Alden Burnham

Data Analyst, Developmental Psychologist, Clam Digger

[Alden Burnham @AldenBurnham]

Does anyone have a way to make up the Pandemic learning loss?
https://t.co/Beuinibebn

[Eva Vivalt @evavivalt]

We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control.

These are sizable transfers. 1/ 🧵

[NYT Science @NYTScience]

Contrary to expectation, a major study found that weed use among minors was lower in states where the drug was legal. https://t.co/RLsVPrkG37

[Strategic Data Project @HarvardSDP]

Cohort 15 #SDPfellow Kimberly Erickson helped develop the @NorwalkPS Portrait of a Graduate. Learn more about her work here: https://t.co/rf2aeXAnqo

[Hamed Nilforoshan @h_nilforoshan]

A widespread belief is that cities are cosmopolitan melting pots where diverse people can cross paths.

In our @Nature paper, we discover that big cities are actually pockets of extreme social segregation. Here's why 🧵 1/n

https://t.co/ffcEBPQ91u

https://t.co/5VKnXbG6uv

[Chenxin Li, PhD (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) @ChenxinLi2]

A new tutorial on how to reorder rows & columns of a heatmap has been added to my "Friends don't let friends make bad graphs" repository.

Link to tutorial: https://t.co/pRrzngXsii

Link to "Friends don't let friends make bad graphs": https://t.co/KeSsEcs3DS

[Irvin Scott Ed.D. @iscott4]

Seven key takeaways from Chetty’s new research on friendship and economic mobility https://t.co/TLVSmE1St8

[Tuan D. Nguyen, @edutuan.bsky.social @edu_tuan]

**Update on teacher shortages**
@JoshBleiberg , @ArmstrongSaenz , @ChanhLam202 and I are updating our https://t.co/sLFquiw7A0 website. We find there are at least 55,000 vacant teaching positions and 270,000 underqual in the US compared to 36,000 and 160,000 positions last year.

[Eric Dearing @Eric_Dearing]

Even when achievement gains don’t fadeout, it is unreasonable to expect high-quality pre-K, alone, to create lasting equity in life chances. Thank you @SRCDtweets for the privilege to share reflections on the important work from Watts, Jenkins, and Dodge with @RobC123 et al.

[Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) @hgse]

"The recovery effort has been undersized from the very beginning."

@HarvardCEPR's Tom Kane shares his thoughts on a report showing stalled learning progress for students nationwide, despite billions in recovery funding.
https://t.co/MWmwxTptq9

[Ben Harrell 🌐 @elben]

Can’t stop thinking about this story. A *QUARTER* of all CT State troopers wrote tens of thousands of fake tickets to fake white people, likely to hide over-policing of minorities. Both the number of tickets and the share of troopers is ASTOUNDING.

https://t.co/9bLlqEjoX5

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

This issue I pointed out 2 months ago is now real with the wide release of Code Interpreter

It can autonomously generate a technically correct (though pretty boring) academic paper from scratch with just a few commands. There will be a flood of these coming to every journal soon

[Christopher Martell @chriscmartell]

@washingtonpost Also, take a moment today to read Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent in the affirmative action cases. https://t.co/eVzChatmjn

[Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, PhD @BNHC1984]

Data matters‼️ Dr. @FarleyRipple explains we can use identify inequity, address inequity, or sustain inequity. #ELDA2023 How are you using/going to use data?

[Strategic Data Project @HarvardSDP]

"My hope is that this decision will prompt universities and state legislatures to aggressively adopt these alternatives so we can buffer the decision in terms of it impact, in terms of race" - @RickKahlenberg #SDPconvening

[Alden Burnham @AldenBurnham]

Caught in the act
https://t.co/L4haDXWZ4U

[Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) @hgse]

"If we fail to replace what our children lost, we — not the coronavirus — will be responsible for the most inequitable and longest-lasting legacy of the pandemic."

@HarvardCEPR's Tom Kane and @StanfordCEPA's Sean Reardon analyze pandemic learning loss.
https://t.co/fLzIOIjHcH

[Alden Burnham @AldenBurnham]

Why do we say “rOck, pAper, scIssors” then?

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Hey ding-dongs, let’s have a chit-chat about Ablaut reduplication.

If you have three words, the order usually goes 'I-A-O.'
tic-tac-toe

If there are only two words, ‘I’ is the first and the second is either ‘A’ or ‘O.’
click-clack
King-Kong

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

Connecticut is the state of champions this month, claiming the Division I men's hockey and basketball winners.

It's the first time since 1977 that both the men's hockey and hoops champs came from the same state. Wisconsin won in hockey that year, while Marquette won in bball.