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Josh Bleiberg
@joshbleiberg.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Ed Policy and Quantitative Methods at the University of Pittsburgh. I study accountability, education politics, teacher labor markets, and Philly sports. www.JoshBleiberg.com
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Thread in the am but if you want the main takeaway: The 2024 Digest of Education Statistics (under the current administration) includes just 27 tables by the (Congressionally mandated) deadline—far fewer than the nearly 270, on average, published in prior years

www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
The U.S. Department of Education is far behind on producing key statistics | Brookings
Federal education data releases have slowed dramatically, with major gaps in the 2024 Digest and Condition of Education report.
www.brookings.edu
June 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
joshbleiberg.bsky.social
Very cool paper! Looking forward to giving it a close read.
mememedianmode.bsky.social Mark Chin @mememedianmode.bsky.social · Jun 23
1/ A new working paper from me and my amazing collaborators, Alberto Ortega, Matthew Patrick Shaw, and Vandy undergrad extraordinaire Daniel Yoo:

"Politics of the professoriate: Longitudinal evidence from a state public university system's universe of faculty"

Link: github.com/MemeMedianMo...
June 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
joshbleiberg.bsky.social
What do you call the hurricane of emotions that occurs when you are enjoying Andor, super annoyed by the monopoly go ads, but also aren't willing to upgrade your Disney+ subscription?
May 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Here's one of my best friends (who, before being illegally fired, was the data scientist at NEH) showing just how much money NEH could distribute back out to US taxpayers based on their lifetime contributions. Get ready to make it rain with thousands of pennies y'all!
btskinner.io ben @btskinner.io · Apr 29
As an elder millennial, I could trade my lifetime of tax contributions to the NEH for one month of Netflix and have just enough left over to get some avocado toast if I split it with two other people
Line graph titled "What's my share of NEH appropriations" with a caption: "Between its founding in 1965 and fiscal year 2024, the National Endowment for the Humanities received congressional appropriations totaling $7.37 billion. NEH used this funding to support thousands of individuals and cultural organizations - both directly through various grant programs and indirectly through funds disbursed by the 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils. Beyond these appropriations, grantees raised millions of dollars more from non-federal donors as part of grant matching requirements. To put NEH appropriations in perspective, this chart shows cumulative annual per capita contribution to NEH by age, that is, the total dollar amount the average taxpayer has given to NEH over their lifetime. A few relevant purchases are helpfully included to show what a person could have bought instead, had they kept their personal NEH contribution for themselves..." The x-axis ranges from 0 to 59 years old. The y-axis ranges from $0 to $30. At three ages, items that could have instead been purchased with an individual's lifetime NEH contribution are shown. At 13 years, an egg is plotted on the line with a dollar amount of $6.41 and the caption reads, "Just in time to feed a growth spurt, a person at 13 years old has contributed enough to NEH that they could instead purchase one dozen eggs ($6.23/dozen)." At 36 years, a popcorn bucket is plotted with a dollar amount of $18.20 and the caption reads, "Millennials who are at least 36 years old could exchange their nearly four decades worth of NEH support for a one month subscription to Netflix ($17.99/month)." At 50 years, a gasoline pump is plotted with the dollar amount of $26.00 and the caption reads, "Those 50 years old or older - who have been contributing to the agency for nearly its entire existence - could instead have saved that money to purchase about a half tank of gas (8 gallons at $3.23/gallon)."
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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justedpolicy.bsky.social
Just Education Policy is coming back! We’re excited to announce that we are planning for an *in-person* Just Education Policy Institute this Fall 2025. Applications & more details will be released in early May. For more info. about the Just Education Policy Institute, visit justeducationpolicy.org.
Just Education Policy
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April 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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bethschueler.bsky.social
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...
The Unofficial List of Ed Policy Orgs for Job/Internship Seekers
docs.google.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
joshbleiberg.bsky.social
We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Practice and Undergraduate Program Coordinator. I'm on the search committee and am more than happy to answer questions. cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
February 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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COOPER DEJEAN IS NOT A SAFETY!!
February 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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a bald man with a beard is wearing a nfl jersey
ALT: a bald man with a beard is wearing a nfl jersey
