If you want absolute, irrefutable proof of the stagnation of western culture, consider that in about seven weeks' time, the release of Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough" will be closer in time to the Hindenburg disaster than to the present day.

Policy solutions can help stabilize and diversify the paraeducator workforce to improve #SpecialEducation outcomes. A recent paper by @lindseykaler.bsky.social and @roddy-theobald.bsky.social at @caldercenter.bsky.social examines turnover patterns in WA and offers suggestions for policymakers.

A great pleasure to work for my 1st time w/the great Dan Goldhaber (@cedr.bsky.social), Cyrus Grout, & @drconstance.bsky.social + my longtime collaborator Elton Mykerezi. Nimble founder Lauren Dachille is a wonderful research partner & co-author. Thx Joyce Fndn! research.upjohn.org/up_workingpa...

My student Taylor Wilson is in the job market this year. You do not want to miss the opportunity of hiring her. She is great and such an excellent addition to any team

New publication showing how high school #CTE can help smooth the transition to the workforce for students with #Disability - Joint w/ @UConn colleagues & @CTTechHS doi.org/10.3102/0013... Excited to see this in print!

We have partnered with a group of Washington school district superintendents over the past year to hold K-12 school finance learning sessions. You can read about what we've learned so far here: www.education.uw.edu/ctp/node/1300. And more recent coverage here: www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/aug/06/...

SPARC Center Co-Directors @afgilmour.bsky.social and @lizbettini.bsky.social will join @aefpweb.bsky.social for a free forum on teacher shortages and vacancies on August 28 from 1–2pm ET. Register to attend: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...

Join SPARC Center Director @roddy-theobald.bsky.social and Co-Director @afgilmour.bsky.social on August 13 at 11am ET for a free, virtual event hosted by the PROGRESS Center! Register: promotingprogress.org/events/prepp...

Many of our #SpecialEducation colleagues are coming together for the @usedgov.bsky.social Office of Special Education Programs Project Directors’ Meeting this week! Improving outcomes for students with disabilities requires a strong, well-qualified, and stable workforce. Learn more: sparccenter.org

New @caldercenter.bsky.social paper alert! We (big group of authors) look at summer school as a pandemic recovery strategy. What do we find? 👇 caldercenter.org/publications...

**NEW** one-page EFP "Takeaways" for the excellent paper by @douglasharris9.bsky.social and Valentina Martinez-Pabon that I was delighted to handle for @efpjournal.bsky.social. Provides a comprehensive descriptive analysis of school closures and restructurings in the US: aefpweb.org/files/Takeaw...

New CALDER report by @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @afgilmour.bsky.social, Equia Aniagyei-Cobbold & Marcy Stein analyzes administrative, survey, & interview data related to 7 Attract Prepare Retain projects in PA, all targeting the special educator pipeline. Read 👉 caldercenter.org/publications...

In a recent @caldercenter.bsky.social study, @lindseykaler.bsky.social, @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, and @natejones.bsky.social show how #SpecialEducation teacher turnover negatively impacts test scores—making teacher retention a critical priority. 📄 Learn more

Really excited to have another paper with the amazing @lindseykaler.bsky.social out in the world! Her research on the paraeducator workforce has really contributed to our broader understanding of the special educator workforce, and see below for her thread on this specific study!

In the Handbook of Education Policy Research (2nd Edition), @lmasonwms.bsky.social and Margaret McLaughlin explore “Finding the Right Tools: The Affordances and Limitations of the IDEA”. 📘 See the full table of contents: www.aera.net/Portals/38/2...

So good to see this one in wild!!!!

Excited to get this working paper out into the world! CTE teachers are a unique group of educators, and this paper begins to explore the front end of the CTE teacher pipeline in Washington: bit.ly/4164PNv We're so grateful to IES and NCSER for their support of this broader project: bit.ly/3GWR7FV

Recently, my team and I interviewed over 120 #PublicServiceLoanForgivness borrowers. We have created a few papers with the data, but I've been thinking about how to get more of it in a more "raw" format for public consumption. See my Padlet - padlet.com/dcllier6/bal...

Check out my team’s new working paper - we have some interesting findings on pandemic and post-pandemic academic achievement

Our researchers are digging into questions about the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce. Recently, @lizbettini.bsky.social, @lindseykaler.bsky.social, @hannahmmathews.bsky.social,‬ Malavika Ragunathan & Katheryn Meyer explored teacher beliefs about students labeled with EBD.

Thrilled to have this new working paper out on an important topic on the special education teacher workforce!

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 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...

Really glad that this paper found a great home! This is the third paper that came out of a project that started in 2018...hard to believe that we will have (at least) one more related paper after 7 years!

