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We hope you’ll consider submitting a proposal or referring this to colleagues who may be interested. Please also let me know also if you have any questions or suggestions, as we’re very much looking forward to iteratively improving this process in the years to come!!!

...to limit burden on research teams and maximize everyone's clarity and transparency with the process -- please take a peek at the FAQ, especially, if you're interested in applying! All to say, we think this is an important and exciting evolution in what we can learn together.

This CfRP builds on the overwhelming interest from researchers last year, as well as the many important learnings we gathered from navigating a public proposal process for the first time. We've made a bunch of really important and (hopefully) helpful adjustments to the process...

Our hope is that we can begin harnessing this enormous (+ enormously complicated) dataset to speak to critical questions of college readiness, skill development, course-taking opportunity, and more -- with particular focus on making these insights *actionable* for college success

A paragraph describing the size and comprehensiveness of the course-taking data, which can be found in full on page 3 of the linked Call for Research Proposals document.

This year, we are soliciting projects focused on generating actionable insights from the immense wealth of high school course-taking data that students submit through our platform each year. To illustrate with some general numbers...

A screenshot of the title page of the Common App Call for Research Proposals, AY 2025-2026. The Executive Summary and main requirements for the Letter of Intent are visible. Exact text can be found at the link in the main post.

🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨

For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...

This tarriffs strategy feels like the foreign trade equivalent of injecting ourselves with bleach to fight an infection and so at least he's being consistent

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

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The Unofficial List of Ed Policy Orgs for Job/Internship Seekers

It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Many thanks to all who engaged in the process -- hoping to make the most of this responsibility and excited to give back to an organization that has been such a home for me for so long!!! Looking forward to seeing many of you soon in DC!

A golden age for sure (besides everything on fire)

If this works as well as they say, cross-language work is about to become SOOO much easier

Just released: New research from Common App tracking 786,000 STEMM-interested college applicants and their ensuing degrees via rich Common App-NSC data. @sarah-nolan.bsky.social does a *phenomenal* job digging into some much-needed nuance on this front via clever viz and thoughtful analyses!

Quick intro: I'm an education researcher who currently leads the data science and research team at Common App, a national platform for college applications in the U.S.

Follow me for: deep dives into college data, computational social science (especially NLP), and all things R and data viz!

Once more unto the breach!