I’m really glad to see that our paper is now out at Ed Researcher! We examine turnover among the half of school employees who are not teachers to understand how their turnover compares. Using Oregon data (2007-23) for all public school employees, there are 3 new patterns that we document: A 🧵

We are failing our kids

Very excited for the latest paper from the international administrative data network I am a part of! Led by @aresherman.bsky.social we show that 75% of pay differences between immigrants and native-born workers arise because of sorting into different jobs, with 25% due to unequal pay within jobs.

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

Successful pushback to DOGE cuts. Funding had run out for the Education Dept's online library ERIC last week, but funding has restarted. But only half as much. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

If you have research dependent on these data here is my suggestion 1/N Big picture: Create a dataset of cell means (cells must be big enough to pass disclosure) - load these cell means into many, many tables & put through review -These cell means can then be used in OLS - which runs on means

DHS just detained a Columbia student who helped lead campus protests—a direct attack on campus activism. This timeline shows why authoritarians fear student protests: they're often the first and most effective catalysts for pro-democracy movements.

I was just informed that the Department of Education has taken down all its Civil Rights data. If you need it, alternative sites are now hosting it for the public. See links in this thread. ocrdata.ed.gov/notfound

8/ The billionaire paradox has become America's tragedy: a small elite willing to sacrifice both democratic principles and economic growth on the altar of their tax privileges.

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

GovWayBack. govwayback.com

How much student learning do you think a school district could gain just by better assigning its teachers to schools? Consider a quite politically-feasible change. Do not let district make any assigned teacher worse off, nor change teacher hiring, nor compensation, nor the students. New evidence!

Students who applied to the METCO program and were admitted were: 13 pct pts more likely to graduate from high school on time 22 pct pts more likely to enroll in a 4-year college 16 pct pts more likely to graduate from a 4-year college ...compared to peers who applied but not offered a spot

Publication alert! Our @caldercenter.bsky.social work on the paraeducator workforce in WA, joint with @lindseykaler.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, & @natejones.bsky.social, is now published in EC! Journal link: tinyurl.com/4rp8e5sb Ungated: tinyurl.com/4dwnzy3y 1 pager: tinyurl.com/y7w9jufy

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.

If you’re at APPAM join us tomorrow to hear about how the 4DSW has fared in achieving one of its more recent aims: retaining teachers. Andrew, Emily, Kate and I will try to make sense of findings across Arkansas, Colorado, and Oregon.

What can we do to better recruit and retain teachers? There's been a lot of attention on the teaching profession over the past few years, and specifically on what changes can be made to keep teachers in the classroom. An increasingly popular policy sounds simple enough: a four-day school week.

📣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)

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