignity, we wouldn’t spend so much time policing them in the first place…
Pay teachers more ➡️ increase retention
But we don't need to stick with a rigid salary schedule to do it
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I wrote about this, and the costs of generational STEM optimism, last year. "It’s created such wreckage to have implied that history and humanities are luxury goods, rather than essential services." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
Excited to see our study on four-day school weeks and teacher retention out at Education Finance & Policy!
Using 18 years of data from Oregon, we find that switching to a four-day week actually increased teacher turnover by about 2 percentage points.
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Ethnic Studies (ES) has emerged as a promising approach to address this challenge. By centering the histories, cultures, and lived experiences of communities of color, ES is designed to make learning ...
This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...
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Emily Penner
Emily Penner
🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences.
Steps to counter this are in motion.
If you
- have an SBE proposal under review
- serve on an SBE grant panel
You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2
Jeremy Berg
In 2023, Arkansas legislators passed the LEARNS Act, a comprehensive education reform package that, among other goals, aimed to strengthen teacher recruitment and retention. The law raised the…
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🚨 "More than $1 billion of the currently unapportioned Education Department funds will expire and return to the Treasury if OMB doesn’t release the money in the next four months." by @marklieberman.bsky.social
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Abstract. The use of four-day school weeks (4dsw) in the United States has expanded rapidly over the past two decades. Previous work examines the impact of 4dsw on student outcomes, but less research ...
