Interested in conducting community-engaged research on ed & housing policy? Want to continue to grow your mixed methods and SNA skills with a dynamite team inc. DeMarcus A. Jenkins, Kara Finnigan @ksfinnigan.bsky.social, Huriya Jabbar, & Jeremy Singer? Apply to Detroit PEER postdoc! gradschool.wayne.edu/postdocs/openi…

Erin K Gill (on the market) UW-Madison ELPA Department ITP WCER Institute for Diversity Science Gender&WomenSt_UW Hi, I’m not sure of your geographic restrictions but this looks like a good opportunity and Sarah W. Lenhoff and Jeremy Singer are outstanding people and scholars:

Have you seen this #RPP job opportunity? Detroit PEER is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate: buff.ly/4dDKVhl Sarah W. Lenhoff

This is such an awesome postdoc with Sarah W. Lenhoff & a really great team doing super impactful work:

I mean, I would just apply cuz I would get to work with Sarah W. Lenhoff 🤷‍♂️ — but yeah, those other reasons sound good too! Sarah is a wonderful academic and overall human 🫶

Some folks in Michigan might be surprised by this, but when you look at the relationship between poverty rates and 3rd grade reading student proficiency, DPSCommunityDistrict is a pretty exceptional district (ie, higher proficiency rates than you would “predict”).

Helpful insights from new study by the Ad Council of parent views of attendance and messaging to encourage attendance. Takeaways: parents recognize the importance of attendance, report paying attention to their children’s data, respond to positive comms. ad-council.brightspotcdn.com/16/43/e3f78445…

Excited to announce the first grants from the Student Upward Mobility Initiative! $3.5 million will support 16 projects that connect PK-12 measures to long-term success or develop new measures of skills that drive economic mobility. A quick overview🧵 studentupwardmobility.urban.org/student-upward…

Thrilled to have been awarded an inaugural SUMI grant from the Urban Institute for a project with Huriya Jabbar! We're comparing gold-standard social network data to admin data on enrollments, course-taking, residential location, etc. to see if we can predict youth social ties.