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The McCourt School is honored to welcome 6 new faculty members to the Capitol Campus. From computational social science to educational equity, they bring fresh perspectives and new schools of thought: mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/mccourt-s…

🎉 McCourt School at Georgetown University is hiring a sociologist at the Assistant or Associate level! Come for the policy school environment (have learned so much from other colleagues working on education, housing, and social poverty); stay for the close proximity to 🦆⛲️ Due 09-30

This week's IRP seminar (Thurs 9/26): Dr. Kaylee T. Matheny of McCourt School discusses "The Triple Burden: Women of Low Socioeconomic Status and the Binds of Caretaking, Work, and College." 12:15–1:30pm, 8417 Sewell Soc Sciences, UW–Madison. More info: irp.wisc.edu/2024-fall-irp-…

I hate re-reviewing an R&R but I know full well that it’s my responsibility. I recommended changes, I ought to see whether the authors have done the changes I suggested. Otherwise editors have to struggle to find a new reviewer who wasn’t involved in the process earlier.

Okay, I think it's important we push back on this regular talking point and show why the "funds should follow students, not schools" line sounds reasonable to those uninformed on education policy, but is actually fundamentally flawed (1/16)

1 cycle 70 jobs applied to 9 zoom interviews (4 postdocs, 5 TT) 2 offers (1 postdoc and 1 TT position—I accepted both!) Timeline: - First zoom interview was October, but I had zooms through January - I had two TT campus visits, both in January - TT offer came Feb 3

The academe has for a long time had a severely neglected social class problem. "Children from low-SES homes were already severely underrepresented [in the academe]." "Scientists from high-SES families have 38% higher odds of becoming stars." nber.org/papers/w33063

My most millennial trait is big purchases must happen in big laptop screen

Thank you families of Arkansas, Tennessee & Mississippi! Another fieldwork trip down, leaving w rich insights & the generosity of the people who shared their stories. And my team?! Incredible. So grateful to you Dr. Kaylee T. Matheny Angelica Yu Qin Emily Matt Gannon Sarah

Come work at PIRL! We are hiring Pre-Doctoral Fellows! Fellows will work on mixed-methods interdisciplinary research projects to improve education, housing & health policy, including research with me & Nicholas Papageorge, as well as projects with Raj Chetty and team at Harvard's

This is just a PSA: I am ChatGPT-averse, but I figured I would try using it to help with citations (with lots of scaffolding). Just so ya know, it can’t even be trusted with “provide me the APA citation for {article title/link}.” Always review anything it produces!

“Academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, but are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.” nber.org/papers/w33289

Equal Inputs, Unequal Outputs: How Capacity Limits Policy Implementation By Dr. Kaylee T. Matheny and Amanda Lu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/01…

Paper by Dr. Kaylee T. Matheny & @amanda_lu_ed shows what happens when an equity-oriented policy w/ good intentions meets limited organizational capacity. In sum: Achieving equitable outcomes means designing policies that account for unequal resource landscapes. bit.ly/4gitjI6