MIT Blueprint Labs

This afternoon, Blueprint’s School Access and Quality Fellows joined one of several regular webinars to learn in-depth about enrollment research. Blueprint Affiliate Viola Corradini presented on school quality ratings in New York City. Her research shows that providing families with easy-to-parse ratings like certain letter grade measures may lead to better, more equitable outcomes for students. Learn more about SAQ: https://lnkd.in/egYE6Meq Read the research: https://lnkd.in/exVhNx-v?

At #SXSWEDU last week, Blueprint had the pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion on declining enrollment in US public schools. Former School Access and Quality Fellows Sarah R. Briggs from Chicago Public Schools, Dave Hand, MBA from New Orleans Public Schools, and Daniel Hildreth from New York City Public Schools shared enrollment trends in their cities and their strategies for monitoring, measuring, and mitigating declining enrollment. Many thanks to our panelists for participating in this engaging discussion! Learn about SAQ, Blueprint's enrollment fellowship: https://lnkd.in/egYE6Meq

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Today, Blueprint’s School Access and Quality Fellows discussed unifying magnet school transfers in their fifth challenge session of the Fellowship.?Each month, one Fellow leads a challenge session, and the cohort brainstorms solutions together. Thank?you to Kia Sweeney Scott from Orange County Public Schools for leading this engaging conversation. Learn more about the Fellowship: https://lnkd.in/egYE6Meq

How did early 2000s increases in Chinese import competition affect U.S. places and people in the long-term? In a new handbook chapter, Blueprint Co-Director David Autor and co-authors find that the geographic locations hit the hardest by the “China Shock” have rebounded economically, but the people whose manufacturing jobs were affected have not. Read the chapter: https://lnkd.in/eaJQBDkY

Blueprint Labs Co-Director Josh Angrist shared about Blueprint Labs, his school quality research, and his love of economics in a new video from the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Watch the video here: youtu.be/S95aHK0lk-Q

Earlier today, Blueprint’s School Access and Quality Fellows discussed access to selective enrollment elementary schools in their fourth challenge session of the Fellowship. How can districts reduce barriers to their most selective schools? Challenge sessions occur monthly, offering Fellows the chance to meet regularly to discuss enrollment challenges and brainstorm solutions. Many thanks to Erika Peterson from Chicago Public Schools for leading this thoughtful conversation. Learn more about the Fellowship: https://lnkd.in/egYE6Meq

What factors shape student success in elite economics PhD programs? A new working paper by Blueprint Co-Director Josh Angrist and Marc Diederichs examines the role of advising in graduates’ post-PhD publishing. They find that advisor research output predicts advisee publishing, though coauthoring with advisors has no effect. Program size also has little impact – on the margin, graduates from larger cohorts publish about as well as graduates from smaller cohorts. Learn more in the working paper: https://lnkd.in/eJufcwQC

?? Congratulations to Blueprint Affiliate Elizabeth Setren for receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This award recognizes federally funded, early-career scientists who show exceptional potential. It is the highest honor the U.S. government bestows upon early-career scientists. Setren is one of ten researchers employed or funded by the Department of Education to receive the award. Read her research on Boston’s Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity here: https://lnkd.in/eifhRr9j Read more about the award here:?https://lnkd.in/eqSHApna

This afternoon, Blueprint hosted our seventh Charter School Research Collaborative matchmaking session to give researchers and practitioners the opportunity to meet and build the foundations for new partnerships. ? Matchmaking is one of several ways in which the Collaborative supports more actionable, rigorous charter school research rooted in strong research-practice partnerships. We also recently opened our third request for proposals, through which we will fund policy-relevant projects studying topics such as how charter schools affect long-term and non-test score student outcomes, which charter practices have the largest effect on performance, and more. ? Learn more about matchmaking and funding opportunities on our website: https://lnkd.in/etq6CiTu