Anika Alam

🎓 Can machine learning help provide equitable predictions for high school dropout?
@anikaalam.bsky.social's dissertation digs deep into algorithmic bias, revealing how models can unintentionally disadvantage students from marginalized backgrounds.

🔍Read more: www.proquest.com/docview/3217...

🚀 Excited to team up with @UBuffalo’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science to host a workshop on automated speech recognition (ASR) in education! 🎙️📚

We'll dive into how ASR can support learning and provide hands-on training focused on children’s speech.

#childASR #edtech

Universal Pre-K as Economic Stimulus: Evidence from Nine States and Large Cities in the U.S. Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Universal Pre-K as Economic Stimulus: Evidence from Nine States and Large Cities in the U.S. www.nber.org/papers/w3376...

"Notably, each dollar spent on UPK generated between 3 to over 20 dollars in aggregate earnings – enough that tax revenues might fully cover costs."

New dashboard explores some of the factors impacting students’
opportunities to learn and the disparities in opportunity to learn experienced by Black and white students in a given state.

opportunitytolearn.info

Wage Enhancements Benefit Child Care Staffing in DC In this summary, we provide sustained evidence of the benefits of the District of Columbia’s wage enhancement program for early childhood educators, the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, to ch...

🌟What if early educators were paid like K-12 teachers? New evidence from Washington, DC shows what would happen: more stability in the child care workforce, higher-quality caregiving, and greater mental health and financial well-being for early educators.🌟

#EduSkyECEC

www.urban.org/research/pub...

The Urban Institute’s Education Data Portal offers users the ability to view data endpoints and select summary endpoints directly in their web browser. Users can access this application programming interface (API) by directly hitting a URL endpoint or by using Stata or R. All data are returned in JSON format and can be viewed directly in a web browser.

Hey #edusky and #econsky - the Education Data Portal has been updated with IPEDS fall data collection, CCD, CRDC (through 20), and SAIPE through 2023. Have at it and know further updates to CRDC and IPEDS are forthcoming!
educationdata.urban.org/documentatio...

Want to help save research using NCES restricted-use data? Here is a gdrive with actions, background, and context from my colleague sean reardon (sharing with permission):
1) actions
2) background
3) list of data files: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Evidence-Based Education Policy Research | Live Handbook Explore evidence-based education policy research at our digital hub. Access data-driven insights to improve learning outcomes and shape effective policies.

Objective, comprehensive, rigorous, timely, and useful:
A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research.

#EdResearch #EdPolicy

livehandbook.org

Could not have been possible without my awesome cohort mates!

Thank you, Brandon! Your support and encouragement mean so much to me. We've come a long way since our days as masters students at @teacherscollege.bsky.social!

Mathematica statement on the cancellation of Regional Educational Laboratories Mathematica statement on the cancellation of Regional Educational Laboratories The Congressionally mandated Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) supported the work of state and local education age...

What kind of research was cancelled by Dept of Ed?
Bread & butter work to improve kids' achievement & lives:
🚸Enhancing math & writing instruction
🚸Helping kids w disabilities transition after HS
🚸Reducing teacher shortages

FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Knowing what works, for whom, and under what conditions is one of the most powerful tools I can imagine in public policy. Adding cost effectiveness analysis can improve efficiency while understanding context supports generalizability.

Education Department slashes funding for research contracts, grants — POLITICO About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were targeted.

Education scholar friends: People don’t necessarily understand the value of education research in the same intuitive way they understand the value of research into cancer, etc. Drop examples of high-impact edu research in the thread below. #edusky
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Another great resource: the Segregation Tracking Project. We built off NCES data to create Longitudinal Imputed School Database. Race/eth and free lunch data for every school in the US 1991-2022. We impute erroneous/missing data but retain original CCD values.

edopportunity.org/segregation/

🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟

#EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC
educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer

Great coverage of new findings from our DC Pre-K study c/o @conorpwilliams.bsky.social!

@anikaalam.bsky.social @justinbdoromal.bsky.social

States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress

Demographically adjusted 2024 NAEP scores, hot off the presses! www.urban.org/research/pub...

New evidence confirms what we know well: starting early is best for students, families, and education systems.

Great new essay from @anikaalam.bsky.social and our DC PreK study team published by the Learning Curve @urbaninstitute.bsky.social.

#edusky #edpolisky #eduskyecec

How Public PK3 Mitigated School Enrollment Declines during the Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted student learning and the delivery of public education. Across the United States, most public K–12 schools saw widespread enrollment declines during the 2020–21...

The latest Learning Curve essay looks at how DC's prek program for 3-year-olds mitigated school enrollment declines during the pandemic.

Read more from @anikaalam.bsky.social @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social & colleagues: www.urban.org/research/pub...

How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

Sometimes researchers are lucky enough to study solutions.

Our work on DC's Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund is 2 years in the making and findings are clear.

We know now what a big change it has brought to people's lives. It was long overdue.

www.npr.org/2024/12/12/n...

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"A key implication for researchers is to appreciate that methodological expertise alone is insufficient, and that practitioners’ and families’ experiences with the education system and knowledge of local contexts constitute valuable forms of knowledge" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I'm thrilled to see this site building a serious community of researchers, writers and policymakers focused on education policy and economics.

Below are links to 3 Starter Packs I've made to help you connect with such folks.

Please let me know if I've missed you. The volume of requests has been 😮

Hi, would love to be added. PhD candidate at Penn GSE

Hadn’t seen a women in education policy research starter pack yet. Please let me know if I missed you… still getting my bearings in the new place.

go.bsky.app/PixwBrM

This is really important new evidence on early warning systems for absenteeism in action. Identifying students is a good first step but it still requires follow up resources and practices that adequately address their barriers to attendance!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Here’s why at least 13 states won’t be offering new $120 food benefit to kids this summer Some states said they didn’t have enough time or money to get Summer EBT up and running this year, while others seemed to oppose the program for political reasons.

Summer EBT programs are essential for child and family well-being. We can and must do more to combat food insecurity.

"Nearly 10 million children won’t get summer food benefits as states opt out of new federal program."

What Costs $1,000 Per Student and Might Help Children Learn to Read? A new study found that California schools got positive results from a targeted investment in the science of reading — even with the challenges of pandemic recovery.

Ready for some good #education news?

Our new study finds CA's lawsuit-driven effort to bring the "Science of Reading" to its lowest-performing elementary schools is working (doi.org/10.26300/jnm...). @snovicoff.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/u...

100x performance improvement for the Callaway-Sant'Anna DiD estimator. Super impressive. github.com/TsaiLintung/...

#EconSky

Excited to be at @appam.bsky.social 2023! I will be presenting work with Brooks Bowden on how to preemptively identify vulnerable students. Come say hi and check out our poster on Saturday!