This also seems a good way to explain why data mining can be so dangerous and why preregistration (or only testing theoretically-motivated hypotheses) is really important.

Policies + programs that target low-income students require valid measures of economic disadvantage at the school level. Which measures accurately capture school economic disadvantage? See this new paper by @michspieg @leahclark_econ Thad Domina @viradsky @paulyoungmin @ampenner

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We keep hearing these days how the Jews stole Palestine from its rightful owners and should be made to leave. It's odd to hear such a claim. | George Leef trib.al/WlriYKQ

One of the biggest and lesser known stories of Nov 29 is that the lands allocated to a Jewish state (two color map) were essentially those the Zionists reclaimed from malaria through land purchase, science and education (blue map). Moreover, the sudden and extremely rapid increase of the Arab population in the 1920’s and 1930’s in this barely populated backwater region (this was the highest population increase rate in the world in 1931/2) was only in part due to immigration spurred by Zionist development of the land. The major share of the massive Arab population increase was thanks to Malaria eradication, which was the work of the Galician born famed microbiologist and ardent Zionist Dr. Israel Kligler (credit to the great historical work of Anton Alexander). With this knowledge it remains even a greater tragedy that the now much more numerous Arabs of the land directed their efforts towards brutally fighting Zionism rather than choosing to live side by side with an emerging Jewish state. In the shadow of the Oct 7 massacre we mark once more the Nov 29 moment when the Jews said yes to the UNGA plan of partition (having prioritized having a state, even if tiny and mostly desert and lands reclaimed from malaria and no Zion and no Judea) and the Arabs said no and proceeded to wage a brutal war to the present day (having prioritized - still - the goal of the Jews not having a state at all and of any size). (Note on map titles: for twenty centuries, before a camoaign of denial was underway, it was well understood that the name “Palestine” merely denoted the geographic region where the Land of Israel was and was therefore deeply associated with Jews and the their continuous connection to the land. Hence the League of Nation in establishing the mandate recognized the “historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine" as the "grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country” and which is why the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra of Jewish musicians became the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra…)

The Root Cause of the Gaza War. The current events unfolding in and around Gaza have evoked two intense public sentiments: (1) Rage and (2) Curiosity. Lots have been written about (1); too little about (2) - the root cause of the war, which I view in the context of 100 years of a clash between two equally legitimate and equally indigenous national movements. I've written elsewhere about the history of this clash, but the essence of it's root is best described here: tinyurl.com/y4l2emnf "The Balfour Declaration at 100, and How It Redefined Indigenous People". I don't think any discussion of the War can be complete with addressing this context. 10 days from now, on November 2nd, we will be celebrating 106 years to the Balfour Declaration which Mahmud Abbas demands UK to rescind, and Rashid Khalidi calls "A Declaration of War on Palestine". I bet Khalidi justifies Hamas violence. Yes, I've just watched his interview on PBS: "Violence is bred by occupation" he says. It doesn't occur to him that "occupation is bred by denial of Israel's right to exist". As I said earlier, what the world needs now are more "root cause analysts", not Hamas apologists. Please read how Balfour makes fun of Khalidi's Canaanite roots.

Tremendous piece by @DavidKlion in @nplusonemag - one of the best things I've read this week nplusonemag.com/online-only/…

We live in a time when it is a social crime to condemn mass murder. The silence from Institutions I respected and colleagues I respected is deafening. Left-wing and Right-wing fundamentalism comes at the cost of humanism. If not now, when? We are witnessing mass moral failure.

Siri translated my friends text from dissertation defense to pizza defense and I’m not mad about it.

New working paper on virtual charter schools led by the impressive Paul Yoo. TL;DR takeaway: Virtual charter students have worse hs grad and col. enrollment rates, ba attainment, employment rates, & earnings than students in traditional public schools. edworkingpapers.com/sites/de…

My PhD program has made me an excellent conclusion-hedger.

One of the surprising things of this whole thing is that Trump actually paid someone for their services

Lucky me to get to review @prof_shelton's important new book for @jacobin. Spoiler: we didn't always define the importance of education in terms of human capital development jacobin.com/2023/03/jon-shel…