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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 1d

Great opportunity for junior scholars!

Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Call for papers:

🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩

30-31 March 2026, Munich

Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard)

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

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CALDER Center @caldercenter.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to MA DESE's @clj1177.bsky.social, @nctq.bsky.social's Hannah Putman, WA OSPI's Kaori Strunk, & CALDER'S @cedr.bsky.social & @mdearmond.bsky.social for their work on these reports!

Short on time? Be sure to check out our one-pager for both research briefs: caldercenter.org/publications...

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 2d

Pandemic Resource Allocation and the Spending Priorities of School Leaders journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"principals devoted most of their federal relief aid to staffing, with a notable increase in instructional coaches compared to before the pandemic"

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 2d

Three Metrics for Monitoring Educational Progress when Tested Populations Change journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 4d

You're funny and you're right!

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 6d

We have a new EdWorkingPaper up, from @edutuan.bsky.social, @haeryunkim.bsky.social, Chanh Lam, Mariam Saffar Pérez, Jinyoung Hur, Colleen Lewis, and me:

The Effects of K-12 Computer Science Education Policies on Postsecondary CS Participation edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1301

The Effects of K-12 Computer Science Education Policies on Postsecondary CS Participation

States have increasingly adopted policies to promote computer science education at the elementary and secondary levels. These policies are intended, in part, to promote the pursuit of computer science...

edworkingpapers.com

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 5d

@dqcdata.bsky.social, I think you might be interested in the supply brief as it seems a great way for states to leverage their SLDSs!

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 5d

These were fun to do b/c they offer really practical advice about how to better utilize (mostly) existing data, so hopefully become more efficient + I got to work w/ a great set of co-authors!

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 5d

These briefs describe concrete ways to use SLDSs (on the supply side) and job posts/web scraping (on the demand side) to get a better/quicker assessment of the state of the teacher labor market.

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to announce that @caldercenter.bsky.social just released two IES-funded briefs - they really are BRIEF! - about how to get a better handle on teacher demand and future teacher supply:

Supply side: caldercenter.org/publications...

Demand side: caldercenter.org/publications...
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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 6d

They actually mention those (briefly) in the discussion! I don't know much about it, but apparently this has been a successful strategy in Britain.

Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 6d

The Gadfly tackles what is arguably the most important issue we face in education: how to measure school quality and the use of tests in particular. It's a good conversation.

fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...

Beyond test scores: Debating how to measure school quality | Episode 988 of The Education Gadfly Show

This week, Fordham’s president emeritus Checker Finn and Laura Hamilton of the Center for Assessment join us for a polite debate on whether school quality should be judged by more than test scores.

fordhaminstitute.org

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Taylor Odle @taylorodle.bsky.social · 6d

🍎🦡 I'm recruiting a PhD student in Ed Policy (fall '26) at @uwmadison.bsky.social! Come work with me on college access, admissions, & fin aid in our top-ranked, fully-funded program. I’m especially excited for this student to immediately join our direct admissions RCT team.

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 7d

PSA: Our department of Curriculum & Instruction is hiring for an open-rank position in secondary literacy! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Not *my* department, but my College. So come work with me! (Or let me know if you want to talk about UIUC [which is great]!)

College of Education: Professor (Open-Rank) – Secondary Literacy

Duties and Responsibilities

illinois.csod.com

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 8d

Job alert!

Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 8d

Come join us at the @capolicylab.bsky.social as our new policy director in Sacramento!

The California Policy Lab @capolicylab.bsky.social · 8d

Please share with your networks: The California Policy Lab is hiring a policy director to amplify our policy impact in Sacramento. We're looking for a seasoned policy professional with deep experience in California state government. First review date is Oct. 10th: capolicylab.org/careers/poli...

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 8d

That's a good question. My sense is that there's lots of testing about testing mode changes, but it's definitely outside my area of expertise. That said, there was some @caldercenter.bsky.social research on this topic a while back: caldercenter.org/publications...

Is the Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard? The Effect of Online Testing on Measured Student Achievement | CALDER Center

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 9d

That's scary!

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 9d

That would help explain the pattern of NAEP scores: it's the lower-achieving students that are really struggling. Let's add it to the mix of things that need evaluation.

@natmalkus.bsky.social, great episode, but don't think I didn't notice that there wasn't a GRADE IT - very disappointing.

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 9d

This is just based on casual observation, but I'm not sure how much computer use is helping kids. I'm especially suspicious that computers may detrimental, especially for low-achieving kids as it could be a babysitter (I know kids are playing games in some classrooms). 👇

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 9d

Terrific discussion about why test scores are falling (started before the pandemic!)! Lots of potential reasons, but I'd like to throw out an additional one. Everyone talks about phones, but I wonder if it's computers in schools (as a factor). 👇

www.aei.org/podcast/why-...

www.aei.org

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Gema Zamarro @gzamarro.bsky.social · 11d

🚨New Working Paper🚨 Check out our new working paper "Trajectories into Teaching of Arkansas Educator Preparation Programs Enrollees", together with @taylornwilson.bsky.social @andrewmcamp.com, and @jbmcgee.bsky.social. Taylor is in the job market this year. Keep her in mind as you build your team

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 12d

BTW, our findings pair nicely with a brand new paper by Brendan Bartanen, Andrew Avitabile, & Andrew Kwok that looks at interest in teaching using Common App data: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1275

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Who Wants to Be a Teacher in America?

Long-standing compositional disparities and more recent concerns about the health of the teaching profession highlight the need to increase our understanding of the pipeline into K–12 teaching. Levera...

edworkingpapers.com

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 12d

All of these findings underscore the idea that changing the demographics of who becomes a teacher is challenging and probably needs to happen pretty early (possibly even before college entry to influence the SAT distribution).

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 12d

We also find that lower-SAT college students are disproportionately interested in teaching, but the SAT differences are not huge.
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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 12d

The results are not terribly surprising, white females are much more likely to express an interest in teaching than are other demographic groups, but even conditional on that interest, they are more likely to select a teacher ed major once in college.

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