Accountability in Higher Education and Access Through Demand-Driven Workforce Pell: Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability
A Proposed Rule by the Education Department
🚨 Comment period ends 5/20
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Policymakers/practitioners, interested in improving your teacher hiring? I got a chance to participate in a terrific NASDTEC webinar on recruitment and selection processes.
Here's a recording of the event: www.nasdtec.net/page/PECWebi...
Right!
I sort of wish I was the Faces of Death Goldhaber!
Interesting and important!
There are actually (at least) two Dan Goldhabers out there. I'm officially not the Faces of Death 2026 one!
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It's getting pretty widespread!
Don't know, but it sure has gained in popularity.
I'm guessing you are right.
@morrowind-txt.bsky.social, we can't wait for all to be revealed!
"Gaining traction" is pretty apt, but maybe undersells how quickly the four-day school week has spread across some states. Definitely worth checking out the latest evidence on this one.
This paper seems vaguely familiar (and it's a thrill ride!)...
Professional Staff Diversity and Student Outcomes: Extending Our Understanding of Race/Ethnicity-Matching Effects in Education journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...
Important job opportunity alert! Consider applying to be the Executive Director of the Professional Educator Standards Board here in WA state (the agency that oversee much of the state's teacher prep and licensure systems).
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/wash...
To extend this, it appears that it’s moving out of the classroom and into the district offices - with even less known about it
www.edweek.org/leadership/a...
The productive use of AI in schools will depend a lot on implementation and teacher human capital. I don't yet see much strategy around either of these as it pertains to AI use in schools.
The episode is the optimistic take on the role of AI in education. I think it's right about the POTENTIAL for AI to enhance learning, but I'd bet that AI leads to a lot more variance in the quality of teaching & schooling...👇
"...they're teenagers, like, they're not angels" is my favorite quote from this week's Gadfly. It illustrates both a profound understanding of teenagers! and, more to the point of the episode, some of the concerns around AI in schools. More thoughts 👇
fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...
People don't move across state lines as much as they likely should.
New work out in @jlaborecon.bsky.social by Riley Wilson:
"The Isolated States of America: Home State Bias and the Impact of State Borders on Mobility"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
"The students who took two math periods saw big gains on 8th grade state tests over similar peers who were in 8th grade math alone, equivalent to almost a full year of additional learning" www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Special education is one of our country's biggest investments—but does it actually work?
Yes! According to a rigorous new study. Identification for services can fundamentally alter a student's trajectory.
Via @joshua-goodman.com, et al.
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In case you've seen results going around today about a paper on reproducibility in the social sciences in Nature and it seems like reactions differ, you could be forgiven for being confused because there are actually *FOUR* such studies all published the same day, with somewhat differing results.
Vive la (credibility) révolution
Interested in teacher hiring decisions? I'll be presenting research about making better hiring decision this Friday at 12:30 PT. It's in person if you are in Seattle, but you can also register here for Zoom link: washington.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Attention teacher research and data users (& those who are research/data curious), this is a nice short summary piece on teacher data and research from @edwriters.bsky.social with links to resources:
Andy Rotherham rides again!
The Pan-Mass Challenge (www.pmc.org) is great exercise for Andy and a good cause (cancer research) for all of us!
Consider donating:
profile.pmc.org/AR0140
This conversation between @natmalkus.bsky.social and @jeffdenning.com about grade inflation is a banger! Seriously, it's about Jeff (+co-authors)'s very good paper on the long term consequences for students of teacher grading standards. Totally worth listening to!
www.aei.org/podcast/the-...
Two teachers engaged in conversation at an orange table, one holding a smartphone. The setting appears to be a modern office or conference area with bright lighting. The person facing towards the viewer is wearing glasses and a patterned yellow shirt, while the other has long dark hair tied back.
ICYMI: A new @caldercenter.bsky.social and NCTQ brief shows how states can use better data to improve student teaching experiences and prepare teachers for classroom success.
🔗 caldercenter.org/publications/lessons-sta...
I might just tune in (two of my favorite researchers talking about an important issue)! Oh wait, it's a @caldercenter.bsky.social webinar, I pretty much have to tune in!
In the last school year, after years of controversy, San Francisco schools fielded pilots that reintroduced Algebra to 8th grade. A preregistered, quasi-experimental study by Elizabeth Huffaker and me indicates the major pilots were largely successful.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
3) The dichotomy between how students are doing and how parents think students are doing is such a wide chasm. If you think parents play a big role in their kids' academic success (I do), I'd argue it's one of the most important issues we need to address.
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