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Revisiting this question suggests that the landscape of HSE credentialing has meaningfully shifted over the past 30 years, as entry-level jobs have become more likely to require post-secondary training. 4/4

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HSE tests like the GED(R) test have introduced new mechanisms to signal college readiness and reward high achievers for prior learning, but institutional adoption has been slow, limiting the utility of earning a college readiness designation for HSE grads. 3/N

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HSE grads still lag behind tradition HS grads re: post-secondary enrollment, persistence and graduation, and institutions can do more to support students who arrive via this pathway. 2/N

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 11/06/2025

Excited to see my work on high school equivalency credentials featured by @annenberginstitute.bsky.social. Today’s HSE grads are more likely than ever to use their credentials as an on-ramp back to formal schooling, and those who do earn post-secondary awards at higher rates than past cohorts. 1/N

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Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

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Blake Heller @blakeheller.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Beyond efficiency arguments for adult ESL (which are compelling), adult education is central to maintaining two of @lkatz42.bsky.social and Goldin’s virtues of U.S. public education: that it’s 1) a second-chance system 2) open to all learners. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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Ana-Maria Dimand @anadimand.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston invites applications for an Instructional Assistant Professor who will serve as Director of the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership. www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?... #PAJobMarket #PAsky #academicsky

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Instructional Assistant Professor/ Director of Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

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Blake Heller @blakeheller.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Awarding credit for prior learning can help make colleges more welcoming to students who arrive via alternative pathways, but institutions aren’t meeting college-ready GED®️ graduates halfway. Check out my new op-ed on the GED®️ college readiness designations: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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More awareness of GED as on-ramp to college needed (opinion)

Not enough, probably. Blake H. Heller argues that low awareness limits the potential of what should be a smoother pathway to and through college for high GED test scorers.

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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Looks like a paper that will change our understanding of charter schools and where they are effective!

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Blake Heller @blakeheller.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Could lower an important barrier to entry—and a handful of methods cover the vast majority of QE studies. Would probably only require 4-6 templates max. Let me know if you are interested: @tomdee.bsky.social, @eduglaze.bsky.social, @carlyrobinson.bsky.social!

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Blake Heller @blakeheller.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

RIDIE is 💯, but has a narrow mission wrt impact evals in LMIC. It could be a fun+worthwhile exercise to put our heads together to design new, better method-specific QED pre-reg templates for a general-purpose registry like OSF. Would make pre-reg docs easier to use for QE research + easier to parse.

Blake Heller @blakeheller.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

imho RIDIE is the only registry that is truly friendly to QED studies—most other registries (I’ll add AsPredicted) allow/accommodate non-expts, but the templates for QE work are either boundlessly open-ended or dominated by experimental language that can make it feel like square peg + round hole.

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We're back to post-9/11 rates of anti-immigrant sentiment and the change has happened for all political parties More fascinating stuff here: news.gallup.com/poll/647123/...

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Blake Heller @blakeheller.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I have never experienced more consumer surplus than the time I payed the vet tech at Pet Smart $10 to express my dogs leaky anal glands—they basically could have named any price 😂

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And re: pre-registration, projects that rely on restricted-use data are usually submitting proposals w/ most of the content of a pre-analysis plan anyway. It’s more about ⬆️ rigor/thoroughness (and frankly, stakes) of this step in the research process than creating new work from whole cloth.

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Couldn’t agree more—and data providers, funders, and journals have so much scope to help make #openscience principles the North Star for quasi-experimental work!

Looking forward to a rich discussion re: the scope for #openscience practices to enhance quasi-experimental research with @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social, Anjali Narang, and Maya Duru on Saturday morning at 10:15am at @appam.bsky.social #APPAM2024 perfect timing following @tomdee.bsky.social’s keynote

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Integrating Open Science Principles into Quasi-Experimental Social Science Research

🚨New working paper🚨 “Integrating Open Science Principles into Quasi-Experimental Social Science Research” w/ @carlyrobinson.bsky.social We discuss practical strategies to implement #openscience practices in QE research + how partners can support these efforts. 👇 edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1096

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Quasi-experimental methods are a cornerstone of applied social science, providing critical answers to causal questions that inform policy and practice. Although open science principles have influenced...

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Natalie Millar @nataliemillar.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Good morning @appam.bsky.social! We are starting off strong in the Building Human Capital in Underserved Populations session! Thank you to @riacton.bsky.social, @loismiller.bsky.social, @blakeheller.bsky.social, and others for sharing their work! #2024APPAM #APPAM2024 #econsky 📈📉

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Kick off #2024APPAM (or is it #APPAM2024?) with us tomorrow morning! @bfelegi.bsky.social @blakeheller.bsky.social @brianholzman.bsky.social and more will be there too 😊

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Blake Heller @blakeheller.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

In our experiment, Texans who received info re: ⬆️ student proficiency rates in NES schools: +20pp support the TEA takeover of HISD + 36pp agree that the NES reforms are good for students + 10pp support the $4.4b bond + 0.5sd overall opinion of the takeover AND takeover process (🤯)

Blake Heller @blakeheller.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Excited to see my recent work (w/@SaraRSands) covered in @meganmenchaca.bsky.social’s excellent piece on HISD’s failed $4.4b bond proposal. The Miles admin has a lot of work ahead of them to earn voters’ trust. Our survey expt suggests that messaging student growth in NES schools is persuasive 👇

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 13/11/2024

Here's my attempt to start gathering names of folks who write about education policy, including journalists, who are critical the ensuring research has a policy impact. go.bsky.app/3XhYmo3

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Blake Heller @blakeheller.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is a great public service—plz add me to the party 🥳