New research on #SpecialEducation Personnel Attrition with PA Dept. of Ed shows: ➡️Admins leave more than teachers ➡️Higher attrition among Black educators, urban settings, and more diverse districts ➡️Retention must be role- & context-specific Learn more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Our researchers recently hosted a webinar on the challenges of identifying #SpecialEducation teachers in state longitudinal data systems (#SLDS). Scroll through some of our initial learnings from our first year analyzing data and stay tuned for a working paper with these results.

New analysis of census data finds LGBTQ folks are underrepresented in teaching: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

This is an AWESOME webinar for anyone interested in learning about how to use state longitudinal data systems to study the special education teacher workforce! Researchers, doc students, state data folks - come join us!

New @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! A study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @natejones.bsky.social‬, & @lizbettini.bsky.social. We find staff turnover matters for SWDs. Ungated WP & one pager: • Working paper: tinyurl.com/j3rykkp9 • One-pager: tinyurl.com/bddtzxtp

The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) 2025 conference is October 8-11 in Chicago! The Special education section would love your submissions & participation. Abstracts due 4/1! Thanks for considering submitting & sharing with your networks! #SREE2025 @sreesociety.bsky.social

Hi everyone! The Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University is searching for a Chair and Professor to join our faculty in the summer of 2026. Please share with your networks and happy to chat with anyone interested! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37806156...

Thanks to everyone who attended #AEFP2025 and safe travels home! We're thinking about how to support members in the year ahead. Feel free to reach out with suggestions, or you can provide ideas on the post-conference survey.

What an honor to be part of this incredible crew. There's so much active policymaking right now, focused on the challenges facing the special ed workforce. We need research to identify which investments are worth it-thanks to IES for investing in that research. Check out our website! sparccenter.org

What a fantastic resource for evidence-based policymaking!! Thanks to everyone at AEFP who put this together!

It's come on and offline since, but.... download what you need ASAP

New from me in Education Finance & Policy: Pandemic-Era School Staff Shortages: Evidence from Unfilled Position Data in Illinois doi.org/10.1162/edfp...

SUBMISSION DEADLINE for our special issue of JREE focused on using longitudinal data to address questions related to disability & education. Please submit or reach out before February 1: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

🔈new publication alert! I started this project 7 years ago as a PhD student. It's an extension of my dissertation, and the last of that work to be published (so this feels especially worthy of celebrating). Coauthored w/ former colleagues. 1/n journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come work with me and my fantastic colleagues in the Dept of Education @ UCSB. Quant methods position w/application details below. Reach out with q’s recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02883

🚀 Meet Part One of our amazing leadership team, @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @afgilmour.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, Li Feng, LaRon Scott, and @lmasonwms.bsky.social! Stay tuned for updates on our journey! #SPARCCenter #SpecialEducation

We document substantial recovery from the drops in identification rates associated with the onset of the pandemic, also documented in OR by @nick-ainsworth.bsky.social and covered in reporting by @evieblad.bsky.social and @bethhawkins.bsky.social.

Really interesting and encouraging results from WA about rebounding new ID rates for SpEd services in 2022-23. Despite large declines in 2020 & 2021, schools seem to be catching up. This is important work from a great team. Check out @roddy-theobald.bsky.social’s thread below!

Check out my latest publication, providing counter-narratives from historically marginalized families in a rural context, surrounding what they desire from early childhood education journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What’s a Special Education Aide Worth? A $9,607 Raise, to the Average Teacher www.educationnext.org/whats-specia... A good example of the kind of research I've been saying we need more of.

Very excited about this working paper with @nick-ainsworth.bsky.social and @christocleve.bsky.social! Tldr: RTI adoption lowered SPED identification rates & raised reading achievement among Black students. It did not lower achievement (in either reading or math) for any student subgroups.