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Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. Research on High School, College, and Career & Technical Education. Former HS teacher. He/Him.🌈

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Joined July 2010

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2 years

🚨New Pub: Career & Tech Education can have large financial benefits for students, but outcomes vary widely by field of study and student population. Excited to share this article with @doughesm , now out in @EEPAjournal . #CareerTechEd Overview 🧵:

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5 years

As a PhD student, there's no better email to receive than one from a policymaker who says your work has actually been useful for their work. Makes all that time yelling at code on a screen (yes, I do this...) feel a little more worthwhile. 🙂

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2 years

Excited to announce my new email address... wecton @fsu .edu!!! I couldn't be more excited to be joining as an Assistant Professor at @floridastate @fsueducation @fsu_elps !

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Some personal news - I'm so proud & excited to share that I will join the faculty at the University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education starting this summer! @CSHPE @UMichEducation 🧵

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3 years

Extremely happy to share that I'm heading to @PennGSE as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Education Policy division! There's so many faculty, students, & alumni from Penn I've come to deeply respect - it's a real honor to join their academic community.

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Very honored to share I was named this year's Outstanding Beginning Scholar by the Association for Career and Technical Education Research. Being recognized in a room full of people who have shaped my understanding of CTE and who have been so influential to me was very special.

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Hi #EduTwitter - does anyone have a good list of publicly-available datasets that students can work with? I know some based on my own research interests, but was hoping someone has already put together a website/resource to share? (Both PK-12 and Higher Ed are of interest!)

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Very honored to receive the 2021 Best Paper Award at the Association of Career & Technical Education Research virtual conference. Thanks to ACTER & Pres. @drjamesbartlett for the support and community of scholarship.

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3 years

Could @PennGSE be any more gorgeous during Autumn?!

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2 years

After 14 months, 2 universities, and a lifetime of headaches, I am pleased to announce I have finally been approved for IES restricted-use data!!! Now I just have to wait for the floppy disks to arrive via horse and buggy. Best Friday news everrrrrrrr!!!!!

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2 years

Very proud to be named an outstanding reviewer for EEPA this year.

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Well done @WaltEcton !

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4 years

In my one AERA session so far, the A/V was so bad that we all decided someone should put a Zoom link in a chat box, and we all just went to that Zoom room instead...(The Zoom room worked just fine!)

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3 years

They tell you that people with Ph.D.s are smart; but really, the real smart people are the ones who sell Ph.D. gowns and somehow get the rest of us suckers to fork over $865 for a fancy nightgown (one that I will wear with pride!).

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2 years

In Nashville for a conference and decided to stop by my PhD alma mater, @vupeabody . While walking across the quad, I ran into a student I taught in a summer class for gifted H.S. students 4 years ago!! He's now a freshman @VanderbiltU (and is much taller!). Pretty darn cool.

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Great first day on campus - can't wait for the school year to get started!

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We're so excited to welcome @WaltEcton , working in Higher Ed, to the ELPS faculty. He is interested in the intersection of high school, higher ed, and the workforce, especially students who take nontraditional pathways through education.

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What an honor to be hooded today at @vupeabody by my favorite academic (no offense to anyone else!!!), @doughesm . Very happy and proud to ceremonially close out this chapter - Onwards!

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Dr. Shaun M. Dougherty

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Such a privilege to get to see Dr. Walter Ecton in his regalia and offered the pomp that his efforts at @vupeabody so clearly earned. Great person, scholar, abd community member. If you don’t know him, introduce yourself @WaltEcton

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3 years

🚨Can PhD Fellowships (w/stipends, etc) increase the number of applicants & racial/ethnic diversity of PhD programs? Excited to share new evidence w/ @ChrisBennettEdu @kennynien @DrMontoya2 & @doughesm in @AeraOpen that the answer is "Yes": 🧵⬇️(1/14):

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If You Fund Them, Will They Come? Implications From a PhD Fellowship Program on Racial/Ethnic...

