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Bruce D. Baker
@schoolfinance101.bsky.social
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Professor, Education Finance & Policy
Personal Website: https://schoolfinance101.com
School Finance Indicators Database: https://www.schoolfinancedata.org/
Books: https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/author/bruce-d-baker/

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Sociology 22%
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 20h
VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!

New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!

edopportunity.org/segregation/
The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project
Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.
edopportunity.org

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 20h
"a one standard deviation increase in student disadvantage raises overall and stress-related sick leave by 3.6% and 8.7%, respectively. Survey evidence indicates that these effects operate through classroom conditions rather than workload or organizational differences" www.nber.org/papers/w34841
Classrooms as Workplaces: How Student Composition Affects Teacher Health
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...
www.nber.org

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Joe @joedof07.bsky.social · 20h
Really appreciate @stevevladeck.bsky.social for writing this because one of the biggest failures of the mainstream press has been writing headlines and articles about Trump's increasingly deranged declarations around elections as if he has This One Weird Trick to completely upend the Constitution.
210. The President's Lack of Power Over Elections
President Trump keeps insisting that he can unilaterally change the rules for voting in the midterms. It's not just that he's *wrong*; it's that there's no mechanism through which he could even *try.*
open.substack.com

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 20h
"these high-performing teachers’ prior value added is only moderately predictive of effectiveness in low-achieving schools....dropped by 0.12 student SDs....driven by lower match quality, negative indirect school effects, and the loss of student-specific human capital" www.nber.org/papers/w34845
Is Teacher Effectiveness Fully Portable? Evidence from the Random Assignment of Transfer Incentives
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...
www.nber.org

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 23h
Actually, stochastic parrots...are good! At least as a metaphor for large-language models, and there's no reason to deny their usefulness. Rather the opposite: They are harmful precisely because of their utility. Also included, a face-biting parrot named Chiku.

I really enjoyed writing this one.
In defense of stochastic parrots
Large-language models are useful and that's the problem
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 1d
They assaulted and injured a person, damaged a car, and then left. That’s not legal‼️

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 1d
No Chicken Left Behind, voucher version:

This is a small sample of chicken-related items Arizona auto-approved for Education Savings Account users.

Arizona has declined to release data showing what funds, if any, have been recouped through auditing.
chicken related items purchased through Arizona ESA program

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d
you can't be a good publication if you have mostly brilliant writers but also some hypervisible reactionary bullshitters just for balance.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d
"I know several teens, including my own college-age kid, who are vehemently AI. They choose not to use AI for environmental reasons, for ethical reasons, for creative reasons, or just because they want to use their own thinking. What do we tell those students? Do we have to force them to use AI?

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 3d
Roses are red
Measles is back
Your “personal choice”
Is a public attack

Roses are red
Measles is hot
“Just my decision”
Oh hell no, it’s not

Roses are red
Measles will spread
Your “health freedom”
Won’t raise kids from the dead

#eduvalentines

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