Education policy researcher. Northwestern PhD, Duke DST, Native Washingtonian, and Beyhive member. Here you can find ed policy, TV, and DC sports. Welcome.
Black male elementary school students matched to Black teachers are less likely to be identified for special education services, according to new research published in
@aerj_journal
.
Friday news dump: Happy to announce that I have joined
@UNCSchoolofEd
as an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership. I will not, however, under any circumstances be cheering for any athletic team- I am excited to antagonize an entire campus from the inside out 🙃
#goduke
Racial gaps on (insert outcome here): have 3 parts- (1) structural racism, (2) individual factors, and (3) discrimination/implicit bias. Generally researchers are taught to investigate (2) using covariates to explain away whatever the gap is. This is flawed.
If you’re an economist and you don’t know who Prof Darity is and you haven’t read his work, you should be ashamed. The num of scholars he has inspired is immeasurable. In our class at Duke, of the black women econ majors, 4 of us are PhDs. Cc:
@FenabaAddo
@RobynnCox
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers" by Seth Gershenson, Cassandra M.D. Hart, Joshua Hyman, Constance A. Lindsay, and Nicholas W. Papageorge.
🚨Job Alert 📷 - please share with your networks
@UNCSchoolofEd
I am looking for a postdoc (you'll work with me and
@eduspringer
). Let me know if you're interested!
That’s my girl! I can brag here that I wrote a supporting letter for her award. Dominique is an amazing scholar and criminally under cited!
@bakerdphd
(we don’t care she’s an AKA that grew up rooting for the cowboys and UNC 😂)
I spend a nontrivial amount of time discussing PhD applications with RA's of color who are thinking about grad school. I don't mind, but the dearth of people at my level who could help is aggravating to me.
I taught quant to masters students for 3 years. I got different versions of this. Nobody expects their quant prof to be a 4’11” black woman and it causes cognitive dissonance in an already “difficult” subject.
#AEFP2022
was great! I’m encouraged by the # of panels explicitly devoted to equity issues- though we have a lot of work to do in the policy research community. I appreciate
@KatharineStrunk
for her presidential speech on the org’s justice, equity, diversity & inclusion efforts.
If you’ve ever cited the Leithwood (2004) review of principal effects, you’ll be interested in our review of the last 20 years of work on principals. The report will be released soon, and we’ll be discussing the results here:
I never envisioned that writing about the positive impact of black teachers on black students would lead me to be called racist or that people would invoke slavery as a result of some regressions.
I'm not in the mood for it today, so save your emails and tweets.
Whoever nominated me to run for the faculty council...I would rather you just pull up to my office and we can hash out whatever the problem is that way. SMH
We (myself and
@ooh_esther
) are looking for Black male educators who are National Board Certified for a research study funded by the Spencer Foundation. If this is you (or someone you know), please shoot us an email.
The Perry Preschool Project led to higher levels of education and employment, better health, and lower levels of criminal activity among the children of the first-generation treatment group, from
@econyorch
, James J. Heckman, and
@checchiaronda
I have lots to say about being a black woman academic, and in particular in our little subfield. But some of it includes y'all's friends, so I will save it for my memoirs. Nothing that is happening is remotely surprising to me.
Headed to Miami for a girls trip. I do not want to hear the words “education policy” for a solid 36 hours. I don’t care if Beyoncé drops and album and cites me, do not @ me 😭
Also, I hate the framing of these segregation studies. There is nothing inherently wrong with all black environments, and moving black kids so white kids can have better racial attitudes shouldn’t necessarily be viewed as a “positive” outcome.
ICYMI: I am on this episode of Hidden Brain. They also talk about my grandmother, who taught math in DC Public Schools for 30 years. And found one her students (!). Shankar is a hard interviewer 😩🥴
🔊New ep! 🔊
Generations of people have struggled against segregation. Most of us believe in a colorblind society. But what happens when that ideal clashes with studies that find colorblindness doesn't always produce the best outcomes?
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"Hi Dr. Lindsay- we were wondering if we could have your assistant's info so that we could get your travel scheduled"
umm. I'm not sure what you think is going on over here. lol.
The Early Career Award goes to
@bakerdphd
(
@smusimmons
). This award honors an individual within 10 years after receipt of their doctoral degree, for study in any field of educational inquiry.
Does COVID-19 create incredible opportunities for social scientists to do quasi-experimental studies?
No, not really.
Cautionary words by Lars Peter Hansen
@UncertainLars
and David Figlio in Science: 👇
On Saturday, a super generous friend got me into Dave Chapelle's Aftershow thing in DC. I am still recovering smh. I can cross "secret Chapelle event" off my list.
I voted in NC and it flashes a tally of total votes for the location. It was in the 7k range in Carrboro. I then looked up turnout from 2016 and compared to now. 956k people who sat out 2016 have voted in NC so far (as of Wednesday) 😳.
I have informed the HKennedy Sch that I am turning down its offer as Snr Res Fellow. It would have been exciting to share my experiences, both positive and negative; our current political environment and its lack of civility makes this too disruptive. I wish them the best.
Today we had an awesome talk
@UNCSchoolofEd
by
@MaddyMavro
on her really awesome new study w/
@ImRachelWhite
. The talk ended with three lessons for researchers on how to use your work to expand educational opportunity:
Whenever I receive a list of men that I should have cited, I want to break my laptop over the reviewer's head. In about 5 years, the twitter rant I do about this is going be to epic. Gird your loins.
A tip: use the poll feature to check in with your class at the beginning and to lighten the mood. Options for today’s check in about feelings included “blah”, which was the modal choice.
That being said, early data re: race + COVID is distressing. Before you race to put out a working paper, make sure you’re not falling into the trap of throwing everything into a regression and “solving” the problem. The effects work through the covariates + independent of them.
For the first time, entire student bodies have been compelled to take all of their classes online. Jonathan Zimmerman says that now is a perfect opportunity to measure how students learn in that medium compared to face-to-face instruction.
Now is the time for every Biden supporter to reach out to one person who voted for Trump.
Empathize with them.
Tell them you know how they feel (you do, from 2016).
Come up with one issue you can agree on.
Keep that in mind as the economists (or whoever else) start to weigh in why black people are dying at the highest rate from COVID-19, they lack the ability, desire, vision,and analytical tools to properly discuss (1) and (3).
I had a good time at
#sree2022
. The teachers and leaders section was exceptionally well curated (😂). I am also encouraged by the conversations on equity. We have a ways to go but there’s progress.
@JoeBriggsEsq
Every charter school is an approved by an authorizer (whether they end up being effective or not is a different question). His school was unaccredited. It’s not a good comparison.
I’ll also add that many of scholars who became “famous” doing work around welfare reform have articles that read like this in 2020 (maybe not this bad). It’s all rooted in anti-blackness.
The NYU scholar credited with "providing the main theoretical basis" for welfare reform has a new paper out today. I share this clip in case anyone still doubts that (1) racism is central to the modern U.S. welfare state and (2) U.S. poverty research has so much progress to make.
Anyhoo, here is the updated version of Long-Run paper: . Something I am especially proud of is that we cite some of the greats in black edu, including G. Ladson-Billings and M. Foster.