Prof in Education & Policy, fisherman, and family man. All Tweeted views are my own.
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🧵Happy to share a new article with @WaltEcton, "The Economic Effect of Vocational Education on Student Outcomes", now available in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance: oxfordre.com/economics/view/… (1/11)
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Get your abstracts submitted TODAY!
Today's the day! Submissions for #AEFP2027 close tonight at 11:59 PM PT. We can't wait to see your work in San Diego this March. Read the full call: aefpweb.org/callforproposals
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Two types of people exist, those who agree with Dan (and me), and those who are wrong. bostonglobe.com/2026/10/09/s…
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Dr. Shaun M. Dougherty retweeted
An incredible opportunity, on a stellar team, to do work of real consequence + be part of exciting state and national conversations.
I’ve enjoyed every opportunity I’ve had to work with, learn from, and be in conversation with @natmalkus and his team. #jobalert #edpolicy #data
Job alert: @AEI's ed policy team is hiring a (senior) data analyst. Large datasets, real policy questions, Stata/R/Python. NLP & ETL pipeline experience a plus.
Big shoes to fill, left by Sam Hollon.
Please share widely.
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7/ It may be that students are growing on MAP and STAR or similar district adopted tests. The headline declines come from NAEP, PISA, and TIMSS/PIRLS. I can't prove assessment practice is a cause. It's a hypothesis that gets almost no airtime.
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8/ Phones deserve scrutiny, and they may carry some blame. But evidence that school phone bans help is mixed, so if phones are driving declines, it's mostly happening outside school hours. Assessment practice is something schools and states control.
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6/ Assessment is supposed to be a loop: information in, better instruction out. When the second half breaks, we pay the full cost of testing and capture little of the benefit.
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3/ Over a decade ago, big-city students already spent roughly 20-25 hours a year on mandated tests, before prep. Interim tests like MAP and STAR have spread since. We lack a recent credible estimate at scale.
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4/ Caveat: that last big study covered large urban districts, about 15% of US students and not a representative slice. Test-taking was only ~2% of the school year. Hours alone aren't the problem.
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2/ Why care about scores at all? Tests are signals of learning and skill. We worry about weak results because of what they predict: kids' social and economic wellbeing. If we take that seriously, we should take the whole assessment system seriously.
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1/ Every few years NAEP, PISA, or TIMSS scores dip, and the explanation of the moment arrives: phones, AI. Here's a less fashionable hypothesis about a lever we actually control: how we use assessment. 🧵
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I hope this advances the education on the need for continued reform & improvement in education systems & practices, but I hope it does not give policymakers or practitioners that these are the best or even top 30 possible ideas nytimes.com/2026/09/28/upsho…
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LinkedIn keeps telling me imma too applicant for an assistant professor job. Either the algorithm is off or maybe it’s trying to send me a message 🤷
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At #sree2026 ? Come see some great sessions aligned with our LEAP lab. Looking forward to our policy talk midday today on scaling high quality CTE models grounded in evidence
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🧵🚨 This fall we launched a website for the Labor, Education, and Policy (LEAP) Lab: sites.google.com/view/leap-l…
Our work asks how schools translate public investment into economic opportunity, and for whom.
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This work depends on partnerships with the people who run education systems, including state leaders, think tanks, and funders of research, and we are grateful for support from a range of partners.
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It also depends on a terrific group of colleagues: affiliates @yerin_yoon_ @HannahCKistler, and doctoral students Wei Gao, Kiara Sanchez, Byeong Hyeon So, and @Yunee_H_Yoon . Our work - so far - is all here: sites.google.com/view/leap-l… @bclynchschool
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