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🎉 Blueprint’s Charter School Research Collaborative is excited to support five exciting new research projects. Congratulations to our latest awardees, who were selected from a competitive pool of proposals.
Read more about the funded projects: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/charte…
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This week, Blueprint’s School Access and Quality Fellows traveled to New York City for the culminating event of the Fellowship: the City Learning Visit, where Fellows learned from researchers and @NYCSchools leaders.
Many thanks to our speakers for their valuable insights.
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📣 We're hiring! Blueprint Labs is recruiting Predoctoral Researchers based at MIT in Cambridge, MA. You'll work on policy-relevant research in education, health care & AI, and the workforce. A great step for junior researchers considering a PhD. 🧵
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The role combines the academic exposure of an econ predoc with a supportive cohort model and staff coaching. Our faculty-to-predoc ratio is about 1:3, so you get real mentorship and real responsibility.
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📅 Priority deadline: August 2, 2026, 11:59pm ET. Rolling after that. Learn more and apply 👇 blueprintlabs.mit.edu/career… #predoc #economics #research #MIT
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🎉 Congratulations to Blueprint Labs affiliate Simon Johnson @baselinescene, appointed Chair of the UK's new AI Economics Institute, the first government-backed institute of its kind in the world. gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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How did Indiana charter schools affect student test scores during and after the COVID-19 pandemic?
New research by Blueprint Labs grantees finds evidence that charter school students outperformed their traditional public school peers post-pandemic: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/charte…
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A recent @Chalkbeat article summarizes research from Blueprint Affiliate @cqcampos on how families in Los Angeles respond to receiving school quality information.
Read the article: chalkbeat.org/2026/05/19/los…
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📢 Blueprint Labs is looking for a Policy and Communications Associate!
The Associate will support Blueprint’s policy initiatives and communicate technical research findings to policymakers, practitioners, and general audiences.
Apply now: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/career…
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In the last challenge session for the 2025-26 SAQ cohort, Celina Haile led a discussion on NYCPS’ efforts to address over-enrollment in Special Education programs and how to ensure access and inclusion for all students.
Thanks to Celina and all the Fellows who participated!
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How can decisions made by Organ Procurement Organizations—nonprofits that coordinate organ recovery from potential donors—lead to more organ donations?
New work by Blueprint Co-Director @agarwaln_econ and co-authors examines OPOs’ decision-making.
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Blueprint Labs hosted the NACSA Leaders Program during a 3-day event at MIT this week, where charter school authorizers joined presentations and discussions to advance their understanding of research and how to use evidence in their work.
ALT Blueprint Labs Executive Director Eryn Heying stands at the front of a classroom next to two screens showing a slide titled "Non-Partisan Policy Research." A row of charter authorizers sit at a table with and watch the presentation.
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At the event, Blueprint Directors @prof_parag and @metrics52 and Affiliate Clemence Idoux presented research on school quality and family preferences. Many thanks to @QualityCharters and all the speakers, facilitators, and authorizers who made this an engaging event.
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In May’s School Access and Quality Fellowship webinar, Blueprint Affiliate @jmb112485 presented recent research on how item-level standardized test score data may provide useful information beyond what aggregate test scores tell us.
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Which policies can improve educational attainment the most? In a new working paper, Blueprint Director @prof_parag and co-authors examine two approaches: changing who attends existing schools and changing which schools exist.
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The first post explores recent research from @davidautor & co-authors on what makes new work different from more work — and why new work is a key force offsetting the effects of automation.
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What makes new work different from more work? In a recent working paper, Blueprint Co-Director @davidautor and co-authors examine how jobs in new work differ systematically from more jobs in existing occupations.
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In April’s challenge session, Blueprint Labs School Access and Quality Fellows discussed school performance visualization and how to make data more transparent at every school. Many thanks to @Brenton_Stewart for leading this engaging discussion.
ALT A screenshot of a Zoom call. On the right of the screen are participants, and on the left is a presentation slide titled "Family Perspective" showing a map of Boston with markers for different types of schools.
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Many thanks to the participants and speakers who joined the 2026 Charter Collaborative Conference, a two-day event that convened charter researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss emerging findings and how to translate those findings into policy and practice.
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