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2 years

Excited to share my first textbook chapter in this new book, The Economics of Equity in K-12 Education: Connecting Financial Investments with Effective Programming. I use nationally-representative data to look at Career &Technical Education in high school. Short🧵w/findings⬇️:

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❗️Publication Alert❗️Congratulations to Dr. @WaltEcton . 🎊Well done! 🎊

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5 years

US News & World Report College Rankings release is tomorrow, which means it's time to get excited about a social media day filled with "Rankings are the WORST!" & "I'm so proud of my top-ranked school!!!" hot takes. It will be fun!

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2 years

They're making it free?!?!?!???? 😏

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🚨 Something big is right around the corner! We have some exciting news coming your way next week you won’t want to miss. Mark your calendars, share the news with colleagues, and sign up for email or text alerts to be among the first to know. →

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The look on @JasonAGrissom 's face at exactly 1:15 pm when he becomes past president of @aefpweb !

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1 year

I am SO excited to moderate a conversation with Emmy-winning ICON Darren Criss this Friday night at the FSU student union! Come check it out! My teenage self is truly living the dream.

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2 years

Leaving Philadelphia on Independence Day, thankful for my year @PennGSE & in this great city with the best students, colleagues & friends. Couldn't have asked for a better first year post-PhD, and can't wait for what's next on the journey.

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I never got to attend a Lavender Graduation when I was in college (I was not out yet!), so it was such a special treat to celebrate LGBTQ+ grads at Penn's Lavender Graduation today.

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Very honored that my and @doughesm 's paper on heterogeneity in CTE was awarded Outstanding Research Paper at the Association of Career and Technical Education Research conference! #VisionCTE20

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3 years

Glad I took the scenic route through @Penn 's campus this morning

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4 years

I've been thinking a lot this week about this outstanding article from @washingtonpost 's amazing @myhlee way back in 2016. Really grateful for the work of Michelle and all @aaja journalists, especially in this difficult week.

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The perils of being a female, Asian fact-checker in a tense election

Readers may often dispute our fact checks. But at times, the attacks became vicious and personal.

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2 years

⚡️As the semester begins, many college students will be working while enrolled. What does that mean for their success & progress in their classes? @CJ_Heinrich , @ckcarruthers and I explore "Earning to Learn" in this new @AeraOpen piece. 🧵 below (1/14):

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Earning to Learn: Working While Enrolled in Tennessee Colleges and Universities - Walter G. Ecton,...

Although some students choose to work while enrolled in college, others may have no choice but to work, even if work may be detrimental to their chances of succ...

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Taking a Mixed Methods approach to the #AEFP2019SockChallenge , serving both Education & Finance Policy.

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2 years

Buying a house in a market where most homes are gone within 24 hours of listing does not exactly lend itself to the type of deliberative, iterative, thorough mode of thinking in which PhDs are trained and accustomed to making decisions... 😬

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On the way to #AERA2023 and was just thrown up on by a small child during the plane boarding process! Guess my khakis looked kinda like a throw up bag, so I understand the confusion. Thankfully it was not TOO chunky. See you all soon!!!

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5 years

Created a indicator variable for when I'm missing data on students' independent/dependent status. Named the variable "miss_independent". Thank you @kellyclarkson for your contribution to my work today.

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Amazing presentations by @PennGSE students in Intro Quant Policy Analysis. At start of semester, most students had never done any coding, but by the end, they're running regressions & downloading the @taylorswift13 Stata color scheme to make beautiful graphs...So wildly proud!

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6 years

Not a bad AirBnB view for #AERA19

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7 months

Congrats to @fsu_elps PhD student @KevinAGanus on a great first #AEFP2024 poster on CTE articulation agreements!

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Unlocked an important new professor milestone today - My first lunch taking entirely too much advantage of the 'All You Can Eat' student cafeteria. The third slice of pizza (following the second brownie) was when I knew I'd really regressed all the way back to freshman year...

