New results from "The Nation's Report Card" just dropped and they are pretty bad. I got a sneak peek as a member of IES’s Standing Committee, so I had an extra day or so to ruminate about them. A few thoughts 👇 1/n

The Education Research Center at Texas A&M College of Education & Human Development is hiring a Program Specialist. Feel free to share with your networks! Details are here: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMIU_External…

New paper on how state policies can support immigrant parents & children: "It's about time: Parent’s Direct Care for Children in Hispanic Noncitizen Households Across State Immigration Policy Contexts" Population Research & Policy Review Southern Demographic Association doi.org/10.1007/s11113…

🏗️ Building better cities is a full-time job! Become a part of the research team that's moving Houston forward. Learn more at kinder.rice.edu.

Getting ready for #AEFP? Join us for the CIRCLE Emerging Scholars Virtual Pre-Conference Workshop! ✔️ Practice your presentation & get feedback ✔️ Tips for navigating AEFP 📅 March 10 | ⏰ 5:30-7:00 PM CST 🔗 Register now: forms.gle/6cndYcFVCDrkio… AEFP Texas Tech College of Education

AERA Exec Dir Felice Levine: "AERA condemns the administration's staff firing and assault on the mandated purposes of the U.S. Education Department." (1/2)

"Silence does not change the reality: Education data, statistics, research, and vital people at NCES/IES are now gone. NCES contracts and people obliterated. We urge Congress to embrace bipartisanship, step in, and act on its Constitutional responsibilities to the nation." (2/2)

📢 Check out these 2 #AEFP2025 presentations on college access on Friday: 1. A study on AVID and college predisposition & search at 8:15am (presented by Kristian Edosomwan) 2. A qual study on selective college choice among low-income & first-gen students at 1:45pm (presented by me)

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: aera.net/Research-Polic…

This need not be limited to those who are currently using restricted-use licenses. All researchers can join the call to preserve access to NCES data that helps improve U.S. schooling for children.

Want to help save research using NCES restricted-use data? Here is a gdrive with actions, background, and context from my colleague sean reardon (sharing with permission): 1) actions 2) background 3) list of data files drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

Federal education research and data are under attack. AERA is speaking out, alerting association members, and coordinating with the scientific community to advocate for protecting the integrity of federal research and data. Follow the links on this page to learn more and get

In a new letter, AERA and other education research leaders call on Congress to protect the nation’s education data, research infrastructure, and knowledge base, by safeguarding the IES and broader Education Department staff, leadership, and mission. aera.net/Portals/38/Edu…

AERA, in partnership with the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education over the unlawful dismantling of the Institute of Education Sciences. aera.net/Newsroom/AERA-…

📢 POSTDOC AT TEXAS A&M A postdoc is open at the Education Research Center, a relaunched education policy center. The center is led by Profs Daniel Bowen & Andy Kwok Please share widely! 🔗Job ad: bit.ly/3ROsEoh 🌐ERC site: erc.cehd.tamu.edu (being updated)

Please apply and let me know if you have any question!

The journal Research in Higher Education is seeking manuscripts using data from the National Center for Education Statistics for a special issue. Please read the full call for papers here and circulate to your networks! #RIHE link.springer.com/collections/hi…

Our goal is to highlight the depth and breadth of NCES data, which is collected on behalf of the federal govt but used by researchers across the country to understand a variety of issues related to HE in the U.S.

Congrats to Peggy Carris who defended a great dissertation on sense of belonging in higher ed & will start a faculty position this fall! 🥳