Dan Goldhaber

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Who am I? I wonder sometimes and then remind myself here, http://caldercenter.org & here, http://cedr.us. Views are usually mine, & are not necessarily reflective of anything.

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We are currently accepting nominations for advisory group members for the "education policy" space. Who has a useful perspective on the evaluation of K-12 school environments? Please help me connect! @paul-bruno.com @cedr.bsky.social #AcademicSky #EduSky www.cadreresearch.org/cause-coalit...

I am a co-founder of The Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments (CAUSE), and industry-based initiative to develop a standardized, open-source POE tool for K-12 schools. Read more: essentials.edmarket.org/2024/04/join...

Join the CAUSE: We Can Measure Impact Better Together - Essentials Magazineessentials.edmarket.org CAUSE is a new attempt to bring our industry together to build the kind of research culture that can help us design better school environments for our communities. Applying these research principles c...

CAUSE Coalition — CADREwww.cadreresearch.org There is growing awareness of the benefits that accrue from designing environments to support social health and wellbeing, although there are still significant challenges to achieving desired outcom...

Blueski, I should have posted here first, but here it is: Did the $190B dollar ESSER investment move the needle of student achievement? Grace Falken and I try to answer that question here: caldercenter.org/sites/defaul...

Piece (w/ Maia) about how grades have change over time is out in the wild! Course grades as a signal of student achievement: Evidence of grade inflation before and after COVID‐19 - Goldhaber - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Course grades as a signal of student achievement: Evidence of grade inflation before and after COVID‐19onlinelibrary.wiley.com There is widespread speculation and some evidence that grades and grading standards changed during the pandemic, making higher grades relatively easier to achieve. In this paper we use longitudinal d...

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I don't know if you can access this, but Reggie Jackson's response to this question by ARod is really worth listening to.

Reggie Jackson shares stark stories of racismwww.nytimes.com In his second professional season, Jackson was part of the first integrated professional team to play at Rickwood Field.

This webinar will take 10 years off your life. Is that a good thing? I'll have to think about that one.

📣 We're hosting another CALDER webinar! Join us on Wed., June 26 @ 1 PM ET to hear @cedr.bsky.social present new evidence on how ESSER funding affected staffing in school districts and what it means as COVID relief ends this fall. Register here: air-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar alert! Join us on Wed., June 26 @ 1 PM ET to hear @cedr.bsky.social (that's me) talk about the future of the teacher labor market, presenting new evidence on how ESSER funding affected staffing in school districts & what it means as COVID relief ends this fall. Register here: bit.ly/3yUPhkN

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The ESSER Funding Cliff: Navigating the Teacher Workforce After COVID Relief. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the web...bit.ly As pandemic relief funding winds down, what will it mean for school staffing? If school districts used ESSER to hire new staff, how will they grapple with potential job cuts? Join us to hear CALDER Di...

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Big #EdPolicy news: College Board President Will Oversee #FAFSA Launch www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Ed Department taps College Board President to oversee FAFSAwww.insidehighered.com Jeremy Singer, a familiar face in higher-ed circles, will lead the department’s strategy on the 2025–26 aid application.

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"Finally, we link the 1940 and 2000 censuses to show that Black children exposed to higher levels of school expenditures had significantly more completed schooling and higher income late in life." www.nber.org/papers/w3249...

School Equalization in the Shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and Consequences of Resource Disparity in Mississippi circa 1940www.nber.org 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...

Good @nytimes.com piece on the controversies of middle school math. Josh Goodman identifies the central issue in the debate: “It’s the first moment where you potentially make it very obvious and explicit that there are knowledge gaps opening up.” www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/n...

The Algebra Problem: How Middle School Math Became a National Flashpointwww.nytimes.com Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it.

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Good discussion here; I think a lot of the reporting on this has under-emphasized that the debate is to a large extent how much to cut funding in some schools to boost spending in smaller/shrinking schools. www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024...

CPS tried to make its budget funding formula more equitable. Not everyone is happy.www.chalkbeat.org Chicago Public Schools created a new budget formula that’s meant to more equitably fund schools. Some schools are seeing boosts next year, but others expect to lose staff.

Super important finding is that while survey-based evidence on INTENT to leave is predictive of which teachers actually leave, the magnitudes are way off! I've seen a number of popular press pieces say that upwards of 50% of teachers MIGHT leave; it's nothing like that even if 50% say they might.

Comparing Teacher Turnover Intentions to Actual Turnover: Cautions and Lessons for the Field journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3... "We advise that surveys continue to capture intention as it provides meaningful information, but we recommend intention not be used as proxy for turnover."

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I wish they'd said a little more about the research findings. E.g. "Women, students of color, and English-language learners benefit disproportionately from placement into early algebra." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

gift link to the algebra article that will no doubt be discussed www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/n...

Heterogeneous Effects of Early Algebra across California Middle Schoolsonlinelibrary.wiley.com How should schools assign students to more rigorous math courses so as best to help their academic outcomes? We identify several hundred California middle schools that used 7th-grade test scores to p...

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Assessing the Relative Progressivity of the Biden Administration's Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Proposal direct.mit.edu/edfp/article... "the announced policy is less progressive than the EITC but more progressive than the 2019 Child Tax Credit and higher education tax credits."

