Keith Herman

"A 5-min measure of student-teacher interactions revealed classroom disparities in student access to opportunities to respond (OTRs) based on their disability status. OTR disparities may serve as an objective indicator of culturally responsive practices." t.co/zLPjcJBQzf

Thank goodness for factor analysis

Want to learn more about the Early Identification System the universal SEB screening and implementation support system? Check out the new info tabs at @mopreventionsci.bsky.social
website: moprevention.org/eis/ with FAQs answered by our school partners moprevention.org/eis-faqs/

Check out this new tutorial by Nianbo Dong on causal moderation analysis: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lUol56ZNX...

Got it. Yeah I misinterpreted many of these as implying the methods are relatively useless rather than the frustration with how they are commonly misused. Here I at least partly blame editors and reviewers for not asking the “so what” questions before accepting such papers.

I think the most important point in your post is the ending comment: “without other corroborating information, I wouldn’t be making strong claims.” Isn’t this true of any method?

#3 confuses me. Isn’t this simply a misuse of a method not an inherent part of it? Isn’t one advantage of these analyses that they are model-based so that classes remain latent when you run subsequent latent class regressions etc?

Now do “averagarian” methods…

The 6th Annual Center for Rural School Mental Health Conference may have been the best one yet! We learned so much from our school, youth, and university partners. Till next year. @mopreventionsci.bsky.social

Author 9 would suggest otherwise:
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Get it. My complaint is that many requests for mtgs I receive are not about things that take much intellectual effort. In fact some can be answered yes or no! And absolutely agree we have too many emails and intrusions, so no easy answers here.

Should be a new personality dimension of Big 5/6 (Meetingism?). I, and many others I know, loathe the need for calls/mtgs when written text should suffice. Mtgs are important for connectedness of course, but you know anything in person is gonna quadruple the time commitment so it better be worth it!

Let's talk about joins | Crystal Lewis An review of horizontal and vertical joins with examples from education research.

Have several datasets you need to combine but are unsure how to combine them? This post might help.
cghlewis.com/blog/joins/

Gov. JB Pritzker signs order protecting autism data in response to federal research plan under RFK Jr. Pritzker’s order responds to federal efforts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to create databases of personal information for those with autism “without clear legal safeguar…

Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order that formally restricts the unauthorized collection of autism-related data by state agencies.

Pritzker’s order responds to federal efforts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to create databases of personal information for those with autism.

"The vast majority of teachers now recognize the term evidence-based interventions/practices . . . but teachers note the same barriers to implementing mental health supports as over a decade ago." @mopreventionsci.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Would be good to alert AU to fix this sentence in their summary: “Cutting annual public R&D spending in half would making the average American approximately $10,000 poorer.”

Training Library | Rural SMH Center Site These courses were designed to help your school create a host environment that supports a comprehensive model to identify, prevent and intervene on student mental health concerns.

Another free resource from @mopreventionsci.bsky.social and @ncrsmh.bsky.social: a Professional Development Hub ruralsmh.com/implementati.... Although designed for the Early Identification System, the tools are relevant for building capacity to implement any comprehensive approach in schools.

Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands for deep changes The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.

The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

Please take a second to read my statement on the termination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions. This is devastating to science but even more so to the youth impacted. Thank you

Exactly!
The people who are being fired did everything right to achieve the American Dream. They worked hard to get qualifications for a career that gave them a decent living and, bonus, served the community. To see them discarded like this should outrage all of us!!

The IES Practice Guides and resources inform every single literacy course & training for pre-service & in-service teachers. Any literacy intervention that has evidence behind it has evidence because the studies were funded by IES, OSEP, or by NIH. Every $ spent on IES research saves tax payer $.

Just curious is anyone aware of NCEs being granted for any federally funded grant (NIH, IES, NSF, DOJ) since 2/1? I’m aware of a lot of submitted requests but not aware of any approved so far!

March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.

Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.

Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

Chair and Full Professor of Special Education - Nashville, Tennessee job with Peabody College of Education and Human Development | 37806156 We are seeking an incoming Chair who will collaborate with our faculty to determine the trajectory of the department and lead an innovative future.

Hi everyone! The Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University is searching for a Chair and Professor to join our faculty in the summer of 2026.

Please share with your networks and happy to chat with anyone interested! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37806156...

What the Department of Education actually does America’s least understood and most efficient agency, explained

If you need help explaining to people what the Department of Education does and why it matters, this, from Ben Miller (hosted by @mattyglesias.bsky.social) is as good as it gets open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

The “A” in “F&A:” Understanding the Value of Research Administration - UNC Research Research administration at UNC-Chapel Hill highlights the University's stewardship of financial resources and commitment to compliance that yields the highest quality research with real world impacts.

Good explainer. "UNC-Chapel Hill stands ready to collaborate on the development of a modernized indirect cost model. A new model should reduce inefficiencies and duplication in mandatory regulations and harmonize them across agencies." research.unc.edu/2025/03/13/u...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

This is the narrative 👇. We need to tell the stories again & again of how NIH & NSF funding benefits our neighbors. 🧪 #scicomm