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🚨New @AnnenbergInst Working Paper w/ @doughesm !🚨 We explore variation in outcomes for Career and Technical Ed (CTE) by career cluster & by student population, and find large differences in how students can expect to benefit (or not!) from CTE: . See🧵:

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Reading lots of dissertations...My advice is: LIVE IT UP in your Acknowledgements! Call your siblings by their goofy nicknames, name the musician who kept you awake on long nights, tell your grandparents you love them. It makes your committee (or maybe just me!) smile so hard.

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2 years

As the semester comes to an end, a quick note of gratitude for this textbook (Common Sense Evidence) from @clconaway & @NoraEGordon . I used it as a text in a master's course on applying research to policy and practice at @PennGSE this semester - it was excellent. A quick 🧵:

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3 years

Very grateful for two weeks of reconnecting, meeting, and learning with colleagues new and old at #appam2021 and #AEFP2022 - What a privilege to be in this research community.

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2 years

So good to catch up with so many folks at #AERA2023 including grad school cohortmates @DarlingAduana and @ChrisBennettEdu .

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Just had a very bizarre moment: On airplane, pilot comes on over intercom, announces the federal mask mandate is over, "so take your masks off and celebrate!" Half the plane cheers/high fives. Other half stews, keeping masks on. A person near me starts crying, clearly worried.

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1 year

Very excited for this work with @harbatkat on CTE/Applied STEM teachers in Florida!

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Congratulations to @WaltEcton and @harbatkat for their recently awarded grant with @AERA_EdResearch and @NSF ! We can't wait to see the great work you produce. #EducationalResearch #STEM

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2 years

Happy to share this new paper in @EEPAjournal with Adela Soliz, exploring the effects of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Program, the nation's largest investment in community colleges.

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Did the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act Expand and Improve Vocational Training at Community...

This study explores whether the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) Program, the largest federal investment in community...

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1 year

Excited to share "Framing Parents' Attitudes Towards Career & Technical Education" -Now out (Open Access!) in @epaa_aape ! I use a survey-based RCT to understand what parents think about #CareerTechEd , and whether the way #CTE is explained matters. 🧵below:

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Walt Ecton

4 years

Happy #NationalComingOutDay ! A day late, but no one should feel pressured into choosing their own timeline, so if you weren't ready yesterday, feel free to celebrate whenever the heck you want to. That said, very proud to be gay!

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2 years

As my summer Politics of Education class @PennGSE nears an end- I want to toast a fantastic group of junior scholars who came to talk with us: @abigailroseds , @JoshBleiberg , @bakerdphd , @ChrisMarsicano , @jsplasman & Richard Blissett all brought new ideas - y'all are the best.

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4 years

I remember being a kid and being inspired by the presidential debates and excited about respectful exchanges of ideas and policy approaches. I feel badly for kids who might be watching their first presidential debates tonight. Hope politics can get back to inspiring people soon.

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1 year

A PSA from Barbie & Ken to get yourself to the theater ASAP for this absolute delight of a movie. #IAmKenough

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4 years

When you submit a revision, you get to eat a bowl of ice cream and drink a glass of red wine. I didn't make the rules; that's just the way it has to be.

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2 years

Thanks to everyone who voted in the @AERA_EdResearch Career & Technical Education SIG elections. I'm excited to be the CTE SIG Program Chair for next year's conference. Start preparing proposals to submit later this summer for #AERA2024 - Can't wait to see all your great work!!

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9 months

An utterly absurd, infuriating policy that will harm students, colleges, and ultimately, the state.

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NBC News

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Florida’s Board of Education announces rule that bars public colleges from using state and federal funds for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, activities and policies.

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4 years

Very appropriate that DeKalb, a county represented by John Lewis and home to the CDC, gets to have the final word here...

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2 years

Lack of action is a policy choice. It never ceases to amaze that this is the choice our leaders continue to make, to allow tragedy after tragedy. Thinking of everyone at Michigan State and hoping for better policy choices one day.