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 from Jennifer Nelson, Marisol Jimenez, and me in AERA Open: Hiring Under Constraint: How School Administrators Perceive and Respond to Centralized Screening by the District doi.org/10.1177/2332... Open access!

If you love #EdResearch & #EdPolicy, you should check out the Live Handbook! livehandbook.org This research did not grow on trees! Much of it was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, either directly or through investments in education research infrastructure (training, standards, etc.)

Grace Falken tells me that I was the very first person to register for this webinar. I hope you all join me!

🌍 Join us for the first webinar by the #SustainableED team! We'll introduce the initiative and present new research on the connections between education and climate change. 📅 Tues. 7/15 at 1 pm ET 🔗 buff.ly/xbcXnIF @matthewakraft.bsky.social @edsustainable.bsky.social

Please join us for a webinar this Thursday about using state administrative data to study the special education teacher workforce! Hope to see you there!

Happening next week! Join our webinar on June 26 at 3pm ET to discuss how we define and track #SpecialEducation teachers in data systems. Register: sparccenter.org/events/regis...

Identifying who provides #specialeducation services in admin data can be challenging. Come learn from @sparccenter.bsky.social experts & our partners!

Working to fill #SpecialEducation teacher gaps for fall? Research from our experts supports the use of incentives to help fill critical shortages. See the NCTQ report on district strategies to recruit and retain special education teachers. www.nctq.org/research-ins...

Really enjoyed this great conversation w/my Dean @pennybishop.bsky.social & colleagues @naomicaselli.bsky.social & Leslie Dietiker about the importance of the federal role in education research! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jlw...

This will be a great paper one day

2️⃣ weeks out! #SpecialEducation teacher shortages can only be solved if we can define who is in the workforce. We’ll explore this during our upcoming webinar on June 26 at 3pm ET: sparccenter.org/events/regis...

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 🧵⬇️

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Supervisor feedback for preservice teachers often lacks next steps. @andrew_avit, Brendan Bartanen & Andrew Kwok find that classroom management critiques are common and tied to lower scores and return rates. 📄 bit.ly/3ZCKChV

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!

There's a #SpecialEducation teacher shortage—but defining and identifying special education teachers varies by state and system. We’re unpacking the complexity in our upcoming webinar. 🗓️ June 26 at 3pm ET 🔗 Register: sparccenter.org/events/regis...

Check out this FANTASTIC paper led by @lindseykaler.bsky.social for her (2024 TED dissertation award winning!) dissertation. Lindsey tackles a long-standing Q: What is the effect of teacher attrition on students w/disabilities? Working paper: tinyurl.com/j3rykkp9 & One-pager: tinyurl.com/bddtzxtp

Really excited to see this paper out in the world! We all know teacher turnover is bad, but this paper quantifies two really important facts: 1) general education teacher turnover is bad for all students; and 2) special education teacher turnover is especially bad for students with disabilities.

"What happens when college students cannot enroll in the courses they want?...disruptive for female students, reducing women's cumulative GPAs, probability of majoring in STEM, on-time graduation, and early-career earnings...men choose a major from the business school." www.nber.org/papers/w3380...

The journal Research in Higher Education is seeking manuscripts using data from the National Center for Education Statistics for a special issue. Please read the full call for papers here and circulate to your networks! #RIHE link.springer.com/collections/...

How different researcher decisions, data cleaning, research design, and interpretations of a policy question, affect variation in estimated treatment effects, from Huntington-Klein, Portner, McCarthy, and The Many Economists Collaborative on Researcher Variation https://www.nber.org/papers/w33729

New editorial vision for TESE! The new editors (Bettini, Rodgers, & Scott) aim to: ✅ Advance intersectional equity ✅ Build interdisciplinary connections & ✅ Strengthen policy impact/author support. doi.org/10.1177/0888...; tedcec.org @cec-ted-policy.bsky.social @ted-kaleidoscope.bsky.social

Ecstatic that Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Localized Teacher Pipeline Programs is out in Ed Researcher! doi.org/10.3102/0013... @matthewakraft.bsky.social & I explore how the term GYO is used, describe GYO program variation & examine alignment btwn GYO purposes & programming

Really excited to see this new research on Pre-K teachers from RAND's new American Pre-K Teacher Survey: www.rand.org/pubs/researc.... This is such an understudied area of the teacher labor market, and the existence of this survey panel could lead to more exciting work in the future!

The #SPARCCenter now has a website! 🎉 Check it out for a wealth of resources, groundbreaking research, and a community committed to enhancing the special education workforce. Join us in making a difference! 🔗 sparccenter.org