📊 Proud of the progress we’re making in Ark! In partnership with Arkansas Dept of Ed, we're improving how data informs decisions and helps deliver better results for students. Great interview with Sarah McKenzie highlighting this work! 🙌 #ArkEd www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...

Check out my new working paper with @jbmcgee.bsky.social: "Overview of the Arkansas Teacher Workforce". This work is part of a larger effort by the UofA - Department of Education Reform to describe the current status of Arkansas Education edre.uark.edu/_resources/p...

Check out this new book, including my chapter with @andrewmcamp.com and @jbmcgee.bsky.social "Educators' Job Burnout and Intentions to Leave During the COVID-19 Pandemic" bookstore.emerald.com/instructiona...

Nice article on the Arkansas Merit Pay Program from @the74.bsky.social featuring @jbmcgee.bsky.social: www.the74million.org/article/4200...

The second year of Arkansas Teacher Merit Pay is out! Teachers across the state received bonuses of up to $10k for demonstrating outstanding student growth, working in shortage areas, and serving as mentors. Click below to learn more about the program. oep.uark.edu/explaining-t...

Check out our (w/ Roy McKenzie & @gzamarro.bsky.social ) recent blog post on Arkansas teacher retention! We're working to create interactive visuals to help tell the story at the local level. We'd love to hear what you think! oep.uark.edu/2024-25-arka...

2024–25 Arkansas Teacher Retention: Statewide Stability Amid Ongoing Local Challenges by @gzamarro.bsky.social @jbmcgee.bsky.social oep.uark.edu/2024-25-arka...

Check out our (w/ Roy McKenzie & @gzamarro.bsky.social ) recent blog post on Arkansas teacher retention! We're working to create interactive visuals to help tell the story at the local level. We'd love to hear what you think! oep.uark.edu/2024-25-arka...

Check out this new blog post with @jbmcgee.bsky.social describing teacher retention in Arkansas this 2024-25 school year: oep.uark.edu/2024-25-arka...

Time is running out! Get those applications in now! This is a great opportunity to build a high-impact research portfolio.👇

Time is running out! Get those applications in now! This is a great opportunity to build a high-impact research portfolio.👇

🚨 Final week to apply 🚨 We're hiring a research assistant prof. We have a strong partnership with the state, fantastic data, and a lot of interesting, policy-relevant projects. Come work with us! Click this link to learn more and apply! uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

Now only 8 days! 👇

Now only 8 days! 👇

🚨 Only 9 days left to apply 🚨 We're hiring a research asst prof. We have a strong partnership with the state, fantastic data, and a lot of interesting, policy-relevant projects. Come work with us! Click the link to learn more and apply! uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

🚨 Job Opportunity 🚨 We're hiring a research assistant professor. We have a strong partnership with the state, fantastic data, and a lot of interesting, policy-relevant projects. Come work with us! Click this link to learn more and apply! uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

One resource Josh forgot to mention: fantastic collaborators! Great job opportunity ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🚨 Job Opportunity 🚨 We're hiring a research assistant professor. We have a strong partnership with the state, fantastic data, and a lot of interesting, policy-relevant projects. Come work with us! Click this link to learn more and apply! uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

Education Reform Faculty Contribute to New Digital Hub for Education Policy Research Education Reform Faculty Contribute to New Digital Hub for Education Policy Research Three Department of Education Reform faculty members have contributed to a dynamic new education policy resource, the Live…

Education Reform Faculty Contribute to New Digital Hub for Education Policy Research @aefpweb.bsky.social news.uark.edu/articles/771...

Apply today! 👇

I love Gema, you should go work with her. Great person.

We are hiring an education researcher to join the @capolicylab.bsky.social and @berkeleycshe.bsky.social teams. You'll work on projects using administrative data relating to California higher education. Here's more information: capolicylab.org/careers/rese...

Apply today! 👇

🚨Job Opportunity🚨 We're hiring a research assistant professor. We have fantastic data and a lot of interesting, policy-relevant projects. Come work with us at the University of Arkansas. Click this link to learn more and apply! 👉 uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

🚨Job Opportunity🚨 We're hiring a research assistant professor. We have fantastic data and a lot of interesting, policy-relevant projects. Come work with us at the University of Arkansas. Click this link to learn more and apply! 👉 uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

Check out @aefpweb.bsky.social's new Live Handbook. It provides short summaries of the research on a variety of education topics. Together with Julien LaFortune, I wrote the article on school funding and outcomes. livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...