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4 years

If you study higher ed leadership and need an example of extraordinarily condescending, preemptively scolding, responsibility-shirking communication from an administration (but with multiple well-designed graphics!), this urgent tweet thread from @VU_Chancellor is a good option.

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Vanderbilt University

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An urgent message about the start of classes from @vu_chancellor Daniel Diermeier and @vu_provost Susan R. Wente.

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1 year

Year One officially in the books at @fsueducation for this new faculty cohort. ✅

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D.

1 year

And just like that…our first year as @fsu_elps faculty members comes to a close!! SO grateful to have a wonderful community, in general, and especially in this cohort of brilliant people. 🥰 #FacultyLife @daniel_moraguez @harbatkat @drkevinforehand @WaltEcton

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3 years

I don't claim to have answers, but announcing this mid-air, seems, well, not the right way to do it? Maybe give people (especially those who are really concerned) a bit of fair notice??

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6 months

Words of wisdom from Toni Morrison via the incomparable @bakerdphd , AERA's 2023 Early Career Awardee.

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8 months

It's an honor to introduce Dr. Megan Dross, who defended her outstanding dissertation this morning, "Education through Incarceration: Access to Education within Florida's Prisons."

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Walt Ecton

3 years

So excited for @scolbywoods to join @PennGSE this fall and so excited to celebrate in person with him at #AEFP2022 ! Colby's already made a real impact through his work at @vupeabody - I can't wait for big things he'll do in ed policy as Future Dr. Woods!

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Colby.

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🍎 Life Update! 🍎 I’m excited to announce that I was recently accepted at the University of Pennsylvania to pursue a Ph.D. in Education Policy in the Graduate School of Education! I’ll be moving to Philadelphia this fall to get started on the pathway of becoming Dr. Woods!

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🚨We're hiring! Florida State University's @lsifsu and @fsu_elps are seeking a tenure-earning assistant professor in Education & International Development. Application review begins Oct. 1. I'm on the search committee, so feel free to reach out with ?s! 🚨

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1 year

Just went to Costco for the first time, and...damn, America is an absolutely incredible country.

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1 year

I'm the only customer at the university dining hall this morning, so they just said they'd make some of their faves. So far, they've brought me an Omelette, Bacon, Waffle (w/Choc Chips & Strawberries!), Biscuits & Gravy, and Blueberry Pancakes. An omen for an Eggcellent semester!

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4 years

As a former student government elections chair, I just want to publicly confess how much I love the pageantry of roll call votes.

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11 months

As a gay man from Kentucky, I am grateful that Kentucky had two glorious days of being the Gayest State in the Nation™️!! (But also - this is an excellent lesson in why researchers should always be skeptical and exert extra scrutiny w/results that just don't pass the smell test).

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11 months

We realized this morning that there was an error in our LGBT adult population estimates. A letter of apology from our Founding Executive Director @bradsears is below.

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2 years

I really enjoyed talking with @libbystanford at @educationweek for this article on the evolving nature of Career and Technical Education and ongoing challenges: @KateRobynBlos @CTEWorks

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How Career Prep Programs Went From 'Dumping Ground' to Top Priority

More Americans think kids should come out of school prepared for careers, and career prep has emerged as a rare area of bipartisan accord.

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When I taught high school in Atlanta, our congressman, John Lewis would come to speak on the 1st day of school. He encouraged students to get into good trouble and continue the fight for racial justice that he had been fighting since he was barely older than our students. (1/3)

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3 years

Happy 97th(!) birthday to my favorite @EmoryUniversity professor and the subject of my college admissions "Why Emory?" essay - President Jimmy Carter. Thanks for a full lifetime of showing us how to be a true servant and citizen of this world.

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Just devasting. 6 justices just said businesses can legally discriminate against me if they so choose. I've heard lots of people say/act as if "gay rights issues" were settled/won after Obergefell. This decision is exhibit A of why that attitude has always infuriated LGBTQ+ folks

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This paragraph from Sotomayor’s dissent in 303 Creative is so chilling.