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You might like our paper. Feedback and RT most welcome! @woessmann.bsky.social @lukasmergele.bsky.social @shushmargaryan.bsky.social @elizabethlinos.bsky.social @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social @dprbyrne.bsky.social @chriskarbownik.bsky.social

Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex? NO in primary education, YES in secondary education. A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...

This is cool!

NYC plans to install 500 secure bike parking hubs throughout the city, enough to store 5,000+ bikes and e-bikes. Great move. In big, dense cities bike parking (and theft) is a major constraint on cycling. www.amny.com/transit/nyc-...

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This shows trends in the shares of unemployed Americans with different durations in unemployment. Purple is the share who are long-term unemployed. Can you guess when the Fed started raising rates?

Glad to see this one (w/ Grace an Roddy) out in the wild. What Do Teacher Job Postings Tell Us About School Hiring Needs and Equity? - Dan Goldhaber, Grace T. Falken, Roddy Theobald, 2024 journals-sagepub-com.air.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....

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Where do teachers come from? We provide some answers here (journal pub is out the wild): The Long and Winding Road: Mapping the College and Employment Pathways to Teacher Education Program Completion in Washington State journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

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The effects of post-Dobbs abortion bans on fertility www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "states with abortion bans experienced an average increase in births of 2.3 percent relative to if no bans had been enforced"

The effects of post-Dobbs abortion bans on fertilitywww.sciencedirect.com The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization sparked the most profound transformation of the landscape of abortion …

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As we head into the summer and another round of Teacher Labor Market Discourse, some relevant context is that economy-wide the quit rate looks like it's finally back down to pre-pandemic levels.

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Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricitywww.nytimes.com They’re delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in other states. And the technology is expanding rapidly.

The underfunding of public pensions is a huge problem! And, it's a problem that is so easy to turn away from as it appears to always be tomorrow's problem, and it is, until one day it isn't anymore and then we are in big trouble.

"pension systems are deemed to be financially healthy if their funded ratio is above 80%, the goal is to get systems 100% funded. The aggregate funded ratio across all four Chicago pension systems of just 24% is decidedly not healthy under any metric." www.ctbaonline.org/reports/unde...

Understanding and Addressing Chicago’s Pension Funding Crisis | Center for Tax and Budget Accountabilitywww.ctbaonline.org

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Looks like a fascinating study ...teacher practices associated with teacher effectiveness include paying attention to low-performing students, congratulating students who improve, and having a good relationship with students.

"The gaps in gender-specific teaching effectiveness are especially pronounced in mathematics. Indeed, eliminating within-teacher differences in math test score VA would reduce the gender gap in math performance by 67%." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Teacher value-added and gender gaps in educational outcomeswww.sciencedirect.com This paper uses rich administrative data from Chile to estimate teacher value added (TVA) on test scores and on an educational attainment index. We al…

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Teaching close to home: Exploring new teachers’ geographic employment patterns and retention outcomes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "hometown novices were more likely to remain in their current school in subsequent years"

Teaching close to home: Exploring new teachers’ geographic employment patterns and retention outcomeswww.sciencedirect.com In this quantitative study, we explored the demographic and educational backgrounds of hometown novice teachers, those employed geographically close t…

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Are Schools Too Focused on Mental Health? www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/h... "Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect."

Are We Talking Too Much About Mental Health?www.nytimes.com Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect.

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The impact of performance information on citizen perceptions of school district efficiency, trust in government, and support for taxes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The impact of performance information on citizen perceptions of school district efficiency, trust in government, and support for taxesonlinelibrary.wiley.com When residents living in school districts with the highest levels of performance are informed about their school district's relative performance, they are more likely to believe their community get...

New @caldercenter.bsky.social working paper on pandemic-era licensure waivers. These waivers (in MA)allowed prospective teachers to become licensed to teach without first completing typical requirements such as licensure testing. A few thoughts... 1/n caldercenter.org/sites/defaul...

#3 in Tim's terrific series on what went wrong with the national push for teacher evaluation reform. www.educationdaly.us/p/where-teac...

Where Teacher Evaluation Went Wrongwww.educationdaly.us In Part Three, we'll count the ways. And consider how the failure of teacher evaluation helps explain our slow pandemic recovery.

I hope I am not just shouting into the void, but teacher layoffs are coming! "...[CA districts are] nervous enough about balancing their districts’ budgets to issue layoff notices to 1,900 teachers — 16 times more than the 124 that were issued last spring" edsource.org/2024/teacher... 1/2

Anxious California teachers with pink slips await word on jobs next school yearedsource.org Budget shortfalls have led 100 California school districts to issue layoff notices to 1,900 teachers.

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Refusing to trust & uplift its self-selected best student is a damning, craven statement of university incompetence. USC admitted, educated, graded, lifted her to the top based on her excellence. Why should USC ask anyone else to trust & uplift any USC students? Who better for them to uplift?

“To be clear: this decision has nothing to do with freedom of speech. There is no free-speech entitlement to speak at a commencement. The issue here is how best to maintain campus security and safety, period.” Spoken like a real academic leader.

Citing safety, USC bans pro-Palestinian valedictorian from speaking at graduationwww.latimes.com The University of Southern California cited safety reasons Monday in keeping its pro-Palestinian valedictorian from speaking onstage at her graduation ceremony.