Reposted by Ellen BryerDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Thirty five. Hundred. Three thousand. Five hundred. Three. Five. Zero. Zero. 282
Reposted by Ellen BryerSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I feel like I’m going to throw up 13834721032
Reposted by Ellen BryerAnnenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 19/08/2026A new study by @ellenbryer.bsky.social, @aizatnurshat.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social finds that data availability & local priorities shaped how colleges identified students, leading to very different approaches under the same policy. 🔗 buff.ly/YnMOo2Gonlinelibrary.wiley.comEquity in Context: Institutional Agency in Targeting Student Supports in Massachusetts Community CollegesHow do related, but independent community colleges operationalize and implement an equity-oriented initiative? In 2021, Massachusetts established the SUCCESS initiative to provide nonfinancial… 022
Reposted by Ellen BryerJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed. The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards. 98956
Reposted by Ellen BryerElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Great coverage of new work by my colleague Nick Graetz (and collaborators) showing the extent of credit score-based home insurance pricing. Pricing insurance by credit score is a proxy for pricing it by poverty. (Minnesota friends, note the two local examples)nytimes.comHow Rising Home Insurance Costs Are Linked to Your Credit HistoryIn many states, homeowners with “excellent” credit scores are charged less for home insurance than those with worse scores, even if they live in a disaster-prone area. 24519
Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I learn so much from @katharinemeyer.bsky.social's context-rich and succinct summaries of higher ed policy issues! 000
Reposted by Ellen BryerLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 14/01/2026thanks for doing this analysis @robertkelchen.com! 062
Reposted by Ellen BryerAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 14/01/2026An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.npr.orgThe risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report saysA new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being. 724293
Reposted by Ellen BryerDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...insidehighered.comCensorship Arrives on CampusIn her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom... 48976289
Reposted by Ellen BryerTiffany J. Huang @tiffjhuang.bsky.social · 17/12/2025New in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social: the rapid growth of the admissions consulting industry has raised questions about inequality, privilege, and merit. We combine two original data sources to ask how consultants make sense of their work. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...academic.oup.comInequality and moral meaning-making in the admissions consulting professionAbstract. Prior research has described how middle-class and affluent families draw on private supplemental educational resources to help their children mai 4239
Reposted by Ellen BryerJesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez. The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work. And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky! 23327
Reposted by Ellen BryerBarnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised. Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...rollingstone.comAmazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI KnockoffsAuthors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process. 2658386
Reposted by Ellen BryerAnnenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 20/11/2025🚨 New report! “The Road to SUCCESS” documents how Massachusetts built a statewide student support initiative across all 15 public community colleges. Comprehensive support services. Local flexibility. Rapid scale-up. Report 👉: annenberg.brown.edu/publications... 0136
Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Our new working paper is out and free to access! The paper is about all of the the human collaboration that is working "behind the scenes" of a technology-based student-support intervention. 052
Reposted by Ellen BryerKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I spoke w/ @npr.org's Here & Now about pronatalism. The conversation about low birth rates is really about creating a moral panic. Once folks are convinced that low rates cause major problems that can *only* be addressed through raising rates, it opens to door to all sorts of regressive policies.wbur.orgThe state of the pronatalist movementThe pronatalist movement, which claims to be rectifying what some of its members describe as the likely collapse of civilization due to population decline. 23613
Reposted by Ellen BryerCatherine Mata @catherinematah.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Are you attending #SREE? #EduSky Join @ellenbryer.bsky.social for her presentation on 10/10 at 2:15 PM. We’re excited to see this work coming out! Ellen will share valuable insights on how faculty & staff collaborate to support student success @katharinemeyer.bsky.social @linzpage.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Ellen BryerAnnenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 11/09/2025📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Do RCTs in higher ed risk contamination? From a large in-person college course intervention, @catherinematah.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social show when individual-level randomization is preferred 📄 Full paper here: edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1083 088
Reposted by Ellen BryerSoumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 04/08/2025We've been having the same damn conversation coming on 9 years now. I feel pretty sure this is the #1 reason Trump won again (racism is up there, but this is #1). Men want #jobs back that don't exist anymore, and haven't existed for decades, and refuse to adapt to the #21st centurynytimes.comWhy Men Don’t Want the Jobs Done Mostly by Women (Published 2017) 211924
Reposted by Ellen BryerNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text. 24860221
Reposted by Ellen BryerLindsey Kaler @lindseykaler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m 🧵 below: 1159
Reposted by Ellen BryerGreer Mellon @greermellon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025In our polarized political environment, I’m excited to share my new ASR publication: “Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does Not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 4289
Reposted by Ellen BryerDaniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 07/04/2025JOB! Please RT. Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18. apply.interfolio.com/165892 Happy to answer questions. 3112119
Reposted by Ellen Bryerprofchander @profchander.bsky.social · 26/03/2025columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin www.boston25news.com/news/local/int…boston25news.comInternational student at Tufts University reportedly taken into federal custody – Boston 25 NewsTufts said they were told the student’s visa had been terminated. 8238122
Reposted by Ellen BryerAERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025AERA 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... 3121179
