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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: An analysis using the CARR Index, a novel rurality measure, reveals that how we define “rural” influences our understanding of the rural teacher workforce. 🔍 @Yujia_Liu_20, @ChanhLam202, @CameronAnglum, J.R. Funk, & @edu_tuan. 📄

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Are Black students under-referred to special education?. Rachel Fish, Kenneth Shores, and João Souto-Maior challenge recent claims of under-representation, arguing that data and methods in key studies may be flawed. 📄

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Are classrooms hotbeds of indoctrination?. @g_ritt, @BrianKisida, @CameronAnglum, @heidilauren1, J. Gontram, & M. Lee find limited evidence for claims about CRT and partisan bias. Classroom content mirrors local community values. 📄

📢 New #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series summary features “The Net Benefits of Raising Bachelor’s Degree Completion Through The City University of New York ACE Program” by @jscottclayton and colleagues!. 📄.#EdExchange

🎉 We are excited to welcome Michelle McNamara to Annenberg as a Senior Research Associate! She brings 20 years of education & research experience, shaped by her early work teaching first grade in the Bronx. Welcome, Michelle! .

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: What happens when city students of color attend suburban schools? In MA’s METCO program: no harm to suburban peers’ scores, attendance, or outcomes. 🔍 @ElizabethSetren.📄

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: . A new study shows subtitled TV (not dubbed) can significantly improve English listening and speaking skills. The difference? Over 1 SD. 🔍 Frauke Baumeister, @EricHanushek & @Woessmann. 📄

#EdWorkingPapers: Do families value school climate? . Publishing school social climate data in Chicago raised home prices near better-rated schools. Higher-income families continue to respond after year 1, highlighting info access gaps. 🔍@Crespin_Rene.📄

@KathleenNLynch @ameliagotwals @MSUCollegeofEd.

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Science often gets sidelined in early grades, which may be a missed opportunity. @KathleenNLynch, C. Asher, @ameliagotwals, & J. Settlage find that pre-K-1 science interventions significantly boost children’s science achievement. 📄

Annenberg affiliate @MatthewAKraft is featured on the latest episode of @educationgadfly, where he discusses the intersection of education policy and climate change.

📢 From the #EdExchange: #EdWorkingPapers summaries with key takeaways!. Our newest summary breaks down a study by Daniel Vargas Castaño, Dareem K. Antoine, and Trey Miller on the impact of auto-enrolling students in Algebra 1. 📄

Congrats to Ann Mantil (Senior Research Associate), John Papay (Annenberg Institute Director), and faculty affiliates @ppmbekeani (former postdoc) & Richard J. Murnane on their published @nberpubs working paper!.

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @CameronAnglum, Dorothy Rohde-Collins, @JabbariJason & @LJUNG_C offer a new framework to guide future research and better decisions on permanent school closures. 📄

📢 From the EdWorkingPapers Policy & Practice Series: . New summary of “Teaching Computational Thinking To Children In Head Start Classrooms: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial” by @Chris_J_Doss, @JohnFPane, & @NatlHeadStart’s Victoria Jones. 📄

🎉 Welcome to Beth Boulay, Distinguished Senior Research Scientist! With 20+ years of evaluation experience, she’ll lead work with our MA and RPPL teams. We’re thrilled to have her expertise on board. @beth_boulay

📄 How has federal place-based policymaking evolved over the past three decades? New research employing a novel dataset from Annenberg Postdoc Alexandra Cooperstock and coauthors explores this topic. 🔗 Read more: .@ACooperstock.

🎉 We're excited to welcome Andrea L. Ochoa as a Senior Research Associate! Andrea brings expertise in education policy & leadership and will support research with RPPL and our Massachusetts team advancing equity by connecting evidence to practice.

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @ColbyCollege’s @steph_r_owen & @DerekRury find students’ implicit gender-STEM stereotypes predict major choice even after accounting for earnings expectations, ability, and role models. 📄

👏 Thanks to everyone who joined "Local Roots, National Reach" at the #NNERPP25 Annual Forum! Christina Claiborne and Brenda Santos, Ph.D. led a session on how Rhode Island superintendents are connecting national research with local needs.