Adam Gamoran

The idea of restricting online education to older students is worth testing

If you care, Kennedy, you publicly call on the House to bring up articles of impeachment against RFK today.

No "thought and prayers," no hand-wringing.

Either call for his impeachment, or just be quiet. You have strong influence to stop this. Anything else is just performative nonsense.

Postdoctoral opportunity in the social sciences at Notre Dame! apply.interfolio.com/177620

How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack

A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Race is linked to who gets to take algebra, data shows Schools are less likely to offer Latino and Black students early algebra, limiting odds they will get advanced courses and higher-paying jobs.

Glad to see research by @uwsoc.bsky.social alum Daniel Long reported in @washingtonpost.com on the persistence of racial and ethnic inequality in academic course taking www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Graph show learning, compliance and psychological costs

New GAO report: Agencies are not following OMB guidance to identify and reduce administrative burdens in safety net benefits, least likely to pay attention to learning and compliance costs.
www.gao.gov/products/gao...

Cruel & stupid. they forget that Housing First was developed because treatment first failed!!! HF cut veteran homelessness in half; nearly eliminated it in Utah! If coerced "care" was the most effective approach, HF would never have been invented.

On Friday, I moderated a National Academy of Education panel on the state and future of education research, with Peggy Carr, @agamoran.bsky.social, Pam Grossman. Many calls for resilience, creativity, advocacy, engagement, and alliances for funding, data, freedom. Photo credit: @aadukia.bsky.social

For more on the Wash U - B & G Club partnership, a @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social Institutional Challenge Grant, see: wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/advan...

Researchers & community partners working hard for youth in St. Louis: appreciated the chance to visit Wash U’s exec vice provost Mary McKay, Sandro Galea, dean of the new Schl of Public Health, and their colleagues; and Brandon Williams, visionary president of the Boys & Girls Club of St. Louis.

For more on the Wash U - B& G Club partnership, a @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social Institutional Challenge Grant, see: wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/advan...

Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

And the article by @emilyrauscher.bsky.social, @greermellon.bsky.social, @susannaloeb.bsky.social, & Abbot documents positive achievement returns to school spending, benefits that are larger for students in low-spending & hi-poverty districts. See also: wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/when-...

The article by Hamilton, Eaton, and Cheng shows that as universities become designated as Hispanic-serving, White enrollment tends to decline, leaving Latine students more isolated - for info on the grant, see wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/how-d...

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I’m proud to see two studies funded by @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social featured in the latest issue of @soceducation.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOE/curr...

Contemporary Child Labor and Declining School Attendance in the U.S. The United States has experienced a 400% increase in reported child labor violations over the past decade, coinciding with declines in K-12 school attendance and enrollment. We examine the causal rela...

New working paper on contemporary child labor in the U.S. and its impacts on school attendance ⬇️

edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1302

With absolute dream team @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @stevebholt.bsky.social & PhD student Ji Hyun Byeon

For more on Monica Bhatt’s research funded by @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social see wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/reduc...

Monica Bhatt, another @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social grantee, kicks off the panel on the power of research-practice partnerships in Chicago #SREE2025

Inspiring @sreesociety.bsky.social plenary organized by Shanette Porter @uchiconsortium.bsky.social featuring @chipubschools.bsky.social chief of teaching & learning Nicole Milberg & former @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social Disting Fellow Deborah Gorman-Smith, dean of Crown Fam School of Soc Work #SREE2025

Monica Bhatt, another @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social grantee, kicks off a panel discussion on the contributions of @uchiconsortium.bsky.social

I’m proud to say that @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social supports the Hedges Lecture at #SREE2025

The Hedges lecture is named for the founder and first president of SREE, Northwestern’s Larry V. Hedges, who taught me introductory statistics when I was a grad student at the University of Chicago.

SREE has done a great job of bringing researchers from outside of education research to give the Hedges Lecture — an important avenue for new knowledge entering our field #SREE2025

Appreciate the opportunity to learn from economist and criminal justice scholar @meganstevenson.bsky.social as she delivers the Hedges Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness #SREE2025

Months After Deep Cuts, Education Researchers See Reason for Cautious Optimism New hiring and talk of modernization led one researcher to say, ‘I am more hopeful than I was three months ago.’

I shared a few thoughts on the concerns I see with cuts to the Department of Education's data and research capacity, although there are also a few green shoots that are worth watching.

Universal school choice programs mostly benefit the wealthy unless policymakers act to prevent it | Brookings Authors analyze six states’ universal school choice programs, showing how income rules shape who benefits most.

Universal school choice programs are expanding—but who benefits most?

Analisa Pines, Jon Valant, and Nicolas Zerbino examine six states and find that without income-based restrictions, these programs disproportionately benefit wealthy families.

Peer review is the backbone of scientific progress. Discarding peer review threatens to undermine the quality of scientific innovation.

Join the Policymakers & Practitioners Community Group on October 15 at 2 PM ET for an engaging forum on dual enrollment research. Register today: aefp.zoom.us/meeting...

🚨Do you know a school, system, or network doing amazing work in support of student success in high school, particularly through a continuous-improvement approach?

Let's recognize them! Encourage them to apply for the Carnegie Award for Impact (cfdn.at/4o4gp58).
Applications due on November 10.

For a historical perspective on @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social see wtgrantfoundation.org/about/history