Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness Small Students, Big Opportunities Working in partnership with policymakers, Professor Daphna Bassok aims to provide long-term solutions to real-world problems for America's youngest learners. Read More Research and Commentary, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education Four Batten Professors Ranked as Nation’s Most Influential Education Scholars Batten School professors Daphna Bassok, Ben Castleman, Sarah Turner and Jim Wyckoff were among 200 scholars nationwide to rank as highly influential in education policy, according to Education Week. Read More Accolades, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education How behavioral science could get people back into public libraries What keeps someone from activating their library card or returning a book? Brooklyn Public Library worked with behavioral science experts including Batten professor Benjamin Castleman and alum Katharine Meyer (MPP '16) to find out. Read More Research and Commentary, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education How Public Preschool Can Help, and How to Make Sure It Doesn’t Hurt Congress is considering universal pre-K and subsidies for child care. Batten's Daphna Bassok and other researchers spoke to The New York Times about how these policies can benefit children, and when they can backfire. Read More EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education Coronavirus and Schools: Reflections on Education One Year into the Pandemic One year ago, the World Health Organization declared the spread of COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic. Batten's Daphna Bassok and fellow experts examine how the pandemic upended the education landscape in the past year, what it’s taught us about schooling, and where we go from here. Read More Research and Commentary, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education Understanding COVID-19-Era Enrollment Drops among Early-Grade Public School Students The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted schooling nationwide, raising serious concerns about the impact of the pandemic on children’s learning. But, as Batten’s Daphna Bassok and co-author Anna Shapiro write in Brooking’s “Brown Center Chalkboard” blog, relatively less has been written about the experiences of the “missing children”—those who have not enrolled in public school at all. Read More EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Health Policy, Education Stacking the Deck for Employment Success: Labor Market Returns to Stackable Credentials With rapid technological transformations to the labor market along with COVID-19 related economic disruptions, many working adults return to college to obtain additional training or credentials. Using a comparative individual fixed effects strategy and an administrative panel dataset of enrollment and employment in Virginia, we provide the first causal estimates of credential “stacking” among working adults. Read More EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education Who Should Re-enroll in College? The Academic and Labor Market Profile of Adults with Substantial College Credits But No Degree Tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs in the wake of the COVID-19 health and economic crisis, and a sizable share of these job losses may be permanent. Unemployment rates are particularly high among adults without a college degree. Recent state policy efforts h Read More EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education Nudges Don’t Work When the Benefits Are Ambiguous: Evidence from a High-Stakes Education Program The Post-9/11 GI Bill allows service members to transfer generous education benefits to a dependent. We run a large scale experiment that encourages service members to consider the transfer option among a population that includes individuals for whom the transfer benefits are clear and individuals for whom the net-benefits are significantly more ambiguous. We find no impact of a one-time email about benefits transfer among service members for whom we predict considerable ambiguity in the action, but sizeable impacts among service members for whom education benefits transfer is far less ambiguous. Read More EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education College Advising at a National Scale: Experimental Evidence from the CollegePoint initiative In recognition of the complexity of the college and financial aid application process, and in response to insufficient access to family or school-based counseling among economically-disadvantaged populations, investments at the local, state, and federal level have expanded students’ access to college and financial aid advising. Experimental and quasi-experimental studies of these programs demonstrate that they can generate substantial improvements in the rate at which low-income students enroll and persist in college. 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