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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 8d

What makes a Career & Technical Education program more than a set of electives?

New research synthesizes decades of studies to highlight what works—and what doesn’t—in CTE → buff.ly/luCPS7F

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Yerin Yoon @yerinyoon.bsky.social · 13d

📢New working paper (a chapter from my dissertation), co-authored with @doughesm.bsky.social, is now posted at the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston!

Does Expanding Access to High Quality Technical Education Induce Participation and Improve Outcomes? (1/n)

www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

www.hks.harvard.edu

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking at job postings helps define the counterfactual. I might be on my own, but I find this exercise helpful.

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Sep 4

New publication showing how high school #CTE can help smooth the transition to the workforce for students with #Disability - Joint w/ @UConn colleagues & @CTTechHS doi.org/10.3102/0013... Excited to see this in print!

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Sep 4

😃😂🤣

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Sep 4

You need a twitch channel to live stream data cleaning

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨Interested in a PhD focusing on quant methods and education & social policy? I'm recruiting this year at @bclynchschool in the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment program www.bc.edu/bc-web/schoo...

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment - Lynch School of Education and Human Development - Boston College

MESA has been training students to examine educational programs, design quantitative research studies, develop assessment instruments, and analyze educational data to help inform policy-making for ove...

www.bc.edu

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ever closer to being a *former* Cowboys fan

Sources: Cowboys are trading three-time All-Pro LB Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers.

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Aug 27

This isn't news to those in ed research, but is a critical reminder for policy and community folks whose academic pedigrees make them inclined towards one, non-representative view of college education: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think

www.nytimes.com

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today marks the start of my 13th year as a faculty member, and 17 years since choosing to leave my job as a K12 educator so that I could gain the skills to research the impact of policy and practice on outcomes. Grateful for for all of this.

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sorry buddy. It is hard. Sending strength

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Aug 13

Fair. And, the thing I like about the word evidence, even when causation is applied in defensible ways, is that it is still be distinct from the notion of truth. Our evidence might still just be the shadows on the wall, even if we think they are accurate depictions of what projects them

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Aug 13

Not enough defenders of evidence these days, nor acknowledgements that evidence can reflect some objective truth but need not reflect preferences or priorities.

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Aug 13

In defense of evidence - if there ever is a double blind rct showing benefits, I still firmly defend that preferences do not have to be lead by evidence for things in the beverage realm

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Jun 6

I could live with that tradeoff 🤣 thanks Catherine!

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Jun 6

🤣🤣🤣

Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Jun 6

I need to learn the 'hot keys' for exiting zoom and teams meetings. My cursor response time leaves me awkwardly lingering too often

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · May 24

One out of 3 isn’t bad. Hilariously, when people get my name wrong they usually call me Scott, but I can live with Sarah

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · May 17

a group of men standing in front of an american flag with the words nobody knows

ALT: a group of men standing in front of an american flag with the words nobody knows

media.tenor.com

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · May 17

Service begets service it seems

Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · May 17

As an incoming chair myself, I had the same thought

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · May 17

You get to be chair and the Knicks won?! Time for the lotto

Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · May 15

“scandalous uninterest in the appearance of things isnt the price anyone should pay for policy achievements.The price our kids will pay is a degraded, embarrassing …oligarchic govt. It’ll be hard for them to be idealistic & brave w that around their necks” www.wsj.com/opinion/brok...

Opinion | Broken Windows at the White House

Republicans need to address signs of disorder for their own good and the good of the country.

www.wsj.com

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · May 14

godspeed!

Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · May 13

when the dual-factor authenticator asks if I am enjoying the app, why isn't there a third response option, "Necessary Evil"?

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