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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Can paraprofessionals deliver effective personalized instruction?

Two RCTs show no overall impacts though higher-dosage tutoring improved numeracy by 0.28 SD.

🔍 Elizabeth Huffaker, Monica Lee, Helen Zhou, Carly Robinson, @susanna-loeb.bsky.social
📄 bit.ly/3XPmOpq
December 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Professor Emeritus of Education Policy Kenneth Wong offered commentary on executive-driven school systems.
Should the Indianapolis mayor hold more power over district and charter schools?
Some groups have suggested increasing mayoral control of schools, either by reducing the number of charter authorizers, having the mayor appoint IPS school board members, or both. But how has that…
www.chalkbeat.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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As the ripple effects of the SFFA decision eliminate many race-affiliated scholarships, place-based scholarships (which are a good idea anyway) can play an important role in increasing multiple forms of campus diversity.
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Carycruz Bueno, Za Eng Mawi, @linzpage.bsky.social, and Jonathan Smith show that Achieve Atlanta scholarship recipients take out fewer loans, borrow less, earn more credits, and achieve higher GPAs in their first semester of college.

📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1337
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Carycruz Bueno, Za Eng Mawi, @linzpage.bsky.social, and Jonathan Smith show that Achieve Atlanta scholarship recipients take out fewer loans, borrow less, earn more credits, and achieve higher GPAs in their first semester of college.

📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1337
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Looking to design or scale tutoring in your state or district?

See how the New Jersey Tutoring Corps, guided by our EdResearch brief, built an evidence-aligned model that works.

Read the case study 🔗 edresearchforaction.org/resources/gr...
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Professor of Education @matthewakraft.com provided commentary on the challenges and hopes of implementing successful tutoring at scale.

www.edweek.org/leadership/w...
Why Hasn't Tutoring Been More Effective?
Recent studies of tutoring programs show small or no effects. Why?
www.edweek.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Did you catch our webinar on enrollment shifts? A new @EdWeek.org article highlights a core finding: the biggest enrollment declines are in the wealthiest 20% of districts, with little sign of rebound. buff.ly/VkNiNdg
December 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Why are college enrollments declining?

@joshua-goodman.com & Joseph Winkelmann show that the drop is concentrated in 2-year colleges and about 60% of the post-Great Recession decline is explained by the pull of stronger labor markets.

📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1338
December 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📢 Today’s the day!

Join us at 1PM ET for the #SustainableED Virtual Seminar Series. We'll dig into how climate change impacts our youngest learners.

Still time to register ⤵️https://buff.ly/BD7cCv5
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
📢 New from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series:

A summary of “Does Expanding Access to High Quality Technical Education Induce Participation and Improve Outcomes?” by @yerinyoon.bsky.social and @doughesm.bsky.social!

📄 edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...

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November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Annenberg affiliate Susan Moffit, Postdoctoral Research Associate Cameron Arnzen, and their coauthors analyze data from over 11,000 U.S. school districts to reveal how bureaucratic regulations and political settings impact public access to school board meetings. 🔗 Read the article:
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November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Coming up on Monday!

Register for Dr. Cuartas' seminar on climate change and childhood development here:

buff.ly/BD7cCv5
Join our #SustainableED Virtual Seminar Series with @jorgecuartas.bsky.social, Assistant Professor at NYU and director of the CARE Lab, whose work explores how climate change shapes child development and family well-being.

🗓️ 12/1 | 🕐 1:00-1:45 EST
🔗 Register here: brown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Join our #SustainableED Virtual Seminar Series with @jorgecuartas.bsky.social, Assistant Professor at NYU and director of the CARE Lab, whose work explores how climate change shapes child development and family well-being.

🗓️ 12/1 | 🕐 1:00-1:45 EST
🔗 Register here: brown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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@edsustainable.bsky.social is hosting our first annual interdisciplinary conference!

Research at the intersection of education and the environment. 🎓🌎

May 1st, 2026

Providence, RI

Easy one paragraph abstract submission ⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please share w/ your networks!
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🌍How does climate change impact our youngest learners?

In our new #SustainableED Speaker Series, @jorgecuartas.bsky.social will explore emerging evidence connecting climate change and child development.

🗓️: 12/1 | 🕐 1:00-1:45 EST

Register here: buff.ly/BD7cCv5
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🚨 New report!

“The Road to SUCCESS” documents how Massachusetts built a statewide student support initiative across all 15 public community colleges.

Comprehensive support services. Local flexibility. Rapid scale-up.

Report 👉: annenberg.brown.edu/publications...
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Launched in 2021 to tackle pandemic learning loss, the @corps_nj has become a model for how states can translate research into scalable tutoring.

See how #evidence from our #EdResearch4Action brief guided every step:

📘 Read the new case study:
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📢 New from the #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series:

A summary of “Increasing Applied STEM Curricular Opportunities in High School and Impacts on Early Post-Secondary Outcomes: The Effect of Project Lead the Way ”
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📢 New postdoc opportunity at Annenberg!

The Annenberg Institute is seeking a postdoctoral research associate for a 2‐year appointment to join a diverse community of scholars committed to educational equity and improvement!

More info here: annenberg.brown.edu/opportunitie...
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @jessebruhn.bsky.social, Michael Gilraine, Jens Ludwig & @sendhil.bsky.social analyze 1.31 billion student-item responses from Texas and find that item-level data contain rich, decision-relevant information that aggregate scores miss.

📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1343
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Tutoring is powerful but expensive to scale.

Across 12 rapid A/B tests, @noamangrist.bsky.social, @ccullen.bsky.social, & @janicalapati.bsky.social optimize a tech-enabled tutoring program, boosting efficiency & finding low-cost ways to double learning impact.

📄 bit.ly/49MbmC8
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📢 A Chalkbeat article cites a #EdWorkingPaper finding sharp drops in attendance and rises in chronic absenteeism among Connecticut English learners since Trump’s inauguration.

📄 Access here: www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...
School attendance falls in Chicago as fear of ICE enforcement increases
Chicago students in heavily Latino and immigrant neighborhoods are missing school as ICE enforcement ramps up in their communities, new data suggests.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
📢 This article used data from Zelma.ai, an initiative by Brown University and ParentData that compiles state test scores to make them publicly available for research.

📄Access the article here: www.the74million.org/article/thes...
Education Data Center
The most comprehensive student test dataset in America. Graph, filter, and explore using plain English.
Zelma.ai
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: How does the surge in US immigration enforcement affect students?

David Figlio and @uozek.bsky.social find that heightened immigration enforcement in 2025 reduced test scores for both US-born and foreign-born Spanish-speaking students.

📄https://buff.ly/ejMnGpY
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: What if school closures don’t really end when the doors shut?

@francis_pearman & Amanda Lu show that schools are adaptive ecosystems and their social, cultural, and institutional networks often persist long after “closure.”

📄 buff.ly/KqC3Mky
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM