Cara Jackson
@carajackson.bsky.social
Devoted to development & use of evidence to improve educational policy, practice, & outcomes. Evidence Use in Education, LLC. Past president https://aefpweb.org/. Co-editor: http://rb.gy/ipo4d5 & https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED603550
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Related: @edwriters.bsky.social lays out some of the key issues with the effort to dismantle the Department of Education, including a great list of questions to ask: ewa.org/issues/caree...
Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education: What to Know
The Trump admin is forging ahead on the president’s pledge to gut the U.S. Department of Education. Here’s what to know.
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December 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Related: @edwriters.bsky.social lays out some of the key issues with the effort to dismantle the Department of Education, including a great list of questions to ask: ewa.org/issues/caree...
It's good to see a thoughtful discussion! Some additional research to consider: Wyckoff's Puzzling Over Declining Academic Achievement edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1197 and Figlio et al.'s Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S.-Born Students www.nber.org/papers/w28596
Puzzling Over Declining Academic Achievement
Many are concerned about the large decline in K-12 student achievement since 2019. And rightly so, given what it signals about student learning and later life outcomes. Less noted is the pre-pandemic ...
edworkingpapers.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It's good to see a thoughtful discussion! Some additional research to consider: Wyckoff's Puzzling Over Declining Academic Achievement edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1197 and Figlio et al.'s Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S.-Born Students www.nber.org/papers/w28596
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Summer school participation pretty consistently provided modest benefits to students in math (but NOT reading), see Figure 1. The math benefits of summary school in our studies were generally more consistent and larger than what we found for tutoring (Figure 2).
December 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Summer school participation pretty consistently provided modest benefits to students in math (but NOT reading), see Figure 1. The math benefits of summary school in our studies were generally more consistent and larger than what we found for tutoring (Figure 2).