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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 · 14/07/2025
Yes, at least here in Boston! Definitely good for getting some negative energy out
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Thank you Nadine!
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I'm really excited to have this opportunity to shape the vision for the next generation of the Ed School, so that it can make an even greater impact on the field of education.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I'll continue to teach my spring course, Making Data Count, but will pass the reins on the Evidence course and the Education Policy and Analysis EdM program to colleagues after this summer.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I'll focus particularly on the academic programs side and will oversee the Teaching and Learning Lab, Gutman Library, and the learning, teaching, and assessment team as part of the role.
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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 · 10/06/2025
Glad it was helpful!
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I don't think I have ever felt more viscerally upset by a policy decision - and my side has lost a lot of them lately. (3 of 3)
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
International students add tremendously to our learning environment and help those of us who focus on US policy see our own work differently. Our community will be much the poorer if they are not able to be part of it. (2 of 3)
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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 · 04/05/2025
If you want to stick with an app, I like Memrise.
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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 · 28/03/2025
100% agree - it has been rough lately, even for those of us a degree or two removed from the immediate impact
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
So glad you were able to participate!
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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
When we stop collecting data, we stop holding ourselves accountable. And that's the real problem. I'm deeply, deeply worried for the state of our nation.
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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 · 10/03/2025
The peak for cherry blossoms is predicted to be the last week of March, but I'm sure there will be plenty of trees blooming this week too!
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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 · 04/03/2025
It's so good! I'd also suggest Borgen, about the Danish parliament and prime Minister (fiction). It's refreshing to see a fairly functional democracy in action.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Oops missed @mkurlaender13.bsky.social in my tags!
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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 · 15/02/2025
I really hope your sourdough is a metaphor for our democracy.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
same same same
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Years later, it was my pleasure to give him access to MA student data to conduct research on whether differences in school quality reduce or perpetuate inequality by race and family income. Godspeed, Sandy, and thanks for everything. (3/3) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Do Differences in School Quality Matter More Than We Thought? New Evidence on Educational Opportunity in the Twenty-first Century - Jennifer L. Jennings, David Deming, Christopher Jencks, Maya Lopuch,...
Do schools reduce or perpetuate inequality by race and family income? Most studies conclude that schools play only a small role in explaining socioeconomic and ...
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
To this day I can't read his writing without hearing it in my head in his voice. I still think back to his course frequently - it was seminal for developing my understanding of the social processes behind inequality, not to mention how I met my eventual co-author, @noraegordon.bsky.social. (2/3)
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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
Here's Google Form to sign on to the letter. Again, the request is for signatures from ORGANIZATIONS, not individuals. Sign ASAP - the goal is to deliver the letter by end of the day tomorrow (Thursday, Feb 13). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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IES Contract Cancellation Sign on Letter
Please consider signing on to this letter to Members of Congress regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) action to cancel 89 Institute of Education Sciences (IES) contracts. The let...
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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 · 11/02/2025
Definitely not alone - I am with you!
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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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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Congratulations Nadine!
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Yay! Let me know what you think!
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Yes but always appreciate the reminder!
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
You have already done me so many favors!
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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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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Sincerely hoping that I will be invited to this happy hour
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This would be a good practice! So much easier to find the problem than to find the solution.
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Not it, for the same reason I don't want to be the actual Ed Sec - it's all politics, no (well, very little) policy. But I fully support and endorse your nomination! :-)
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
why not both
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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 · 30/12/2024
I felt weird about this too. In my case, the library gives students electronic access for free, and I donate the royalties from student purchases to @sadiecollective.bsky.social, which aims to close the diversity gap in economics, finance, policy, and data science (fields close to my own).
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Impressed - I literally couldn't think of a single word! I find this puzzle really challenging - my brain isn't organized to think this way
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This really makes me question our friendship, Dan. I thought I knew you.
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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 · 17/12/2024
Those damned humans, messing up our estimates again.
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