Umut Özek

Well done, Kaiser Permanente...hope to hear similar news from other insurance providers.

Nice summary of this paper by @futureedgu.bsky.social

www.future-ed.org/research-not...

I am so sorry for your loss, Daniel...

Like Chris, I am from a country with two inflation numbers - the official one and the unofficial one that is significantly higher.

I hope we can avoid that here in the U.S.

Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner

This is incredibly concerning for the reliability of federal data moving forward...

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Such a waste of talent...

We are looking for a postdoc to work on exciting RCTs circling around scaling up mentoring interventions, starting in July 2026 💪🏻🚀

Amazing team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social & the perfect place to thrive with ifo, @cesifo.org + @econmunich.bsky.social 🫶🏻🌟

Please share widely 🙏🙏

Link below 👇

Really glad that this paper found a great home!

This is the third paper that came out of a project that started in 2018...hard to believe that we will have (at least) one more related paper after 7 years!

What to do?

- target students with lower baseline achievement

- allow students in remedial schedule to take advanced courses in non-remediation subjects to alleviate tracking concerns

- provide remediation outside of regular school hours to alleviate crowding out concerns.

These negative effects take place despite the fact that students in remedial schedule receive additional instructional resources in remediation subject (as intended by the policy) such as:

- smaller classrooms
- additional instruction time
- higher value-added teachers

Results also suggest that remedial high school courses could crowd out electives, especially CTE courses...

...which could, in turn, hurt students beyond the adverse effects on college attainment given the potential benefits of some CTE courses on labor market outcomes.

This is a great summary!

In a nutshell, I show that high school remediation could hurt college degree attainment.

Why?

Mostly because it hinders student access to advanced high school courses...especially for those with higher baseline achievement.

I am sure you can give yourself a fellowship. After all, you are the director!

Why do I have to say these out loud, Josh?

Doesn't that make it easier for you to get in?

I see no problem here.

Here is a great non-techical summary of the paper that came out as part of Annenberg policy and practice series:

edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...

Thanks, Riley! Not much has changed since I presented at Miami :)

Forthcoming @j-humanresources.bsky.social!

Hoping to do a thread soon, but currently busy with this!

A new working paper from @uozek.bsky.social‬ finds that remedial classes significantly reduces a student's likelihood of completing an associate or bachelor degree. Find out why here: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fiscal-year-2026-budget-summary-110043.pdf, page 58.

This means that, outside of NAEP, IES will have $124m (instead of $600m) to work with.

Meanwhile, the Institute for Education Sciences, the department’s research arm, would see two-thirds of its budget disappear, dropping to $261.3 million from $793.1 million. It would retain reduced funding for its assessment activities, but lose most of its funding that supports education research.

Trump's Education Budget Calls for Billions in Cuts, Major Policy Changes The proposal includes a plan to eliminate 18 existing grant programs and replace them with one funding stream.

What a wonderful way to start the weekend 🙃

www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Well, it is hard to clarify insanity!

New Visa Policies Put America First, Not China - United States Department of State Under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to ...

www.state.gov/releases/off...

Also created a hybrid co-author for me: mix of Krzysztof Karbownik and Kristian Holden :)

Well, better than "Uzma", I guess :)

Figlio, David, Krzysztof Holden, and Uzma Ozek. 2018. "Do Students Benefit from Longer School Days? Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida’s Additional Hour of Literacy Instruction." Economics of Education Review 67: 171–83.

I asked chatgpt to spell out the first names of the authors in the references...

Brunner, Eric J., Sarah M. Dougherty, and Scott Ross. 2023.

I suspect this is incorrect, right @doughesm.bsky.social? 😂

Congrats!!

Really looking forward to this!

Thank you! Looking forward to it!

Congrats, Barbara!