Proud of my employer for seeing the light. The fairest admissions policy IMO is universal testing + a thumb on the scale for disadvantaged applicants.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

The House is holding hearings on the FAFSA debacle today. The testimony has been fiery and calls for action are urgent.

Katherine Knott 🤷‍♀️(on bsky.social) is in the room and live blogging through it. Follow her updates here:
insidehighered.com/news/governmen…

Gentle reminder: Please consider submitting to the 3rd Workshop on Field Experiments with keynotes by John A. List and Susanna Loeb!
All infos: field-experiments.eu

P.S. Blends nicely with this year’s AFE in London, September 5-6! 😉 Come to Europe, everyone 🚀🚀🚀

This is a chart of the last *8* HS classes by % of seniors submitting through 3/15. The black line is c/o 2021, which was 'the worst' we'd ever seen.

The class of 2021 was 11* p.p. ahead of where the class of 2024 is now.

June 30 is 12 weeks away.
ncanfafsatracker.org

I really miss the days when Twitter was a lively and reasonable place to discuss current #highered events. Today's THREE hearings (on the FY25 budget, FAFSA, and MOHELA/student loan servicing) is an unusual bonanza of news!

Baby's First Years Paper alert!🧵🧵🧵
'The Impact of Monthly Unconditional Cash on Food Security, Spending, and Consumption: Three Year Follow-Up Findings from the Baby's First Years Study'
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
w/Matthew Maury, Laura Stilwell, and Baby's First Years (BFY) PI's⤵️

Historic Vids Queen Elizabeth Il aging on banknotes

I’m super excited about the incredible lineup of researchers that have agreed to speak about the economic inclusion of women and youth on day 2 (July 10), hosted at CGD’s DC offices. They include Ashwini_Deshpande, Karen Macours, Raquel Fernandez on the plenary panel.1/2

CBT is so effective for high-risk groups. Could it also be effective for police, who are under extreme stress on the job? This RCT tests the effect of a new training that tries this. It finds great effects, from less use of force to fewer injuries of officers. Check it out:

Attn bright scholars of #EconTwitter . Did you complete your PhD in the past 8 years? Do you have some new work-in-progress? Well then, it is time to submit to the Early Career Researcher's Day at FRB-Minneapolis #OIGI ! Deadline April 30. (minneapolisfed.org/institute/conf…) details in 🧵

Disconnect that doesn't get enough attention in K-12:

Half of teachers think their students have 'fair/poor' academic performance (including 73% of T's in high-poverty schools)

9 in 10 parents think their kids are at/above grade level in reading and math. (via Learning Heroes)

On the National College Attainment Network (NCAN) dashboard of FAFSA submissions from the last 8 years, the Class of 2024 is a stark outlier.

Bureaucratic bungling is further disrupting the educational trajectories of 100s of thousands of kids from the COVID generation.

ncan.org/page/fafsatrac…

Today U.S. Department of Education indicated around 1.1 million FAFSA applicants (of 7 million total) will need to make corrections to their form due to glitches in how the they provided consent to share their tax info, which is supposed to be required to submit the form. fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-cent…

46 percent decrease in CA

This is terrifying, especially for low-income applicants, and especially for institutions like Tulane.

Umm what

I just wanted a water bottle

What a horrifying disaster

onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/visualizing-…

This is horrifying data.

Here's a version of the same map using a color palette that's more accessible for folks who have trouble with red-green scales:

Wow, this is very, very bad! The drop in FAFSA completions is about 40% nationwide.

The drop in FAFSA (financial aid form) completions by state is jaw dropping. Look at CA. by the amazing Phil Hill onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/visualizing-…