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Congratulations to Trevor Brown @jhuartssciences.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @apsa.bsky.social Labor Politics A Philip Randolph Award! Here presented by the great @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social 🥳

Comprehensive reporting on what's going on with teachers' unions these days from Sarah Sparks at Edweek. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Update to @fordschool.bsky.social tool that lets you figure out how much federal funding public schools in your congressional district may lose Now includes that info by state legislative district as well. poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ...

Really insightful connections from @rachelmcohen.bsky.social between what’s happening with DOGE and what happened with k-12 teachers in the 2010s www.vox.com/donald-trump...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Let's measure beyond proficiency: Colleagues, please consider signing on to our SEDA letter supporting planned improvements to EDFacts data collection. Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Sign-on form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's not everyday that I wake up to a front page article in the Boston Globe featuring a colleague of mine, complete with photo shoot. Today is that day! Fantastic coverage of the teacher workforce research that @oliviachi.bsky.social does here at BU Wheelock. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/14/b...

The article below also features: - "The Rise & Fall of the Teaching Profession", by @matthewakraft.bsky.social & @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social edworkingpapers.com/ai22-679 - "Kumon In: The Recent, Rapid Rise of Private Tutoring Centers", by me, Edward Kim & Marty West edworkingpapers.com/ai21-367

BREAKING: Amazon delivery drivers in Skokie, Illinois have also authorized a strike. These workers serve thousands and thousands of people in the Chicago area. The Teamsters gave Amazon a December 15th deadline to come to the bargaining table.

Pete Stavros Fellowships in the Economics of Employee Share Ownership - Call for Applications #FundSocSci #EconSky smlr.rutgers.edu/institute-st...

Possible Amazon strike in NY abcnews.go.com/US/amazon-wo...

What will a second Trump term mean for teachers unions? @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social tells @haveyouheard.bsky.social that while unions are a target, going after them may not be as easy as Trump and his allies think on.soundcloud.com/MhVZWQdfS9AJ...

New @haveyouheard.bsky.social Our schools are in for more chaos and conflict, whatever Trump II brings. @drrachelswhite.bsky.social and Rebecca Jacobsen on the cost of political disruption and how to prepare for what's ahead on.soundcloud.com/dJ1FWoNb69bA...

Great new episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social with Rebecca Jacobsen and @drrachelswhite.bsky.social It has everything! New politics of disruption idea, qualitative and quantitative research, and politics of ed 💯 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

👀 watching these teacher strikes in MA Beverly and Gloucester went on strike on Friday 11/08/24, and Marblehead went on strike Tuesday 11/12/24. web.archive.org/web/20241108...

Sadly apt to re-up evidence on immigration enforcement's impact on students & schools Dee, T. & Murphy, M. (2020). Vanished classmates: The effects of local immigration enforcement on student enrollment. American Educational Research Journal 57(2), 694-727. Ungated files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1...

📣New at the Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard, I summarize big takeaways from my research on 772 teacher strikes over the past 16 years 📣 www.brookings.edu/articles/the... I have 3 big papers/working papers on strikes (all linked in the post)

There is A LOT of things to stress about in this world, but I need to talk about ClassDojo upselling 1/N

First new working paper thread on Blue Sky! 🧵 In this study, Moontae Hwang, Marzuka Ahmad Radia, and I look at the impacts of school building HVAC system conditions on student outcomes in New York State . . . edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1093

Yay Politics & Ed!

The look on my students faces when I told them that race-based admissions preferences are now unconstitutional in the US but selective colleges are just out there setting up their classes to be 50-50 men/women and no one seems to notice or care. 🫠🫠🫠

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Why are blue-collar voters drifting from the Democratic Party? Is it due to shifts in voter preferences or shifts in party positions? What role do cultural versus economic policies play? My Job Market Paper presents an empirical model that unpacks these dynamics. 1/N

Pathways to the Teaching Profession: Teaching Assistants’ and Substitute Teachers’ Transitions into the Teacher Workforce edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1089

I am overjoyed 🥳 to share that this paper is finally, officially published in AERJ! @matthewakraft.bsky.social and I started working on it together FOUR years ago. 🤯 Grad students—our cup runneth over with research ideas and data sources in here to check out!

Applications for AEFP awards, travel grants, pre-doctoral diversity fellows program, and early career mentorship program are due on December 1st, 2024 by 11:59 pm PST ! Learn more and apply here: aefpweb.org/awards-g...

1.68 American employees quit their job for each employee fired by their boss in Sept. This #LaborLeverageRatio proxies for worker bargaining power vis-a-vis their employer and has been declining since the Fed started raising rates in spring 2022.

📢New @nberpubs w/ @matthewakraft.bsky.social & Matthew Steinberg We document & examine 772 U.S. teacher strikes from 2007-23—strikes increase compensation & working conditions w/ little effect on achievement w/in 5 yrs. 10+ day strikes decrease math scores short term. nber.org/papers/w32862

How State Takeovers of School Districts Affect Education Finance, 1990 to 2019 by @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @joshbleiberg.bsky.social @bethschueler.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/edfp/article...

NEW online first! By J. Cameron Anglum, Anita Manion, + Sapna Varkey, "Increasing Minimum Teacher's Salaries: Opportunities & Drawbacks across Geography and Race." Read the write-up on our website and find the full article below 👇 www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...

Teachers on strike in Portland, Oregon! Also I was on the news 👩🏻‍🏫☺️ www.kgw.com/article/news...

New Brookings Chalkboard post published with @bethschueler.bsky.social & @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social asking the question, Do state takeovers of school districts work? www.brookings.edu/articles/do-...

@edweek.bsky.social did a poll asking teachers/school admin what the "science of reading" is. I can't say I expected agreement, but this is still pretty astounding www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Great episode for politics/political economy of ed folks on a topic not many of us are writing about. @norareikosky.bsky.social is so insightful here and in her written work!

Just ran across this new Brookings piece from @rachelmarisa.bsky.social and others. They find 372 school board candidates that Moms for Liberty (M4L) endorsed..."Overall, 45% of M4L-endorsed candidates in our sample won" 😮 & 35% of candidates in blue counties. www.brookings.edu/articles/mom....

I should probably have a first post...so here's what I'm working on today Revising/updating my working paper with @matthewakraft.bsky.social on the rise and fall of teaching profession: www.edworkingpapers.com/ai22-679 New teacher licenses still down (by ~100k relative to 2006) in Title II data