Shaun M. Dougherty

What makes a Career & Technical Education program more than a set of electives?

New research synthesizes decades of studies to highlight what works—and what doesn’t—in CTE → buff.ly/luCPS7F

📢New working paper (a chapter from my dissertation), co-authored with @doughesm.bsky.social, is now posted at the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston!

Does Expanding Access to High Quality Technical Education Induce Participation and Improve Outcomes? (1/n)

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Looking at job postings helps define the counterfactual. I might be on my own, but I find this exercise helpful.

New publication showing how high school #CTE can help smooth the transition to the workforce for students with #Disability - Joint w/ @UConn colleagues & @CTTechHS doi.org/10.3102/0013... Excited to see this in print!

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You need a twitch channel to live stream data cleaning

🚨Interested in a PhD focusing on quant methods and education & social policy? I'm recruiting this year at @bclynchschool in the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment program www.bc.edu/bc-web/schoo...

Ever closer to being a *former* Cowboys fan

Sources: Cowboys are trading three-time All-Pro LB Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers.

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The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think

This isn't news to those in ed research, but is a critical reminder for policy and community folks whose academic pedigrees make them inclined towards one, non-representative view of college education: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

Today marks the start of my 13th year as a faculty member, and 17 years since choosing to leave my job as a K12 educator so that I could gain the skills to research the impact of policy and practice on outcomes. Grateful for for all of this.

Sorry buddy. It is hard. Sending strength

Fair. And, the thing I like about the word evidence, even when causation is applied in defensible ways, is that it is still be distinct from the notion of truth. Our evidence might still just be the shadows on the wall, even if we think they are accurate depictions of what projects them

Not enough defenders of evidence these days, nor acknowledgements that evidence can reflect some objective truth but need not reflect preferences or priorities.

In defense of evidence - if there ever is a double blind rct showing benefits, I still firmly defend that preferences do not have to be lead by evidence for things in the beverage realm

I could live with that tradeoff 🤣 thanks Catherine!

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I need to learn the 'hot keys' for exiting zoom and teams meetings. My cursor response time leaves me awkwardly lingering too often

One out of 3 isn’t bad. Hilariously, when people get my name wrong they usually call me Scott, but I can live with Sarah

Service begets service it seems

As an incoming chair myself, I had the same thought

You get to be chair and the Knicks won?! Time for the lotto

Opinion | Broken Windows at the White House Republicans need to address signs of disorder for their own good and the good of the country.

“scandalous uninterest in the appearance of things isnt the price anyone should pay for policy achievements.The price our kids will pay is a degraded, embarrassing …oligarchic govt. It’ll be hard for them to be idealistic & brave w that around their necks” www.wsj.com/opinion/brok...

godspeed!

when the dual-factor authenticator asks if I am enjoying the app, why isn't there a third response option, "Necessary Evil"?

The Surprising Role of Public Universities in Forging America’s Leaders Flagship graduates outnumber elite-school alums in many positions of power and achievement, especially in state government

In a sea of bad takes & talking heads dunking on those out of power this is a great piece - as a graduate of a flagship and an elite uni, not really surprising, but it's solid work: www.educationnext.org/the-surprisi...

Jesuit followed by an Augustinian!

In the meantime, we need to help people pursue a range of education and training, to avoid experiencing poverty, and to honor their humanity and desire to love productive lives.

Still, we should also recognize that employment needs and demand continue to evolve, and getting more and new training will be necessary for most people over their working lives. I wait for the day that skilled trades workers get the same respect as lawyers.

The fact is, college pays off for many people. So much so that it offers a net benefit on average. Still, there is no reason to place more social value on work that requires college training, and that's what seems is at the heart of what this argument gets right.