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This makes me nervous.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview. www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I wrote a column in my hometown newspaper about the importance of keeping SCIENCE FUNDING in our community 🧪 More soon about the power of writing back HOME 🏠 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/g...

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An excellent, beautifully written response to the Dept of Ed Dear Colleague letter: "But not all threats declare themselves openly. Some arrive shrouded in the rhetoric of equity, masquerading as champions of fairness while quietly dismantling the very structures that make fairness possible."

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

It's time to start a thread on higher ed budget cuts announced due to actual and potential cuts to federal funding. Northwestern is placing additional scrutiny on all spending and trying to cut non-personnel spending by 10% this year.

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

🚨 New paper with @jwrightkim.bsky.social and Beto Castrejón (my rockstar PhD student - his first pub!) in The Journal of Higher Ed. doi.org/10.1080/0022...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Cutting IES will "...weaken the foremost truth squad in American education, the chief sponsor and funder of rigorous analysis, reliable data, and clear-eyed evaluations in a realm that needs more of those things, not less" fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Why is the Institute of Education Sciences important for students, teachers, schools, and for the United States?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

"... slashing and burning won’t improve matters. It’s just going to weaken the foremost truth squad in American education, the chief sponsor and funder of rigorous analysis, reliable data, and clear-eyed evaluations in a realm that needs more of those things, not less."

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

One of my favorite IES resources are the practice guides. There are 5 guides with the research about teaching math. Given the two stop work orders I received last night (to stop work on 2 upcoming IES STEM practice guides), I'd download these now.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

All practice guides are in the public domain. Just in case... osf.io/dk4r5/

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

It goes without saying, but if you see the need to access any data about American education from the federal government, you should go download it now. Like stop reading this post and do it immediately.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 12 days ago • 492 comments

One more really important thing that IES does: It runs a program in Statistical and Research Methodology in Education that has generated MANY important advances, e.g., about identifying causal mechanisms in quasi-experimental studies, understanding heterogeneity of effects, etc.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

An important part of the legacy work of IES is the predoc program that trains and launches education scholars - I'm worried for existing grants and sad to think there likely won't be a cohort coming up behind us.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The What Works Clearinghouse is a treasure, painstakingly built by many hands and many minds over many years, as a means to support schools, teachers, and learners, and to provide public access to the results of education research.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I am worrying about all the young scholars who are the future of education research.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

IES review panel cancelled. Just got the Stop Work Notice for the upcoming Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics panel.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Musk shutting down IES isn’t just another headline. It’s a direct hit to the heart of education research and school innovation. $900M cut. The ripple effects? Catastrophic. 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Educators-The site is still up for now. I highly recommend taking a look & downloading some of their resources asap. ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/ #EduSky #BlackEduSky

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IES was established by the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002. The functions of IES are specified by this law, which was signed by George W. Bush. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts. WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

This is infuriating and wrong.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

UW-Madison on proposed NIH indirect cost cap: “This proposed change to NIH funding–UW–Madison’s largest source of federal support–will significantly disrupt vital research activity and delay lifesaving discoveries and cures related to cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and much more.” 1/x

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments