Erika Lewy

SERENITY NOW

The dismantling of NCES is insane and will critically hobble progress in improving education - this agency is so important it existed more than 100 years before the creation of Department of Education.

104 employees from IES
242 from OCR
325 from FSA

Core ED functions include: processing 17+ million FAFSAs, providing 6.4 million students with Pell Grants, disbursing 6.4 million student loans, and managing loan repayments for 43 million borrowers. None of this happens magically, without people.

I’ve heard from an extremely reliable source that the entire National Center for Education Statistics is **gone**

Whelp ed research orgs had mass lay-offs yesterday

Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem...

MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t...

NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga...

RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%...

Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat...

WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...

More than 50 talented MDRC technical + qualitative researchers, grant-writing specialists and editors were laid off Friday. Experts in housing policy, criminal justice, higher ed, workforce training and k12 education. If you know of places hiring for this kind of talent, hit me up. #MDRC #EduSky

AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

This is truly nuts... Even though we knew it was coming, it still feels like a shock to know that the major source of funding for high quality education research is just... gone. Anyone heard anything about IES grants? #EduSky

I somehow missed that MDRC started posting on Bluesky two weeks ago

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Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts.
WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders

Recently exploring higher ed in prison programs and campus-based programs and policies that impact students with a criminal record. #EduSky

Much of my work is evaluating programs that are meant to boost degree completion rates... I work on RCTs of student success programs and conduct exploratory research on postsecondary programs meant to help land students in good jobs....

Hey! I'm Erika-- an interdisciplinary social scientist. I mainly study higher ed access and completion for MDRC. I'm an implementation researcher and trained anthropologist.