JsMoon.bsky.social
@jsmoon.bsky.social
Active learner, active outdoors-woman, active lover of kids and dogs. (some adults, too!). I work to contribute to the needed evidence base required to make the world a better place for the under-served and unheard.
Assistant Research Scientist, CEPR, IU
Assistant Research Scientist, CEPR, IU
Interesting new insights related to school choice ... the implications for funding are important.
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Classic A.O. Hirschman question: Does the use of exit lead to the atrophy of voice?
"We find that household voter turnout in off-cycle school bond elections is significantly lower for households with children who participate in school choice"
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1186
"We find that household voter turnout in off-cycle school bond elections is significantly lower for households with children who participate in school choice"
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1186
May 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Interesting new insights related to school choice ... the implications for funding are important.
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Education Researchers Sue Trump Administration, Testing Executive Power by @jillbarshay.bsky.social www.kqed.org/mindshift/65...
Education Researchers Sue Trump Administration, Testing Executive Power | KQED
Prominent scholars ask the courts to reverse DOGE cuts at the Education Department.
www.kqed.org
May 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Education Researchers Sue Trump Administration, Testing Executive Power by @jillbarshay.bsky.social www.kqed.org/mindshift/65...
Opening sentence ... "The future of independent, policy-relevant education research is at risk." I might add, independent *evidence-based* policy-relevant ... But YES!
Cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences threaten decades of progress in independent education research. We need more evidence—not less. Our case for strengthening IES:
🔗 www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
With @statstipton.bsky.social & Jessaca Spybrook
#EdResearch #IES #EduSky
🔗 www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
With @statstipton.bsky.social & Jessaca Spybrook
#EdResearch #IES #EduSky
How federal investments in education research help students succeed
Researchers discuss how federally funded research projects have helped identify and scale programs that improved student outcomes.
www.brookings.edu
April 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Opening sentence ... "The future of independent, policy-relevant education research is at risk." I might add, independent *evidence-based* policy-relevant ... But YES!
And, "As Michael Tanner of the libertarian Cato Institute pointed out in 2018, “Ownership of a private jet is even more strongly associated with financial success, yet that doesn’t mean jet ownership is what allowed these individuals to escape poverty.”"
"But the idea has been largely debunked, as the evidence confuses correlation with causation."
I love Paul's comment about the opportunity cost. Instructional time is too valuable to waste on things that don't have a causal impact on student outcomes.
I love Paul's comment about the opportunity cost. Instructional time is too valuable to waste on things that don't have a causal impact on student outcomes.
The controversial anti-poverty solution coming to public schools www.vox.com/poverty/4087...
"The 'success sequence' has many critics, but lawmakers and parents don’t seem to care."
"The 'success sequence' has many critics, but lawmakers and parents don’t seem to care."
April 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
And, "As Michael Tanner of the libertarian Cato Institute pointed out in 2018, “Ownership of a private jet is even more strongly associated with financial success, yet that doesn’t mean jet ownership is what allowed these individuals to escape poverty.”"
This.
April 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This.
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It is truly unbelievable that — in its latest letter to Harvard — the admin spends like half its time demanding an end to DEI, then goes on to say that *each department must literally do a DEI* to hire and admit a “critical mass” of conservative faculty and students. Wow
April 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It is truly unbelievable that — in its latest letter to Harvard — the admin spends like half its time demanding an end to DEI, then goes on to say that *each department must literally do a DEI* to hire and admit a “critical mass” of conservative faculty and students. Wow
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In retrospect, the fact that there was a "facism debate" is a damning indictment of some scholars basic observational facilities.
April 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
In retrospect, the fact that there was a "facism debate" is a damning indictment of some scholars basic observational facilities.
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After pushback, the Department of Education walks back diversity guidance. @lrj417.bsky.social reports
After Pushback, Education Department Walks Back Diversity Guidance
One expert called the new approach “downright reasonable,” but the AFT’s Randi Weingarten said it ‘just made things murkier.’
www.the74million.org
March 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
After pushback, the Department of Education walks back diversity guidance. @lrj417.bsky.social reports
Musk’s DOGE has also taken a chainsaw to the IES. The cuts, ($1 billion), fall heaviest on research focused on “what works” in public education. ...which practices/approaches improve a broad range of outcomes for all kids has long proven frustratingly elusive. Now it won’t be asked at all.
