Nic Pardo

The Girl Scouts on campus got me, like they do every year

It is /very/ cold in Philly. I will begrudgingly wear a hat

She literally denied a child a toy, at Christmas, because of a rainbow. The toy will get re-donated and hopefully actually reach a child this time

Homophobes see the gay agenda where nothing gay is happening.

A woman took a Frozen toy out of a toy drive and gave it to an adult (my husband) because it had a small rainbow on the packaging

NBC add reassuring me their news

Facts. Clarity. Calm. With a sunset in the background 🤣

An LA/Ktown walk: 5 Waymo’s, 4 people smoking crack, 72 degrees and sunny in December

a cartoon of a girl laying on the floor with the words leave me alone to die ALT: a cartoon of a girl laying on the floor with the words leave me alone to die

My computer is once again begging for mercy as I force I force it to run dozens of do files all day and night

Fight On

Takes me out every time people use the elevator at the gym.

Except the guy with one leg, he gets an elevator pass

I know a bolon when I see one

An Ecuadorian-style Thanksgiving: Recreating holiday memories of a childhood recipe Chef Rick Martinez, a James Beard award winner, helped an NPR host recreate a beloved Ecuadorian dish his family ate during Thanksgiving. Here's the recipe.

Chef Rick Martinez, a James Beard award winner, helped an NPR host recreate a beloved Ecuadorian dish his family ate during Thanksgiving. Here's the recipe. n.pr/4pxSj3h

Vapes*

Sad how close we were to kicking nicotine, then came vaped

Not the messenger I expected but solid message

Tap-to-exit on the metro means playing door Russian roulette. Do I keep walking and they open because it’s not a tap or they stay shut and I slam into doors

Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.

Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment

The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV

www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...

Imagine instead improving instruction in areas where each teacher is weakest without wasting time going over areas of strength.

While they emphasize what would happen replacing the bottom 5% of value-added teachers, I am particularly interested in applications to targeted teacher training since they show that “good” teachers are high value add on some item categories but not others.

Do Test Scores Misrepresent Test Results? An Item-by-Item Analysis 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...

Fun read showing how aggregate test scores leave gains on the table for decision makers.
Do Test Scores Misrepresent Test Results? An Item-by-Item Analysis www.nber.org/papers/w34484

Desperate housewives and Jane the Virgin are on the same wavelength

Most annoying part of a broken finger is when the splint gets wet 🤢🤢

Fresh off the presses today, new research on attendance from me and @npardo.bsky.social. We look at attendance by student group in NC and VA pre- and post-COVID, studying which groups saw the sharpest increases in absenteeism. We reach a few conclusions: www.aei.org/research-pro...

Food delivery robot fail

I proposed in my fourth grade notebook that recess should be shortened for more time for learning

My first policy proposal

My husband informed me I was shouting about “statistics” in my sleep earlier this week
Not quite sure what to make of this development

I want a methods rosetta stone

Something about JSTOR having ai based on its catalog feels icky

AERA proposal submitted straight to a table in Vegas

useful_data_resources

FYI: I've updated my list of Useful Data Resources, primarily with a bunch of (20-ish?) new links to state-specific public school datasets and data repositories.

go.illinois.edu/UsefulDataRe...

Suggestions/corrections are always welcome.

Death, taxes, and...