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Dan Goldhaber
@cedr.bsky.social
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Who am I? I wonder sometimes and then remind myself here, http://caldercenter.org & here, http://cedr.us. Views are usually mine, & are not necessarily reflective of anything.

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 12h
A couple of quick thoughts: 1) not surprisingly, early test performance matters for predicting high school outcomes; an important explanation for differences in high school subgroup outcomes is the change in test scores as students progress through school (see Figure 1).

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uozek.bsky.social
Umut Özek @uozek.bsky.social · 18h
Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here.

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...

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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 1d
Creating Coherence: Does Instructional Alignment Affect the Impact of Tutoring? (spoiler: yes!)

edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1332
Creating Coherence: Does Instructional Alignment Affect the Impact of Tutoring?
This study examines the impact of using instructionally aligned literacy tutoring with students in kindergarten through third grade under a Response to Intervention framework. We conducted a randomize...
edworkingpapers.com

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SPARC Center @sparccenter.bsky.social · 3d
🌟SPARC Center researchers are presenting at @ted-cec.bsky.social next week. Check out this thread for their sessions:
Promotional graphic for an upcoming conference. The background shows a twilight view of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. White bold text at the top reads: “Upcoming Conference.” Below, in smaller text: “Teacher Education Division 2025, Nov 11–14 | Kansas City, MO.” At the bottom, the SPARC logo appears with colorful starburst lines. The website “sparccenter.org” is displayed in blue on the lower right.

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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 3d
New: I spoke with MagicSchool's Adeel Khan about the AI in schools.

–Khan says AI can draft IEPs.
-He says that schools should empower students with information to make their "own choices" about AI.
–He responds to math errors I ran into in the platform.

cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/magicschoo...
MagicSchool’s founder on the potential and perils of AI
Adeel Khan says special education teachers can do their jobs better if they use AI to draft IEPs. And he responds to concerns that AI can’t be a math tutor and is used as a shortcut for students.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org

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Michael Petrilli @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social · 3d
Hi folks. My round up of views here: schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

More next week on the policy implications. (Spoiler alert: I think Texas's Teacher Incentive Allotment is worth emulating.)
The logic behind low teacher salaries
SCHOOLED | Friday, 11/7/25
schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com

cedr.bsky.social
Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 4d
I know I have a couple of the coveted Saturday slots!
caldercenter.bsky.social CALDER Center @caldercenter.bsky.social · 4d
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...
Presentations from CALDER experts at 2025 APPAM Fall Research Conference

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CALDER Center @caldercenter.bsky.social · 4d
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...
Presentations from CALDER experts at 2025 APPAM Fall Research Conference

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 5d
Love this discussion (and report) on high-achieving low-income students and how to help them. I totally agree that you need to look early in the pipeline and try to make sure they don't fall off of their trajectories before college.
fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...
The leaky college pipeline for high-achieving, low-income students | Episode 993 of The Education Gadfly Show
This week, we’re joined by Ohio State’s Stéphane Lavertu, author of Fordham’s new study, The Leaky Pipeline: Assessing the college outcomes of Ohio’s high-achieving low-income students.
fordhaminstitute.org

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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 5d
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @yerinyoon.bsky.social and @doughesm.bsky.social show that in Massachusetts, CTE expansion increased participation by 11.5% and improved early employment for Black or Hispanic students and earnings for male students.

📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1312

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks Gema!

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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 6d
What will AI actually mean for schools over the next several years? Here are my theories:

–The student cheating problem won't go away.

–AI will increasingly become a ubiquitous teaching assistant.

–AI will *not* be a super-tutor.

cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/3-ways-ai-...
3 ways AI will (and won’t) change schools
The cheating problem isn’t going away. More teachers will use AI as an assistant. But AI won't be a supertutor.
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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 6d
I do think there's good evidence that pay for performance reforms CAN work even while they often do not work. The difference appears to be the coherence of the reform w/ other changes (evaluation, feedback, PD). Simply rewarding test gains doesn't work + too many reforms are compliance exercises.

cedr.bsky.social
Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 6d
Yes, but the structure of that investment matters. While raising teacher salaries across the board might increase teacher quality some, it's likely an investment that is a mile wide and inch deep. I'd invest in the pain points in the labor market, i.e., in some subjects and hard to staff schools. +👇

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Michael Petrilli @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social · 6d
schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/should-sta...
Should states invest new money in teacher compensation instead of school funding reform?
SCHOOLED | Tuesday, 11/4/25
schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7d
How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?

New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
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Coercion and Monopsony in Modern American Manufacturing: Evidence from Alabama Prison Labor Susan Helper Suresh Naidu Akseli Palomaki Adam Reich Aaron Sojourner We study coercion and monopsony in contemporary U.S. manufacturing labor markets. We combine administrative data from the Alabama Department of Corrections work release program with a unique survey of workers in the Alabama auto supply chain where workers report their work-release status. We first present descriptive patterns of work-release labor, finding that the use of incarcerated (i.e., work-release) labor is concentrated in the auto supply industry, especially in the Montgomery area, where Hyundai’s assembly plant is located. In the survey, the share of plant-level workers who are incarcerated is negatively correlated with non-incarcerated wages. The survey also enables estimation of hypothetical quit elasticities separately among incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers. Incarcerated workers are estimated to have quit elasticities less than half that of non-incarcerated workers. Because Alabama law requires employers to pay the same wage to incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers in the same jobs, the additional monopsony power introduced by employer access to incarcerated workers creates an incentive and ability for employers to reduce plant-level wages to, and employment of, non-incarcerated workers. We build a quantitative model of firm-specific labor supply that, for incarcerated workers, distinguishes the roles of coercion (the risk of physical harm in prison from not working), wage garnishment that blunts the consumption effect of higher wages, and monopsony (limited mobility across employers). Using it, we estimate effects on free and incarcerated workers’ welfare from i) reforming prison conditions to eliminate violence, ii) eliminating prison labor wage garnishment, iii) imposing a $15 minimum wage, &iv) abolishing prison labor. Free worker welfare goes up in all scenarios...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7d
#econ_ra

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 7d
The Financial Consequences of Being Denied Benefit Access www.nber.org/papers/w34434

"households screened out of SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer tangible downstream economic consequences...process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores."
The Financial Consequences of Being Denied Benefit Access
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 7d
"The model shows that both parental investments and latent genetic risk jointly shape children’s cognitive and mental health development, underscoring the importance of modeling the dynamic interplay between genes and environments in the formation of human capital." www.nber.org/papers/w34427
Modeling and Measuring the Genetic Determinants of Child Development
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org

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carajackson.bsky.social
Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 10d
"it reframes the teacher shortage not only as a question of supply, but also as an issue of status and opportunity, raising important questions about how to recruit, support, and elevate teaching to make it both accessible and appealing to the next generation."

edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...
Who Wants to Be a Teacher in America?
This study shows the teacher pipeline through the same lens as other professions, and the contrasts are stark. Unlike nursing or social work, teaching struggles to attract students of color. Unlike la...
edworkingpapers.com

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SPARC Center @sparccenter.bsky.social · 11d
📢 NEW RESEARCH ALERT! The SPARC Center is excited to share THREE new resources with our findings from our first year of research on the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce.

Explore the resources in this thread, or visit our website to learn more: sparccenter.org
Promotional graphic for the SPARC Center’s new multi-state analysis resources. It includes a bulleted list detailing the resources, including a working paper, fact sheets with state-specific summaries, and a data visualizer tool.