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Dan Goldhaber
@cedr.bsky.social

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.

Education 82%
Business 6%

Can't wait for this convo. Seems like there's a vacuum in ed policy right now, but we did actually learn some things from prior reforms.

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Jan 13, 1pm ET: AIR’s & @caldercenter.bsky.social Dan Goldhaber (@cedr.bsky.social) joins U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation for updated insights on federal K–12 policy and why accountability matters.

Background report: https://bit.ly/3LEiW8i

Livestream: https://bit.ly/4qdNeOe
Data and Assessments in K-12 Education
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation believes in the power of data, assessments, and accountability in ensuring all kids have access to a high-quality education.
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Yup, good catch. I agree that the effects of teacher match (especially for Black boys) are important!

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Here's a summary of some work on teacher hiring. I think we for sure know more now about this issue than we did 20 years ago and I also think what we've learned is that school systems can often make better choices: caldercenter.org/sites/defaul...
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Episode 1000(ish) with the OGs (+David). Congrats to the Gadfly!

+ Amber's back! Loved the summary of what we've learned. I'd emphasize the importance of using GROWTH as a metric for school contributions to learning + on hiring 👇
fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...
An Education State of the Union | Episode 1000 of The Education Gadfly Show
This week, we’re marking a major milestone—Episode 1,000 of The Education Gadfly Show.
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New year, new paper out on the (mixed) impacts of districtwide turnaround in Lawrence, Mass. on postsecondary outcomes. A product of a collab w/ 2 lovely UVA EdPolicyWorks PhD students and MA DESE: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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Test-based accountability has always fascinated me. When and how do we make test scores *really* matter, and for better or for worse? It was great to dive deep with @mpolikoff.bsky.social, in our chapter on pages 1113-1188 in "the handbook of our field," EM5! fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area.

More info here:

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Teacher human capital...more evidence that it really matters for long-run student outcomes:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Chalkbeat editors Matt Barnum and Erica Meltzer will discuss with Lindsey Burke, the Department of Education’s deputy chief of staff for policy and programs, why the Trump administration wants to eliminate the agency and how officials are already working to do so. RSVP: ckbe.at/4arS85q

Yup, we are scraping using Python. I know relatively little about the specifics of the programming, but I do know that you can't just write the programs and let them go as specifics about the website layout, etc. affect whether the data are properly retrieved.

Agreed on the size of effects, but also think the methods look sound. And, also totally agree with your 2nd point.

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Wow, the estimated effects of the orientation of elected school board members are enormous!

Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom www.nber.org/papers/w34590
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Interesting new paper 👇
🚨🚨🚨New working paper! 🚨🚨🚨

"Learning by Doing (Together): Collaboration and Teacher Skill Formation"

Do workers genuinely learn from collaboration, or just benefit while working together? I study teacher partnerships to find out.

Paper: john-fallon-econ.com

Presenting at #ASSA2026 #EconSky

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🚨🚨🚨New working paper! 🚨🚨🚨

"Learning by Doing (Together): Collaboration and Teacher Skill Formation"

Do workers genuinely learn from collaboration, or just benefit while working together? I study teacher partnerships to find out.

Paper: john-fallon-econ.com

Presenting at #ASSA2026 #EconSky

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Sorted and Tracked: English Learners, College-Level Course-Taking in High School, and Postsecondary Opportunity journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...
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