#Tennessee is tallying up its #evidence-based publicly funded programs. So far they've found 30 programs funded @ $1.6 billion/year & they're still counting! Learn more about Gov. Bill Lee & the state’s data-driven work in the 2023 #RFAStateStandard. 2023state.results4america.org/state/tennesse…

Congratulations, Steven Gentile. This is a great selection of a fantastic leader who will bring the state higher education community together to help all Tennesseans succeed.

We are hiring at the BA/MA level in CALDER Center! Research Assistant: jobs-airdc.icims.com/jobs/12946/res… Research Associate: jobs-airdc.icims.com/jobs/12948/res… These are great jobs for quantitatively-oriented folks interested in education research with large-scale data. Please distribute widely!

triumphales o sodales, Roxbury Latin

Interesting new NBER working paper! Monica Deza, Catherine Maclean (@jcmecon.bsky.social) and coauthors use Tennessee data to show that when the state disenrolled Medicaid recipients, they were more likely to commit crime. More evidence of the importance of health care coverage.

Love data? Interested in education research and policy in TN? If so, consider joining the TERA team! We're looking for a great data manager to support our work. ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Incredibly excited about this research. It’s important to continue to build out evidence on the efficacy of merit based scholarships—our students, institutions, and tax payers deserve this research update. Congrats to all those who worked on it. Looking forward to getting started

Take me back

First thing I thought this AM was, what if we are absolutely wrong about this season? We aren’t, but it’s a sad world when we give up before April, but that’s what this ownership group has done to Red Sox fans.

☘️☘️☘️

Wish I could be in Boston for the Boston Celtics parade. My memory of ‘08 was stepping outside my office at City Hall to see Kevin McHale going crazy in the duck boat. Oh, and he was the one who traded KG from Minnesota to Boston 😂☘️☘️

Clark's Trading Post (now it's called Clark's Bears apparently) is a staple for kids all across New England. Can't wait to bring the younger kids there some day.

My wife literally said this to me as we were watching the swimming and I was cheering for all my people.

Baseball!

We used to be a proper country. This was before they added my Nana’s favorite: Baked Stuffed Shrimp. Champagne for 2? Yes, please! Fruit cup appetizer, let’s get crazy!

👏👏👏Chris Candelaria Well done to you and your team.

Triggered (and we lost to Middlebury 💀💀😭)

New to the web: WP with Jonathon Attridge & Jill Welch on free community college in Tennessee. We estimate positive effects on AA/AS attainment and job quality in the early 20s, no significant change in BA/BS attainment by the mid-20s. First link here: ckcarruthers.github.io/research/

In a new The Brookings Institution memo, SSRC President Anna Harvey and coauthors Jennifer Doleac Jenni Owen Jonathon Attridge Tony Pipa Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) Georgia Policy Labs call for investment in university-government partnerships aimed at increasing the innovation capacity of state and local govts.