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Next week I'm teaching a Mixtape Session on Empirical Bayes. Register at the link below if you want to learn about using EB methods to quantify heterogeneity, "borrow strength" to improve treatment effect estimates, and make decisions: mixtapesessions.io/session/empiri…

A new study from Ryan Kellogg & Thom Covert finds that had the Dakota Access Pipeline’s construction been enjoined, we estimate that 81% of the blocked pipeline flows would move by rail instead. Learn more:

As our fellowship kickoff comes to a close, Blueprint Affiliate Clemence Idoux and our NYCPS partner Lianna Wright share about family preferences and gaps in awareness that contribute to inequity, and how policymakers can address those challenges and others.

Our Charter School Research Collaborative kickoff continued tonight with an engaging conversation between Blueprint’s Josh Angrist and Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green about Rhode Island’s charter sector.

How can practitioners’ questions be shaped into a research agenda? Today at the Charter School Research Collaborative, education researchers— Dr. Peter Q. Blair, Macke Raymond, Dr. Carycruz Bueno, Parag Pathak, & Sarah Cohodes— discuss approaches and challenges in studying the charter school space.

This morning, charter policy leaders including Anna Hall, Alison Bagg (@MaSchoolsK12), and publiccharters.org’s Christy Wolfe (@edwonkmom) share how research can shape policy and which new research questions could inform future charter policy decisions.

Fun times w folks MIT Blueprint Labs talking all thing #charterschools

Our convening kicked off this evening with a panel of leading preschool practitioners who discussed their experiences with research, how students and families could benefit from research, and new practices and initiatives that warrant further study.

What do we already know about preschool from lottery-based research? This morning, Jesse Bruhn (Jesse Bruhn) presented his review of lottery-based preschool studies, discussing what trends emerge and what gaps remain to be studied.

This morning in Nashville, policy leaders in the preschool sector discussed how research can shape state and federal policy and how new research questions could inform future early education policy decisions.

Over 20 charter school practitioners and researchers attended our first virtual matchmaking session to explore new partnership opportunities. Still looking for a research partner? Sign up for our next session on 2/6 at 1 pm ET: mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aW…

Remembering our beloved Banu with this week’s historic 6-way liver exchange at Malatya. caprazkaracigernakli.inonu.edu.tr/en/who-is-banu…

Today, with the end of the City Learning Visit, our ‘23-‘24 School Access and Quality Fellowship concluded, after a year of learning, problem solving together, and community building. Sign up to hear about fellowship updates! docs.google.com/forms/d/1HvxR0…

Blueprint is thrilled to award funds to 11 research projects, the first to be funded by the Charter School Research Collaborative. Projects study pressing topics in charter research and cover all 7 of our agenda questions. Read about the projects: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/charter-collab…

Fifty years after the Garrity decision, busing in Boston Public Schools shows little impact on students’ test scores and college enrollment. Read more in a The Boston Globe article featuring work by Blueprint’s Josh Angrist, Parag Pathak, and Clémence Idoux: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2024/06/…

Delighted to report the world-first 7-way liver exchange performed at Banu Bedestenci Sönmez LPE system, and deeply honored to be bestowed with an honorary doctorate with my friend and co-author Utku Ünver by the İnönü University. Prof. Dr. Sezai Yılmaz, MD, FACS, M. Utku Ünver

Blueprint is thrilled to be presenting at #SXSWEDU in 2025. Join us in Austin to hear our former SAQ Fellows discuss their challenges and strategies for addressing declining enrollment in our panel, “Centering Equity Amid Declining Enrollment.” sxswedu.com/news/2024/anno…

Fifty years after Boston’s court-ordered busing decision, it may be time to re-think Boston’s school assignment system. Today’s The Boston Globe featured an op-ed co-authored by Blueprint Co-Directors Josh Angrist and Parag Pathak: bostonglobe.com/2024/11/06/opi…

Important work. Tayfun Sönmez discusses many of our joint work here from the lens of minimalist market design. Especially recommended for any young economist. Substantially revised with lots of cool stuff on philosophy of economic thought and history of science policy in the US.

Please join us for the 4-lecture mini course I will give on minimalist market design at U. of StGallen this week. The course is open to all and available both in person and via zoom. See below for the registration info and the link in the next comment for the course slides.