Interesting from @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social including a history of the first department of education, c. 1867, which the south killed because apparently they didn’t like formerly enslaved students being helped. thebaffler.com/latest/cruel...
Cruel to Your School | Jennifer C. Berkshire
Public education is meant to be a great equalizer. That’s why Trump wants to do undo it.
thebaffler.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Musk’s DOGE has also taken a chainsaw to the IES. The cuts, ($1 billion), fall heaviest on research focused on “what works” in public education. ...which practices/approaches improve a broad range of outcomes for all kids has long proven frustratingly elusive. Now it won’t be asked at all.
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"Residents say they are distraught after being surrounded by hate and suspicious of police officers whom county officials criticized for not cracking down on the neo-Nazi march."
wapo.st/3XgHiaQ
wapo.st/3XgHiaQ
Neo-Nazis targeted a majority-Black town. Locals launched an armed watch.
Residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, have organized armed guards after a neo-Nazi march and the spread of Ku Klux Klan leaflets rocked the Cincinnati suburb.
wapo.st
February 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Residents say they are distraught after being surrounded by hate and suspicious of police officers whom county officials criticized for not cracking down on the neo-Nazi march."
wapo.st/3XgHiaQ
wapo.st/3XgHiaQ
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Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.
February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.
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More of this specificity!
FBI cancels community outreach programs for seniors
February 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
More of this specificity!
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Just a heads up. I can only speak to education but Title IV funds, which include the Pell Grant, are currently excluded from the "freeze." This is still incredibly catastrophic (and illegal? though lol what are laws?). Just don't take this list as the final word, it's an evolving situation.
January 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just a heads up. I can only speak to education but Title IV funds, which include the Pell Grant, are currently excluded from the "freeze." This is still incredibly catastrophic (and illegal? though lol what are laws?). Just don't take this list as the final word, it's an evolving situation.
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Dominique is going to get you better info on this stuff than some other follows or potential follows.
Just a heads up. I can only speak to education but Title IV funds, which include the Pell Grant, are currently excluded from the "freeze." This is still incredibly catastrophic (and illegal? though lol what are laws?). Just don't take this list as the final word, it's an evolving situation.
January 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Dominique is going to get you better info on this stuff than some other follows or potential follows.
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State takeovers are unfortunately not a useful tool for improving struggling school systems.
Centralization and Long-Term System Performance: Evidence From State Takeovers of School Districts journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"no evidence that takeovers of districts between 2010-2018 generated improvements in student reading and math performance, up to nearly a decade after takeover"
"no evidence that takeovers of districts between 2010-2018 generated improvements in student reading and math performance, up to nearly a decade after takeover"
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December 10, 2024 at 9:04 PM
State takeovers are unfortunately not a useful tool for improving struggling school systems.
Time to move here from a platform I cannot even name anymore ... I tried once, but this time I will make it stick.
Happy Friday, by the way!
Happy Friday, by the way!
December 13, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Time to move here from a platform I cannot even name anymore ... I tried once, but this time I will make it stick.
Happy Friday, by the way!
Happy Friday, by the way!
Good to see more evidence that supports what many have been saying anecdotally ... but hard news nonetheless.
"Time spent in front of a screen has been rising over time for the young and has an independent negative impact on their mental health over and above bullying, one which is more pronounced for young women." www.nber.org/papers/w3211...
The Consequences of Abuse, Neglect and Cyber-bullying on the Wellbeing of the Young
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
February 5, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Good to see more evidence that supports what many have been saying anecdotally ... but hard news nonetheless.
Just learned more about what the States for the Future group is doing ... Holly Heard of Texas 2036 introduced me to this group. Lots of good work going on! This presentation was on what Colorado is doing.
commonsenseinstituteco.org/2024-free-en...
commonsenseinstituteco.org/2024-free-en...
January 19, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Just learned more about what the States for the Future group is doing ... Holly Heard of Texas 2036 introduced me to this group. Lots of good work going on! This presentation was on what Colorado is doing.
commonsenseinstituteco.org/2024-free-en...
commonsenseinstituteco.org/2024-free-en...
Just saying hello!
January 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Just saying hello!