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February 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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🚨I am psyched to share a new working paper from @edutuan.bsky.social & myself 🚨. We show how to estimate turnover & net-negative job loss (think ~shortages) with public data for K12 schools by county from 2000 to present, by race, ethnicity, educ attainment & gender. edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1135 🧵
Leveraging Quarterly Workforce Indicators to Analyze Teacher Labor Market Dynamics: Inequitable Trends in Educator Turnover
Educator labor markets vary considerably across the country and can change quickly during recessions. We use data from the Quality Workforce Indicators (QWI) on educators in Elementary and Secondary S...
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January 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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FLY EAGLES FLY
a football player with the number 9 on his back is raising his arms in the air during a game .
Alt: Nick Foles raising his arms in the air during a game .
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January 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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harbatkat.bsky.social
Happy to share that our paper on the relationship between teacher intentions and teacher turnover behavior is now published at Education Finance and Policy. (with @edutuan.bsky.social @alexmoran.bsky.social Katharine Strunk, and Jason Burns). direct.mit.edu/edfp/article... 1/5
Should I Stay or Should I Go (Later)? Teacher Intentions and Turnover in Low-Performing Schools and Districts before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abstract. Teacher turnover is a perennial concern, especially in low-performing, high-poverty schools. While districts and schools may try to anticipate and mitigate turnover by surveying teachers abo...
direct.mit.edu
January 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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E A G L E S
a man with a beard is talking into a microphone on a sports field .
ALT: a man with a beard is talking into a microphone on a sports field .
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January 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
joshbleiberg.bsky.social
I actually used the complementary access provided to me by a publisher in exchange for reviewing to find an article that was not accessible through my university. Achievement unlocked?
January 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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edutuan.bsky.social
**Update on teacher staffing challenges 24-25**
It has taken a while, but
@ChanhLam202
and I have updated our website teachershortages.com. We find there are at least 49,800 vacant positions and 400,000 underqual in 24-25 compared to 55,000 and 270,000 last year
December 3, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Number 13: Bitcoin for cats, invest money simply by owning a cat
November 25, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Jokes on them, I’m going to use AI to come up with 8000 businesses for dipshits
marcorinaldi.bsky.social Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · Nov 25
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮
November 25, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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mememedianmode.bsky.social
Had a wonderful night with the education policy #APPAM2024 crowd. If we didn’t get a chance to connect say hi tomorrow! At 145 I’ll be a part of an awesome session on Grow Your Own teacher recruitment efforts @drdsedwards.bsky.social @joshbleiberg.bsky.social @matthewakraft.bsky.social and more!
November 22, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Oh yay, this paper is finally out at AERA Open!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Screenshot of the top of the article. Title is Racial Category Usage in Education Research: Examining the Publications from AERA Journals. Authors are Dominique J Baker, Karly S Ford, Samantha Viano, and Marc P Johnston-Guerrero. Abstract reads: How scholars name different racial groups has powerful salience for understanding what researchers study. We explored how education researchers used racial terminology in recently published high-profile peer-reviewed studies. Our sample included 1,427 original empirical studies published in the nonreview AERA journals from 2009 to 2019. We found that two thirds of articles used at least one racial category term, with an increase from about half to almost three quarters of published studies between 2009 and 2019. Other trends include the increasing popularity of the term Black, the emergence of gender-expansive terms such as Latinx, the popularity of the term Hispanic in quantitative studies, and the paucity of studies with terms connoting missing race data or including terms describing Indigenous and multiracial peoples.
November 15, 2024 at 5:27 PM
joshbleiberg.bsky.social
There's so many familiar faces here! I feel pressure to create content 😂. Pic of the doggo is the best I can do.
November 13, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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Interesting research about state takeover in Central Falls that began 33 years ago. www.centralfallsri.gov/education
Office of Education Strategy
Welcome to the Central Falls Office of Education Strategy A Message from Mayor Rivera
www.centralfallsri.gov
October 24, 2024 at 1:31 PM
joshbleiberg.bsky.social
Pro baseball watching tip for any PA based Phillies fans. If you listen to the radio audio from mlb.tv there is not a single political ad. It syncs up pretty well with the tv broadcast. Also go phils! #redoctober
October 5, 2024 at 9:51 PM
joshbleiberg.bsky.social
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,110,393!
September 17, 2024 at 1:40 AM