“This bill would introduce the most significant & costliest new federal ed program in decades. It has virtually no quality-control measures, transparency provisions, protections against discrimination, or evidence to suggest that it’s likely to improve ed outcomes.”
A+ Jon Valant ECCA explainer
A second new position at @capolicylab.bsky.social - this one for a research manager for our criminal justice work.
Here’s the position I posted a few days ago, for an education researcher:
bsky.app/profile/capo...
Submit papers for two CSWEP sponsored sessions at APPAM next fall. Looking especially for papers on health policy and poverty and income policy, broadly interpreted. Deadline extended to April 15. Pls share!
www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
In later years, my dad refused to be the sponsor for this competition, saying it gave kids the wrong idea. Instead, he came in and gave a lecture about buying and holding a well-diversified portfolio and not trying to time the market. Not such a fun game but solid lesson.
All this talk of Black Monday reminds me how in middle school, my group won the stock-picking contest by being disorganized and getting a late start. All you have to do is stay in cash until the market crashes -- good lesson! ;-)
boo. :(
I recently found a gift card that I won for doing some HR thing in my mail box, but the place has gone out of business. You never know.
Submit papers for two CSWEP sponsored sessions at APPAM next fall. Looking especially for papers on health policy and poverty and income policy, broadly interpreted. Deadline extended to April 15. Pls share!
www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
Check out our new overview on graduate debt. And sign up at our website (below) or follow @peerresearch.bsky.social to stay tuned to our work on the topic - we’ll soon have a deep dive into the impact of a variety graduate loan limit proposals.
Did you win?
I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring.
The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)
That's so funny because the reason she lost was MY pet issue too! 😜
On a different topic. Is the APPAM portal the actual worst portal? I know there is a lot of competition, but I think it might be. (Looking forward to the conference ofc)
*for* a nice walk
Looks like nice weather a long walk in Pennsylvania this weekend.
I think the California Earthquake Authority has a structure like that. But mortgage lenders don't require earthquake insurance, so I am not sure why people wouldn't exit the market.
There is a place to sign up for something that is just to receive messages about the school board. Who wants that?
SO. MANY. PORTALS.
They don't speak English, but there is so much I can't in good conscience suggest they even try to understand in translation.
I have been mentoring a refugee family from Afghanistan for about 5 months. I have learned a lot about myself, administrative burden, the immigrant experience, and America. As an "education person", seeing American school communications thru their eyes is wild.
It is a major problem!
*data*
It is insane how long it takes these days to come out!
Before scanning whole thing.
I'd be very curious what would happen if you uploaded this to claude.ai and asked for structured data.
In my experience, there is a lot of cleanup after abbyy and the like, but it's been a while and may have improved.
Book scanner is great but that has clearly typed text that is not close to the spine so a flatbed probably fine. Sometimes the default settings are unnecessarily low res or produce weirdly large file sizes. Do a sample of a couple pages all the way through to make sure the settings are ok...
Check out my latest on legacy admissions.
A lot of colleges, including many publics, do it.
Also surprised to learn many public flagships offer scholarships to legacies.
They should stop, but getting rid of these practices probably won't have huge effects on access or diversity.