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Thank you #AEFP2019 for suggesting a new response for when people ask me what I study. I'll happily rep the "Methodology, data, and other" section!

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3 years

All I really want from AERA is a bar graph showing the number of conference proposals submitted per day (perhaps with a separate figure zooming-in at the hour level for the final day). Shout out to all the early submitters (if there are any...??) - I admire you!

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3 years

My dad just asked me if I needed any dad jokes for my dissertation defense. The answer is obviously yes.

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Heading to Philly for AERA? Come join the @aefpweb LGBTQ+ Community Group from 3:45-5:30 on Friday, April 12 at Tabu, a queer sports bar right in the heart of the Gayborhood and just a few blocks from the convention center (254 S 12th St). Non-AEFP members are welcome!

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2 years

Proud to be a first-time Florida voter!!! Get on out to the polls, friends - free stickers and patriotic endorphins are there for the taking!!

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3 years

As someone who has taught in gifted programs and benefitted from them greatly when I was a student myself, I feel compelled to say, "Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater." A quick 🧵(1/11):

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Pleased to share this new @BrookingsEd blog post w/ @doughesm on how better funding (tuition waivers, stipends, healthcare, etc) for PhD students can help build a more diverse pipeline of researchers into academia & industry:

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Focus on finances to promote doctoral student diversity

Generous financial packages attract more diverse doctoral students.

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2 years

Starting with a new faculty cohort of awesome folks - 10/10 recommend!

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D.

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Tomorrow marks the beginning of fall classes at FSU, and I am feeling loads of gratitude to begin the tenure track with a faculty cohort of these incredible & brilliant people! @fsu_elps @daniel_moraguez @nehamiglani @harbatkat @WaltEcton

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Normalizing doing *less* sometimes...I needed to take a little work-life balance break from the conference presentation grind. Now, seeing everyone's @aefpweb announcements tonight makes me SUPER excited to simply attend and learn from everyone's work this spring, stress-free!

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🚨 Excited to share new work with @AmberlyDzi in the Journal of Higher Ed ( @JHE_Editors ) that asks "Is change at colleges & universities actually incremental, slow, and steady, as conventional wisdom often says?" Link to article & an overview 🧵 below:

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Using Punctuated Equilibrium to Understand Patterns of Institutional Budget Change in Higher...

In this paper, we employ Punctuated Equilibrium Theory to consider institutions’ shifting goals, priorities, and constraints, and to explore the nature of change at colleges and universities in the...

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Walt Ecton

3 years

Excited to meet the new cohort of Education Policy M.S.Ed. students @PennGSE today!

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Walt Ecton

3 years

New mixed-methods work from @caldercenter , @vupeabody & @PennGSE w/Dana Ansel, @doughesm , @kristian_holden & @RoddyTheobald , "Student Interest and Equitable Access to Career and Technical Education High Schools of Choice" now out in @josc_official : . A🧵:

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Student Interest and Equitable Access to Career and Technical Education High Schools of Choice

A growing body of evidence points to increased interest in and positive outcomes of participating in Career and Technical Education (CTE). We examine selection into CTE high schools of choice in Ma...

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Walt Ecton

3 years

Such a pleasure to speak with CTE school & district leaders at the Florida Nontraditional Student Summit today. Also, a real treat to have an artist illustrating the talk as I spoke! Excited about all the great work folks in Florida are undertaking to support students in CTE.

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Walt Ecton

3 years

This life is far too precious and fragile - no one deserves to be subjected to the violent whims of small men playing games of war to stoke their own egos. Thinking of the people of Ukraine and hoping for as peaceful a resolution as possible.

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Walt Ecton

2 years

If @Jesse_L_Lopez wins #Survivor43 , he deserves a place on Survivor Mount Rushmore. Savage, brilliant gameplay. And (I think?) the first Survivor winner with a PhD! Would be a win for nerds everywhere.

