Pia Caronongan

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Here's what's really happening with child care fraud in Minnesota Evidence is nowhere near the epidemic levels a viral YouTube video would suggest — but it hasn’t stopped a crackdown on child care funding. Here's a fact check.

A full fact check on what's going on in Minnesota, wading through the politics & spin of this story.

In short, there is no evidence of widespread child care fraud. We take you through the inspection data & government reports into the issue from the past decade.
19thnews.org/2026/01/chil...

Also works in real life

Choose your fighter. Mine is definitely Sister Bernadette, age 88.

Made my day

We will be delving into questions like:
💡What contributes to variation in EC educator wage growth across programs?
💡 What role can community engagement play in shaping compensation strategies?
💡 How do compensation approaches affect educator mobility and retention?

#APPAM2025 #2025APPAM

Coming to #APPAM2025 #2025APPAM? Hear what we've learned about ECE workforce compensation and financial support strategies in MA, IL, ME and DC.

⏰Friday, November 14, 8:30am 📍Room 708 (Sol Duc)

Going to #APPAM2025?

Come to our panel where @bertabartoli.bsky.social will present our paper on the impact of sleep and time policy on student disciplinary outcomes. Paper draft (with a title we are very proud of) linked

⏰Friday, November 14, 3:30 to 5:00pm
📍Room: 504 - Foss
tinyurl.com/3earym6n

Really appreciate the attention here to all the moving parts. The devil is in the details but also this seems like a great opportunity to build on learnings from recent innovations in compensation strategies, FCC integration in pre-k, and FCC incubators to name a few.

Massachusetts Head Start centers close amid funding freeze Four centers in Brockton and Norwood, which served 550 children, are closed, and more than 150 staff members are furloughed.

www.wcvb.com/article/mass...

Will America finally treat child care as a public good? Some states are about to find out In November, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free daycare for children as young as 6 weeks. On the other side of the country, child care is a key issue in New York City's mayoral elect...

www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t. Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

Why a Trans Teen Fled His Texas Home to Find Safety: "Daily Danger Zone" “We drove over the Red River Valley and we were giving middle fingers out the window."

Thanks to this family for sharing their story of fleeing Texas for the safety of their trans teen
www.teenvogue.com/preview/stor...

Thanks for your interest! Please email wheelockpolicy@bu.edu with your information and any questions.

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.

It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.

Likely to enter force within days.

America’s child care system relies on immigrants. Without them, it could collapse - The Hechinger Report ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Maggi’s home in a suburban neighborhood here is a haven for local families. It’s a place where after just a few weeks in Maggi’s family-run child care program this spring, one pres...

Child care teachers in the US make about $32,000 a year. This (and tough working conditions) has created mass child care teacher shortages & extremely high turnover rates.Our child care industry has long relied on immigrants, especially in big cities. My latest:
hechingerreport.org/americas-chi...

Some States Are Seeking to Deregulate Child Care. Advocates Are Fighting Back How advocates in three states beat back proposals to increase child care ratios.

Some states are seeking to deregulate child care. Advocates are fighting back www.the74million.org/zero2eight/s...

Here's a partial typology of titles:

1) X and Y

2) Say What You Found

3) Wordplay: Serious

4) Very Short (usually advisable only for future Nobel Prize winners)

Your cat is named Lizard?!?

A screenshot of the abstract of the working paper

Figure 1: School Enrollment Pathways for Lottery Winners and Control Group Students through 8th Grade. This figure represents school enrollment pathways across different school types (BPS, BPS Exam School, non-BPS district school, charter school, and other) for both lottery winners and the control group. The thickness of the lines represents the percentage of lottery winners/control group students that are enrolled in each type of school. Blue lines show the pathways taken by lottery winners, and BPS-specific school categories are highlighted in the light blue boxes. BPS = Boston Public Schools.

🤔 What kind of Pre-K experience sets students up for long-term success?

Our new working paper offers important new evidence to help answer this question!

🔗 edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai25-1194.pdf

And 🧵👇

America might finally make childbirth free An unlikely alliance is supporting a new bipartisan bill in Congress.

A new bipartisan bill would require private insurers to fully cover the cost of childbirth with no co-pays or deductibles. Average out-of-pocket costs today is ~$3,000.

It’s a big deal, with an unusual origin story, and backed by an even more unusual alliance of orgs 🧵

www.vox.com/policy/41491...

😮

Added! Thanks for reaching out!

Some things never change in that Bon Iver makes me cry and I will happily watch Noah Wyle work his magic in an ER

The president of Nintendo of America is named Bowser?!?

Oxford Dictionary Adds New Words, Including ‘Gigil’ for Extreme Cuteness (Gift Article) The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable.

omg gigil is in the dictionary we've really made it www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/s...

Hoooooooooly 😮🚀

the best

#AEFP2025 has been quite a success. We're really proud of and excited by the work and thoughtful engagement in policy-relevant, rigorous research on display by all of our @buwheelock.bsky.social faculty, students, WEPC alumni, staff and partners. Thanks for a wonderful few days!