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Carrie Conaway

@clconaway.bsky.social
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Senior lecturer at HGSE & acquirer of eccentric hobbies. Co-author of Common-Sense Evidence, tinyurl.com/commonsenseevidence

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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
This week is my first full week in my new role: Faculty Chair, Learning and Assessment at HGSE @harvardeducation.bsky.social. I'll be collaborating with our awesome senior leadership team to create a more cohesive approach to our degree programs and executive education.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Yesterday the Trump admin revoked Harvard's ability to issue visas to international students. In my 6 years at HGSE, I've gotten to know, work with, and learn from many international students. (1 of 3) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Trump Admin Revokes Harvard’s Authorization To Enroll International Students | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students on Thursday, dramatically escalating the administration’s fight with the University and threatening thousands of cur...
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
It's notable to me that in Harvard's messaging about the value of research, none of the examples come from education, or even from the social sciences. I'm curious about ways to better demonstrate the value of social science research. How can we address this? www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
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Research Funding
The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government...
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Same! Thank you, @aefpweb.bsky.social.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
If you, like me, are despairing about the state of our democracy, please donate to one of the orgs suing the Trump administration over its illegal actions. Today I gave to @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org and set up a FB fundraiser to encourage friends to donate as well. Please join me!
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Hey #aefp2025, I made this timeline about AEFP's history to help celebrate AEFP's 50th anniversary. Check it out! commoninja.site/4b6c370c-af7...
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AEFP at 50
AEFP at 50
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What a surreal experience to be leading a workshop for education researchers on how to write about their research, in a building directly across from the US Capitol, and wake up to discover that the entire national education statistical staff has been fired.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Fellow AEFP-attending pollen allergy sufferers: Start your Zyrtec now! In fact, start it two weeks ago. This week's pollen forecast for DC is bleak. #aefp2025
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We love this resource in our education policy & analysis EdM program! Thanks @bethschueler.bsky.social for maintaining this super helpful document.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I'm so proud of the presidents of my favorite professional association @aefpweb.bsky.social for standing up for education research and data. Thank you @carajackson.bsky.social @dbassok.bsky.social and Michal Kurlaender!
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thanks to @500womensci.bsky.social for putting together these great state summaries of the impact of the National Science Foundation. Massachusetts got over half a billion dollars from NSF in FY2023 alone. Find your state's card here: bit.ly/NSF_bystate
This graphic from 500 Women Scientists shows the impact of National Science Foundation research in Massachusetts. The total NSF awards in MA for fiscal year 2023 was $572.3 million: $486 million for scientific research, $102.9 million for STEM education, and $39 million to MA businesses. It ends with urging viewers to call their senators & representative.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
When I arrived at the Kennedy School in 1998, the only faculty member I was star-struck to meet other than William Julius Wilson was Sandy Jencks. But while I never interacted with WJW in my time there, I took a year-long course with Sandy. (1/3) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...
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Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88
His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments, transformed debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Do you represent an ORGANIZATION (not an individual) willing to advocate for the value of ed research? Consider signing this letter to Congress being organized by Knowledge Alliance - to be delivered tomorrow 2/13. Link to Google form to sign letter in the thread. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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IES Contract Cancellation Sign on Letter
February X, 2025 Dear Members of Congress, Representatives from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have unilaterally cancelled an unprecedented number of contracts that support evaluatio...
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
As a former govt employee & current higher ed employee who works on research & data use, it feels like everything I have worked for & cared about throughout my career is crumbling through our fingers like sand. I'm at a loss. I welcome suggestions for things I can do that would actually help.
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Andrew Ho @andrewdeanho.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Let's measure beyond proficiency: Colleagues, please consider signing on to our SEDA letter supporting planned improvements to EDFacts data collection. Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Sign-on form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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(VIEW ONLY) EDFacts Comment Letter 2025 Clean Draft.docx
January 26, 2025 Stephanie Valentine PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Dev...
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AEFP @aefpweb.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Applications for AEFP Early Career Mentorship program are due TODAY by 11:59 pm PST ! Learn more and apply here: aefpweb.org/mentorsh...
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I'm out. Damned allergist's office. I love Wham!, but it really is a terrible song. #whamageddon
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
On Bluesky, I made two rules for myself: 1) I only follow education/research folks that I know personally and would do a favor for if asked, and 2) For every work-related person I follow, I must also follow a comedian, musician, or drag queen. My feed is much improved.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
When @andrewdeanho.bsky.social and I agreed to co-direct HGSE's Education Policy and Analysis program, I never imagined that our students would "honor" us in gingerbread. #hgse #hgse_epa
In the foreground, decorated gingerbread people with photos of Andrew Ho and myself stuck on where the faces would be. In the background, a decorated gingerbread house.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Fresh look for my office walls. Had a few of these up already but added more and rearranged.
Photo of an office wall with four World War II style propaganda posters: 1) Poor design of experiments sinks knowledge shipments; 2) Test statistics are part of the battle. Remember the rest! statistical testing, graphs, sampling, randomization, interpretation, cleaning; 3) Be vigilant! Misinterpreting your results is the enemy; 4) Garbage in, garbage out: Your analysis is only as good as your data. In the center is an art print of Chewbacca dressed as Evel Knievel
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
#AEFP2024
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
One of the best things about working at HGSE is that I can truthfully tell students, "No matter which quant course you take, you'll have a great prof." If you want to join an awesome team of quant faculty in a teaching-intensive role, you can't do better than HGSE. Please apply!
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Me: "Oh geez, I wore two different shoes all day today." My spouse: "Congratulations, you are now officially a professor." #LeveledUp
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Last reminder - the deadline to apply for the EdResearch for Action writers fellowship is FRIDAY, December 1! edresearchforaction.org/writers-fell...
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Cannot wait for this! Already preordered.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
A reminder that the application deadline for this year's EdResearch for Action writing fellowship is next Friday, December 1. edresearchforaction.org/writers-fell...
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
One of the last things I did at DESE was to help write the grant to get the research partnership started that wrote this report. So proud of the work they're doing to improve education in MA! www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/16/m...
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Interested in PhD programs focused on education finance, policy, economics or a related field? AEFP's Pre-Doc Diversity Fellowship program is a great opportunity to learn more about these fields/career options AND attend the annual conference. Apply by Dec. 1: aefpweb.org/pre-doc_fell...
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Education researchers: Want to learn how to write for non-academic audiences? EdResearch for Action is accepting applications for the 2nd year of its writing fellowship program! Apps due by Friday 12/1. Details at edresearchforaction.org/writers-fell...
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
So excited to be spending the day with NC DPI and the UNC School of Education, talking RPPs! I've never seen so many copies of my book in one place.
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