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Ethan Hutt retweeted
Remember!
If the metrics and tests show that your preferred education policies aren't working, you can always just abolish the metrics and tests.
Ethan Hutt retweeted
I have a piece out in "The Point" today, about reason and responsibility in public discourse.
#education
#philosophy
New online, @ScribnerUMCP on recovering the internal goods of academia in the wake of the Arday affair:
thepointmag.com/politics/int…
Policies like P/F for first year courses need to be adopted w/ an honest accounting of the trade offs. All the evidence suggests that students will work less hard in classes where they don’t receive grades. 1/
nytimes.com/2026/08/11/us/un…
A nice first gloss on the legacy of the Biden administration on K-12 policy.
I know the interview was about K-12 but the amount of political capital the Biden administration spent on freezing/forgiving student loans seems like relevant context and indicative of their approach.
"The Biden administration got the worst of all worlds when it came to schools, the historian argues: Few concrete accomplishments and lots of blame."
Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on Biden’s Education Legacy
the74million.org/article/his…
Ethan Hutt retweeted
"The Biden administration got the worst of all worlds when it came to schools, the historian argues: Few concrete accomplishments and lots of blame."
Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on Biden’s Education Legacy
the74million.org/article/his…
“An ethos of speaking truth to power has three problems: it prejudges what inquiry is supposed to discover; it licenses motivated reasoning under a heroic self-image; and it exempts intellectual elites from the suspicion they direct at others.”
"The ethos typically puts the cart before the horse, replacing challenging epistemic labour—figuring out what is actually happening in societies characterised by profound ambiguity, uncertainty, and complexity—with a much simpler moral posture."
open.substack.com/pub/conspi…
This is a killer chart that gets at the heart of the cultural shift in views of attendance.
Many possible explanations for the source (eg wfh policies; parental beliefs about imp of attendance, ability to make up work, health) but it suggests a long road back…
Ethan Hutt retweeted
Chronic absenteeism is one of schools' biggest challenges. But the measure treats all absences the same.
In a new paper, Sam Hollon & I examine excused & unexcused absences separately using student-level data from Indiana.
What we found: Not all absences are created equal.
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Does it work? Yes. Trained on statewide data from Indiana & Rhode Island, the models correctly predicted chronic absenteeism 85–93% of the time. They held up across two very different states and across years, before AND after the pandemic upended attendance.
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After years collecting data and researching chronic absenteeism, today we're releasing our first tool: @AEI's Absence Forecast. It predicts which students will become chronically absent...early enough in the year to effectively do something about it. Free. Web or desktop app. 🧵
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I am loathe to agree with Yglesias, but getting rid of IMPACT would be bad. They've done a lot of work to attend to the unintended consequences and really I am worried about world with no accountability for the most disadvantaged students.
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Our article (with @HannahCKistler ) is linked here: email.sagepub.com/optiext/op…
Re-upping this thread in light of this @nytimes op ed this AM on grade inflation along with a few additional thoughts 1/
It also does nothing to alter the culture of assessment or the stakes associated with success or failure (presumably one reason why studies show that grade inflation is higher at more affluent schools). 10/