Reflecting on #AEFP2026: @dbassok.bsky.social, Michal & I talk about the amazing work the @aefpweb.bsky.social community is doing 💗
Many thanks to the @brookings.edu team, especially Jon Valant, @rachelmarisa.bsky.social & Mike Hansen for helpful feedback.
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Foreign students *subsidize* domestic students. Without them college will be *more* expensive and there will be *fewer* spots.
"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.
New Advanced Placement course designed to broaden access promotes participation and demographic diversity in computer science education www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"new exams were concentrated in AP CS Principles, no statistically significant reduction in counts for the preexisting AP CS course"
Objective, comprehensive, rigorous, timely, and useful:
A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research.
#EdResearch #EdPolicy
livehandbook.org
Let’s just assume No Child is Left Behind. Let’s just believe Every Student Succeeds. Let’s just trust all states have high standards.
George W Bush once condemned “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” This is the hard bigotry of no expectations.
In the DC area? This is the last day to register for the annual CALDER Conference! We are close to capacity, so please register soon if you want to join us.
Heading to @aefpweb.bsky.social this week? So am I! Here are a few of the sessions that I'm particularly excited about, and you might be too.
Starting out strong on Thursday with two great (and complementary) sessions focusing on teacher licensure & supply.
It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Heading to #AEFP2025? We've been thinking a lot about what's happening at the Institute of Education Sciences and what it means for the field. More news coming soon on programming updates.
For now, some thoughts with our SREE colleagues www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...
In this op-ed, we - the presidents of SREE and AEFP - joined forces to argue for the importance of evidence on "what works" and how cutting such funding is not "efficient" - it is wasteful. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...
This year's Bozeman Applied Micro Conference is June 16-17, 2025. Travel funding available courtesy of @arnoldventures.bsky.social if you do criminal justice research!
Paper submissions open now through March 7 www.montana.edu/econ/summerc...
District Pandemic Policies and Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Working Conditions in Virginia journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
After teaching intro stats to recent college grads for a decade, watching them live clean govt data feels a little on-the-nose as a personal national nightmare.
Understanding “what works” in education is HARD and is what many of us have dedicated our professional lives to figuring out.
Having some wanna-be tech bros come in and decide they know better than researchers & experts is beyond infuriating and insulting to the ed research community.
Every Child Left Behind
CALDER Research Conference 2025 Wednesday, March 12 Arlington, VA Session I: 9:30 am - 11:15 am COVID's Long Shadow, Five Years Later
Five years later, what have we learned about student recovery & teacher labor markets since the pandemic?
Join us for Session I at #CALDER2025 to hear the latest from Cory Koedel, @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @ermorton.bsky.social, @cedr.bsky.social, & Kevin Mahnken.
Register here: bit.ly/3En3lGk
This is our big in-person event of the year where you'll see the latest and greatest of new work + policy discussion. We are still a long way out, but I'd recommend you sign up early as this will fill up over time!
Article abstract reading "Concerns about school staff shortages are longstanding. However, data on shortages are limited, dated, and rare for non-teaching staff. I use administrative data on unfilled certificated positions in Illinois public schools from the fall of 2022 to paint a detailed picture of shortages across teaching, administrative, and other roles, between districts, and between schools. Teacher and administrator shortage rates are low on average, but shortages of other staff - mostly paraprofessionals - are more severe. However, staff-to-student ratios have increased recently for all staff types. Shortages vary substantially between schools within districts and across urbanicity, grade level, and student characteristics, often in ways that likely exacerbate inequities."
New from me in Education Finance & Policy: Pandemic-Era School Staff Shortages: Evidence from Unfilled Position Data in Illinois
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Holy cow! President Biden honors my colleague @lizbettini.bsky.social, my coauthor @doughesm.bsky.social, and my friend Elizabeth Setren, among others.
Huge congrats to all!
The issue of classroom management shows up again and again as an issue for starting teachers. I think it points to a lack of inservice-preservice connections in diagnosing what new teachers need.
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Hi! ECE & policy folks: I'm looking for a postdoc to join our (really terrific) SEE-Partnerships team, doing research on ECE access & workforce issues! Please spread the word!
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I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring.
The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)
Reminds me of this study.
Mandating AP courses -> fewer CTE courses
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‘The kids everyone forgot’: The faltering post-pandemic push to reengage teens and young adults not in school, college, or the workforce
www.chalkbeat.org/2024/12/19/employment-pr...
I am once again begging people to remember that just because you don't use something you were taught in school that doesn't mean nobody does, and by that criterion we wouldn't teach kids much of anything.
