I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

🌟SPARC Center researchers are presenting at @ted-cec.bsky.social next week. Check out this thread for their sessions:

📢 Our new Working Paper provides important cross-state insights into the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce. We highlight some of our major findings in this thread⬇️

Heading to Seattle for #2025APPAM next week? Be sure to check out presentations from CALDER experts @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @brbackes.bsky.social, & @cedr.bsky.social. Click here to learn more about the conference: www.appam.org/conference-e...

🚨There is a lot of policy movement to expand career & technical Ed but little evidence of what to expect from such expansion. Our WP provides evidence from MA on take up & ➕impacts in the first 5 yrs after HS. #cte

On it's 50th birthday, special ed law is fighting for its life. On Oct 10, the Department of Ed cut hundreds of positions from OSEP, which oversees implementation of the law & investigates complaints from students who’ve been denied needed services. www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Heading to DC realizing that I've been discussing "The Future of NAEP" for 15 years. 2012: nces.ed.gov/nationsrepor... 2022: nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/264... NAEP is overdue for improvement. AI can help. But, say it with me: Protect Trend. andrewho.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...

A new @sparccenter.bsky.social multi-state working paper highlights critical challenges in the #SpecialEd teacher workforce. The longitudinal analysis provides valuable data to help states strengthen and sustain their educator pipelines.   Access the full working paper and state-specific insights ⬇️

We're so excited to be releasing a working paper, data visualizer, and fact sheets about the composition, distribution, and stability of the special education teacher workforce across seven states as part of @sparccenter.bsky.social. See below for more details!

I'm on the job market! My JMP studies the role of high school teachers in preparing students for college success I find significant positive effects of high school teachers on 🔹College admissions test scores 🔹College enrollment 🔹College performance 🧵(1/10)

If you're in Yakima, WA on October 30th, this Thursday night, join us for presentations and discussion about K-12 public school finance! I'll will be sharing new research on the distribution of property taxes, as well as some old research about how/why/where money matters. See flyer!

Published in Economics of Education Review! Building on @joshua-goodman.com's post, we find public school enrollment declines are concentrated in higher-income districts, middle grades, and among White and Asian students. I hope these findings support discussions on the shifting education landscape.

Despite widespread concerns about teacher shortages, evidence on the supply of teacher applicants is limited. New CALDER research uses job posting & application data from school districts & charter organizations to explore the teacher application landscape. Read 👉 bit.ly/4oHMfEV

🚨New publication alert🚨 I'm thrilled Economics of Education Review has just published my work w/ @abbyfrancis.bsky.social: "School enrollment shifts five years after the pandemic" Abstract below, but read the next few posts for the story told via a handful of graphs. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so... Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...

I'd like to highlight how speedy and thoughtful the review process was at Econ of Ed Review. We submitted this (fairly short) article via its expedited review process, which resulted in two quick reports, a small revision, and a published manuscript, all in two months. More of this, please!

ICYMI!

I finally did it. Here is my TAC Bingo Card: bit.ly/tacbingo I hope it will help folks anticipate and understand my most common requests and recommendations. It will also encourage me to learn new things and avoid becoming predictable. I predict a round of drinks will be on me. @ncme38.bsky.social

We are partnering with a group of Washington K-12 school district superintendents to hold learning sessions and build a vision for needed school finance reforms. Thank you Yakima Herald for picking up the story: www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/e... Read more here: education.uw.edu/ctp/node/1300

New work on school cell phone bans just dropped. "Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year." "We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."

Join @bellwetherorg.bsky.social and CALDER on Monday 10/20 @ 2 PM ET for a LinkedIn Live conversation on what we learned from pandemic-era research and how these findings can guide education policy today. Register ➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/bellwe... @cedr.bsky.social @airinforms.bsky.social

And also join us for the afterparty! Or is it "after party"?

Jeremy Redford and Emma Cohen joined leaders in Washington, DC, yesterday to explore how better data infrastructure—from privacy to local data—can drive social progress. AIR was pleased to participate in the roundtable hosted by the Center for Open Data Enterprise and @usafacts.org

This @the74.bsky.social @laurenwreports.bsky.social recap of an @nctq.bsky.social report highlights something you hear All. The. Time. from burned out special educators: Principals often know very little about special ed and, instead of fostering inclusion, regard it as place to send certain kids.

Curious about what the reduction-in-force means for #specialeducation and what to do now? Swipe through for info! #RIF #sped #ed #education #disability #teach #teacher #osep #osers #departmentofeducation

Learn something new today:

Our @caldercenter.bsky.social research brief with @cedr.bsky.social and @ahkatz5.bsky.social on special education identification during the pandemic is now published in EEPA! We show that, after an initial dip, identification rates have now "caught up" with pre-pandemic norms: tinyurl.com/y4bea5y5

💡Attending #SREE2025 this week? Join SPARC Center experts @lizbettini.bsky.social and @afgilmour.bsky.social for their session on Measuring and Strengthening the Special Education Teacher Workforce on Saturday, Oct 11 from 12-1:30 CT at Palmer House Hilton – Crystal.

The US Commission on Civil Rights (@usccrgov.bsky.social) released a new report on The Federal Response to Teacher Shortage Impacts on Students with Disabilities, offering eight suggestions to help overcome longstanding shortages: www.usccr.gov/reports/2025...

We have a new EdWorkingPaper up, from @edutuan.bsky.social, @haeryunkim.bsky.social, Chanh Lam, Mariam Saffar Pérez, Jinyoung Hur, Colleen Lewis, and me: The Effects of K-12 Computer Science Education Policies on Postsecondary CS Participation edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1301

Hi everyone. Some exciting news. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Public Policy here at Rockefeller College. We are pretty flexible on topic areas. We have a great team here and Albany is a great place to live. #econsky #academicsky Posting: albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Happy to announce that @caldercenter.bsky.social just released two IES-funded briefs - they really are BRIEF! - about how to get a better handle on teacher demand and future teacher supply: Supply side: caldercenter.org/publications... Demand side: caldercenter.org/publications... 1/n

🍎🦡 I'm recruiting a PhD student in Ed Policy (fall '26) at @uwmadison.bsky.social! Come work with me on college access, admissions, & fin aid in our top-ranked, fully-funded program. I’m especially excited for this student to immediately join our direct admissions RCT team.

We are hiring an assistant professor in public policy!

Important new evidence from the great team at University of Arkansas that the "bench" of potential teachers who already have their teaching credentials & are working in public schools but not yet teaching is a lot shorter than we've found using older data in WA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🎓 Is having a dual-certification in #SpecialEducation and general education better than having one certification? SPARC Center co-director @afgilmour.bsky.social and Tiffany Lam reviewed the research to learn more on this topic: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨New Working Paper🚨 Check out our new working paper "Trajectories into Teaching of Arkansas Educator Preparation Programs Enrollees", together with @taylornwilson.bsky.social @andrewmcamp.com, and @jbmcgee.bsky.social. Taylor is in the job market this year. Keep her in mind as you build your team

New Key Takeaways from @efpjournal.bsky.social! First up: Instructional Coaching Personnel and Program Scalability aefpweb.org/files/Blazar...

Really excited to have this paper out in the world! See Dan's thread below!

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...