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Jill Cannon

@jscannon.bsky.social

Senior policy researcher at RAND. Early childhood care and education / social policy. Opinions are mine.

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Pips Game - Play Unlimited Pips Game is an unlimited free online domino puzzle inspired by NYT. Place dominoes strategically to solve puzzles from easy to hard challenges.

Pips pushes all my math and object rotation buttons

It's the fun parts of the SAT

Here it is for free

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24.08.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Pre-K Teachers Are Stressed and Say They Want to Quit A recent survey shows that pre-K teachers are overworked, underpaid and contemplating leaving their jobs.

Survey: Pre-K teachers are stressed and say they want to quit

16.06.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Public School Pre-K Teachers Are Professionals, But Aren’t Treated That Way From pay to professional development to coordination with colleagues in higher grades, schools have a long way to go, study finds.

There are over 70,000 pre-K teachers working in public schools but they often fall through the crack between ECE and K-12 policy.
Check out my piece with Elizabeth Steiner and @jscannon.bsky.social on including their voices in pre-K policy discussions www.the74million.org/article/publ...

24.04.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm happy to be part of this RAND team gathering important perspectives from pre-K teachers. More data to come from this new teacher survey panel!

10.04.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
ALA response to White House assault on IMLS
To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities.β€―
As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries

ALA response to White House assault on IMLS To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities.β€― As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.

Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

15.03.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1067    πŸ” 867    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 140
A scan of a linocut print, which has the text β€œFree people read freely” in block capitals above a person in a dress reaching to take a book from a large bookshelf

A scan of a linocut print, which has the text β€œFree people read freely” in block capitals above a person in a dress reaching to take a book from a large bookshelf

15.03.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1300    πŸ” 337    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7

Harvard has the biggest endowment, so why are they stopping hiring? It helps to understand that endowments provide less of a cushion than you probably imagine.
And if Harvard is worried, lots of other universities are doing to be in worse shape.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/no-univers...

10.03.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 5
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Bill Gormley: A word in favor of the bureaucrats Almost every American has suffered an annoying or even angering encounter with a bureaucrat. An obstructive response after a long wait at a DMV line. A...

A useful thing that academics and others can do is provide explainers to local media.

This is a nice example from my former @mccourtschool.bsky.social colleague Bill Gormley.
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insi...

23.02.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 210    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 10
Education Data Explorer Explore education data

🌟 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

10.02.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

I wish people on the left would stop using β€œdiversity hire” or β€œaffirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.

26.01.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2246    πŸ” 458    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 58
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Watch These Cute Videos of Babies (and Learn Something, Too) A social media account features smiley toddlers, while also offering positive lessons about child development.

Hi! I’m new around here and wanted to say hello.

My name is Dan Wuori and I have dedicated my social media channels to helping explore the wonderment of early childhood development.

The NY Times wrote about this project back in March. I’d love to connect! www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/u...

10.11.2024 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 529    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 24

New research from the US Department of Labor finds a "national paid family and medical leave program would reduce poverty across all communities and diminish the poverty gap among workers." 13 states and DC currently have paid leave:

www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/...

26.11.2024 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New feed just dropped!

A place to find or discuss social science funding opportunities. Aggregates posts that include #FundSocSci.

If you see opportunities to share, post with #FundSocSci. Pin feed to browse.

Envisioned by & co-moderated @judychevalier.bsky.social.
bsky.app/profile/did:...

23.11.2024 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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