I'm truly honored by this. APPAM is a terrific organization and I'm indebted to many of its outstanding members who are having their own impact on policy analysis and management. Thanks so much to everyone.

Chart from "The Anxious Generation." How do we reverse this? We get young people to stop spending 5-9 hours a day on social media and video games, and we get them back to real life.

Nice article, Matt. This was exactly what we (espec Huriya Jabbar) found in New Orleans with charters. Many competitive responses were superficial (at least non-academic).

It's WSJ's loss having you leave but will be glad to have you (hopefully) report more on research again @chalkbeat.org

Really valuable work by @douglasharris9.bsky.social and Gabriel Oliver on how #schoolvouchers are transforming the private school landscape (even as #publiced advocates are largely focused on how they affect public school systems). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

Many thanks, Larry. This is one of a series we're doing on vouchers, nationally.

JOB ALERT. Looking for an Assoc Dir for Comms, Fin, and Ops at Tulane to help lead all of my major initiatives: ERA-NOLA, REACH Center, AEFP Live Handbook, and State of the Nation Project. Exciting possibilities. Leadership exp a must. Remote work possible. Apply: lnkd.in/gzyUk3fz

This is a big problem. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

One of our favorite bars/restaurants in #NewOrleans is closing in part because of Trump's tariffs--that's right from the owner's mouth.

I'm not going to say which place to avoid having wrath brought down on them before they close.

This is what aimless #tariffs do to the #economy

Someone I'm close to lives in Latin America w/ his wife & kids. They were planning to move to the U.S. for all our opportunities. Now they are too afraid to come.

Some would say preference skilled workers. OK, 1 is an engineer, 1 a small business owner.

This is what we've wrought.

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal

First ever repost of Michael R. Strain.

Hard to overstate how important this issue is for the future of democracy.

#BLS

Many thanks Sean and EFP. Unfortunately, with declining enrollments, more closures are coming. Some useful lessons in the paper about how to make the best of these difficult situations. Related commentary here: www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

The average young person today is on course to spend 25 years of their life on their phone. (Plus more on other screens.) Most of them don't want to live this way, but feel trapped.

How about we delay giving smartphones and tablets till at least 14?

Embarrassing indeed. It's great to see Goldin working with the players on this; and seeing through the subterfuge & accounting games.

Each of these projects has been a team effort. Too many people to even tag. (I think 250+ people have been directly involved.) If you're one of them, thank you. It's been a real pleasure working with you. This also gives me hope that we can use data & research to help dig out of our various messes.

State of the Nation Project (launched in Feb.). We built a progress report for the country across a wide variety of dimensions--from the economy and education to mental and physical health. Incredible bipartisan, cross-disciplinary board repr 8 leading national think tanks. See: stateofnation.org

AEFP Live Handbook (launched in March). Objective, rigorous, comprehensive, useful, & timely research abt #EducationPolicy for policymakers, journalists & researchers. 8,000+ users & 50+ chapters already w/ key conclusions abt #ECE, #Schools, & #HigherEd. Stellar editorial board. livehandbook.org

REACH: Our IES center grant on #SchoolChoice nationwide is ending but this is just the start for REACH. With additional research funding, we're turning our attention to the rapid expansion of universal #vouchers & #ESAs. First report on that next month. See more REACH work here: reachcentered.org

ERA-New Orleans: This is the 20th anniv of #HurricaneKatrina. Hard to believe. We've released 50+ reports about the resulting school reforms. A new report last month provides an integrated summary of them all. See the anniversary report here: educationresearchalliancenola.org

It's been such an action-packed year for me already that I'm doing my "year end" in July. I'm especially excited about some of my new initiatives that you probably haven't heard about. (Yes, I keep adding things without subtracting much. It's an issue.) Here are some updates:

Many thanks, Dan. Right back atcha.

Glad to re-engage. I haven't been even on Twitter for much of the past year. Did I miss anything? Anything exciting going on in the world? Sigh...