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Walt Ecton

3 years

New computer, and the predictive text function is a little aggressive. Accidently just sent an email signing off with "Thanks again, Walt Disney." I hope the recipient isn't too disappointed when they realize it's just me.🧙‍♂️

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Walt Ecton

4 years

About 10 years ago, I had just signed my first contract to become a teacher, and when I told that to VP Biden, he took the time to tell me about all the important educators in his life (including his wife Jill) and to thank me for choosing such an important profession.

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Walt Ecton

3 years

🚨Excited to share this paper with @doughesm . For anyone looking for an overview of the current state of #CareerTechEd research internationally, we hope this article (and brief Tweet-thread) is a useful resource:⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Dr. Shaun M. Dougherty

3 years

🧵Happy to share a new article with @WaltEcton , "The Economic Effect of Vocational Education on Student Outcomes", now available in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance: (1/11)

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Walt Ecton

3 years

If we want to greater diversity in the academy, $$ to support PhD students offers an important policy lever. Outside of "top" programs, PhD students are often unfunded (or very underfunded), making it out of reach for many. More about our research here:⬇️

@ConversationUS

The Conversation U.S.

@ConversationUS

3 years

Racially and ethnically diverse students need more money 💸 in order to eventually increase diversity among university faculty – more from @ @doughesm and @WaltEcton :

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Walt Ecton

3 years

Morning @Penn Relays 5k ending in Franklin Field, the oldest college football stadium in the country. Not a bad start to the weekend!

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Walt Ecton

1 year

As a proud lifelong practitioner of 2 spaces after sentences, being forced to copy-edit my manuscript to remove all these beautiful, thoughtfully crafted-double spaces - well, it's just a very deeply sad day here in the office.

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Walt Ecton

2 years

Anytime I'm in New York, I'm reminded how much I love live theater. Did a double-header today w/ @StrangeLoopBway & @Titanique (where Celion Dion misremembers that she was actually on the Titanic!!!). Very grateful, specifically for these two very queer theatrical experiences!

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Walt Ecton

2 years

Grades posted, and I'm so darn proud of @fsu_elps Economics of Education students. We Came, We Saw, We Conquered all threats to internal validity.

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Walt Ecton

2 years

Look, I enjoyed every single one of those 590 calories in that vending machine Jumbo Honey Bun. #NoRegrets Happy Friday!

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Walt Ecton

2 years

Had a conversation in class about what words count/don't count as "causal." This evidence is super useful in showing what others think - look forward to sharing and using.

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Ethan Mollick

2 years

A strangely imprecise aspect of academic papers is whether they claim to establish causality. It can be implied by language, rather than through analysis. This paper shows what words peer reviewers in medicine THINK are associated with causal claims.

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Walt Ecton

2 years

Just landed in Nashville for the first time in 1.5 years after living there 5 years, and oh man, I had ALMOST forgotten about the bachelorette parties. Happy to report that they are still absolutely THRIVING.

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Walt Ecton

8 months

The rapidly changing attitudes towards college among white parents (and also from Pew, Republicans...only 31% of whom think colleges are a positive force in the US) is nothing short of stunning, and something we as a field need to grapple with much more.

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Walt Ecton

6 years

My IRB proposal was approved without revisions after only TWO DAYS - I feel like I need to go buy a lottery ticket to take advantage of this unbelievably good fortune?!?!

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Walt Ecton

1 year

Very excited to share a stage with @harbatkat for this talk next week!

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FSU ELPS

1 year

We've got an upcoming Relevant Research Roundtable with @WaltEcton and @harbatkat . Join us via Zoom or in person for a conversation on utilizing large data sets for policy research! #HigherEducation #PolicyResearch #EducationPolicy

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Walt Ecton

2 years

So very pumped to count @harbatkat as a colleague at @fsueducation @fsu_elps !

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Erica Harbatkin

2 years

I am so honored to join the amazing faculty at FSU and in particular to join alongside some amazing colleagues and friends. Not all have announced on Twitter yet, but so excited to work with the two who have-- @WaltEcton and @annie_woff . 2/2

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