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Science is winning www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaulLanguage is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.www.politico.com

More evidence that Ivy League athletics contribute to intergenerational class reproduction Not only is it a way to get your kid into an Ivy--it's also a way to get them their first job

The Texas higher education agency released recommendations for a performance-based funding formula for its universities This would be limited to supplemental funding--a concession to the universities--which will likely be limited for the next few years www.texastribune.org/2026/07/22/t...

Texas agency suggests performance-based funding for universitiesThe state’s higher education agency recommends Texas lawmakers revamp funding for public universities that rewards schools for student success.www.texastribune.org

I've realized a massive upgrade to my work from home game today: smoking meats while I work

The Texas funding formula was explicitly designed to not be a fixed pot of money. If colleges exceed expectations, the pot of money is supposed to expand. The state is not able to hold up its end of that bargain this fiscal year. We'll see if it is willing to increase appropriations next year.

I'm currently at a free-to-the-community coworking space provided by Penn State Hazleton, and this seems like a great way for rural-serving institutions to keep talent in the region and fight brain drain

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This is huge 🚨 Nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech language pathology are in Psychology has been expanded Theology has been narrowed

An observation: if SCOTUS had 18-year term limits so that each president gets two appointments, the current makeup of the court would be 6D-3R

I'm okay with 48 teams in the World Cup, but 32 advancing to the knockout rounds is too many All teams have to do is not finish last in their group and they will probably advance It should be 24 teams advance, with the top 8 group winners getting byes

It will be interesting to keep an eye on how the Trump administration approaches male-focused higher education initiatives, as it creates a tension between their anti-DEI stance and the "men's rights" part of their coalition hechingerreport.org/advertising-...

Advertising, training fairs, free tuition: How one state is trying to get more men into collegeIn Michigan, an effort to encourage more men to earn degrees and certificates has yet to pay offhechingerreport.org

Buried in this article is reporting that Texas is reducing funding for outcomes achieved by disadvantaged students in its community college funding formula because the colleges are producing too many credentials for the state to fully fund the formula as designed fortworthreport.org/2026/06/10/t...

New working paper finds that tightening access to Parent PLUS loans from 2012-15 particularly affected HBCUs, which reduced spending on instruction and student services, coinciding with declines in retention and graduation rates edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1483

Unequal and Persistent Effects of Student Loan Policy: Evidence from Parent PLUS ReformsFederal student loan policy is designed as a uniform intervention, yet institutions differ in their reliance on specific sources of financing. We study how these differences shape the transmission of ...edworkingpapers.com

New video here describing the open-source R code MDRC has made available to help other researchers efficiently and consistently process data from the National Student Clearinghouse, one of the most frequently used data sources for measuring outcomes in higher education youtu.be/vq__yC4nGtc?...

THE-RCT: Code for Processing National Student Clearinghouse DataYouTube video by MDRCyoutu.be

The least understood driving rule in America is the right-of-way for two opposing cars at a two-way stop is determined by which way the cars are turning, not which car arrived first

There are dozens - if not hundreds - of talented education researchers no longer working in the field because of this (soon-to-be) illegal impoundment

There's a big disconnect between what neg reg "consensus" actually means and what the public thinks it means, which the federal government uses to its advantage in public statements

A new study from the PEER Center looks at how for-profit colleges responded to the closing of the 90/10 loophole Colleges close to the 90% threshold responded by dramatically raising total revenue--likely by increasing enrollment of non-Title IV students static1.squarespace.com/static/68c72...