📢 From the #EdExchange: fresh insights from #EdWorkingPapers! In “The Four Day Gamble,” @katherinembowser.bsky.social‬ investigates how four-day school weeks affect staff retention and district finances. 📄 buff.ly/cuELdWb

I appreciate @annenberginstitute.bsky.social writing this great summary of my work on four-day school weeks. While there may be some short-term cost savings, there are no effects on teacher, principal, or paraprofessional staff turnover.

Four day school weeks do not reduce staff turnover edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1208

Great work from @katherinembowser.bsky.social showing that the purported staff retention gains of reduced school weeks don't actually materialize 4-day school weeks: Still a bad idea, regardless of the outcome you're trying to optimize

New working paper from me and a great group of coauthors: The Effects of the Four-Day School Week on Teacher Recruitment and Retention caldercenter.org/publications... Read on to see what's different about this vs. some of my prior work 🧵⬇️

In many large districts, I found that teachers five years into their careers have less purchasing power as renters and homebuyers than when they started. And, since 2019, the cost of rent skyrocketed by 51%, far surpassing novice teachers' 24% salary increase. See my full NCTQ report here 1/n

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Tomorrow afternoon, join the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy for a free in-person data preservation event to collect and archive public data sources. No registration needed. AERA is proud to co-sponsor. events.georgetown.edu/mccourt-mdi/...

Excited to #StayTillSaturday and present my work on four day school week adoption and teacher turnover. Hope to see you there! #AEFP2024

I rarely tweet, so we’ll see if this goes better! (Unlikely)