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How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs?
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death
Anti-vaccine influencers see the child’s death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories.
www.nbcnews.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs?
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
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AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
March 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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So the new PIACC data shows that older adults—who of course weren't in school during the pandemic—have also experienced steep "learning loss." Not quite sure what to make of that! nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaa...
December 10, 2024 at 3:50 PM
So the new PIACC data shows that older adults—who of course weren't in school during the pandemic—have also experienced steep "learning loss." Not quite sure what to make of that! nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaa...
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An ex-NY Times columnist and Ivy League grad interviewed a billionaire about how he, the world’s richest man, and several other billionaires helped another billionaire/Ivy League grad/real estate mogul world defeat an HBCU grad to reclaim the most powerful office in the world.
The headline:
The headline:
November 15, 2024 at 5:10 PM
An ex-NY Times columnist and Ivy League grad interviewed a billionaire about how he, the world’s richest man, and several other billionaires helped another billionaire/Ivy League grad/real estate mogul world defeat an HBCU grad to reclaim the most powerful office in the world.
The headline:
The headline:
I assume that Dems are testing messaging with figures like these and people just don't care about international comparisons. But this economic growth and int'l comparisons to inflation trends make the Dem administration look *phenomenal* and a majority still think Trump is better on the economy.
US & EU Q3 GDP numbers are in, which means another update to my G7 GDP growth chart!
Here's each country's cumulative increase in real GDP, since just before the pandemic:
🇺🇸 +12.2%
🇨🇦 +5.8% (thru Q2)
🇮🇹 +5.1%
🇫🇷 +3.5%
🇬🇧 +2.3% (thru Q2)
🇯🇵 +0.2% (thru Q2)
🇩🇪 +0.1%
Here's each country's cumulative increase in real GDP, since just before the pandemic:
🇺🇸 +12.2%
🇨🇦 +5.8% (thru Q2)
🇮🇹 +5.1%
🇫🇷 +3.5%
🇬🇧 +2.3% (thru Q2)
🇯🇵 +0.2% (thru Q2)
🇩🇪 +0.1%
October 30, 2024 at 4:55 PM
I assume that Dems are testing messaging with figures like these and people just don't care about international comparisons. But this economic growth and int'l comparisons to inflation trends make the Dem administration look *phenomenal* and a majority still think Trump is better on the economy.
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A reminder that applications to our faculty position are due three days from now (by end of day November 1).
We're excited to start reading these, so get your materials in (and tell anyone promising who might not have seen this posting).
Reach out to me with questions!
We're excited to start reading these, so get your materials in (and tell anyone promising who might not have seen this posting).
Reach out to me with questions!
🚨Job alert!🚨
Our group (@buwheelock.bsky.social @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social) is hiring an Assistant Professor of Education Policy.
Description below, along with a link to apply. I'm chairing the search, so reach out and spread the word.
Come work with us!
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Our group (@buwheelock.bsky.social @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social) is hiring an Assistant Professor of Education Policy.
Description below, along with a link to apply. I'm chairing the search, so reach out and spread the word.
Come work with us!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28451
Boston University, Wheelock College of Education and Human Development
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October 29, 2024 at 4:36 PM
A reminder that applications to our faculty position are due three days from now (by end of day November 1).
We're excited to start reading these, so get your materials in (and tell anyone promising who might not have seen this posting).
Reach out to me with questions!
We're excited to start reading these, so get your materials in (and tell anyone promising who might not have seen this posting).
Reach out to me with questions!
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I've created a starter pack I'm calling "Education economics and policy", based on folks I follow in this area.
Please let me know if I've missed you!
go.bsky.app/GHJzy4L
Please let me know if I've missed you!
go.bsky.app/GHJzy4L
October 24, 2024 at 6:57 PM
I've created a starter pack I'm calling "Education economics and policy", based on folks I follow in this area.
Please let me know if I've missed you!
go.bsky.app/GHJzy4L
Please let me know if I've missed you!
go.bsky.app/GHJzy4L
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Great new paper offering an OLS method for estimating difference-in-differences. Has efficiency benefits:
"the standard errors in our applications are smaller than those found using Callaway and Sant’Anna or stacked regressions"
"the standard errors in our applications are smaller than those found using Callaway and Sant’Anna or stacked regressions"
Our approach is simple and transparent. It is easy to know how identification is achieved, which treatment observations are compared to which control observations, and how many
parameters are estimated. We call it FLEX, because it is a flexible linear model estimated by OLS with covariates (X).
parameters are estimated. We call it FLEX, because it is a flexible linear model estimated by OLS with covariates (X).
Estimating treatment effects in difference-in-differences designs in which the treatment start is staggered over time and effects are heterogeneous by group, time, and covariates, and when the data are repeated cross-sections, from Deb, Norton, Wooldridge, and Z... https://www.nber.org/papers/w33026
October 11, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Great new paper offering an OLS method for estimating difference-in-differences. Has efficiency benefits:
"the standard errors in our applications are smaller than those found using Callaway and Sant’Anna or stacked regressions"
"the standard errors in our applications are smaller than those found using Callaway and Sant’Anna or stacked regressions"