CALDER Webinar: The Four-Day School Week: New Evidence for District Leaders and Policymakers Featuring Emily Morton and Andrew Camp

Four‑day school weeks are gaining traction—but do they deliver on their promises? Hear new findings from @nwea.bsky.social's Emily Morton & @annenberginstitute.bsky.social's @andrewmcamp.com on April 22 at 1 PM ET.

Register: bit.ly/4rNbwP3

Survey shows alarming drop in working conditions for teachers: What are we doing about it? | Brookings Post-pandemic teacher working conditions have plummeted as classroom disruptions surge, fueling a crisis in U.S. schools.

Alarming drops in working conditions for teachers during and after the pandemic www.brookings.edu/articles/sur...

Hey, hey, hey, more good stuff (i.e., research!): caldercenter.org/publications...

Want to know more about this? Come see @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social present it in person at next Monday's CALDER Conference, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

9:15 a.m.—10:45 a.m. SESSION I: Evidence on Teacher Working Conditions: Daily Realities, Leadership, and Labor Action To Make Teaching Sustainable, Help Teachers Balance Work and Personal Demands: Findings from the 2025 State of the American Teacher Survey Presenter: Elizabeth Steiner, RAND/CALDER R&R Principal Effects on Teacher Working Conditions Presenter: Cory Koedel, University of Missouri/CALDER R&R The Effect of Teacher Strikes on Compensation, Working Conditions, and Productivity Presenter: Melissa Arnold Lyon, University at Albany, SUNY/CALDER R&R Discussant: Marla Ucelli-Kashyap, Senior Director for Educational Issues, American Federation of Teachers

How do daily realities, leadership, and labor actions shape teacher working conditions?

Join us at #CALDER2026 on March 2 to dig into the evidence with @elizabeth-steiner.bsky.social, Cory Koedel, @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social, and @marlau-k.bsky.social.

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🧵 from previous working paper still mostly accurate, just a few more analyses and updates to data bsky.app/profile/mimi...

The Effects of Teacher Strikes on Compensation, Working Conditions, and Productivity Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

📣 Updated working paper on teacher strikes

➡️ Strikes have big impacts on compensation and working conditions & no average effect on test scores.

➡️ Strikes are most effective where initial spending is relatively low and where they are illegal. www.nber.org/papers/w32862

The West Texas Measles Outbreak and Student Absences Declining child-vaccination rates are driving a measles resurgence in the US, yet little evidence documents how these outbreaks may disrupt schooling. Using daily absence data from a school district a...

We provide early evidence on the impact of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks on learning opportunities, and the schooling disruptions that the growing number of low-coverage communities could face if outbreaks continue to spread. See working paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1358

All-star lineup of research presentations, featuring @elizabeth-steiner.bsky.social @andrewmcamp.com @gzamarro.bsky.social @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @roddy-theobald.bsky.social @cedr.bsky.social and more!

Come join us at #CALDER2026 - registration is free!

Suspended from work and school? Impacts of layoff events and unemployment insurance on student disciplinary incidence We examine the impact of local labor market shocks and state unemployment insurance (UI) policies on student discipline in U.S. public schools. Analyz…

🚨New publication alert #econsky🚨

Thrilled to have “Suspended from Work and School? Impacts of layoff events and unemployment insurance on student disciplinary incidence” forthcoming at Labour Economics with @riacton.bsky.social and Austin Smith

Paper thread incoming 🧵
tinyurl.com/susp-ws

Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez.

The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.

And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!

Congratulations are in order for @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social who was awarded a research grant through the William T. Grant Foundation to study the impact of school board election timing policies on educational equity. Lyon and two fellow researchers were awarded $299,083 through the grant.

This is a wonderful postdoc! I highly recommend applying!

We are hiring an assistant professor in public policy!

Congratulations to Trevor Brown @jhuartssciences.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @apsa.bsky.social Labor Politics A Philip Randolph Award! Here presented by the great @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social 🥳

How Teachers' Unions Are Confronting the Second Trump Era Can teachers' unions thread the needle between countering widespread anti-union measures and broadening membership and public support?

Comprehensive reporting on what's going on with teachers' unions these days from Sarah Sparks at Edweek.

www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Yay!!!! ❤️

» Federal Education Funding Data Dashboard

Update to @fordschool.bsky.social tool that lets you figure out how much federal funding public schools in your congressional district may lose

Now includes that info by state legislative district as well.

poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ...

Elon Musk is using the anti-teacher playbook against the entire civil workforce This didn’t start with DOGE.

Really insightful connections from @rachelmcohen.bsky.social between what’s happening with DOGE and what happened with k-12 teachers in the 2010s

www.vox.com/donald-trump...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

👀 at your blue sky page now, like are there other hot takes for other days?

Interesting comparison to adult scores! I haven’t seen that before

(VIEW ONLY) EDFacts Comment Letter 2025 Clean Draft.docx January 26, 2025 Stephanie Valentine PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Dev...

Let's measure beyond proficiency: Colleagues, please consider signing on to our SEDA letter supporting planned improvements to EDFacts data collection.
Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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It's not everyday that I wake up to a front page article in the Boston Globe featuring a colleague of mine, complete with photo shoot.

Today is that day! Fantastic coverage of the teacher workforce research that @oliviachi.bsky.social does here at BU Wheelock.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/14/b...

The article below also features:

- "The Rise & Fall of the Teaching Profession", by @matthewakraft.bsky.social & @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social

edworkingpapers.com/ai22-679

- "Kumon In: The Recent, Rapid Rise of Private Tutoring Centers", by me, Edward Kim & Marty West

edworkingpapers.com/ai21-367

Why You Should Be Using A Butter Crock Instead Of A Butter Dish While these kitchen items can be interchanged, it’s best to tailor your use to fit your needs. Here is the difference between a butter crock vs. butter dish.

Butter bells www.southernliving.com/butter-crock...

BREAKING: Amazon delivery drivers in Skokie, Illinois have also authorized a strike.

These workers serve thousands and thousands of people in the Chicago area.

The Teamsters gave Amazon a December 15th deadline to come to the bargaining table.

Pete Stavros Fellowships in the Economics of Employee Share Ownership - Call for Applications The Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing invites applications for the inaugural Pete Stavros Fellowships in the Economics of Employee Share Ownership from junior and senior scholars with a doctoral degree in economics or a related field (e.g. business, finance, or accounting) and a current academic affiliation with a U.S. college or university. Two $50,000 fellowships will be available for the 2025-2026 academic year to support research projects related to the economics of broad-based employee equity ownership, such as employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and other forms of employee share ownership. Specialists in all subfields of economics and finance are welcome to apply, including those working in the areas of behavioral, labor, organizational, personnel, and public economics; the economics of gender, race, inequality, innovation, and productivity; law and economics; and political economy. Preference will be given to applications that propose to employ cutting-edge theoretical or empirical methodologies that have not previously been used in the study of broad-based employee share ownership, and/or to conduct quantitative analysis of novel datasets. For applied projects, the Institute can also assist with facilitating access to existing data sources. Fellowship recipients will be in residence at their home institutions and may use funds for research-related costs and for travel or other expenses. To apply, please submit a CV and research plan (1000 to 1500 words) with three letters of reference (sent separately by the letter writers) by March 1, 2025 to: fellowship_program@smlr.rutgers.edu. Decisions will be made by May 1, 2025.

Pete Stavros Fellowships in the Economics of Employee Share Ownership - Call for Applications
#FundSocSci #EconSky
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