Annenberg Institute

Join us in welcoming Mithila Iyer! Mithila is a project manager with the Literacy Launch partnership at the Annenberg Institute, where she supports the overall execution of the team’s research & stewards relationships with external education agencies.

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Join us for our next #SustainableED Seminar as Dr. Gehlbach explores the future of Planetary Health education and how to turn knowledge into collective action.

🗓️: 3/11 | 🕐 1:00-1:45 PM EST

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Improvement requires good data.

The EdInstruments resources in our Math Pathways Evidence Hub help leaders measure math instruction, track progress, and assess implementation as new curricula roll out.

Explore the Math Pathways Evidence Hub: annenbergexchange.org/math-pathway...

Op-Ed: NJ built a tutoring model that must go bigger and broader | NJ Spotlight News We set a national standard with small-group instruction after the pandemic, boosting academics and creating jobs for educators

Christina Claiborne, director of research projects at EdResearch for Action, & Isabel Fitzpatrick, manager of research projects, wrote an op-ed highlighting the benefits & outcomes of New Jersey's tutoring model.

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Gifted Identification Across the Distribution of Family Income Currently, 6.1 percent of K-12 students in the United States receive gifted education. Using education and IRS data that provide information on students and their family income, we show pronounced dif...

Stunning work:

"Currently, 6.1 percent of K-12 students in the United States receive gifted education ... Under 4 percent of students in the lowest income percentile are identified as gifted, compared with 20 percent of those in the top income percentile."

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Brown Climate Week Panel: “Where Climate Meets Education Policy and Practice: Perspectives from the Field in Rhode Island” SustainableED Founder and Faculty Director Matthew Kraft will host a moderated panel with three leading practitioners in Rhode Island engaged in en...

#SustainableED is kicking off Brown Climate Week w/ a moderated panel @brownedudept.bsky.social @annenberginstitute.bsky.social

Where Climate Meets Education Policy & Practice: Perspectives from the Field in Rhode Island

164 Angell St Room 202
2-3 pm

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Congratulations to @camarnzen.bsky.social‬ on his appointment as Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College! His research examines how education policy & institutions shape democratic participation, governance, & public life. We’re excited to see this work continue.

Congrats to John Papay, @matthewakraft.com, and co-authors Jessalynn K. James & Manuel Monti-Nussbaum for their newly published NBER working paper on teacher effectiveness.

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⚡ Key takeaways from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series!

A summary of “Making the Implicit Explicit: An Experiment with Implicit Gender Stereotypes and College Major Choice” by Stephanie Owen and Derek Rury

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Join us in congratulating @linzpage.bsky.social on her promotion to full professor!

Her research on college access and student success is shaping policy and practice nationwide.

Is this child ready for kindergarten? The answer depends less on whether they can count to 10, and more about whether they can focus on one task and manage emotions.

View checklists & interview protocols for measuring self-regulation in young children here: tinyurl.com/4kh4yeek

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Analyzing RCTs of a preschool math curriculum, Tyler Watts & colleagues find that immediate impacts are strong forecasters for follow-up effects. Settings promoting more learning post-intervention also produce more fadeout as control groups catch up faster.

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New evidence is emerging on math pathways & it matters for policy and practice.

The EdWorkingPapers section of our Math Pathways Evidence Hub features open-access studies on placement policies, detracking, & math access.

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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Tyler Watts, @emmarosehart.bsky.social, & @drewhalbailey.bsky.social analyze 87 RCTs & find that fadeout is common across most programs. Intervention characteristics explain only a small share of differences in persistence.

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@matthewakraft.com will host a moderated panel with three leading practitioners in Rhode Island engaged in environmental education as part of Brown University's first-ever Climate Week.

Learn more about this @edsustainable.bsky.social event: events.brown.edu/event/327455...

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Bullying doesn’t end in childhood.

A new review shows that exposure to bullying is linked to worse mental health, lower human capital accumulation, and poorer labor market outcomes in adulthood.

🔍 Matias Martinez, Qinyou Hu & Jonathan Schaefer
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#BrownLovesProvidence is a month-long effort to give back to the local community that supported us when it mattered most. Join us in donating locally, shopping locally and volunteering locally: brown.edu/brown-loves-providence #BrownLovesProvidence

The EdResearch for Action section of our Math Pathways Evidence Hub includes a research brief, an alignment tool, and a facilitation guide—designed to help districts turn evidence into action.

Explore the Math Pathways Evidence Hub: annenbergexchange.org/math-pathway...

How did college enrollment change after SFFA v. Harvard?

Michael Bloem & coauthors find that in the first year after the 2023 Supreme Court ruling, high-achieving URM students were substantially less likely to enroll in highly selective colleges.

#EdWorkingPapers

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Calling all early learning researchers and district strategy teams:

Our new Early Childhood collection includes observation tools and parent interviews to measure the “non-academic” skills that are crucial to academics, like self-regulation and other social-emotional skills.

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Care about schools? Concerned about climate change?

I hope you'll take 4 minutes to listen to the newest “Possibly" podcast from @brown-ibes.bsky.social.

We talk about the origins of #SustainableED & how education systems can adapt to & address climate change.

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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: What are schools actually doing to improve attendance?

@jeremylsinger.bsky.social & coauthors find that in Michigan and Georgia, schools rely on communication-based strategies while efforts to remove barriers or improve student experiences are less common. bit.ly/4abAWPG

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Nearly 1 in 12 U.S. schools is located within a quarter mile of an environmental hazard site.

Sohil Malik, @matthewakraft.com & Grace Falken finds stark racial and socioeconomic inequities in schools’ exposure to pollution risks.

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The West Texas Measles Outbreak and Student Absences Declining child-vaccination rates are driving a measles resurgence in the US, yet little evidence documents how these outbreaks may disrupt schooling. Using daily absence data from a school district a...

We provide early evidence on the impact of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks on learning opportunities, and the schooling disruptions that the growing number of low-coverage communities could face if outbreaks continue to spread. See working paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1358

No Pay? No Way! Teacher Compensation Reforms and the Market for Graduate Degrees Graduate degrees in education provide financial stability for many institutions, yet reformers have sought to decouple teacher pay from these credentials. Without a wage premium, educators may skip ad...

"Eliminating a graduate degree wage premium for teachers led to a 27% enrollment decline in education fields alone .... This drop subsequently reduced institutional tuition revenue and related state funding." @taylorodle.bsky.social edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1364

Early learning research is clear: Young children with strong self-regulation and social-emotional skills are better equipped to learn and thrive.

Stay tuned for a new resource from EdInstruments.org that supports the measurement of “learning-related” skills that predict school success.

Experts weigh in on plans to change how R.I. funds its schools - The Boston Globe On the R.I. Report podcast, the R.I. Foundation’s David Cicilline joins Georgetown University’s Nora Gordon and Brown University’s John Papay to discuss the state’s school funding formula.

ICYMI: Annenberg Director John Papay discussed the Blue Ribbon Commission report during the most recent Rhode Map Live.

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Creating Coherence: Does Instructional Alignment Affect the Impact of Tutoring? This study examines the impact of using instructionally aligned literacy tutoring with students in kindergarten through third grade under a Response to Intervention framework. We conducted a randomize...

Creating Coherence: Does Instructional Alignment Affect the Impact of Tutoring? edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1332 was featured in Overdeck's Five Studies That Inspired Our Thinking in 2025! 🎉 overdeck.org/news-and-res...

Mental health and academics aren’t a tradeoff. Research shows they’re deeply connected.

Learn how schools can organize mental health supports to strengthen both in our new #EdResearch4Action brief.

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