Asst Prof of Ed Policy @UWMadison | Econ of Ed, College Access, Quant Methods, Inequality | @PennGSE @Wharton @VUPeabody alum | “Y’all” 🏳️🌈 | Views = mine
Madison, WI
Joined April 2015
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♥️ @aefpweb will always be my academic home, so it was truly a special honor to win this year’s Early Career Award! I can’t begin to thank every colleague, cheerleader, and mentor enough. At this point in my career, all I can say to anyone is: Do good work and be kind to others.
Lovely afternoon in Philly discussing free college program design with Laura Perna (@PennGSE), @GandaraDenisa, and Michele Zampini (@TICAS_org) for the @LuminaFound State Policy Retreat!
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My article for @TheEDULedger about a report detailing 149 colleges and universities at which low-income students have had outstanding results. theeduledger.com/institution…
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A new paper published in @AERA_EdResearch's AERA Open identifies and publicly names 149 colleges and universities with high outcomes for Pell-eligible students. (by @LoisElfman)
theeduledger.com/institution…
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Student Success | What Sets High-Performing Pell Colleges Apart?
New research identifies 149 institutions with strong outcomes for Pell recipients—and suggests their success can’t be easily explained by resources, selectivity or student demographics. bit.ly/4djiLKh
ALT Multiethnic friends graduating together, in cap and gown. Main focus on Caucasian boy in middle, looking at camera.
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My latest for @insidehighered: New research identifies 149 institutions with strong outcomes for Pell recipients—and suggests their success can’t be easily explained by resources, selectivity or student demographics insidehighered.com/news/stud…
🚨 The Department of Educational Policy Studies at @UWMadEducation is searching for an Asst/Assoc Prof focused on education and the environment. Please share widely, send us your best candidates, and reach out with questions! wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.…
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Is your AirDrop on? 📲 We've got some highlights from our second annual EA Conference to share!
We kicked off the conference with our opening keynote speaker, Taylor Odle, Assistant Professor of Education Policy Studies at @UWMadison. EA staff presented fresh ideas, (1/3)
Airline travel has gotten so miserable 🥲 More delays, later arrivals, more maintenance issues, higher prices, and lots of “we apologize” — regardless of carrier. It’s a racket.
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The cat's out of the bag - I've joined Arnold Ventures for the year to support their emerging K-12 state policy agenda. It's been a whirlwind so far, but I'm thrilled at the opportunity for impact on both research and policy. Stay tuned for more!
We're excited to welcome education policy expert Morgan Polikoff as an Arnold Ventures K-12 Research and Policy Fellow for the 2026-2027 academic year. Morgan will continue serving at @USCRossier while advising AV on K-12 education research, grantmaking, and state policy efforts.
Learn more: bit.ly/4xCwT8Y
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Looking forward to presenting "University Direct Admissions Programs' Impact on Student Diversity" w/ my advisor @taylor_odle at #SREE2026 next week! We leverage a synthetic control approach to examine direct admissions in ID & WA.
What we do matters! One of my fav emails. I didn't invent direct admissions, but I'm lucky to work with many states designing + evaluating these programs. We don't know all the answers yet, or how effects vary across all people and places, but we do know it matters: Just listen!
ALT Redacted email to Taylor Odle, sent August 28, 2026. The sender writes that after reading the UW LC magazine, they learned Taylor is the "inventor" of Direct Admit, and that the program had a major impact on their daughter, who never thought she would be accepted into so many colleges. The process boosted her self-esteem, which had suffered due to pandemic-related learning loss. The sender highlights three benefits of "The ONE LETTER": it showed their daughter she was smarter than she thought, gave the parent a financial planning tool, and eliminated the need for separate applications, the Common App, and essays. Their daughter is now thriving at a redacted UW campus with a 4.0 GPA despite a rocky couple of high school years. The sender thanks Taylor for his work and Board of Regents presentation. A postscript expresses hope that all UW campuses will participate, and notes a common perception that UW-Madison is impossible to get into. Sender name and location redacted.
Immensely grateful for partners & thought leaders across the US helping answer these open questions—and build programs that work for everyone: @LuminaFound, @BloombergDotOrg, Making Caring Common at @hgse, @TNHigherEd, and many more!
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Last month we launched Claude for Teachers for individual educators. Today we're extending a free, enterprise offering to US K-12 schools and districts: one organization, managed by district leaders, under a single set of K-12 terms and DPA.
Please consider nominating an outstanding graduate (including yourself!) for the @AERA_EdResearch @AERADiv_J Dissertation of the Year Award!
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Over the past six months, I've been teaching teams at places like Stanford, Penn, Northwestern, and many more how to start using AI responsibly+effectively in their work. Today, I'm starting to release my entire curriculum: for free, forever, for everyone!
I'm calling it the Open Augments AI Academy. It's built for anyone out there who's seen all the crazy hype and discourse around modern AI and is just looking for a guided, grounded, and sane way to move forward learning how to approach these tools for themselves. As someone who's been using these tools and their predecessors for my research since ~2019, I'm trying to provide *everyone* the intuition and critical awareness they need to get started at this very confusing and pivotal time.
The first lesson starts with one foundational idea that most people miss when they get started with AI: that modern AI is much less like a hyper-intelligent database or brain, and much more like autocomplete with an extremely fancy hat on. That's its single greatest flaw *AND* its single greatest strength, at the same time. When you really understand what's happening under the hood and how it works (no math or stats required!) a lot of confusing AI behavior suddenly clicks: why it hallucinates, why it's sometimes confidently wrong, and why it can now do way, WAY more than just write words on a page. From there, we're going to learn about all the crazy buzzwords (context engineering, harness engineering, and Agents, oh my!) and advanced techniques, with much more to come!
No jargon, no experience required, and all taught with the care of a former high school English teacher so that you, your coworkers, your friends, and your mom can follow along. I pair these videos with hands-on demos and interactive activities in the "Context Gym:" my way of giving you a safe and guided place to practice some of the core principles that should deepen your intuition as we go.
The video embedded here is a short 2min pitch, but the full 10min course overview and the first lesson (16min) are live right now on the Course Overview page. Start there, and if you find it helpful, please do Subscribe and share with friends as I release lessons weekly! Actual links in the thread below.