Reposted by Ellen BryerCarrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 12/03/2025What 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. 11432119
Reposted by Ellen BryerAnn Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Anyone have guidance on IES restricted data contracts now that NCES is gone? Is disclosure review just not happening anymore? Is this a license agreement violation? Devastating blow for education research, and for early career folks whose research relies on these data #edusky #socsky 62714
Reposted by Ellen BryerKatharine Meyer @katharinemeyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Two new pieces in our series on why we have and need a US Department of Education! First up, from the past, current, and presidents-elect of AEFP and SREE - "Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient" www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...brookings.eduCutting research funding would make education less effective and efficientPresidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). 154
Reposted by Ellen BryerKatharine Meyer @katharinemeyer.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Why we have and need a US Department of Education 🚨 New from @brookings.edu scholars, an initiative to walk through the federal role in education, particularly the ongoing need for a Department of Education and all it does www.brookings.edu/collection/w...brookings.eduWhy we have and need a US Department of EducationThis series considers what the U.S. Department of Education does to shape education policy and practice in the United States. 516594
Reposted by Ellen BryerTimothy Hyde @hydetimothy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Allegory alert! 209166673742
Reposted by Ellen BryerRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 11/02/2025It goes without saying, but if you see the need to access any data about American education from the federal government, you should go download it now. Like stop reading this post and do it immediately. 26638
Reposted by Ellen BryerErica Greenberg @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟 #EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC educationdata.urban.org/data-explorereducationdata.urban.orgEducation Data ExplorerExplore education data 48354
Reposted by Ellen BryerBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Just added: @nathantankus.bsky.social, whose reporting has been essential, will be joining. Not too late to register. 711642
Reposted by Ellen BryerAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 04/02/2025The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a great org, asks individuals & orgs to sign their letter requesting Congress act to restore data that has been removed & ensure a similar purge does not reoccur. #EconSky #PolicySky #sociology #PoliSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 5221149
Reposted by Ellen BryerCourtney Boen @courtneyboen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025🚨If you use public data products from the CDC or other US federal agencies 🚨 Download them NOW [This is how I’m spending my Friday] 46943
Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025The first article from my dissertation on graduate education is out! I find that having parents with graduate degrees is associated with enrollment into doctoral education, but not master's education. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 3134
Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 18/12/2024“Switzerland feels like a rich country, while the United States feels like a country with rich people.” Yes!! Transformative (and a bit melancholy as an American) to experience a whole other possibility for what wealth could mean for daily life. 010
Reposted by Ellen BryerPaul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 16/12/2024Conditions Under Which College Students Can be Responsive to Text-based Nudging www.nber.org/papers/w3325...nber.orgConditions Under Which College Students Can be Responsive to Text-based NudgingFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 397
Reposted by Ellen BryerCody Orr @cody-orr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Exciting grant opportunity for econ of ed researchers! The Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes Coalition is awarding 5+ $15k grants to use the PSEO data. See here for more details. Deadline Jan 13! docs.google.com/document/d/1... Note: This is not affiliated with the US Census Bureau (1/2)docs.google.comPSEO Research Grant RFPPost-Secondary Employment Outcomes Coalition Request for Proposals to Fund Grants for Projects Using PSEO Data Overview and Background The Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) Coalition generate... 11111
Reposted by Ellen BryerDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 06/12/2024"People say mean things on social media" is never news. This, below, is news. 315942
Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024New blog post about the emergence of racial wealth disparities in young adulthood is up on @ccfamilies.bsky.social! Very happy to be able to share the findings from this paper with @socinequality.bsky.social without all the tables and figures 😅 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2024/12/...thesocietypages.org Racial Wealth Inequality Emerges in Young Adulthood - Council on Contemporary Families The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota 0114
Reposted by Ellen BryerRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 02/12/2024I have a new @nberpubs.bsky.social working paper out with @dubravkaritter.bsky.social and @dougwebberecon.bsky.social that examines the extent to which college closures can be predicted. Using machine learning, we improve on traditional models. But it's still hard to predict exact closure dates.nber.orgPredicting College Closures and Financial DistressFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 03916
Reposted by Ellen BryerProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 02/12/2024@ruha9.bsky.social: "Why can we imagine growing heart cells from scratch in a lab, but not growing empathy for other human beings in our everyday lives...? Even well-resourced schools where young people are encouraged to dream big fall short when it comes to cultivating moral imagination." 29324
Reposted by Ellen BryerMichelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social · 18/10/2023Pls share! The U of Minnesota Sociology dept is running a "how to apply" zoom workshop for potential Ph.D. applicants next Friday. We're especially interested in helping 1st gen + other under-rep students navigate the process. Email us (drasi001 AT umn.edu) to get connected! 02628
Reposted by Ellen BryerJessi Streib @jessistreib.bsky.social · 17/10/2023We all know that not all students have the same information about applying to graduate school. The Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section is taking a step to spread information more evenly by hosting a panel on applying to Sociology PhD programs. Please share the flyer below with your students! 13921
Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 12/10/2023👏 Regina gave me this advice in the first week of grad school and it has helped me ever since! 141
Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 25/09/2023Hi! 👋 I'm a sociology phd candidate and I study economic inequality in young adulthood, especially related to graduate education. Happy to be over here 🌀☁️ 160