Latest posts tagged with #EdWorkingPapers on Bluesky
Humbled and thankful that @annenberginstitute.bsky.social saw fit to include my #EdWorkingPapers preprint in their email today. Here's a 🧵 on what we studied.
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⚡New from #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series!
A summary of “Cheapskin Effects? The Heterogeneous Value of Industry-Recognized Certificates Earned by High School Students” by T. Sultana, M. Andrews, & @mattgiani.bsky.social
📄 edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...
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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Can a simple notification nudge students into advanced coursework?
🔍 Austin et al. find no effects in Grade 10 but large increases in Grade 11 course planning (+22–24 pp for any advanced course).
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1427
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Does free community college shift where students enroll?
🔍 @emileigharrison.bsky.social, Hallberg, Ruiz & Slaughter find students move from 4-year to 2-year colleges, but BA attainment does not decline.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1426
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Do employer-rated professional skills predict college success?
🔍 Russell, Jabbari, Mei, Jimenez & @doughesm.bsky.social find no link to college entry, but strong associations with earning a 4-year degree.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1419
📢 #EdWorkingPapers:
Using transcript data from Massachusetts, Patrick Denice & Shahar Dangur-Levy find that math advancement dropped due to COVID-19 disruptions during 2020–21, especially for students spending more time in remote instruction.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1422
📢 #EdWorkingPapers:
Using data on 14,000+ teachers in Virginia, Isabelle Fares, Anna Markowitz, & @dbassok.bsky.socia find that 38% of teachers left their center within one year, with wages, experience, education, and job roles linked to turnover.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1417
📢 #EdWorkingPapers:
Veronica Minaya, @jscottclayton.bsky.social, & Adela Soliz find that Federal Work-Study offers boost enrollment among community college and independent students and a 27 percentage point increase in work-study job participation.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1400
📢 #EdWorkingPapers:
@robertkelchen.com analyzes detailed personnel and IPEDS data to show that budget models and institutional centralization shape administrative spending patterns, and that some areas are prioritized when financial pressures mount.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1415
📢 #EdWorkingPapers:
Chris Torres argues that the field should move beyond statistical generalization & more fully adopt analytic generalization, using qualitative evidence to develop theoretical propositions about how & why teachers stay or leave.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1408
⚡ Key takeaways from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series!
A summary of “Making the Implicit Explicit: An Experiment with Implicit Gender Stereotypes and College Major Choice” by Stephanie Owen and Derek Rury
📄 edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...
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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Analyzing RCTs of a preschool math curriculum, Tyler Watts & colleagues find that immediate impacts are strong forecasters for follow-up effects. Settings promoting more learning post-intervention also produce more fadeout as control groups catch up faster.
📄 bit.ly/4c3YQzp
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Tyler Watts, @emmarosehart.bsky.social, & @drewhalbailey.bsky.social analyze 87 RCTs & find that fadeout is common across most programs. Intervention characteristics explain only a small share of differences in persistence.
📄 bit.ly/4aGrXY4
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Bullying doesn’t end in childhood.
A new review shows that exposure to bullying is linked to worse mental health, lower human capital accumulation, and poorer labor market outcomes in adulthood.
🔍 Matias Martinez, Qinyou Hu & Jonathan Schaefer
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1389
How did college enrollment change after SFFA v. Harvard?
Michael Bloem & coauthors find that in the first year after the 2023 Supreme Court ruling, high-achieving URM students were substantially less likely to enroll in highly selective colleges.
#EdWorkingPapers
📄https://bit.ly/4tgdSIt
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: What are schools actually doing to improve attendance?
@jeremylsinger.bsky.social & coauthors find that in Michigan and Georgia, schools rely on communication-based strategies while efforts to remove barriers or improve student experiences are less common. bit.ly/4abAWPG
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Nearly 1 in 12 U.S. schools is located within a quarter mile of an environmental hazard site.
Sohil Malik, @matthewakraft.com & Grace Falken finds stark racial and socioeconomic inequities in schools’ exposure to pollution risks.
#SustainableED
📄https://bit.ly/49YdXsA
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Can shorter courses help community college students succeed?
@kmatheny.bsky.social and colleagues find that condensed courses boost grades and reduce withdrawals at Tennessee’s community colleges, though effects on persistence are more mixed.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1346
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @taylorodle.bsky.social & @isabelmcmullen.bsky.social evaluate Advise TN’s expansion across 33 communities and find the program increased college enrollment by 6%.
📄 Read more: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1371
📢 #EdWorkingPapers:
Valerie Bostwick & Tuan D. Nguyen analyze 10+ years of data from a large Midwestern university and find that students in triweekly classes earn lower grades and are less likely to continue in the subject, particularly in STEM.
📄 Read more: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1363
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: How do predictive analytics companies sell student success?
Catalina Vasquez & colleagues analyze 15 vendors’ marketing materials & find that tools framed as equity-oriented often center on institutional finances & are misaligned with the problems they define.
📄 bit.ly/4a0BXvD
⚡Key takeaways from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series!
A summary of “Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment” by @joshua-goodman.com and Joseph Winkelmann
📄 edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...
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“Five Studies That Inspired Our Thinking in 2025,” recently published by the Overdeck Family Foundation, features three Annenberg #EdWorkingPapers.
Check out the article below ⬇️
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🎯 Essential takeaways from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series!
A summary of “The Impact of Cellphone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida” by David Figlio and @uozek.bsky.social
📄 edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...
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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Can paraprofessionals deliver effective personalized instruction?
Two RCTs show no overall impacts though higher-dosage tutoring improved numeracy by 0.28 SD.
🔍 Elizabeth Huffaker, Monica Lee, Helen Zhou, Carly Robinson, @susanna-loeb.bsky.social
📄 bit.ly/3XPmOpq
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Carycruz Bueno, Za Eng Mawi, @linzpage.bsky.social, and Jonathan Smith show that Achieve Atlanta scholarship recipients take out fewer loans, borrow less, earn more credits, and achieve higher GPAs in their first semester of college.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1337
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Why are college enrollments declining?
@joshua-goodman.com & Joseph Winkelmann show that the drop is concentrated in 2-year colleges and about 60% of the post-Great Recession decline is explained by the pull of stronger labor markets.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1338
📢 New from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series:
A summary of “Does Expanding Access to High Quality Technical Education Induce Participation and Improve Outcomes?” by @yerinyoon.bsky.social and @doughesm.bsky.social!
📄 edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...
#AnnenbergEdExchange
📢 New from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series:
A summary of “Increasing Applied STEM Curricular Opportunities in High School and Impacts on Early Post-Secondary Outcomes: The Effect of Project Lead the Way ”
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @jessebruhn.bsky.social, Michael Gilraine, Jens Ludwig & @sendhil.bsky.social analyze 1.31 billion student-item responses from Texas and find that item-level data contain rich, decision-relevant information that aggregate scores miss.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1343
