@natejones.bsky.social
Special education and education policy researcher All views my own, not ED's or IES'; RTs not endorsements.
Your favorite pharmacy chain, now with soul.
05.12.2025 02:31 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The National Center for Education Statistics is hiring two researchers to work on NAEP, the first green shoots after DOGE came through back in February. They limit to 150 applications, so move fast if interested.
www.usajobs.gov/job/844948000
www.usajobs.gov/job/844947600
My teenage daughter thought Nirvana was a t-shirt company. I don’t know where I went wrong as a parent.
21.08.2025 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m
🧵 below:
Abstract of CALDER working paper, Impacts of Staff Turnover on Test Scores for Students with and without Disabilities."
New @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! A study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @natejones.bsky.social, & @lizbettini.bsky.social. We find staff turnover matters for SWDs. Ungated WP & one pager:
• Working paper: tinyurl.com/j3rykkp9
• One-pager: tinyurl.com/bddtzxtp
Cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences threaten decades of progress in independent education research. We need more evidence—not less. Our case for strengthening IES:
🔗 www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
With @statstipton.bsky.social & Jessaca Spybrook
#EdResearch #IES #EduSky
In an effort to distract myself from Department goings-on, I spent last night taking photos while waiting for my kids’ activities to end. The subject: Newtonville alleyways.
25.03.2025 18:27 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1As a faculty member, I think I knew from afar what good people IES had. But over the past two years, I have gotten to work alongside so many of those who were just let go. I have learned so much from these friends and colleagues, and I am just dumbstruck at the scale of this loss for our country.
12.03.2025 11:45 — 👍 76 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 2
Check out this quick feature on my recent work with @natejones.bsky.social on teachers’ emotional expressions!
www.cehd.udel.edu/research-spo...
Publication alert! Our @caldercenter.bsky.social work on the paraeducator workforce in WA, joint with @lindseykaler.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, & @natejones.bsky.social, is now published in EC!
Journal link: tinyurl.com/4rp8e5sb
Ungated: tinyurl.com/4dwnzy3y
1 pager: tinyurl.com/y7w9jufy
🚀 Meet Part One of our amazing leadership team, @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @afgilmour.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, Li Feng, LaRon Scott, and @lmasonwms.bsky.social! Stay tuned for updates on our journey! #SPARCCenter #SpecialEducation
22.11.2024 14:39 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
🌟 Meet the second part of our leadership team! These experts in quantitative and qualitative analysis are essential to our work in understanding the special educator teacher workforce. Our national leadership team steers our work in dissemination and impact. #SPARCCenter #SpecialEducation
25.11.2024 16:37 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Help us plan for our new DLD "Ask a Researcher" video library! 📽️ Each video (2-3min) will highlight one question related to the field of SPED/LD and feature experts responding to the question. What are the questions you would like to see addressed? Share ideas here👇🏼 @teachingld.bsky.social
13.12.2024 04:09 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1No problem! It’s a good one!
26.11.2024 02:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is me! And not the Ving Rhames character from ConAir, nor the Australian pro wrestler, nor the former Olympic boxer, nor the pro football player, nor the subject of the Supremes song...though this Bananarama cover could be my entrance music:
youtu.be/iSSpPkMlb98?...