Check out @aefpweb.bsky.social's new Live Handbook. It provides short summaries of the research on a variety of education topics. Together with Julien LaFortune, I wrote the article on school funding and outcomes. livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...

At @aefpweb.bsky.social #AEFP2025? You can check out our latest work at the University of Arkansas, Department of Education Reform, at these sessions. Hope to see you there!

In many states, K-12 students' NAEP scores are dropping. But as some argue that growing $$ for public schools is to blame, experts cite ample evidence that's not true. My reporting with Sarah Schwartz for @edweek.bsky.social on an increasingly contentious debate: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

New piece! goodscience.substack.com/p/inexplicab...

Here's some new evidence that ESSER funding was not well designed to deliver meaningful student outcome improvements. It is somewhat unsurprising that short-term, one-time funding that was spread broadly around the sector didn't produce sizable results. www.the74million.org/article/new-...

New results from "The Nation's Report Card" just dropped and they are pretty bad. I got a sneak peek as a member of IES’s Standing Committee, so I had an extra day or so to ruminate about them. A few thoughts 👇 1/n

New: After pandemic-era declines, there's been little progress on national tests since—in fact reading scores have fallen even further. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Yet again, it's striking that there's so much discourse around "school staff shortages" that doesn't reckon with compensation structures, how they're undifferentiated regardless of staff assignment, and trade-offs between staffing levels and compensation levels.

Proud to join my colleagues at the Dep of Education Reform at @UniversityOfArk among top influential education scholars in national ranking news.uark.edu/articles/743...

Rick Hess’s Edu-Scholar Rankings, Elite Institutions, and the University of Arkansas by Joshua T. Katz "The biggest winner is probably the University of Arkansas" www.aei.org/education/ri...

I love it when our work directly helps inform policy @jbmcgee.bsky.social. Check out our latest Arkansas Teacher Workforce Report here: dese-admin.ade.arkansas.gov/Files/2024_T...

Last year was a big year for me. I hear there's some merit in reflection and sharing successes, so here's a thread highlighting some, and thanking those who enabled those successes. An especially big thanks to my co-authors and committee members @gzamarro.bsky.social and @jbmcgee.bsky.social.

Here's a quick thread. First, you can get the paper where we describe how we web scrape school district sites to get job postings in close real time here: bit.ly/3CKxkVj More 👇 1/n

At today's #2024APPAM Rossi Award Lecture, I’ll argue the substantial impact of open-science practices has been far too narrow. It’s time to adapt & adopt open-science practices—especially preregistration—for quasi-experimental designs (QEDs). #EconSky #EduSky #APPAM2024 @appam.bsky.social 🧵…

New in NHB: We systematically replicated 26 of 41 PNAS social science studies that used MTurk. The approach provides a proof-of-concept for using decision markets to select findings to replicate. Replication effect sizes were 45% of original effect sizes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨NEW Research Brief: Wellbeing and Working Conditions in the Arkansas Teacher Workforce🚨 with @jbmcgee.bsky.social and Meredith Schellhase 👇 edre.uark.edu/_resources/p...

We are so excited to be part of this effort and collaborate with such an amazing group @cedr.bsky.social @jbmcgee.bsky.social news.uark.edu/articles/714...

Are paraeducators a solution to school staffing challenges and can the paraeducator-to-teacher pipeline diversify the teacher workforce? Check out our new working paper hot off the press 👇 @andrewcamp.bsky.social @jbmcgee.bsky.social edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1034

FutureEd features my work with @andrewcamp.bsky.social @jbmcgee.bsky.social Taylor Wilson and Miranda Vernon Research Notes: Impact of Arkansas LEARNS Act on Teacher Salaries and Retention www.future-ed.org/research-not...

Our work @andrewcamp.bsky.social @jbmcgee.bsky.social featured in this article at the Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/one-state-ra...

Our work "Looking Back and Moving Forward: COVID-19’s Impact on the Teacher Labor Market and Implications for the Future" hot of the press at EEPA journal @andrewcamp.bsky.social @jbmcgee.bsky.social So glad this work found such a great home 🎉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 Check out my new publication with Dillon Fuchsman and @jbmcgee.bsky.social. Hot of the press of AERA Open journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨NEW Working Paper🚨 Check out my new working paper with @andrewcamp.bsky.social @jbmcgee.bsky.social Taylor wilson and Miranda Vernon "Teacher Salary Raises and Turnover: Evidence from the First Year of the Arkansas LEARNS Act" edre.uark.edu/_resources/p...